Poems to Save the World With by Chris Riddell
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Category: Poetry
A brilliant, thoughtful anthology of poems full of hope, selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell. In Poems to Save the World With, Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems full of hope and wit to untangle the madness of life.In this gorgeous anthology, Ch ...Show more
John Clare by John Clare
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
Collected Poems by Vladimir Nabokov
49.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This landmark new collection brings together the best of the poetry of Vladimir Nabokov, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and author of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire". It includes an extensive number of poems that have never appeared in English before, newly translated from the Russian by his s ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Leonard Cohen - Poemsand Songs by Leonard Cohen
27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Reading Level: very good
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from many collections including "Flowers for Hitler", "Beautiful Losers" and "Death of ...Show more
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett by Alan Bennett
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions. In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over a hundred poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their vers ...Show more
New and Selected Poems: 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry
"His is "close-up" poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does". (John Banville). "More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world i ...Show more
Open House by Brooks David
24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poem is a place where you can bring things together, you don't have to know why. The mad and the bad, the gentle and the dead, tooth-ache and heart-ache and the ache and quandary of history. We are all creatures trembling under the sun of witness (or is it rain?); some of us, for reasons it would be h ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series, includ ...Show more
W. H. Auden: Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
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Category: Poetry
Edward Mendelson has significantly expanded his authoritative, chronological ordered edition of Auden's "Selected Poems" (first published in 1979), adding twenty items to the hundred in the original edition, and broadening the focus to reflect the wealth of forms, the rhetorical and tonal range, and the ...Show more
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
"Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."--Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was "Pictures of the Gone World"--the only book of his own poems th ...Show more
Rumi's Little Book of Life by Rumi
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Category: Poetry
From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic. Rumi's Little Book of Lifeis a beautiful collection of 196 poems by Rumi, previously unavailable in English. Translate ...Show more