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Continuing where he left off in "A Spillage of Mercury", this collection of poetry from Neil Rollinson delves again into the dark, moist, unexpected bag of human experience. The poems explore the themes of love, sex and life's unpredictable mysteries.

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A unique insight into the life and mind of Seamus Heaney.

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When his fist album was released in 1967, the author was already well known in his native Canada as a poet and novelist, and in the United States as the writer behind Judy Collins' popular recording of 'Suzanne'. This book includes lyrics from that album, together with many of his classics, such as 'Suzanne', 'Joan of Arc' and 'The Chelsea Hotel'.

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Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has often been hampered by a fierce preoccupation with her life and death. This title offers an examination of her poetry.

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This is a study of the poetry of T.S. Eliot. The author sets out to discover just how his poetry, charged with coldness, antisemitism, misogyny, elitism and prissiness invites or incites prejudice.

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Lucid, tender, and strangely troubling, the poems in The Asylum Dance - which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry - are hymns to the tension between the sanctuary of home and the lure of escape.

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The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and devastating power.

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

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Spirituals, folk rhymes, and poems by such writers as Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Don L. Lee reveal the development of Black poetic expression.

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A collection of over 200 quotes of the literary laughs and lessons that only books can provide!

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The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.

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The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.

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The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern times.

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For the first time, John Ciardi's translations of Dante's three soaring canticles have been gathered together in a single volume.

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The best of Auden's critical writings, chosen by himself, including his famous lectures as Professor Poetry at Oxford.

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An engaging, rigorous and insightful investigation of a diverse group of poems.

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A seminal contribution to literary criticism from one of the UK's greatest living academics.

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A lively and accessible account of the lives and works of the great Greek poets.

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A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.

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Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)

A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer Theres something that hits the mark on every page Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman

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Authoritative edition of one of the greatest poets of our age - now in paperback.

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The new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to the poet's papers, follows the same pattern, adding a chapter apiece on the major collections of poems published since 1986, as well as separate discussions of Heaney's work as a translator and essayist.

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Sarah Maguire's rich and lyrical poems have been highly praised for the ease with which they ground precise, sensual detail within the wider context of world events.

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Published for the first time in English, these vivid, probing short works reflect deeply on the challenges of life and provide a spiritual solace that transcends specific denominational hymns, prayers, and rituals.