×


 x 

Shopping cart

Poetry

Results 1961 - 1980 of 6288

Poetry

Paperback. John Gallas's falsehoods are beautiful, ribald and audacious. Made from found language liberated from books, walls, the internet and radio, his forty lies construct an extravagant alternative reality of Russian assassins and magical shirts, Babylonian gardens, flying monks and the mathematics of Omar Khayyam. Illustrator(s): Kirby, Sarah. Num Pages: 84 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 176 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847770493
ISBN
9781847770493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.89

Paperback. An anthology of poetry. Editor(s): Astbury, Anthony. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847770509
ISBN
9781847770509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.03

Paperback. A collection of poems by a poet who is alive to the challenges of traditional form, finding ways of expressing themes that are intensely real and many-layered in time, culture and society. Num Pages: 32 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847770547
ISBN
9781847770547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.11

Paperback. In myths of origin and the natural world, the terrible chronicles of history and the saving power of folk wisdom, the poet weaves spells of Romany and circus language, invents forms and shapes, drawing his readers into a 'lit circle' magical and true. Num Pages: 78 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
78
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847770622
ISBN
9781847770622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. A collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Num Pages: 69 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
69
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847770844
ISBN
9781847770844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. A long awaited second Carcanet collection from Carola Luther. Num Pages: 82 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 207 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
82
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847770936
ISBN
9781847770936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.78

Hardback. Examines the creative process. This work yokes ten images with ten poems and in so doing one explores the other: text uses apposition to excavate image and its genesis, and image illuminates text and its content. Num Pages: 88 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 372 x 305 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771056
ISBN
9781847771056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.96
€ 71.77

paperback. A new collection of poems by John Whale. Num Pages: 63 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northern House United Kingdom
Number of pages
63
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771117
ISBN
9781847771117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.66

paperback. Certain Windows is Dan Burt's second chapbook collection. It includes poems, sequences and the title prose, a vivid memoir evoking a harsh formative world. Among others, the poet's father comes alive here and in the poems, a powerful, hard and sympathetic figure with the wisdom of the man of action. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 217 x 5. Weight in Grams: 92.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771612
ISBN
9781847771612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. David Ward started writing poetry in his late thirties. His poems are the work of an historian who knows how environments and events, on a family or a national scale, shape and change us, and how we live with moral and psychological consequences of actions for which we are not ever fully accountable. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 72.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771629
ISBN
9781847771629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.52

hardcover. The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale." Editor(s): Sutton, Marilyn. Series: Chaucer Bibliographies. Num Pages: 517 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC; GBCR; GBCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 41. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
517
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802047441
ISBN
9780802047441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 1KJC; BM; DCF; JFSK2; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Ecco
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062313775
ISBN
9780062313775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.56

Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Ecco
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062364746
ISBN
9780062364746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.88

Hardback. This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays. Editor(s): Rimer, J. Thomas; Chaves, Jonathan. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 2GJ; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231107020
ISBN
9780231107020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.35

Hardback. A collection of nearly 400 poems by more than 100 different writers, this text synthesizes and celebrates an entire era of poetry by women in America. The anthology includes America's most recognized poets as well as those emerging as exciting new artists of contemporary verse. Editor(s): Aizenberg, Susan; Belieu, Erin. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231119627
ISBN
9780231119627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.74

Hardback. Taneda Santoka's poetry attracted limited notice during his lifetime (1882-1940), but there has been a remarkable upsurge of interest in his life and writings. Including 245 poems and selected diary excerpts, For All My Walking makes Santoka's work available to English-speaking readers. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125161
ISBN
9780231125161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.71

Hardback. Features poems which speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements in New York. Editor(s): Wolf, Stephen. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231140645
ISBN
9780231140645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.13

Paperback. How do we live, in our dailiness, in our loves, our private and global wars? 'And, in the face of unbearable grief, how can we live?' Attempting to answer these questions, this is the fourth in the "Pacific Northwest Poetry" series. 'How we live' is the book's major inquiry; its illustration, and the poems' major achievement. Series: The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 6. Weight in Grams: 155.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984001
ISBN
9780295984001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.25

Paperback. A bilingual anthology of forty-eight Chinese poems from and about Taiwan, this title offers contrasting views of life in Taiwan. The topics include family and homeland, memory of war, social justice, and the natural world. They present the trauma, travails, and beauties of life, representing different generations, styles, and views and positions. Editor(s): Yeh, Michelle; Mamqvist, N. G. D.; Huizhi, Xu. Num Pages: 212 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; DC; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 207 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985879
ISBN
9780295985879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.98

Hardback. Part of a "Pacific Northwest Poetry Series", this book explores the intimacies of the shorter line as well and displays the author's formal inventiveness and emotional range. It addresses our time and human condition in ways both domestic and global. Series: The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295989143
ISBN
9780295989143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.47

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!