Teachings of Rumi by Andrew Harvey
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Category: Poetry & Plays
Jellaludin Rumi was a religious teacher in Anatolia until, at the age of 37, he fell under the spell of the wandering Dervish Shams Tabriz, and began to compose poems about his search for the lost Divine Beloved. This text presents Rumi\'s writings and teachings, in verse, letters, and prose.
From Here to Eternity by Andrew Motion
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Category: Poetry & Plays
This anthology brings together an extraordinary range of poems, exemplifying that, if we let it, poetry has a unique power to enrich our lives as it diversifies them. The poems are arranged in a series of ten concentric rings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space.
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Vintage Contemporaries
**"New York" Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013****GoodReads Reader's Choice Award Winner** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. "Red Doc"> continues their adventur ...Show more
Removing the Kimono by Anne M. Carson
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Category: Poetry & Plays
The central heart of the book is an extended mediation on the loss of Anne's husband - poems both deeply personal and universal. They are held by two other sections which explore her relationship with and place within the natural world, particularly drawing on the theme of regeneration after disaster. A ...Show more
Poems that make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden
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Category: Poetry & Plays
GROWN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their earl ...Show more
Skinned by Light: Poems 1989-2002 by Anthony Lawrence
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Category: Poetry & Plays
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With These Hands: A Collection of Work by Pam Ayres
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Category: Poetry & Plays
WITH THESE HANDS is a collection of the very best poems and sketches from one of Britain's best loved entertainers - now starring in her own BBC Radio 2 Sunday Show. The pieces are presented together with delightful illustrations by Susan Hellard providing the reader with a beguiling insight into the he ...Show more
Poems by Iain Banks
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Category: Poetry & Plays
Description: Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981. ...Show more
Rumi: Soul Fury by Coleman Barks
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Category: Poetry & Plays
A seminal collection of poetry from the medieval Sufi mystic-the most popular poet in America-and his "soul friend," Shams Tabriz, which illuminate the evocative and deeply spiritual dimensions of friendship and love, compiled by the foremost Rumi translator and author of The Essential Rumi, Coleman Bar ...Show more
The World's Wife: Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
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Category: Poetry & Plays
"Be terrified. "" It's you I love, ""perfect man, ""Greek God, my own; ""but I know you'll go, "" betray me, stray""from home.""So better by far for ""me if you were stone."--from "Medusa" Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil ...Show more
Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter by Rosemary Hill
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Category: Poetry & Plays
a) The Unicorn As with the night-scented stock, the full splendour of the unicorn manifests itself most potently at twilight. Then the horn sprouts, swells, blooms in all its glory. SEE THE HORN (bend the tab, slit in slot marked 'x') Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the p ...Show more
Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler (Editor, Notes by); Boris Dralyuk (Editor, Notes by); Irina Mashinski (Editor)
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Category: Poetry & Plays
An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his contemporari ...Show more