How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
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Category: Poetry | Series: Little Ways to Live a Big Life Ser.
'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'. I referred them to Doctor Who's Tardis.'Frank ...Show more
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
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Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Poetry! Winner of a 2022 Palestine Book Award“Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty."—The New York TimesIn this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life ...Show more
History Boys by Alan Bennett
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry a ...Show more
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
The Pocket Rumi by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi
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Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
The cry of the soul in love with God has never been more eloquently expressed than by the great Persian Sufi master Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Readers have thrilled to his ecstatic songs of divine union for more than eight hundred years. Now, here is the collection of the best of Rumi's poetry reissue ...Show more
Communists Like Us by John Falzon
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Category: Poetry | Series: UWAP Poetry Ser.
Communists Like Us is a simple love story, a little fiction told in a hundred poems, a hundred little places to live large, fragments of a story of love in a time of struggle. But then, when isn't it a time of struggle? And when is a story not about love? And when isn't love a fragmented but tender dial ...Show more
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
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Category: Poetry
In her extraordinary new poetry collection, the Poet Laureate of the United States boldly ties America's contemporary moment both to our nation's fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting.
Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Poetry
'A source of uncompromising elemental warmth' Ali SmithBy turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in flux, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embe ...Show more
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'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 o ...Show more
AfterLife by Kathryn Lomer
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Category: Poetry
'Even the titles thrum, so that the index reads like a suite of small poems. Kathryn Lomer’s is a house with many rooms, Wunderkammers all, filled with curious objects drawn from the worlds of art, science, nature, love, life, death… everything. Supple lines and sensitive rhythms make surprising conjunc ...Show more
Poems: New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska
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Category: Poetry
Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously ...Show more
Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today by Alison Whittaker
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Category: Poetry
This important anthology, curated by Gomeroi poet and academic Alison Whittaker, showcases Australia's most-respected First Nations poets alongside some of the rising stars. Featured poets include Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Ellen van Neerven, Tony Birch, Claire G. Coleman, Evelyn Araluen, ...Show more