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Presents an exploration of what it means to be a writer and a woman in contemporary society.

Includes "Penelope's Song" in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's "Odyssey". This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the "nostos", the homecoming.

This is an introduction to Evelyn Schlag, one of the most critically acclaimed European poets, translated into English with critical and biographical material.

Largely known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this collection Clarke engages with the city in its human and material diversity. There are poems from Bosnia, France and the Mediterranean coast, together with poems from Wales, featuring its people and its creatures.

An illustrated brief history of Portugal written for non-specialist foreign readers. Also included in the book is a historical gazetteer, short biographies, chronological tables and maps.

Born in 1938 in rural New South Wales, Les Murray is the one poet by whom the English language lives. Very little poetry in English is rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational as his.

During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. Drawn from the work he published up to 1984, this collection makes a wide range of this poet's writing available.

Body language and the body of the English language are the entwined themes of this passionate new collection of poems. The centerpiece is "Skyhorse," an ambitious poem that traces the turbulence of three millennia of English history by focusing on the enduring presence of the legendary White Horse of the Berkshire Downs. The latter half of the collection features a candid, passionate sequence of elegies and love poems that gradually shifts focus from the first words in the garden of Eden to the final words of last night's lovers.

Features poems attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same.

This text draws on six previous collections published between 1978 and 1994. The earlier poems are diverse, ranging from descriptions of work in heavy industry to observations of wildlife. Later poems deal with travel in Brazil and the United States, and also deal with schizophrenia.

In these poems, Feinstein writes about love, loss, jealousy and the fear of abandonment. She writes with tenderness about an ageing father, a child on a swing, old films, a flowering cactus. The poems in this selection are drawn from 11 volumes published over 30 years.

In this collection of poems by Les Murray animals speak about themselves, each in its own distinctive voice. The human animal is also included, at the beginning and the conclusion of this collection. Murray is also the author of a book of prose "The Paperbark Tree" (1992).

In this selection, which includes short poems and extracts from the longer ones, there is ample evidence of the quality of Cowper's faith and of his eye and ear for nature. Indicative of how his life was sustained by writing, these poems reveal his effort to engage in discourse with friends and with the natural world.

Poet Sophie Hannah returns with a collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life.

"Like every major artist she challenges the readers intellect and imagination."--Boston Herald

This selection of over 150 of Ivor Gurney's poems, was made by the poet P.J. Kavanagh from his edition of the "Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney". It is reissued now, with a few corrected readings, and with a Chronology and Introduction to Gurney's life, by P.J. Kavanagh.

Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.

The sympathies of Vaughan and Traherne, the earth-love of Edward Thomas, the wit of Louis MacNeice, are three of the many currents that run through the verse of P.J. Kavanagh. Seven collections are included in this volume, which traces the poet through 35 years.

Illusions and delusions, joys and jokes, mysteries of memory and temporal paradox figure in Andrew McNeillie's collection. Here are sequences of bird poems, and tree poems, lines from an autobiography, lines from America, and poems about old age, in elegiac, ironic, and even vitriolic mode.

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.

The compelling works of John William Polidori (1795-1821) such as "The Vampyre" and "Ernestus Berchtold", exerted a powerful hold over literature and popular culture. This is a collection of Polidori's works, along with his lesser-known works such as his medical thesis on nightmares, his pamphlet on the death penalty, his poetry and diary.

In a very short time the author has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to say about her native India and her native tongue (Gujarati), about America and Britain, and about Germany where she now lives. This bok includes her poems.

Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the "immortality of youth", and youth's passions: for natural history for the naive curiosity and lust of adolescent "love", for adventuresome escape, and for the elusive prize of poetry itself.

The focus of this large collection is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many and various. This verse translation of the whole of the "Canzoniere" has notes to suggest the many connections between the poems.