Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In my selection, which is roughly chronological ...Show more
Eggs for Keeps by Barry Hill
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Category: Poetry
Eggs For Keeps picks up where the selected essays left off . It features short reviews, of poetry mainly, collected over thirty years, including the decade Hill was Poetry Editor for the Australian - responses to books by Paul Kane, Ian Wedde, Les Murray, Judith Beveridge, Robert Adamson, Seamus Heaney, ...Show more
Orlam by PJ Harvey, Polly Jean Harvey
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Category: Poetry
Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals, children's songs, chants and superstitions of the rura ...Show more
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
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Category: Poetry
With electrifying boldness and fearlessness of vision, Sarah Holland-Batt confronts what it means to be mortal in an astonishing and deeply humane portrait of a father's Parkinson's Disease, and a daughter forged by grief. Opening and closing with startling elegies set in the charged moments before and ...Show more
Duino Elegies - Translated by Alison Croggon by Rainer Maria Rilke; Alison Croggon (Intro and Notes by, Translator); John Kinsella (Preface by)
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Category: Poetry
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of Germany's major Modernist poets, notable for the lyric intensity of his work. He considered the Duino Elegies - a cycle of ten poems written in inspirational bursts between 1912 and 1922 - to be his major achievement. The restless movement of these poems reflects ...Show more
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
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Category: Poetry
The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embody ...Show more
Writing Haiku: A Beginner's Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry — Includes Tanka, Renga, Haiga, Senryu and Haibun by Bruce Ross
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Category: Poetry
A world of dewAnd within every dewdropA world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace--and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with fewer words. This practical guide by poet an ...Show more
Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings
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Category: Poetry
At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentie ...Show more
If We Should Ever Meet Again by Richard Trembath
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Category: Poetry
Richard Trembath has led a life of many facets and has generally been regarded by those who know him as a most unlikely poet.Orphaned at 16 after growing up in the tiny town of Walwa, in the Upper Murray Valley, he spent most of his working life as a journalist specialising in horse racing, first with o ...Show more
A Poet for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
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Category: Poetry
Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, <i>A Poet for Every Day of the Year</i>, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world’s greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new dis ...Show more
The Gift of Everything by Lang Leav
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Category: Poetry
International best-selling author Lang Leav presents The Gift of Everything, a stunning hardcover gift book featuring her finest pieces to date, spanning across her world-renowned poetry and prose titles from Love & Misadventure to Love Looks Pretty on You. In addition, this beautifully conceived cl ...Show more