Poetry
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A greeting of the spirit
£29.95A greeting of the spirit
Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections-some beloved, others less well known-that illuminate the brief, extraordinary career of John Keats. Lively commentaries showcase the poems’ form, style, layers of meaning, and relevant contexts, offering a chronicle of Keats’s artistic evolution.
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A Scattering
£7.99A Scattering
Lucinda Gane, Christopher Reid’s wife, died in October 2005. ‘A Scattering’ is his tribute to her and consists of four poetic sequences, the first written during her final illness, and the other three at intervals after her death.
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A Shropshire lad
£2.99A Shropshire lad
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
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A Third Colour
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Absence
£11.00Absence
From the desolation at the heat-death of the universe to the impassable distance between two people talking, and from the trust exercise of walking in darkness to experiments on the vacuum, ‘Absence’ searches for what’s missing and what we never had.
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Birds, beasts and a world made new
£10.99Birds, beasts and a world made new
Offering a fresh angle on two of the most innovative poets of the 20th century, and grouping poems by theme, celebrated translator and poet Robert Chandler finds surprising connections between Apollinaire and Khlebnikov, from their interest in animal poems and bestiaries to their distinctive approaches to war poetry. Although Apollinaire and Khlebnikov never met, their restless innovations in poetic form shared much in common. Both pushed poetry to its limit, and their experiments proved fertile for generations of poets to come.
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Blood salt spring
£10.99Blood salt spring
Blood Salt Spring is a meditation on where we are – exploring ideas of nation, race and belonging. Much of the collection tackles the isolation and traumas of 2020, but it also looks to find some meaning and makes an attempt to heal the pain and vulnerabilities that were picked and cut open again in the recent cultural shifts and political wars.
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C+nto
£10.99C+nto
Electrifying collection exploring the underground lesbian culture by a pioneer of the British spoken word scene.
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Duino elegies
£12.99Duino elegies
Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests’ translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke’s poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain, this reissue casts one of European literature’s great masterpieces in fresh light.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
£7.99Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit, and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew – and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime – and very much loved today. She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem ‘A Curse for a Nation’ is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.
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Fox
£12.99Fox
Accordion Books don’t open, they unfold. One side is filled with beautiful watercolour images of an animal: sometimes in motion, sometimes at rest. The other is filled with text – poems, descriptions, invocations – inspired by the same animal. Together they work as spells to summon the animal’s spirit. Jackie Morris has painted them using antique watercolours, some from boxes which hadn’t been opened for over 150 years, woken from their slumber with a single drop of water.
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Funeral Readings and Poems
£10.99Funeral Readings and Poems
A beautiful and sustaining volume of poetry which offers inspiration for funeral readings.
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How to say Babylon
£16.99How to say Babylon
‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER
‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES
‘I adored this book ? Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘A breathless, scorching memoir of a girlhood’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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Jane Austen
£7.99Jane Austen
Best known – and beloved – for her highly popular novels including ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Emma’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’, Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet: ‘I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan’t be thinner’. This collection, which also includes poems by the poets she herself admired, sheds light not only on Jane Austen the writer, but on the themes that are woven through her bestselling novels. Satirical, humorous and ironical, they will resonate both with readers who love her novels, and newcomers alike.
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Lament for Sheku Bayoh
£11.99Lament for Sheku Bayoh
Based upon the true story of a death in custody, Lament for Sheku Bayoh asks the urgent question, is Scotland really a safe place?
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Mythos
£10.99Mythos
The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. In Stephen Fry’s hands the stories of the titans and gods become a brilliantly entertaining account of ribaldry and revelry, warfare and worship, debauchery, love affairs and life lessons, slayings and suicides, triumphs and tragedies. You’ll fall in love with Zeus, marvel at the birth of Athena, wince at Cronus and Gaia’s revenge on Ouranos, weep with King Midas and hunt with the beautiful and ferocious Artemis. Thoroughly spellbinding, informative and moving, Stephen Fry’s ‘Mythos’ perfectly captures these stories for the modern age – in all their rich and deeply human relevance.
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