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I saw a tramp last night the way the old dog walked with dotted, tired fur down nobody's alley being nobody's dog ...past the empty vodka bottles past the peanut butter jars, with wires full of electricity and the birds asleep somewhere, down the alley he went - nobody's dog moving through it all, brave as any army.

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A bright and charming new poetry collection, from 2009 Costa Book of the Year winner, Christopher Reid.

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A stunning new sequence of war poems from former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.

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An anthology that celebrates, in verse, the silent poetry of dance and the dancer. Detailing dances of all kinds, it gathers the work of more than 150 poets - including Shakespeare, Milton, Hafez, Rumi, Li Po, Rilke, and more.

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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore a more emotional side to Charles Bukowski.

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Simon Armitage is the most widely and unreservedly praised poet of his generation. Elsewhere, questions of belief and trust, of identity and knowledge, dealt with as they occur in everyday domestic life, contribute to a picture of our contemporary world that is at once realistic and touched with a unique imaginative intensity.

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Simon Armitage's sparkling translation of the legendary tale of King Arthur.

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"Spanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momaday's connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual relationship to the American landscape"--

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Spanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momadays connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual relationship to the American landscape.

The title poem, The Death of Sitting Bear is a celebration of heritage and a memorial to the great Kiowa warrior and chief.

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The Desert is 40 poems, encouraging us to speak words of life continuously, hearing what we are storing inside our hearts and minds. We are most powerful in choosing to love. We are unbreakable because God is Loving. We are, made, whole. Speak Life.

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In the dice cup, then, life becomes not a design but a wager; not an adventure but a game

Brimming with brio and brilliance, John Fullers latest collection comprises exquisite philosophical arguments, dream visions, aphorisms, precise portraits, colourful fables and tableaux of life.

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This edition prints all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - INFERNO, PURGATORIO and PARADISO - in the recent English translation by Allen Mandelbaum, with an introduction and explanatory notes on each canto by the noted Dante scholar, Peter Armour.

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An expanded edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry

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A wonderfully sustained narrative poem, full of the resonances and repercussions attendant on the end of an era, The Donkey's Ears depicts life aboard a Russian flagship just before the battle of Tsushima, 1905.

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Features poems that range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.

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This new selection represents about half the major verse poems, half the Illuminations, and the entirety of A Season in Hell, along with most of the known letters by Rimbaud up to 1875.

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A mesmerising new collection from Canisia Lubrin, author of Voodoo Hypothesis.

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Introduces international writing to the general and literary public - travelers, teachers, students, publishers, and a new generation of eclectic readers - by presenting international literature not as a static, elite phenomenon, but a portal through which to explore the world.

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Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe, filled with heroes, dragons, trolls, dwarves and magic. He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and, even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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A new collection from the award-winning Italian poet.

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Offering up a critique of the apocalypse, this collection swiftly moves through technological disasters, environmental nightmares, and broken relationships to discover love cast away at the end of it all.

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Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, this book conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.

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