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Paperback. Presents a selection which includes varied work by contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, and others. This book shows how poetry can help feed our hunger for meaning in times of spiritual starvation. Editor(s): Astley, Neil; Robertson-Pearce, Pamela. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 174 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244. Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds. 160 pages. Editor(s): Astley, Neil; Robertson-Pearce, Pamela. Presents a selection which includes varied work by contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield, Denise Levertov, Thomas Merton and Mary Oliver, and others. This book shows how poetry can help feed our hunger for meaning in times of spiritual starvation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCQ. Dimension: 164 x 174 x 11. Weight: 242.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852247669
ISBN
9781852247669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 361.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681370309
ISBN
9781681370309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.22

Hardcover. This flesh-and-blood account of numerous personal journeys reads like a private encyclopaedia of emotion and health. The poems range from the rainforests of South America to the deserts of Western Australia, but are set against that ultimate and most intimate of all landscapes, the human body. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 199. Keywords: "Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - General,Special Features - Used Books - Poetry, Dram"
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Number of pages
80
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
SKU
KHS0038544
ISBN
9780571215331
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 31.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Bringing together more than one hundred poems from the many thousands submitted to the Forward Prizes for Poetry in the first decade of the 21st century, this book offers an introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571325405
ISBN
9780571325405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' Translator(s): Anthony of Taize, Brother; Sang-Wha, Lee. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238. 160 pages. Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.'. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 11. Weight: 238. Translator(s): Anthony of Taize, Brother; Sang-Wha, Lee.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249533
ISBN
9781852249533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.20

Hardback. Details the final destruction of the Kaurava army and the defeat of its leader, Dur*yodhana. Translator(s): Meiland, Justin. Series: Clay Sanskrit Library. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HRG; HRLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 182 x 118 x 19. Weight in Grams: 263.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
371
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814757062
ISBN
9780814757062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.73

Paperback. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion ofl'art pour l'art - art for art's sake. Editor(s): Roe, Dinah. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141192406
ISBN
9780141192406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 5. Weight in Grams: 60.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853264856
ISBN
9781853264856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.13

Paperback. While Charles Dickens is best known and celebrated for his prolific journalistic output and novelistic creations, he also devoted some of his creative energies to verse. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847496904
ISBN
9781847496904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Hardcover. Suitable for every mother of any age, and for children at any stage of their lives, who remember their mothers with love and gratitude, this book is illustrated with beautiful paintings of mothers in all their glory, pictured with their children; nursing sleeping infants, feeding a lively family, and playing with red-cheeked toddlers. Editor(s): Hunter, Fiona. Num Pages: 64 pages, over 120 photographs. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 175 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266. 8vo.
Publisher
Lorenz Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0295442
ISBN
9780754826347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 4.99

Hardcover. Suitable for every mother of any age, and for children at any stage of their lives, who remember their mothers with love and gratitude, this book is illustrated with beautiful paintings of mothers in all their glory, pictured with their children; nursing sleeping infants, feeding a lively family, and playing with red-cheeked toddlers. Editor(s): Hunter, Fiona. Num Pages: 64 pages, over 120 photographs. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 175 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266. Clean copy with minor wear. Fine in fine dustjacket
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Lorenz Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KOC0028087
ISBN
9780754826347
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 9.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. This is the first English translation of "Il Fiore", the late 13th century narrative poem in 232 sonnets based on the Old French "Roman de la Rose" and the "Detto d'Amore", a free-wheeling version of many Ovidian precepts of love in 240 rhymed couplets. Editor(s): Casciani, Santa; Kleinhenz, Christopher. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 921.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268008932
ISBN
9780268008932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.41
€ 58.90

Paperback. Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the 20th century, and also among the most challenging. The author goes through each of Stevens' poems in his six major collections as well as his later lyrics, in chronological order. For each poem she provides an introductory head note and a series of annotations on difficult phrases and references. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691141084
ISBN
9780691141084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Caitlin Press Canada
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894759281
ISBN
9781894759281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. A novel that tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. This volume contains poetry from the several volumes of the author's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including "Casa Guidi Windows" (1851), "Songs for the Ragged Schools of London" (1854) and more. Editor(s): Bolton, John Robert Glorney; Holloway, Julia Bolton. Num Pages: 544 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140434125
ISBN
9780140434125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.29

Paperback. Explosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page in Mondeo Man by Luke Wright. Yummy mummies and debauched Tory grandees mingle with drunk Essex commuters and leering tabloid paps; a small town chip-shop becomes the site of a heart-wrenching story of failed marriage; and a televised manhunt enthrals an entire nation. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Penned in the Margins United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908058096
ISBN
9781908058096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 105 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136. An excellent, clean copy
Publisher
Salmon Poetry Clare
Number of pages
105
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
KRS0019343
ISBN
9781907056994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.72

Paperback. Used paperback, in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
SKU
KRF0037904
ISBN
9781902602356
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. 96pp. Keywords: "Nursery Rhymes & Poetry for Children, Poetry"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Collins Educational
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KHS0069010
ISBN
9780237455590
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. A translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", it is one of the major Japanese classics. Editor(s): McKinney, Meredith. Num Pages: 400 pages, map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Penguin Classics London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140448061
ISBN
9780140448061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. The new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-shorlisted poet John Glenday. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447253914
ISBN
9781447253914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.82

Hardback. Nikos Engonopoulos belongs to a little-known yet extremely active and influential group of Greek surrealist poets and was one of its most orthodox exponents. This volume, introduced by the translator, contains some sixty poems, including representative selections from each of his published collections and the whole of his long poem Bolivar. Translator(s): Connolly, David. Series: Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674063440
ISBN
9780674063440
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. Features the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. This title expresses the author's belief that humanity is made up only of offenders, each of us deserving a greater charity for the severity of our crimes. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780141192673
ISBN
9780141192673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.05

Paperback. This debut collection of poems from Jacob Polley demonstrates his transforming imagination in action. Num Pages: 44 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 6. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
44
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Abridged edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330412889
ISBN
9780330412889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

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