The Tawasin of Mansur Al-Hallaj, in Verse: A Mystical Treatise on Knowing God, & Invitation to the Dance by Jabez L Van Cleef
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Category: Poetry
Here a medieval Muslim mystic records his living meditation on becoming one with God, where he likens himself to a moth leaping into flame: In that bright instant, wings aflame, Reduced to fragments of his name, The moth-ash shows his body's form Where no mark will distinguish him. Rumi wrote three cent ...Show more
Ruby Moonlight by Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Category: Poetry
Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a te ...Show more
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
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Category: Poetry
Rapture, Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony; but what sets these poems apart from other treatments of the subject is that Duffy refuses to simplify the contradictions of love, and read its transformations--infatuation, longing, passio ...Show more
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
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Category: Poetry
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prizei>i>Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this wise and intimate telling - which carries us throu ...Show more
Vertigo: There Is a Secret Written in the Stars and in the Mountains by Analog de Leon
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Category: Poetry
In this single epic poem, poet Analog de Leon (Chris Purifoy) offers an empowering message to anyone who has loved, lost, or yearned for freedom.Inspired by the life of Syrian Saint Simeon Stylites, a 4th-century Monk who lived for many years on a small platform atop a pillar, Vertigo encourages introsp ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry
A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift ed ...Show more
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser.
The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections. The title refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917 and later restored. The Tower ...Show more
Lyrical Ballads (HB Clothbound) by William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Clothbound Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: 1
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
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems Penguin Pocket Poetry by John Keats
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Pocket Poetry
In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had started coughing up blood; the following February, he would die of tuberculosis in Rome, aged just twenty-five. This volume contains his greatest work, written in an astonishing bur ...Show more
Favourite Poems of the National Trust by Jane McMorland Hunter (Editor); Jane Robbins (Illustrator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: BRITISH NATIONAL TRUST
An anthology of classic poems that are perfect for bedside reading, accompanied by charming illustrations by Jane Robbins. From Chaucer to Carroll, Shakespeare to Shelley, enjoy the UK's favorite poets in this gorgeous anthology by the National Trust. From Renaissance writers such as Christopher Marlowe ...Show more
Storm for the Living and the Dead Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Poetry
A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world. Many of his poems ...Show more