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Paperback. Swedish poet, novelist and philosopher Lars Gustafsson is one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249977
ISBN
9781852249977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.12

Paperback. The peerless U. A. Fanthorpe roots herself in the very earth of English poetry, connecting herself to Hughes and Browning, but also and more pertinently to the real experience of English living.. so clear-eyed and so, well, completely poetic. -Stephen Fry. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907587269
ISBN
9781907587269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

paperback. One of Spain's greatest and most well-loved poets, Lorca is admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work. From the playful "Suites" to his dark vision of urban life, "Poet in New York", his range was remarkable. This title provides versions by various poets and translators, drawing on books of poems published by Lorca. Editor(s): Maurer, Christopher. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185835
ISBN
9780141185835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 116 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811221627
ISBN
9780811221627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.68

Paperback. During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. Drawn from the work he published up to 1984, this collection makes a wide range of this poet's writing available. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
348
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857544121
ISBN
9781857544121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. This edition contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac 'Easter 1916', the apocalyptic "The Second Coming" and the reflective and spiritual "Sailing to Byzantium". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847494412
ISBN
9781847494412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.42

Paperback. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This title illustrates her broad scope and brilliant imaginative gifts. It covers her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540878
ISBN
9780099540878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. A reprinted selection of the earliest work of Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn which should be valuable as a historical document. It shows certain shared features and also serves to demonstrate, with the benefit of hindsight, how distinct these two talents were from the outset. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 185 x 121 x 4. Weight in Grams: 72.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571130948
ISBN
9780571130948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99
€ 6.95

Paperback. Presents a selection of poems by the author. This book contains such poems as "My Last Duchess", "Fra Lippo Lippi" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". It displays the author's innovative techniques of diction, rhythm and symbol, which transformed Victorian poetry and influenced major poets of the twentieth century such as Ezra Pound, and T S Eliot. Num Pages: 352 pages, notes, glossary, indexes. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140437263
ISBN
9780140437263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. An ideal introduction to the poetry of one of this country's finest ever poets and featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780227290
ISBN
9781780227290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. This title intends to show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Clark, Carol. Translator(s): Clark, Carol. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446241
ISBN
9780140446241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Wallace Stevens is for many readers the supreme poet of twentieth century America, his voice combining meditative speculation with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry'. This book represents the range of his acheievement, from the lyrical inventions of Harmonium to the pondered large-scale and crafted masterpieces of his middle years. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571260089
ISBN
9780571260089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.02

Paperback. First UK Selected Poems by one of America's leading poets, known for his highly entertaining and provocative poetry. Launched with a UK reading tour. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780371153
ISBN
9781780371153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.08

Hardback. Features a collection of poems from metaphysical epigrams, and lyrical odes to blank-verse sonnets, on topics from Roman busts to Lucian Freud to postage stamps. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 240 x 30. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241249390
ISBN
9780241249390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.09

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904634119
ISBN
9781904634119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.00

Paperback. Charts the unique literary talent of one of Britain's most influential poets and social critics. Ranging from protests against police brutality to eulogies for departed friends and celebrations of urban life, Linton Kwesi Johnson's use of Jamaican dialect to tackle British subjects contributed to a revolution in the notion of literary English. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141025018
ISBN
9780141025018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. The major male poet of nineteenth-century America, Whitman is the poet of grand passions great open spaces, lofty mourning and male love. This volume deals with his life and work. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
158
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157154
ISBN
9781857157154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.45

paperback. Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, the author has lit up the poetry scene in the UK. This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes his original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571281800
ISBN
9780571281800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.02

Paperback. One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. Editor(s): Gill, Stephen. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140424423
ISBN
9780140424423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. An edition of the "Collected Poems" of Frank O'Hara, who is a leading light of the 'New York School' and one of the most significant poets of the twentieth-century. Editor(s): Allen, Donald. Num Pages: 180 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 362. 180 pages, 1 port. Editor(s): Allen, Donald. An edition of the "Collected Poems" of Frank O'Hara, who is a leading light of the 'New York School' and one of the most significant poets of the twentieth-century. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 217 x 155 x 20. Weight: 358.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
4th Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857547719
ISBN
9781857547719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. John Clare was the great Romantic 'peasant poet' - the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan. Num Pages: 352 pages, port. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571223718
ISBN
9780571223718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.54

Hardcover. Distringuished as both a great novelist and a great poet, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) had a writing career which spanned more than sixty years, concentrating first on prose and then, after publishing his last novel in 1895, on verse. This book features his poems. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 109 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
254
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857157178
ISBN
9781857157178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Dealing with the densities of the poets expression, and the forces in his syntax and rhythms, this poetry aims to achieve a strength, memorability and precision beyond the abilities of any other poet writing in English. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141025001
ISBN
9780141025001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.77

Paperback. Rexroth's Selected Poems brings together in a single volume a representative sampling of sixty years work. The late Kenneth Rexroth ( 1905-1982) is surely one of the most readable of this century's great American poets. He is also one of the most sophisticated. Num Pages: 152 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811209175
ISBN
9780811209175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.07

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