Book of Longing: Popular Penguins by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen's eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and M ...Show more
The Djinn Hunters by Nadia Niaz
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Category: Poetry
‘Nadia Niaz dances worlds into being. Hers is a rich and heady poetry, unafraid to play with form, spun for us across contrasting worlds, languages, time, customs. It’s a poetry to savour, gasp and marvel at for its spirit of sustained and generous observation.’ — Kevin BrophyThe Djinn Hunters, Nadia Ni ...Show more
Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
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Category: Poetry
In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeous collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These ...Show more
Ten Poems about Baking by HELENA NELSON
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Category: Poetry
These ten poems celebrate all that's wonderful about baking the time-honoured recipes, the patient kneading and stirring of ingredients, the sticky fingers in the mixing bowl. Baking, the poems seem to say again and again, is a profoundly human art: a homemade summer pudding can create "a stillness lost ...Show more
Ten Poems about Rubbish by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry
A load of rubbish? These poems are very far from being that! Always surprising, this selection finds that rubbish is far more than merely stuff we don't want any more. There's a poem in which a swing-bin complete with peelings and old tea-bags becomes a vivid still life and a moving elegy when a family ...Show more
Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Hull. Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition o ...Show more
Hafiz's Little Book of Life by Hafiz
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Category: Poetry
I have this gem and it’s looking for a beholder Hafiz of Shiraz (also known as Hafez) remains the most beloved name in all of Persian literature. Indeed, his mystic, lyric poetry is cherished as one of the great achievements of world literature, on a par with Dante, Goethe, and Shakespeare. Hafiz’s Litt ...Show more
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
Anxious in a Sweet Store by Anna Jacobson
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Category: Poetry
Anna Jacobson mixes up the fiercely serious with the whimsical in her second book of poems, exploring a daily life of navigating small rituals and routines along with anxiety, a crippling companion.Anxious in a Sweet Store is Anna Jacobson's second illustrated poetry collection where the 'sweet', whimsi ...Show more
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Poetry | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. WILDE, GLAMOROUS AND NOTORIUS, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the ha ...Show more
The Poetry of Birds by Samuel Carr
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Category: Poetry
A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy. Poets and artists have always looked to birds for inspiration. In this collection Audubon's iconic birds illuminate, as well as illustrate, the poems. Since the poets and the painters here ...Show more