Composed between the early-agricultural 'song culture' of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry... Zobraziť viac
An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poets... Zobraziť viac
A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman... Zobraziť viac
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King... Zobraziť viac
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the... Zobraziť viac
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from many collections including ... Zobraziť viac
Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, ... Zobraziť viac
A new verse translation of one of the foundational ancient Greek works by the award-winning poet A. E. Stallings. Hesiod was... Zobraziť viac
My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn,... Zobraziť viac
With wry metaphor and precise imagery, poet and actress Amber Tamblyn offers poetic insights into what it's like to be an... Zobraziť viac
'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable images, the deceptively... Zobraziť viac
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be ... Zobraziť viac
Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is recognized as an equal to Chaucer’s masterworks and to the great Old English poems, Beowulf included. A green-skinned knight offers the Knights of the Round ... Zobraziť viac
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited... Zobraziť viac
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range ... Zobraziť viac
Best-selling poet Lang Leav presents a gorgeous hardcover gift book featuring the best of Lullabies and Love & Misadventure plus thirty-five new poems for fans to discover, along with original color illustrations by the author... Zobraziť viac
The World's favorite poets in pocket editions. The Pocket Poets series - small, robust and beautifully designed volumes containing selections from the verse of some of the world's finest poets. In these literally pocket-sized collections ... Zobraziť viac
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smiths... Zobraziť viac
For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems... Zobraziť viac
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks... Zobraziť viac
