Rimbaud : Complete Works, Selected Letters by Seth Adam Seth Adam (FRW); Whidden Wallace; Whidden Arthur; Fowlie Rimbaud
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The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the youn ...Show more
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Into the jaw of Death Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred' As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age. The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years of his literary careerand show the wide variety of poetic ...Show more
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Wordsworth
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Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionised poetry.Selected Poems brings together some of Words ...Show more
Solid Air: Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word by David Stavanger; Anne-Marie Te Whiu
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Over the past decade, Spoken Word has established itself as a central part of contemporary Australian & New Zealand poetry. For the first-time ever, these voices are transported from the stage to the page, captured in print so that the spoken-word experience can be shared with a new and broader audi ...Show more
TAKE CARE: Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Eunice Andrada
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Category: Poetry
TAKE CARE explores what it means to survive within systems not designed for tenderness. Bound in personal testimony, the poems situate the act of rape within the machinery of imperialism, where human and non-human bodies, lands, and waters are violated to uphold colonial powers. Andrada explores the mag ...Show more
Ten Poems for a Wedding by KATHRYN BEVIS
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A wedding isn't a wedding without a poem. The enduring quality of great poetry seems to promise that all will be well for a couple on the threshold of marriage. You'll be dazzled by the brilliance and beauty of this selection, which offers everything from heartfelt blessings to reflections on the rich r ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Poetry
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James
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Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island poems: a selection of his favourite verse and a personal commentary on each.The Fire of Joy was the final book Clive James completed before his death in 2019. It takes its title from the French expression Feu de Joie, which refers to a military celebration ...Show more
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat "for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows", where they get married. Long considered one of the n ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine by Kaveh Akbar (Introduction by)
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An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present Poets have always looked to the skies for inspiration and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in t ...Show more
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
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As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart's poetic dispensaryWhen we're grieving, when we're broken-hearted, and when we find ourselves struggling to understand the things we're feeling, we long for the connection poetry can provide. To find the right poem at that crucia ...Show more