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By: Pam Ayres
ISBN: 9781846077937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2010
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Contains 120 of Pam Ayres' poems, including "The Battery Hen", "Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In", "Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother" and "Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth". This title includes a general introduction by Pam, as well as individual introductions to these classic poems.
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By: Andrew McMillan
ISBN: 9781787333192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 20th May 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571353392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The essential selection of poems from one of the UK's foremost contemporary poets - now in poetry typographic front-list look.
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By: John Milton
ISBN: 9780375757969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Meticulously edited, full of tactful annotations that set the stage for his work and his times, this Modern Library edition brings Milton, as a poet and a thinker, vividly alive before us.--Robert Hass, winner of the 2007 National Book Award.
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By: Ivan Turgenev
ISBN: 9781847498915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This unique collection contains Parasha, a humorous narrative poem, and four other narrative poems by Turgenev - Andrei, A Conversation, The Landowner and The Village Priest - all showing the author's early interest in ordinary stories of Russian life.
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By: Charles Baudelaire
ISBN: 9781847499035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 24th August 2023
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry - a form which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age - and one of the founding texts of literary Modernism.
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By: Hope Mirrlees
ISBN: 9780571359936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Modernism's lost masterpiece.
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By: Sir Andrew Motion
ISBN: 9780571325481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The stunning new sequence of poems from former poet laureate Andrew Motion.
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By: John Hegley
ISBN: 9781781258385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2017
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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New in paperback - a new collection from one of Britain's best-loved poets.
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By: Frederick Seidel
ISBN: 9780571348190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The exuberant new collection from a 'beguiling and magisterial' poet (The New York Times Book Review).
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By: Simon Armitage
ISBN: 9780571302963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2023
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The Poet Laureate's new version of the Middle English poem
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By: Fiona Sampson
ISBN: 9780571259472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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One of six new additions to the acclaimed Poet to Poet series.
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By: Ezra Pound
ISBN: 9780571206575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2001
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to Joyce, Eliot and Pound, it was Pound's personality and position in the artistic world that enabled the experiment to transform itself into an international movement.
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By: Andrew McMillan
ISBN: 9780224102131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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*Winner of the 2015 Guardian First Book Award*
Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body to male friendship and male love muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving.
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By: Pierre Reverdy
ISBN: 9781590176795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2013
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Pierre Reverdy, who was close to Picasso and Braque and was enormously admired by the surrealists, is one the greatest of modern French poets and one of the most elusive.
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By: Owen Sheers
ISBN: 9780571315574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Shortlisted for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2013, Pink Mist displays all of Owen Sheers's virtuoso gifts for language and poetic drama.
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By: Roshan James
ISBN: 9781770417625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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Pink Moon is a poetry collection that is part anthem of decolonization, part oracle of the times.
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By: Sylvie Baumgartel
ISBN: 9780374604868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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By: Charles Bukowski
ISBN: 9780876854372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th August 1992
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Play the Piano introduces Charles Bukowski's poetry from the 1970s. He leads a life full of gambling and booze but also finds love. These poems are full of lechery and romance as he struggles to mature.
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By: Steve Luttrell
ISBN: 9781583948941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
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By: Nicholas Albery
ISBN: 9781856194990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1997
UK Publication Date: 12th December 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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366 poems, one for each day of the year (including leap years). Chosen for their narrative, resonance and rhythm, these are poems to learn by heart -- or treasure and enjoy. Poets included range from Yeats, Shakespeare, Housman and Kipling, to contemporary poets such as Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, Maya Angelou and Thom Gunn.
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By: Cyprian Norwid
ISBN: 9781935744078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Archipelago Books
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The perfect introduction to a classic Polish poet.
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By: Walt Whitman
ISBN: 9781857157154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1994
UK Publication Date: 20th October 1994
Publisher: Everyman
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The major male poet of nineteenth-century America (his female counterpart is Emily Dickinson), Whitman is the poet of grand passions great open spaces, lofty mourning and male love. This volume includes a wide selection from every period of Whitman's creative career, including many poems from the celebrated LEAVES OF GRASS.
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By: John Keats
ISBN: 9781857150537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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John Keats began writing at the age of 18, and by the time he died, seven years later in 1821, he had produced a substantial number of poems. This collection contains his work - his narratives, sonnets of discovery and his six odes - and culminates in "To Autumn".
