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The Poetry of Ran Vol. 2 by Yusuke Osawa
Category: Eastern | Series: Poetry of Ran Ser.
The concluding volume of this epic tale follows warrior poet Torue, recording the legendary deeds of the disgraced monster hunter Ran. Perfect for fans of romance, poetry and epic fantasy action! The epic conclusion, as Torue a young bard, records the exploit of the untouchable monster hunter Ran -- a y ...Show more
The Raven (Visions in Poetry) by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Picture Books | Series: Visions in Poetry
Visions in Poetry is an exciting and unique series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. The fifth book in the series, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," delves into the hidden horrors of the human psyche. Originally published in 1845, the poem is n ...Show more
The Ruins of Nostalgia by Donna Stonecipher
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poemWhat is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeling and thought? In a series of 64 gorgeous, ramifying, unsettling prose poems addressing late-twentieth- ...Show more
The Secret Life of Poems : A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
'The Secret Life of Poems' is a primer which offers a poem - or an occasion or excerpt - with succeeding commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase.
The Short Story of You and I by Richard James Allen
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
From long narrative lines to fine-boned, lyrical loops and ties that bind these poems into place, Richard James Allen has taken risks with language that mark this as his most adventurous and significant book to date. --Anthony Lawrence Allen's subject is being itself, and the way our biological and ment ...Show more
The Sky Runs Right Through Us by Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
'This deeply personal book is also an important historical record. Written from the heart and covering a period of time working on Christmas Island with asylum seekers until her return to Australia with an urgency to bear witness, Pettitt-Schipp's steady eye is levelled at a facade of Australian inclusi ...Show more
The Temple by George Herbert
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
The Tiny Museums by Carolyn Abbs
Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
Highly Commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. "Carolyn Abbs's poems in her poised collection The Tiny Museums live in the gap between deep time and now. They are insistently alive to the rich tensions between those two registers. This pairing of past/present plays out ...Show more
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower ...Show more
The Translator of Desires - Poems by Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin; Sells, Michael (Translator);
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
A masterpiece of Arabic love poetry in a new and complete English translation The Translator of Desires, a collection of sixty-one love poems, is the lyric masterwork of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1240 CE), one of the most influential writers of classical Arabic and Islamic civilization. In this aut ...Show more
The Usborne Book of Christmas Poems by SAM TAPLIN
Category: Children's | Series: Usborne Poetry Books
The Volcano and After - Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Category: Poetry | Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world "as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see," to the "crack in ear ...Show more