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Paperback. The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation. Translator(s): Mitchell, Stephen. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780226804
ISBN
9781780226804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. From a motorway service area to the author's ambivalent relationship with religion, this title covers a range of her experiences. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 72.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571280629
ISBN
9780571280629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Statius' 'Achilleid' is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. In relating this story, Statius explores the nature of gender and the limits of the epic genre, while playfully positioning himself in the epic - and wider - poetic tradition. Editor(s): Dilke, O.A.W. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904675112
ISBN
9781904675112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.94

Hardback. Illustrator(s): Hische, Jessica. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143126386
ISBN
9780143126386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. Collects poems that engage in a search for meaning and order in the everyday and in the extraordinary - a locust officer tracking swarms in an African desert, a hobbyist building a replica of the world out of matchsticks, and a chance encounter with the French mystic Simone Weil playing video games in a Torquay arcade. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224090018
ISBN
9780224090018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.13

Paperback. The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the author has engaged the most eminent poets to choose the writing from the Great War that touched them most profoundly. This book presents their choices. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571302154
ISBN
9780571302154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition, includes Wordsworth's finest verse, and a large sample of The Prelude, his extraordinary autobiographical poem in blank verse and the first truly great achievement of a new era in English poetry. Editor(s): Gill, Stephen; Wu, Duncan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536887
ISBN
9780199536887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
808
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780862416812
ISBN
9780862416812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.27

Paperback. Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle. Translator(s): Scudder, Bernard. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447736
ISBN
9780140447736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. Series: New California Poetry. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 138. Poems. Series: New California Poetry. 86 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 207 x 138 x 7. Weight: 124.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
86
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520242951
ISBN
9780520242951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.31

Paperback. Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love & Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 204 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781449461072
ISBN
9781449461072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.33

Paperback. Yang Lian's most personal work to date draw ins on family photographs from the 1950s through to the 1970s when he was sent to be "re-educated through labour", digging graves in rural China. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373515
ISBN
9781780373515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.70

Paperback. First collection of poems drawing on a childhood spent on the Hebridean island of Erraid along with the rupture and re-imagining of a family. Runner-up for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373621
ISBN
9781780373621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive new translations. Editor(s): Vilain, Robert. Translator(s): Ranson, Susan; Sutherland, Marielle. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199569410
ISBN
9780199569410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.58

Paperback. There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. This book combines the sensibility of a native from the island of South Uist with the eye of a travelling scholar of architecture. Series: Poetry of Place. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 102 x 12. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906011291
ISBN
9781906011291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.63

Hardcover. This anthology of poetry from 16th- and 17th-century Ireland overturns the accepted view that very little English language poetry was written in Ireland between Spenser and Swift. Num Pages: 624 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 40. Weight in Grams: 840.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cork University Press Dublin, Ireland
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859183540
ISBN
9781859183540
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.00
€ 52.59

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DCF; HBLA1; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691601991
ISBN
9780691601991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571144594
ISBN
9780571144594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 16.93

Paperback. First published by Faber in 1930, this second edition omitted seven items and the author added new poems in their place. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571283514
ISBN
9780571283514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. 103pp. Out of print. Keywords: Irish poetry
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1964
Edition
1st Edition Thus
SKU
KHS1010549
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 18.00

Paperback. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571232871
ISBN
9780571232871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Lagan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KHS0037764
ISBN
9781873687635
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.52

Paperback. Covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. This anthology represents not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s - but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many countries as well as in India. Editor(s): Thayil, Jeet. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 712. 368 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Thayil, Jeet. Covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. This anthology represents not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and publishing since the 1950s - but also the different kinds of poetry written by an extraordinary range of younger poets who live in many countries as well as in India. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FKA; DCQ. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 25. Weight: 700.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852248017
ISBN
9781852248017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.36

Paperback. William Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. This collection brings together a selection of Blake's poems, including the poems: "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", to give a singular picture of this unique genius. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099511632
ISBN
9780099511632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

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