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Holy Mothers is a translation of Austrian playwright Werner Schwab's horrifically funny play Die Prosidentinnen. Translated by British playwright Meredith Oakes, this play opened to great acclaim at London's Royal Court Theatre.

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First published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan' series in 1948 and revised in 1958 and 1962 Stanford's second volume of the "Odyssey" has remained the standard edition used by upper school and university students to guide their early reading of the epic.

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Captures both the simplicity and the intensity of Homer's epic.

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The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. This work aims to bring all 103 odes into English in a series of translations while also illuminating the imagination of one of literary history's towering figures.

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Reflects the influence not only of French poets including Verlaine and Rimbaud, but also of Whitman. This title presents the poems, whose English translations appear opposite the French originals, which are accompanied by reproductions of seven woodcuts by Georges Minne that appeared in the original volume.

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On an idyllic Greek island, the garden of sixties icon Leonard Cohen inspires a poet to question and ultimately celebrate the meaning of his own life

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Described in the Telegraph as 'Huddersfield's Melville', Milner Place has spent much of his life sailing the seven seas as a skipper of a trading boat, while also writing beautifully crafted poetry.

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With this assured and powerful first collection, Henry Shukman springs fully-formed into the poetry world, having already won a raft of prizes for individual poems.

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Adam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the lost to the living, seeking familiarity in a world of 'false trails and disappearing acts'.

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This index compensates for the loss of bibliographic control that occurred when the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature decided to discontinue the indexing of poetry and supplements other poetry indexes which did not cover or covered incompletely periodical poetry.

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The new book of poetry from award-winning poet and novelist, Luke Davies.

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Features the poem of the author.

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Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. Together, the four create a witty and humane self-portrait of the poet.

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In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in

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"De Rerum Natura" offers readers a complete guide to happiness and a total tour of the universe. This book draws on the latest research into the text and interpretation of Lucretius to elucidate both the poetic artistry and philosophical content. Little background knowledge of Latin is assumed.

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In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health.

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Although both innovative and engaging, Book XIII of Martial's epigrams, the "Xenia", has generally been neglected. This edition contains commentary devoted exclusively to the "Xenia". It combines literary and textual comment with close attention to the social and cultural context.