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Poetry by individual poets
Paperback. Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. This title presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative. Translator(s): Kovacs, Maureen Gallery. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSB; DCF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717113
- ISBN
- 9780804717113
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.53
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Paperback. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu. This text is translated by Andrew George. Translator(s): George, Andrew. Num Pages: 304 pages, map, glossary. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449198
- ISBN
- 9780140449198
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€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. Tony Connors tenth collection is framed by military encounters. In the first poem a young man grapples with a malfunctioning machine-gun, while the author grapples with the poem he is making from this event, memory or fantasy. In the surrealistic sequence that ends the book, a strange army invades a country collapsing into societal and semantic .. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Anvil Press Poetry United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856464539
- ISBN
- 9780856464539
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.06
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Paperback. A work by the author, who has won the Mondello Prize (1980), the Viareggio (1987), the Montale Prize (2002) and the Feltrinelli Prize (2002) and the Cetona Prize (2007). Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 11. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571251766
- ISBN
- 9780571251766
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€ 13.99€ 10.81
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Paperback. The zero at the heart of these poems is not nothing - not simply absence, forgetting or loss, though there are moving elegies among them. This is a not-quite-definable zero that gives surprising edge to life and language round it. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852247263
- ISBN
- 9781852247263
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.99
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Hardcover. Redefines Katherine Mansfield as a critic, translator and poet. Bringing together all of Mansfield's poetry (some 179 poems and several songs), her literary translations, her witty, sometimes scorching, parodies and pastiches, her imaginative aphorisms, her many incisive and heartfelt reviews of the novels of the day, and her essays. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri; Smith, Angela; Plumridge, Anna. Series: Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1314.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748685011
- ISBN
- 9780748685011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 237.64€ 210.21
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Paperback. Num Pages: 404 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HRHX; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 192 x 23. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Omega Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941810019
- ISBN
- 9781941810019
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 27.04
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Paperback. Translator(s): Day Lewis, C. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 3D; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 143 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199554096
- ISBN
- 9780199554096
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€ 11.99€ 10.89
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Paperback. Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's "Eclogues" combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their phrasing, the poems in Virgil's first collection are also grounded in reality. Translator(s): Lee, Guy. Num Pages: 144 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- Rev Sub
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140444193
- ISBN
- 9780140444193
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Hardcover. First edition - Fine in dustwrapper - The authors fourth collection - 6/0013 - 53pp. - Secker and Warburg, London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg London
- Number of pages
- 53
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1979
- SKU
- KCK0001682
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 60.00
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Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 229 x 6. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555976668
- ISBN
- 9781555976668
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.35
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Paperback. This title is re-issued as part of the Longman Annotated Texts series. The series was conceived with the student in mind and is intended to provide accessible and authoritative editions of key texts in English and American Literature. The annotation is designed to bring out each text's full range of reference and meaning. Series: Longman Annotated Texts. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408204160
- ISBN
- 9781408204160
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Nightwood
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889713253
- ISBN
- 9780889713253
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Picador's second collection from one of the finest English poets of the last fifty years Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447294030
- ISBN
- 9781447294030
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. This title collects 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. Editor(s): Swift, Daniel. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374534554
- ISBN
- 9780374534554
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.58
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Paperback. "Certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I'd chanted to myself through sorrow and confusion" -Cheryl Strayed, Wild Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 77
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393346008
- ISBN
- 9780393346008
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.82
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Softback Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854115577
- ISBN
- 9781854115577
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.60
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Paperback. From the highly acclaimed novelist, comes a new collection of poetry. She is 'the quiet Mata Hari' of poetry - Michael Ondaatje Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844084951
- ISBN
- 9781844084951
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
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Paperback. Politovsky was the flag-engineer on the flagship "Kniaz Suvorov". This work presents his secretly written verse-letters to his wife, Sophie, cataloguing the squalor and frustrations of life aboard ship. He gives a portrait of a man caught in the destinies of progress, history and geography. Series: Faber Poetry. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 175
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571204267
- ISBN
- 9780571204267
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
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Paperback. Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. The dog of memory roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780373188
- ISBN
- 9781780373188
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.48
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Paperback. Offers a view of the world that is skewed, vibrant and larger than life. Here, words turn into tiger-moths or laughing birds, the Minotaur finds his Ariadne and Pinochio's sister cuts loose from her strings. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 5. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852247171
- ISBN
- 9781852247171
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Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.81
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paperback. Depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. In this title, the author encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Editor(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Translator(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140448955
- ISBN
- 9780140448955
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
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paperback. A rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell. It re-creates for the modern reader the meanings that the poem had for Dante's contemporaries. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780142437223
- ISBN
- 9780142437223
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
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Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy". Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 624 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 172 x 203 x 35. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Pbk. Ed. in 2 Vols
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019130
- ISBN
- 9780691019130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.35€ 51.34
€ 65.35
€ 51.34