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How the Whale Became and Other Tales of the Early World
Paperback,
04/10/2018,
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Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. Meet the Polar Bear whose obsession with her snowy white fur is so great that she can only live in a landscape surrounded by her own reflection;
Empty Bottles Full of Stories
Paperback,
01/03/2019,
£12.99
£11.69
A joint poetry collection from the virally popular and bestselling poets r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake.
Little Boy
Hardback,
04/04/2019,
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Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him.
From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all.
Green Hollow
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04/04/2019,
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In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberfan like today?
The Green Hollow is a historical story with a deeply urgent contemporary resonance;
O Positive
Paperback,
04/04/2019,
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Impertinent owls, an immersive theatre troupe, ancient men from the Great War and idiot balloonists - such characters dramatise our human fancies and foibles, joining the protagonist in scenarios both humorously bizarre and all-too-familiar.
Mermaid's Voice returns in this one
Paperback,
01/04/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Beneath misguided myths of mermaids are tales of escapism and healing, weaved throughout an empowering collection of poetry.
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic
Hardback,
16/05/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right.
Four Quartets
Hardback,
16/05/2019,
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It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.
This striking new edition marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of publication.
To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS
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03/06/2019,
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This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth.
Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated with the historical narrative of the birth of the NHS Act.
Say Something Back
Paperback,
19/05/2016,
£9.99
£8.99
The stunning new collection from one of England's finest and most philosophical contemporary poets.
Five Plays : The Black Hole, Shades of Babel, Sarajevo, Odysseus, Figurae Veneris Historiae
Paperback,
01/07/2019,
£9.99
Five plays
Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
Hardback,
27/06/2019,
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£18.00
Bedouin of the London Evening: Collected Poems
Paperback,
14/06/2016,
£12.00
£10.80
The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries. All her published poetry is now available here for the first time in over 40 years, along with a selection of her prose. This second edition has an expanded introduction and an additional prose piece.
Robert Browning: The Poems
Paperback,
09/11/2017,
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Using some of Browning's most widely studied poems, this book will develop students' close reading technique and help them to articulate their own responses to poetry.The volume is an ideal introductory guide for A Level and undergraduate English Literature students, or anyone studying Browning's poems for the first time.
Waste Land
Hardback,
05/09/2019,
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Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation between the two World Wars.
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
Selected Poems
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05/09/2019,
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A reissue of the 1935 Selected Poems, which, with an Introduction by T. S. Eliot, brought Moore's work to the attention of a wider public.
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten key titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
Another Time
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05/09/2019,
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Some of his most famous and often quoted (or misquoted) lines appear in their original form, including the text of two poems in particular - 'Spain 1937' and 'September 1,1939' - that he later altered or repudiated.
This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber's publishing over the decades.
Ariel
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05/09/2019,
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The poems in Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy, Edge and Paralytic, were all written between the publication in 1960 of her first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.
High Windows
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05/09/2019,
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Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms.
Haw Lantern
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05/09/2019,
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Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss--including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother--joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein.ical vein.
Serious Concerns
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05/09/2019,
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Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as "Bloody Men," "Men and Their Boring Arguments," "Two Cures for Love," "Kindness to Animals" and "Tumps" (Typically Useless Male Poets).
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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05/09/2019,
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£9.00
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief.
Of Mutability
Hardback,
05/09/2019,
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£9.00
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.
William Blake: Selected Poems
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07/02/2019,
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William Blake's strikingly original poetic world of myth and mysticism continues to fascinate. This selection represents the full range of his accomplishments, from his haunting lyrics to his political works.
Richard Aldington: Novelist, Biographer and Exile 1930-1962
Paperback,
25/07/2019,
£27.50
£24.75
The second volume of the authoritative biography of the war poet and novelist Richard Aldington, exploring his later public and private lives and writings.
Soft Sift
Paperback,
08/05/2001,
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A collection of poems that exhibit enormous casual elegance of mind and style, at the same time being friendly, touching and funny.
Enter, Fleeing
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03/05/2018,
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Exhilarating fourth collection of poems from the 'intriguing, funny, prophetic' man of letters Mark Ford.
William and Dorothy Wordsworth: 'All in each other'
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26/09/2016,
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William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.
Fleche
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£10.99
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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
Fleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong.
Lunch Poems
Paperback,
01/01/2001,
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The famed New York School bard's ruminations and deep ponderings, written during random Manhattan lunch hours.
Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
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01/04/2010,
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'What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?' In this collection, the author's poems, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty", conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness.
Sleeping Letters
Hardback,
28/11/2019,
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'This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body. You have to read it' EDMUND DE WAALA unique, intimate and beautiful exploration of grief, loss, healing and faith, that looks back to the childhood moment when Marie-Elsa R.
Vertigo & Ghost
Paperback,
03/01/2019,
£10.00
£9.00
**WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2019****WINNER OF THE ROEHAMPTON PRIZE FOR BEST POETRY COLLECTION 2019****SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 T.
Iliad
Paperback,
03/08/2017,
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High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate.
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