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(Hardback)
By: Kahlil Gibran
ISBN: 9780143133582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in the United States of America by Knopf, 1923.
(Paperback)
By: Kahlil Gibran
ISBN: 9780099416937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 1991
Publisher: Cornerstone
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First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life- love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.
(Hardback)
By: Kahlil Gibran
ISBN: 9780241573716
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Kahlil Gibran
ISBN: 9781800319707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2020
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
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This is the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances, as he returns home after a long absence. Told in 26 prose poetry fables written in English, the book covers areas such as love, passion, pain, freedom and friendship.
(Paperback)
By: Kahlil Gibran
ISBN: 9780141194677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in the 1920's, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, is the most famous work of religious fiction of the twentieth century. The Prophet became the bible of 1960s culture and was credited with founding the New Age movement, yet it still continues to inspire people around the world today.
(Paperback, Bonded Leather)
By: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9781435171374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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A classic collection of poetry by Poe, in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.
(Paperback)
By: Annie Freud
ISBN: 9781447271161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A powerful new collection from the T S Eliot Prize shortlisted Annie Freud, featuring beautiful full-colour illustrations by the poet herself.
(Paperback)
By: Clive James
ISBN: 9781509887248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A soaring autobiographical poem, meditating on death and celebrating life, from one of our most cherished, critically acclaimed and bestselling writers.
(Paperback)
By: Omar Khayyam
ISBN: 9780140443844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1982
UK Publication Date: 17th September 1981
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Omar Khayyam was revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. Presented in short epigrammatic stanza form, this title contains his verses of reckless romanticism and pragmatic fatalism in the face of death.
(Paperback)
By: Omar Khayyam
ISBN: 9780755600519
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Rupi Kaur
ISBN: 9781524858162
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2019
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Available for the first time, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Rupi Kaur, presents a gorgeous boxed set of her books milk and honey and the sun and her flowers.
(Paperback)
By: Jesse Byock
ISBN: 9780141393681
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Anne Kennedy
ISBN: 9781869409586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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A biting new collection by award-winning poet Anne Kennedy.
(Paperback)
By: C. P. Cavafy
ISBN: 9780141185613
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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C P Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past. This title includes selected poems of Cavafy.
(Hardback)
By: Emily Dickinson
ISBN: 9781631068416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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Share in Dickinson's admiration of language, nature, and life and death, with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson.
(Hardback)
By: W. H. Auden
ISBN: 9780691218656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Chris Nealon
ISBN: 9781940696980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Wave Books
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Capacious works that explore social and political strife with simultaneous tenderness and strength.
(Paperback)
By: Richard James Allen
ISBN: 9781760800215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Kim Cheng Boey
ISBN: 9780648917663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Cordite Publishing Inc.
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew Rohrer
ISBN: 9781950268047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Wave Books
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Poems that speak the literal language of dreams.
(Hardback)
By: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780141192574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Part of the "Clothbound Classics" series, this title collects sonnets of Shakespeare's that deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. It also includes the sonnet "A Lover's Complaint", in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
(Paperback)
By: Jo Randerson
ISBN: 9780864733962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Emma Jones
ISBN: 9780571245383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A hypnotic debut from a thrilling new talent.
(Paperback)
By: Joshua Bennett
ISBN: 9781526664532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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