New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012 by Charles Simic
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Category: Poetry
"Ryan is a scrupulously observant poet with a gift for going for the jugular . . . His work is finely honed, provocative, questing, and humane." - Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book WorldMichael Ryan's first collection in fifteen years shows the acclaimed poet at the height of his powers. Highlighting ...Show more
Selected Poems: Byron by Lord George Gordon Byron
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual adventurer and traveller - as he does for his lite ...Show more
Being Human - The companion volume to Staying Alive and Being Alive by Neil Astley (ed.)
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive poetry trilogy. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books - a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even broader, intern ...Show more
New and Selected Poems 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
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler (Editor, Notes by); Boris Dralyuk (Editor, Notes by); Irina Mashinski (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporari ...Show more
Poems on the Underground by JUDITH CHERNAIK GERARD BENSON
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Category: Poetry
After nearly thirty years and almost 500 poems, Poems on the Underground has become a familiar and welcome sight on London's Tube, paying tribute to the magnificent tradition of English poetry, and to those who have contributed to its richness and diversity. In this beautiful paperback edition, poems ol ...Show more
The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Modern Classics Ser.
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to become ...Show more
Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life by William Sieghart
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Category: Poetry
Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol A ...Show more
The Rivered Earth by Vikram Seth
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Category: Poetry
The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer. Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven Elements', they take us all over the world - from ...Show more
Dickinson - Poems by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
Poems: Dickinson contains poems from The Poet's Art, The Works of Love, and Death and Resurrection, as well as an index of first lines. The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content.
The Truth is We are Perfect by Janaka Stucky
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Category: Poetry
"Stucky's verse has the power of the best East European poets--some of his poems seem to be perfect, magnificent, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful, cogent, incisive phrase-maker."--Bill Knott "The yearning in these poems is awash in dense, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mish ...Show more
Favourite Poems of the Countryside by Samuel Carr
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Category: Poetry
A rich collection of poetry that celebrates our idyllic countryside, with verses on rural life, the changing seasons, the vast woodlands and seascapes of Britain and the wildlife that inhabit them. Beautifully illustrated with nostalgic scenes of Englanda (TM)s pastures, sleepy villages and dramatic lan ...Show more