Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are 'The Kids', her students, the teenagers she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing witness to her small son's experience.
Described as a poet of the world, Jacqueline Saphra's work dances between personal and profound to offer a striking vision of growing up and growing older, mothers and motherhood, femininity and gender relations, all framed against the backdrop of a modern world, itself subject to growing pains. 'The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions' is her debut.
Represents the author's attempt to present his philosophic message. This book expresses his extreme humanist views through a system in which Angels and Devils change places, Good becomes Evil, Heaven is Hell.
In a nationwide poll to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If...' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together the results of the poll in a collection of the nation's 100 best loved poems.
Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse.
Basil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect.
The present edition contains a large selection of his works in verse as well as a selection of Poe's essays on poetical composition and prosody, revealing that poetry was at the core of the American master's vision of literature
A PBS Recommendation Summer 2022. In her debut collection, Denise Saul explores family and identity as she tells the story of a mother's illness and subsequent aphasia, and a daughter's ongoing role as carer. Such betweenness creates a space to explore wider dynamics of power, and the epiphanies and aftershocks of ongoing loss.
This book tells of the voyage of the Mignonette in 1884, bound from England for Australia. After it foundered in the South Seas, the starving survivors murdered and ate the cabin boy. After being rescued, the survivors were tried in England.