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Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
Category: Education | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Field Work, his fifth volume, from 1979, is a collection of po ...Show more
Fieldglass by Catherine Pond
Category: Poetry | Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Ser.
Sexual identity, female friendship, and queer experiences of love Fraught with obsession, addiction, and unrequited love, Catherine Pond's Fieldglass immerses us in the speaker's transition from childhood to adulthood. A queer coming-of-age, this collection is a candid exploration of sexual identity, ...Show more
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
In Flèche, Mary Jean Chan evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Much like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collect ...Show more
Flight Animals by Bronwyn Lea
Category: Gift | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In poems that are both daringly executed and finely drawn, Flight Animalsis a meditation on movement - of the body and the mind. Lea's poetry skims the surface of things - of city, ocean, mountain and psychic scapes - then plunges into the depth of meaning. Her language is deeply sensual, intelligent an ...Show more
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
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.