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Gillian Clarke: Collected PoemsThe Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her readings, for...
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Selected PoemsSelected Poems draws on Jenny Joseph's first four collections of poetry, The Unlooked-for Season (1960), Rose in the Afternoon (1974), The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983).Author: Jenny JosephPublisher: Bloodaxe BooksPublished: 05/28/1992Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.51h x 5.55w x 0.45dISBN: 9781852240950Review Citation(s):...
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The Work of a WinterBoyle's luminous poems are int imate portraits of confined and unsung lives, furnishedwith a sensuous exactness. The outcast Hermione, mourning her lost children, is cheered by the "blushing crimson tips" appearing in her winter garden. Birds are significant reminders of life, color, and wry...
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The English PoemsThomas Gray was the author of some of the most admired poems of the 18th century, the famous 'Elegy' among them, but his reputation continues to rest on a handful of masterpieces, while the rest of his work has faded from view. This book...
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Beyond the FireThe work in Mary Leader's third collection, Beyond the Fire, does not conform to any one habitation, nor aesthetic persuasion, nor name. On the contrary, just about every poem invents its own territory and its own terms. Some poems are straightforward narratives, while others...
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The Splash of Words: Believing in PoetryWhether you love poetry or haven't read it since school, The Splash of Words will help you rediscover poetry's power to startle, challenge and reframe your vision. Like throwing a pebble into water, a poem causes a 'splash of words' whose ripples can transform...
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The Singing BowlMalcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in the everyday; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love, parting and mortality. A further group, 'Word and World', searches for the life of the...
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The Mystical Imagination of Patrick Kavanagh: A Buttonhole in Heaven?'In her study of the turbulent imagination of this turbulent man, Una Agnew has succeeded in unveiling the still centre. In doing this she has placed us all in her debt.' - The Irish Times The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh offers a radical affirmation...
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Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim, 2009dg nanouk okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Mahealani Perez-Wendt are four exceptional emerging poets. Their Pacific Rim relationship invited opportunity to publish these four chapbooks in one collected volume. Like effigy earthworks, stone, and bone carvings, the books included in this...
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The ProphetThis is an exquisite collector's edition of one of the world's best-selling poetic works. Gibran's masterpiece has furnished individuals the world over with words of joy or consolation on occasions of birth, marriage, death and all of life's other milestones. This edition contains delightful...
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Abc, My Grannie Caught a Flea: Scots Children's Songs and RhymesAdults may lament that today's children do not sing in the playground, but the kids know better. Hilarious, energetic, surreal, shocking and nonsensical rhymes and songs are as much in evidence today as they always were. In this book, one of Scotland's best-known storytellers...
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Are the Rivers in Your Poems RealFollowing Surani's previous collection Operations, which excavated the debasement done to language by nations worldwide, how does one return to using language for poetry? Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real responds to this question. Amidst the dangers of figurative language, the coercion of...
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Rag CosmologyWinner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry BookThug is proud to introduce a groundbreaking debut collection of poems by Erin Robinsong. In this time of ecological precarity, Rag Cosmology is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes engagement with the environment we...
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Chamber Music: The Poetry of Jan ZwickyArcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky's poems, one may perceive the attunement of her...
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The Circle GameAs a part of the launch of the new A List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Governor General's Literary Award-winning The Circle Game, with an introduction by Suzanne...
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The People's FieldWith attention to the Japanese occupation, the Korean War and its aftermath, The People's Field reflects on the sounds, ideas and histories of the Korean peninsula. Of her selection, contest judge Jenny Yang Cropp writes, "Kwon's manuscript contains a paradoxical experience of both movement...
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Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry"She used to be a rumor. She used to be the one not to be named. We listened so hard at the edges of the conversation to hear anything--any detail, any dropped syllable. But thanks to the work of the visionary writers and editors...
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Poems of Light'Poems of Light' ('Poemele Luminii') was published in 1919 by the Romanian poet Lucian Blaga (1895-1961). Blaga is considered to be one of the most important modernist poets in Romania, greatly admired by internationally renowned writers such as Mircea Eliade, yet he is still...
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Beautiful MistakesBeautiful Mistakes is a book of poetry by bestselling author rj avenira. it expands from the brutal honesty of his last book to look the darkness of life & heartbreak in the eyes and swear to move on. this is a journey of love,...
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The Grave: A PoemThe Grave: A Poem by Robert Blair. Illustrated by Twelve Etchings Executed by l.Schiavonetti from the original inventions of William Blake. The Grave is a blank verse poem by the Scottish poet Robert Blair. It is the work for which he is primarily renowned....
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