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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! - An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year by Fiona Waters
Category: Children's | Series: Poetry Collections
A breathtaking anthology featuring an animal poem for every day of the year illustated by award-winning artist, Britta Teckentrup. This lavishly illustrated gift book treasury of 366 animal poems ranges from unforgettable classics to contemporary works from around the world, including poetry in translat ...Show more
To Practice the Rhythms by Yu Ouyang (Translator); Cai Shu
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Chinese Poetry Ser.
Three Yearsthe land, extending itself, makes one turn after another, spitting village after village, till it gives its cold light to the gaping grave.I, a blunt knife, hammered on an anvil have been hardened--for three years three years Till a miracle happens-- will I be able to return from it?Born in 1 ...Show more
Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Trigger Warning is not for the fainthearted, but neither are the elemental realities of domestic violence and environmental catastrophe that these astonishing poems address. Comprised of three sections, the first summons a difficult personal history by conversing with poets - from Sylvia Plath to Anne C ...Show more
Two American Scenes by Lydia Davis & Eliot Weinberger
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet" series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing "found material." Excerpts: It was given to me, in the nineteenth century, to spend a lifetime on this earth. Along with a few of the sorrowsthat are appointed unto men, I have had innumerabl ...Show more
Usborne Book of Poetry for Children by -
Category: Children's | Series: Usborne Poetry Books
This is a beautiful treasury of poetry for older children, featuring a selection of work from classic and modern poets including Shakespeare, Byron, Ted Hughes and Wendy Cope, alongside all new original poetry by Sam Taplin. The poems cover many different themes and moods, and are chosen to show childre ...Show more
Vanishing Point by Felicity Plunkett
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2008 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize Vanishing Point opens with a surreal vision of creativity and mourning and returns to the flakes of desire, memory and dreams. By turns witty, vulnerable and passionate, Vanishing Point traces the currents of the imagination and the erotic ...Show more
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more
Walking With Camels: The story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Leni Shilton offers us a woman's exploration of loss and survival in the unforgiving and beautiful landscape of central Australia. Bertha Strehlow, overshadowed by her anthropologist husband's achievements, was a woman of integrity and a brilliant observer and connector of people in settings such as the ...Show more
Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A selection of some of the classic poems considered a major achievement in twentieth century modernist poetry. Includes the masterpieces "The Wasteland," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Portrait of a Lady." By Thomas Stearns Eliot - a poet, dramatist and literary critic who received the Nobel ...Show more
Water Mirrors by Nicholas Powell
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Water Mirrors was inspired by Nicholas Powell's 'enchanting and disorientating' experience of moving to Finland. His poems circle intimacy, illusions, and the task of reconciling the many facets of experience. It is concerned with fluctuating perceptions, and with the relationship of language to meaning ...Show more
Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound 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
What Sweeter Music : Poems on Music by Douglas (EDT) Brookes-Davies
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman Poetry