The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library | Reading Level: good-very good
Although Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been characterised as an austere, bearded patriarch and laureate of the Victorian age, his poems speak clearly to the imagination of the late 20th century. His mastery of rhyme, metre, imagery and mood communicate their dark, sensuous and sometimes morbid messages ...Show more
An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell by Deborah Levy
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Category: Poetry
She is a shimmering, tattooed and acerbic angel, flown from Paradise to save him from the suburbs of hell. He, an accountant worn down by the day-to-day struggles of the nine to five, is dreaming of a white Christmas, a little garden and someone to love. She attempts, with scornful wit, to shock him out ...Show more
Conamara Blues by John O'Donohue
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Category: Poetry
Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara Blues at once reawak ...Show more
Echoes of Memory by John O'Donohue
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Category: Poetry
John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality, Anam Cara. Just as To Bless the Space Between Us was being published, he died suddenly at the age of fifty-two. His powerfully wise and lyrical voice is profoundly missed, but his many readers are now ...Show more
Collected Poems and Verse of the Austen Family by Jane Austen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Fyfield Books
This volume of verse by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself and a selection of work by her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, and her nephew James Edward.
Immune Systems by Andy Jackson
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Category: Poetry
In Immune Systems Andy Jackson captures and interrogates the complexity of contemporary India with lyric beauty and an unflinching, yet tender, gaze. In the title suite of poems he explores 'medical tourism' - a booming industry in India - from the perspective of a Westerner undergoing surgery and recov ...Show more
The Raven (Visions in Poetry) by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Poetry | Series: Visions in Poetry
Visions in Poetry is an exciting and unique series of classic poems illustrated by outstanding contemporary artists in stunning hardcover editions. The fifth book in the series, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," delves into the hidden horrors of the human psyche. Originally published in 1845, the poem is n ...Show more
Wild by Ben Okri
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Category: Poetry
Features poems that captures both the tenderness and the fragility, as well as the depths and the often hidden directions of our lives. To the author, the 'wild' is an alternative to the familiar; an essential place in the journey where energy meets freedom, where art meets the elemental, where chaos ca ...Show more
C.P. Cavafy: Poems by C P Cavafy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the taboos of his time surrounding homoerotic desire ...Show more
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
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Category: Poetry
Winner Of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For Poetry Winner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award For Poetry. 'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then I just knew. 'And you are not the guy and still you fit the description b ...Show more
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse by Richard Hamer
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Category: Poetry
A Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse contains the Old English texts of all the major short poems, such as 'The Battle of Maldon', 'The Dream of the Rood', 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer', as well as a generous representation of the many important fragments, riddles and gnomic verses that survive from the sev ...Show more