A collection of poetry that illustrates a journey of identity, family, growth, and empowerment. This is a coming of age story that speaks not only to young women of colour, but to people all over the world. As the title hints at, NAKED strives for honesty and while at times it can be awkward and painful, it can also be brave.
The volume's 'Intro' charts these projects and the blurred origins of ritualised language, while its 'Outro' offers contextualising notes and anecdotal insights. Never Good with Horses further demonstrates the rich range of Armitage's repertoire and celebrates his ear for the music of language, harnessed here for the page.
Suitable for younger readers, this book features poems that have wit and humour, intelligence and affection. It also introduces many strange and wonderful characters along the way.
An edition of poems that brings together work from the author's four award-winning collections for children, and sprinkles in a generous helping of new poems to match.
This collection provides readers with a perpetually exciting, compact edition of the revolutionary poet's most powerful work. Frederick Seidel has been hailed as 'the poet of a new contemporary form' (New York Review of Books), and 'the most frightening American poet ever' (Boston Review).
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at presenting the second half of his career, 'from Seeing Things onwards', as he foresaw it. This title reprints the author's chosen poems from his later years.
Provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This book reprints the author's chosen poems from his later years.
The Nibelungenlied is the greatest medieval German heroic poem, a revenge saga on an epic scale, which tells how dragon-slayer Sivrit acquires the priceless hoard of the dwarvish Nibelungs, and of the tragic conflict between Kriemhilt and Hagen. This is the first prose translation for over forty years, with full introductory materials.
A Guardian / Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWinner of the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other.
Establishes nineteenth-century American women's poetry as a major field in American literature and American women's history. This title features selections from 140 writers that provide an interweaving of established and marginalized women's poetry from the various geographical region of the United States.
From the author of the bestselling novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, here is a dazzling collection of award-winning poetry - available for the first time to readers beyond the US.