A Nature Poem For Every Night Of The Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
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Category: Poetry | Series: Batsford Poetry Anthologies Ser.
Relax and unwind at the end of the day with this calming collection of nature poems--one for each night of the year. Now more than ever we need something to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful book by your bedside and enjoy a dreamy stroll through the natura ...Show more
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry
Although a very prolific poet--and arguably America's greatest--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her ...Show more
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
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Category: Poetry | Series: Little Histories Ser.
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literatureWhat is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and ...Show more
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William Shakespeare
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Category: Poetry
The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets! In celebration of the momentous 400th annversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features gorgeous full-color artwork throughout that brings The ...Show more
The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics) by Charles Baudelaire; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
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Category: Poetry
The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decr ...Show more
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Poetry
"The Hunting of the Snark" relates in glittering verse the story of how the Bellman and his eccentric crew, who include a butcher, a baker, a beaver and a tailor, set off in quest of that most mysterious and elusive of creatures, the Snark. In 1959 Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomin Valley and its mag ...Show more
Of Memory and Furniture by Bron Bateman
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Category: Poetry
Of Memory and Furniture is described by Julienne van Loon as 'a deeply feminist project', and by David Brooks as 'bold, explicit and unapologetic'. This collection in four parts explores experiences of female embodiment, sexuality, and relationships with family, lovers and institutions. It is concerned ...Show more
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
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Category: Poetry | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Wh ...Show more
Poems from the Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry
Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanityitself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, ...Show more
Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. The text is preceded b ...Show more
Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson
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Category: Poetry
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE* Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a long sequence of graphic, stunning pieces about Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom woman are prey and se ...Show more
Eagerly We Burn: Selected Poems 1980-2018 by Barry Hill
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Category: Poetry
Barry Hill's tenth book of poetry selects from his Naked Clay: Drawing from Lucian Freud, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, 2013, and described by John Kinsella as a 'masterpiece'; Grass Hut Work (2016), his excursion into Hiroshima and Japanese poetry, which Sam Hamill said was 'beautiful an ...Show more