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Learning Human - New Selected Poems by Les A. Murray
Category: Gift | Series: Poetry Pleiade Ser.
The poems in Learning Human represent the range of Murray's development in narrative, lyric and satirical modes. All of his best-loved early poems are included, along with the remarkable work of recent years.
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
In 1855 Walt Whitman published his first collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. The volume received great praise from leading Transcendentalist poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. This encouraged what would become a lifelong project as Whitman expanded and rewrote the volume until his death in 1892. Whitman's inn ...Show more
Legacy by Julie Watts
Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Winner of the 2018 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript "Legacy holds a delicate strength both in form and subject. These are poems that reflect, with grace, honesty and a sometimes unnerving directness, on the complex interconnections of contemporary life. As the poet writes about her man ...Show more
Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll
Category: Fiction | Series: Poetry for Young People S.
A selection of 26 classic Carroll works that should become a favourite with young readers. The book uncovers the true stories behind each tale and shows how Carroll's poems mocked the humourless verses of his contemporaries. It also contains a biography of the inscrutable poet.
Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
Category: Fiction | Series: Button Poetry Ser.
Andrea Gibson's latest collection is a masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and performances have captured the hearts of millions. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Lord of the Butterflies is a new peak in Gibson's career. Each emotion here is deft and delicat ...Show more
Love Notes from the Hollow Tree by Jarod Anderson
Category: Poetry | Series: Jarod K. Anderson Poetry Ser.
Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist Podcast and author of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest) celebrates the natural world with warmth and humor. The poetry and prose in this collection are love letters to impermanence, to our kinship with nature, to our strange ability ...Show more
Lyric Poems by John Keats
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795-1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Much of his poetry consists of deeply felt lyrical meditations on a variety of themes -- love, death, the transience of joy, the impermanence of youth ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads (HB Clothbound) by William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
When it was first published, Lyrical Balladsenraged the critics of the day: Wordsworth and Coleridge had given poetry a voice, one decidedly different to that which had been voiced before. This acclaimed Routledge Classicsedition offers the reader the opportunity to study the poems in their original con ...Show more
Mabinogi by FRANCIS MATTHEW
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Matthew Francis's poetic retelling of the first four stories of the Welsh national epic The Mabinogi captures the magic and strangeness of this medieval Celtic world - now in paperback.
Madness by Sam Sax
Category: Education | Series: National Poetry Ser.
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine ...Show more
Men In The Off Hours by Carson Anne
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry Ser.
Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents ...Show more
Milk Teeth by Rae White
Category: Poetry | Series: UQP Poetry Ser.
In the bright mirror morning, I scratchat flaked skin & peel lengthsof stringy flesh to exposecrackle quartz jutting from my neck. In this highly original debut collection, Rae White's edgy and playful poems challenge notions of category, identity, form and gender. Bodies transform, nature morphs an ...Show more