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Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.

There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty.

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Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there.

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Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding devastation with the same mixture of fascination and alarm he feels when he discovers the sweat-mark on his T-shirt makes a perfect map of Ireland.

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With her knowledge of both classic and contemporary cultures, Paglia sheds illuminating light on the raw power of a wailing pop lyric as easily as she does on the cryptic wit of a line of Emily Dickinson. High school & older.

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"Careful" is centred on a series of domestic distractions and interruptions.

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This volume has been considered by many to be one of the most innovative studies of Chinese poetry. Cheng illustrates his text with an annotated anthology of 135 poems from the golden age of Tang Dynasty, featuring lively translations of the works of Tu Fu, Li Po, Wang Wei and other poets.

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Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmess seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britains greatest poets.

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Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill.

This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary;

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The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell brings together, for the first time, the work of America's pre-eminent post-war poet.

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Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. Longley's poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variety.

Longley's genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry.

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One of six new additions to the acclaimed Poet to Poet series to be published this year.

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An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas.

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Synopsis coming soon.......

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In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' - an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' - an undoing of self. Where else can we start

Anne Carson's Decreation starts with form - the undoing of form.

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These poems occupy a more rueful, reflective space - provisional, mercurial and fragile - a darker place where disintegration and loss are the only certainties, and memory is the only solid ground.

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Border-land,
our town of miracles
Scab


From the clash between striking miners and police to the delicate conflicts in personal relationships, Helen Morts stunning debut is marked by distance and division.

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An award-winning poet offers a "masterful" (Wally Lamb) introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre

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An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre

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The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n roll' lifestyle as his artistic work

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In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings.

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The only English translation to include the complete work - a must-have for all students of early Norse literature.