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We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
Paperback,
26/11/2020,
£14.99
£13.49
An anthology of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire.
Dearly: Poems
Hardback,
10/11/2020,
£14.99
£13.49
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist, poet -- and cultural phenomenon
Before she became one of the world's most important and loved novelists, Margaret Atwood was a poet.
The Historians
Paperback,
29/10/2020,
£10.99
£9.89
A new collection from Eavan Boland, a pioneering figure in Irish poetry who has been credited with inspiring a generation. This will be her final collection, following her passing in April 2020.
The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Hardback,
05/05/2000,
£6.99
£6.29
Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. With Shakespeare, Burns is an icon for the UK and Scotland he is a national symbol. This volume of poems and songs is a best selling, beautiful edition of his work.
Selected Poems
Paperback,
02/12/1993,
£8.99
£8.09
A selection of Burns's poems and songs, arranged in the order of composition and using the original texts where possible. This edition gives equal weight to Burns as song-writer and poet, providing lyrics and tunes where applicable.
Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Paperback,
05/09/1994,
£3.99
£3.59
Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of 18 Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. This collection includes some of his most famous works such as the ballad "Auld Lang Syne", and "Tam o'Shanter".
Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Paperback,
01/01/2003,
£20.00
£18.00
The complete works of Robert Burns
Robert Burns in Your Pocket: A Biography, and Selected Poems and Songs, of Scotland's National Poet
Hardback,
09/07/2009,
£9.99
£8.99
Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. This compact little book contains an illustrated selection of Burns' most acclaimed and best loved poems and songs, a biography, and introduction to each poem.
Understanding Robert Burns: Verse, Explanation and Glossary
Paperback,
28/03/2002,
£15.00
£13.50
Presents the works of Robert Burns that allows the reader to gain an understanding of what each poem means with a glossary and explanation beside each verse.
Robert Burns Songs: 97 songs from Scotland's most famous poet (Collins Scottish Collection)
Paperback,
03/11/2016,
£6.99
£6.29
A small format gift book which is a reproduction of the popular book 'Songs Robert Burns' originally published by Collins in 1947. Selected by G.F. Maine and written by burns between 1759 and 1796.
Poems to Fall in Love With
Paperback,
07/01/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
A gorgeous, heart-warming anthology of poems about love and romance from award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell.
Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS
Hardback,
18/03/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
Embarking on the long road to recovery, Michael was soon ready to start writing about his near-death experience.
Combining stunning new prose poems by one of Britain's best loved poets and the moving coronavirus diaries of his nurses, doctors and wife Emma-Louise Williams, this is a beautiful book about love, life and the NHS.
Iliad
Paperback,
03/08/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
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.
Poems
7,
19/08/1996,
£3.00
£2.70
Keats is one of the principal figures of the Romantic era, his verse violent, tenderly fanciful and intensely musical. This book contains both texts and commentary.
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Paperback,
06/11/2008,
£8.99
£8.09
Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance.
Write Poetry and Get it Published: Find your subject, master your style and jump-start your poetic writing
Paperback,
30/04/2010,
£12.99
£11.69
YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND WRITING POETRY.Write Poetry - and Get it Published is a new edition of a long-standing and popular guide which offers you plenty of advice and ideas for inspiration as well as practical support for all aspects of the poetry writing and publication process.
Applied Mathematics
Paperback,
01/08/2014,
£8.99
£8.09
Maths, science, retro arcade games, and what it feels like to be stood up in a restaurant by an entire poetry society. Dan Simpson considers them all and more in his first collection.
Poem for Every Day of the Year
Hardback,
07/09/2017,
£19.99
£11.89
An inspiring anthology to keep you company for every day of your life
Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems
Paperback,
07/09/2017,
£9.99
£9.00
New work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay
Of All That Ends
Paperback,
27/11/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. In a striking interplay of poetry, lyric prose and drawings, Grass creates his final, major work of art.
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
Paperback,
18/09/2008,
£9.99
£8.99
Written between 1942 and 1947, when Hamish Henderson was serving in the North African desert during the Second World War, this title contains elegies that pay tribute to the men who fought with and against him, their lives portrayed with great sympathy and compassion, while the desert itself becomes the unforgiving enemy.
Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu
Paperback,
27/01/2005,
£12.99
£11.69
The poems collected in this volume are expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. They deal with eternal themes of transition, artifice and the ravages of time. It presents the works of writers as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and W B Yeats.
Collected Poems of John Donne
Paperback,
05/02/1994,
£3.99
£2.79
John Donne's poetry is marked by a scientific colloquial directness and a complex, even tortured, intelligence. It falls into two classes. There is the early ironic and erotic poetry that contains some of the finest English love poetry and also his later, religious poetry.
'O'A'A'A' BIRD
Paperback,
23/03/1995,
£7.95
£7.16
This poetry anthology contains poems in different settings and languages which find in their history and in the present, meanings which are political and civic. Love is never far away. Quinn's work is European in orientation and Dublin, Prague and Berlin are some examples of the poems' locations.
Pigs Might Fly
Paperback,
28/09/2005,
£7.95
£7.16
A delightfully wise and playful collection from one of our most senior poets, offering a feast of sensory experience.
Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul
Hardback,
28/09/2017,
£12.99
£11.69
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