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Free Logic by Rachael Briggs
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Free Logic is a collection of poems about love, logic, sin, gender, and imaginary animals. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Rachael Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. Structured as eight set ...Show more
Fume by Phillip Hall
Category: Poetry | Series: Uwap Poetry
Phillip Hall writes from the edge: the edge of language; the edge of mental illness; and, from the perspective of a non-Indigenous poet and teacher standing at the edge of Indigenous culture and community carrying generosity and love alongside the ongoing trauma of dispossession. This is a volume intens ...Show more
Gig Ryan: New and Selected by Gig Ryan
Category: Poetry | Series: Giramondo Poetry Classics Ser.
Gig Ryan's poetry is studied widely in secondary schools and universities, and has been anthologised in major collections of Australian poetry. She is considered an important canonical figure in Australian poetry, and in feminist poetry. This collection brings her work for the first time into a single v ...Show more
Glass and God by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry Ser.
'The most exciting poet writing in English today' - Michael OndaatjeAnne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice- vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing ...Show more
Goblin Market And Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
Goblin Market and Other Poemswas Christina Rossetti's first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. The collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time. Tennyson, Hopkins and Swinburne all admired her work. The title poem 'Goblin Market' ...Show more
Happiness by Jack Underwood
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Happiness is the long-anticipated debut collection from the award-winning Jack Underwood. With the sort of smart, persuasive voice associated with Simon Armitage and Michael Donaghy, these poems worry at the world in search of consolation, or else meet life's absurdity and strangeness half-way; whether ...Show more
Hard Damage by Aria Aber
Category: Poetry | Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser.
Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of ...Show more
Helium by Rudy Francisco
Category: Poetry | Series: Button Poetry Ser.
Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenomenon Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy's poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has travelled the country and the world performing for sell-out crowds. Helium is filled ...Show more
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Selected Poems by Bloomsbury U. K. Staff; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry Classics Ser.
Henry W. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine in 1807. The son of a lawyer, he toured Europe before settling in Harvard, where he taught. In 1847, the success of his poems enabled him to give up teaching and embark on Song of Hiawatha. This is a collection of his poetry.
Her Book by Jo Shapcott
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A collection of poems selected from Jo Shapcott's three award winning books, 'Electroplating the Baby', 'Phrase Book' and 'My Life Asleep'. The verse showcases her politically acute and provocative imagination.
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise by Jane Hirshfield
Category: Gift | Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry S.
In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by "Bloodaxe", giving readers everywhere t ...Show more
High Ground Coward by Alicia Mountain
Category: Gift | Series: Iowa Poetry Prize Ser.
Alicia Mountain's urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric, confessional, and narrative modes, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High ...Show more