How Decent Folk Behave (PB) by Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Category: Poetry & Plays
We are all just one small disaster away from sinking, and sometimes you only realise when you're gasping for air. On a daylight street in Minneapolis Minnesota, a Black man is asphyxiated - by the callous knee of an officer, by cruel might of state, and under crushing weight of colony. In Melbourne the ...Show more
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between the ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare S.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, but it remains deepl ...Show more
Hunting of the Snark by Mervin Peake
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Category: Poetry & Plays
"The Hunting of the Snark" was first published in 1876, eleven years after "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and four years after "Through the Looking-Glass." It is a master-piece of nonsense and is connected to "Through the Looking-Glass" by its use of vocabulary from the poem "Jabberwocky." "The Hunt ...Show more
Complete Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
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Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
With an Introduction and Bibliography by Stephen Matterson, Trinity College, Dublin. Walt Whitman's verse gave the poetry of America a distinctive national voice. It reflects the unique vitality of the new nation, the vastness of the land and the emergence of a sometimes troubled consciousness, communi ...Show more
Essential Bukowski Poetry by Charles Bukowski; Abel Debritto (Editor)
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Category: Poetry & Plays
'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring mark Here is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rollin ...Show more
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry & Plays
Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum. This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - ...Show more
Tomorrow Is Beautiful by Sarah Crossan
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Category: Poetry & Plays
Sometimes it's hard to find the right words. This poetry anthology provides the antidote, offering calm, hope and peace to all. Focusing on positivity, this is the perfect collection to dip into whenever you need a boost. Containing a selection of classic and contemporary poems chosen by Sarah Crossan - ...Show more
For Weddings and a Funeral by John Marsden (Editor)
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Category: Poetry & Plays
For Weddings and a Funeral is a collection of very special poems, for very special occasions.Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone... When Matthew spoke these lines in the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral every reviewer was moved.Few occasions in our lives are more important than weddings and f ...Show more
John Keats (Faber Nature Poets) by John Keats
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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
Darling, I Love You by Daniel Ladinsky
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Category: Poetry & Plays
A heartwarming collection of short verse celebrating our beloved pets and the wonder of life Daniel Ladinsky is the internationally acclaimed poet and translator known for his inspired, contemporary versions of works by Hafiz, Rumi, St. Francis of Assisi, and poet-saints East and West. Patrick McDonnell ...Show more