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Aria by Sarah Holland-Batt
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Sarah Holland-Batt's Aria, winner of the 2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is an impressive addition to this award-winning series. Like piano music heard through a high window, her language is haunting but entirely of this world. The poems are awake to the dark constellations of art and history, to wha ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy, Edge and Paralytic, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. "If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same t ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search ...Show more
Ashes in the Air by Ali Alizadeh
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Series
Alizadeh finds grace, wit and fire in this latest volume of poetry, which explores themes such as fatherhood and migration. It ranges from the Tehran of Alizadeh's childhood to the Australian coast of his teenage years. From the opening poem's hymn to mobility and renewal to the elegiac ending, Ashes in ...Show more
Ask Me About the Future by Rebecca Jessen
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
Full of zest and flair, Jessen's poems map constellations of desire, loss and longing. Riffing on the future (which isn't what it used to be), dating apps, despair, Bonnie Tyler, Taylor Swift and the lesbian bachelorette, they are set in interstellar queer utopias, maternity wards and single beds. Jesse ...Show more
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
These richly allusive poems weigh violence and tenderness, wound and cure, history and future. Boldly and tenderly, they balance loss and gain, adventure and quiet, as they hum to one another of love and loss. This is a scintillating and exhilarating collection from an accomplished and distinctive new v ...Show more
Autobiochemistry by Tricia Dearborn
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
'A book of rare, complex beauty. Dearborn's range is huge: from the mysteries and beauties of the molecular world to hard-earnt poems of family trauma, from complex love poems to a brilliant sequence based on the life of Virginia Woolf. Her miniatures - often small masterpieces - are built around decept ...Show more
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry S.
The winged red monster Geryon's story is a mixture of whimsy and sadness. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. This is an epic poem.
Be Holding - A Poem by Ross Gay
Category: Poetry | Series: Pitt Poetry Ser.
Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving--known as Dr. J--who dominated courts in the 1970s and '80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia '76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric medit ...Show more
Best American Poetry 2017 by David Lehman; Natasha Trethewey
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Best American Poetry Ser.
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers "a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable" (Robert Pinsky). Librarian o ...Show more