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
John Clare (Faber Nature Poets) by John Clare
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Nature Poets
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most imp ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Clive James, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Poetry & Plays
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza ...Show more
Nonsense Limericks by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry & Plays
There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat, Which vexed all the folks on the Border. Enjoy Edward Lear's hilarious, bizarre and delightfully bonkers limericks - published on their own for the first time. As found in the collected ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot; Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Children's Classics Ser.
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
The Ariel Poems: Illustrated Poems for Christmas by T. S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A cherished part of his oeuvre, the 'Ariel Poems' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. ('Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,' said Eliot of the series, 'so I kept it for myself'). That pamphlet series inventi ...Show more