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A much admired collection of Philip Larkin, published for the first time by Faber and Faber.

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The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the picture of a dozen more. 99 for the complete edition of the Life in 1344 pages, it compares with Penguin's abridged edition of just 300 pages of text at 6.

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Reflections on love and friendship by one of the world's best-loved poets, Kahlil Gibran.

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, this powerful and extraordinary novel follows a D-Day veteran as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America.

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Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century, the poet known as Rumi expressed the deepest feelings of the heart through his poetry.

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In the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack's Dove, GennaRose Nethercott describes a woodsman who cuts off his hand with an axe--however, instead of merely being severed, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body, this incident spirals outward to explore c

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With an illuminating new preface by Colm Tibn, here is Thom Gunn's extraordinary memorial to love, life and death in the time of the AIDS crisis

The Man With Night Sweats, originally published in 1992, sees Thom Gunn writing at the height of his powers.

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Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats shows him writing at the height of his powers, equally in command of classical forms and of looser, more colloquial measures, and ready to address a wide range of themes, both intimate and social.

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Now in paperback: a celebration of the most scintillating poems ever composed in Britain, chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke, the National Poet of Wales.

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This is the story of what life becomes when stripped of all that makes it worth living - of what humans become when they lose their humanity.

The Martian's Regress is a brilliant, provocative, often darkly comic work that explores what a fragile environment eventually makes of those who persist in tampering with it.

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A master of elegy and eulogy who finds during lockdown the space to take stock.

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A book about Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. It is also an allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers.

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A take-off on Clement Clarke Moore's poem The night before Christmas, a.k.a. A visit from St. Nicholas.

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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

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This collection of previously unpublished poems offers the author's take on squabbling neighbours, off-kilter lovers, would-be hangers-on, and the loneliness of a man afflicted with acute powers of observation. The tone is gritty and amusing, spiralling out towards a cock-eyed wisdom.

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Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

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Re-packaged in the much-loved Faber typographic look.

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A collection of poetry which explores the ways in which radiance dwells most truly in the ordinary, the difficult and the plain. The subjects range from the importance of "sabbath" moments in which nothing seems to happen to the love between two aged horses.

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Presents a translation of the famous episodes - the sirens, Scylla and Charibdys, the Cyclops.