Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology by Tim Kendall
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of wa ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
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Category: Poetry
Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. He was the creator of one of the most distinctive and exciting of literary styles - sensuous, playful, rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical, and full of memorable lines. 'Do not go gentle ...Show more
John Donne: Collected Poetry by John Donne
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Category: Poetry
'Take me to You, imprison me, for I, Except You'enthral me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me' John Donne was one of the greatest and most daring poets in the English language, whose work reinvigorated the traditions of Renaissance verse with its wit, wordplay, elaborate conceit ...Show more
Graceland by Christopher Abani
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Category: Poetry
In this coming-of-age tale set in the shadows of Nigeria's underworld, Elvis, a young Elvis impersonator, hopes to escape the ghetto of Lagos, but with no immediate prospects, he gravitates towards a life of crime. Ultimately, he must find a way to a 'Graceland' of his own.
Salt by Earl Lovelace
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Category: Poetry
Set in Trinidad, the story is launched by the mythical tale of Guinea John, an ancestor of Blackpeople, who put two corn cobs under his arm pits and flew from a clifftop, away from the scene of his enslavement, back to Africa. His descendants have eaten salt, grown too heavy to fly, and cannot follow hi ...Show more
Hollow of the Hand by P. J. Harvey; Seamus Murphy
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Category: Poetry
Between 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C.. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected pictures, and together they created an extraordinary chronicle of our life and times. The Hollow of the Hand marks the first p ...Show more
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
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Category: Poetry
Both contemporary and other-worldly, Davis's lyrical poetry is a fearless expression of the spirit which defines the very essence of our beings.
William Wordsworth (Faber Nature Poets) by William Wordsworth
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
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Category: Poetry
Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put 'Poet and short-story writer - and occasional essayist ...Show more
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The new Pelican Shakespeare series incorporates the more than thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the acclaimed original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967.The general editors of the new series of forty volumes-the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel ...Show more