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more recent luminaries include Brecht, Cavafy, Gabriela Mistral, Dylan Thomas, Iku Takenaka, Pablo Neruda, Wislawa Szymborska, Anne Stevenson, Maya Angelou, Derek Walcott, John Burnside and Ian McMillan.

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"James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed.: [Young] meditates on all things 'brown' in this ... collection. Divided into 'Home Recordings' and 'Field Recordings, ' Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black, Kansas boyhood to comment on our times"--

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Given that insects vastly outnumber us (there are approximately 200 million insects for every human) it is no surprise that there is a rich body of verse on the creeping, scuttling, flitting, stinging things with which we share our planet.

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A collection of seasonal poems, accompanied by watercolour illustrations.

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Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection charts his passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and abiding readability.

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A classic text that establishes the canon of Irish Poetry since the death of Yeats

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If you believe that a dog is mans and womans best friend, this is the anthology for you: six hundred years of reflections on the virtues (and some of the vices) of canine kind.

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The stuff of dreams - hopes, fears, and longings - represent universal subjects to which everyone can relate. This fictionalized anthology of dreams, one for each American president explores power, as well as its limits and possibilities.

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It is the first book to identify a strain in the poetry of the last half-century which is characteristic of the 'strange times' we live in - an age when, as the editors note, scientific discovery itself has encouraged us to 'make free with the boundaries of realism'.

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The poetry of the English Renaissance speaks directly across the centuries to the renaissance of poetic exploration in our own time. This book captures this ferment and variety as no other anthology does. It includes some of the most famous poems by some of the most famous poets of the English language.

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Pushkin was the first Russian writer of European stature, and he is among the very few artists - such as Homer and Shakespeare - to have shaped the consciousness and history of an entire nation and its language, thereby affecting the world at large.

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With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets, First World War Poems also returns lesser known pieces to the light, and extends the selection right through to the present day - so that poems produced by the war give way historically to poems about the war.

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Poems by both men and women from the 1600s to the present day are beautifully illustrated with images from the unrivalled collection of Japanese paintings and prints in the British Museum.

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In this exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope attempts to prove that misery does not have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which is unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and solitude, music, food and drink and books.

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A beautiful repackage of this wonderfully accessible selection chosen by Britain's Poet Laureate.

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Here, to name but a few, we find Charles Baudelaire, John Betjamen, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Raymond Carver, Amy Clampitt, Emily Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, Eric Idle, E.

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The English language is jam-packed with wonderful verses that we've all heard at some point, but probably forgotten. I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud helps us remember all those long-forgotten poems that we were taught at school, together with short biographies of the poets and introductions to the poems themselves.

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With its roots in the devotional verse of the early Christian church and the long lyric poems of the Irish bards, Irish poetry has a rich and robust tradition both of engagement and self-reflection.