Folly and Grief by Jennifer Harrison
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Category: Poetry
From this, Jennifer Harrison's new book, she produces a bag of miracles. Her care for the language, and her revelling in it, alerts us: we are in the presence of a poet whos work is ravishing. Folly and Grief offers us what poetry should: beauty under pressure.
Looking Out from Death: From the Cultural Revolution to Tianenmen Square by J. Cayley
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Category: Poetry
Unexpected Elegies: "Poems of 1912-13" and Other Poems About Emma by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Poetry
Here are Thomas Hardy's famous sequence of love poems, published as a book for the first time. When Emma Hardy died in 1912, her husband, the great novelist and poet, began to write "Poems 1912-13", a series of elegies that are among the most moving in the English language. Although they had been estran ...Show more
Birmingham River by Roy Fisher
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Category: Poetry | Series: Oxford Poets S.
Birmingham River is Roy Fisher's first book of poems since Poems 1955-1987 , published by OUP in 1988. Including a sequence of `Six Texts for a Film', which provided the basis for an Arts Council film made by Tom Pickard, the collection contains much varied work, and a warmer, more relaxed tone than pre ...Show more
Dispossessed by HODGINS Philip
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Category: Poetry
It is 1988, the year of celebrations. But not everyone feels invited. During the last weeks before eviction from their land, a farming family is dispossessed more than once. Against the myth of idyllic rural life, Dispossessed gives another vision. Here is a stark account of this family losing their ide ...Show more
All That's Left by Jack Hirschman
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Category: Poetry
The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, "All That's Left" is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with Hirschman's autobiographical inaugural address, which vividly traces his career as poet, translator, a ...Show more
Poems Of Banjo Patterson Hen by Patterson Banjo ; Lawson Henry
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Category: Poetry
Combined with Pro Hart's paintings, which capture the humour of some of these poems, the pathos and loneliness of others, the poems of Paterson and Lawson come alive once more in this exciting boxed set. These books are not only for the countless Paterson and Lawson admirers who can now enjoy their work ...Show more
For Weddings and a Funeral by John Marsden (Editor)
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Category: Poetry
For Weddings and a Funeral is a collection of very special poems, for very special occasions.Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone... When Matthew spoke these lines in the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral every reviewer was moved.Few occasions in our lives are more important than weddings and f ...Show more
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; John Robert Glorney Bolton (Editor); Julia Bolton Holloway (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of the po ...Show more