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The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
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The Customs House (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to…
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The Ebony Tower
- £50.00
- An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written…
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The Englishman in Greece (an anthology)
- £20.00
- 1st edition of this Oxford anthology of English poets writing in and about Greece, reflecting the British obsession with the Classical world over many generations.
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The Flame
- £14.00
- THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRY The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics,…
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The Folio Golden Treasury: The best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language
- £30.00
- The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in English Language chosen and introduced by James Michie. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Arranged by poet's date of birth (from Thomas Wyatt to Thom Gunn, including Betjeman, Joyce, GKChesterton, John Masefield, TSEliot et al.
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The French and their Revolution: selected writings
- £40.00
- These writings on the French Revolution discuss aspects of the revolutionary mentality in France; popular movements, popular protest and repression; and counter-revolutionary tendencies. The book includes a list of revolutionary figures, factions and historians and a revolutionary calendar.
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The Homing of the Winds and other passages in prose
- £12.00
- Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, CH (1897Ð1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. Sitwell…
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The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
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The Last of England (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The fourth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010) and the first with OUP. Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to…
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The Least Thing: An Anthology of Christians’ Writing (The Greenbelt Files)
- £6.00
- Anthology includes poems by Peter Walton, Evangaline Paterson, Steven Waling, Brian Louis Pearce, Anne Ashworth, Philip Pacey, R. S. Thomas, James Harper, Bruce J. James, Elizabeth Black, Tony Lucas
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The Less Deceived: poems
- £10.00
- Philip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was first published by The Marvell Press in 1955 and is regarded as his first collection of mature work. When sending out review copies, Larkin was unaware that postal rates had gone up, and most recipients, when asked to pay the difference for…
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The Noise of a Fly (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating…
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The Origin of Loneliness: Poems and Short Stories in Five Moods
- £55.00
- A Collection of poems and short stories, grouped into five themes: travel, war, philosophy, love and death. John Martin became a medical doctor after studying in humanities, becoming Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London.
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The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
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The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
- Add to basket
-
The Customs House (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to…
- Add to basket
-
The Ebony Tower
- £50.00
- An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers. A journalist visits an elderly painter and becomes intrigued by his young female companions. Four years' worth of book research is set on fire in front of a writer. A successful MP disappears without a trace. Written…
- Add to basket
-
The Englishman in Greece (an anthology)
- £20.00
- 1st edition of this Oxford anthology of English poets writing in and about Greece, reflecting the British obsession with the Classical world over many generations.
- Add to basket
-
The Flame
- £14.00
- THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRY The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics,…
- Add to basket
-
The Folio Golden Treasury: The best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language
- £30.00
- The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in English Language chosen and introduced by James Michie. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by various artists selected by Simon Brett. Arranged by poet's date of birth (from Thomas Wyatt to Thom Gunn, including Betjeman, Joyce, GKChesterton, John Masefield, TSEliot et al.
- Add to basket
-
The French and their Revolution: selected writings
- £40.00
- These writings on the French Revolution discuss aspects of the revolutionary mentality in France; popular movements, popular protest and repression; and counter-revolutionary tendencies. The book includes a list of revolutionary figures, factions and historians and a revolutionary calendar.
- Add to basket
-
The Homing of the Winds and other passages in prose
- £12.00
- Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, CH (1897Ð1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. Sitwell…
- Add to basket
-
The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
- Add to basket
-
The Last of England (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The fourth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010) and the first with OUP. Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to…
- Add to basket
-
The Least Thing: An Anthology of Christians’ Writing (The Greenbelt Files)
- £6.00
- Anthology includes poems by Peter Walton, Evangaline Paterson, Steven Waling, Brian Louis Pearce, Anne Ashworth, Philip Pacey, R. S. Thomas, James Harper, Bruce J. James, Elizabeth Black, Tony Lucas
- Add to basket
-
The Less Deceived: poems
- £10.00
- Philip Larkin's second collection, The Less Deceived was first published by The Marvell Press in 1955 and is regarded as his first collection of mature work. When sending out review copies, Larkin was unaware that postal rates had gone up, and most recipients, when asked to pay the difference for…
- Add to basket
-
The Noise of a Fly (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013. It is a book brimming with warmth, mischief and a self-deprecating…
- Add to basket
-
The Origin of Loneliness: Poems and Short Stories in Five Moods
- £55.00
- A Collection of poems and short stories, grouped into five themes: travel, war, philosophy, love and death. John Martin became a medical doctor after studying in humanities, becoming Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London.
- Add to basket
-
The Oxford Book of English Prose
- £14.00
- Quiller-Couch's anthology of prose from the early middle ages to Rupert Brooke
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