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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, Guardian A 'howdie-skelp' is the…
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel…
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I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
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If I Don’t Know
- £25.00
- Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the…
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In the Holocaust of Autumn
- £30.00
- Egan is an Irish poet who has published 24 collections and whose work has been translated into multiple languages. In this sequence of poems, he meditates on the parallels between the Irish and Jewish experience and considers some character traits resulting from and common to each race.
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In the Meantime
- £10.00
- Elizabeth Jennings turned seventy the year this was published. This book of poems is graced by a firm wisdom and achieves moments of religious and individual serenity. "In the Meantime" strives to come to terms with losses, with failure, loves, and most of all with time. It celebrates, too, the…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
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Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
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Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
- £15.00
- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Last Poems (Housman)
- £20.00
- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
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Lest we forget, a war anthology
- £20.00
- Edited by H. B. Elliott and published in aid of Queen Mary Needlework Guild, the writers and poets featured include James Elroy Flecker, Thomas Hardy, Frank Sidgwick, Alfred Noyes, Grace Tollemache et al. The foreword was written by Baroness Orczy (writter of the Scarlet Pimpernel novels).
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Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 and some early poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Lift Every Heart brings together the collected hymn texts of Timothy Dudley-Smith, one of the most respected and widely published contemporary English hymnwriters. This volume is arranged thematically. It includes informative notes on all the hymns listing themes, suggested tunes, and details of interest, with an extensive series of indexes.
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Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel envious, out of breath, punch-drunk.' Kit Fan, Guardian A 'howdie-skelp' is the…
- Add to basket
-
Howdie-Skelp (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEK The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph). 'Very few poets, living or otherwise, can combine high-speed wit, tongue-twisting alliteration and dizzying rhyme with the kind of insight that makes us pause, laugh, remember; feel…
- Add to basket
-
I Can’t Stay Long (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in…
- Add to basket
-
If I Don’t Know
- £25.00
- Wendy Cope's most recent collection, her first since Serious Concerns in 1992, extends her concern with the comedy of the examined life ('the way we have been, the way we sometimes are'), and imagines those adjustments to the ordinary which would fulfil our futures, or allow us to realize the…
- Add to basket
-
In the Holocaust of Autumn
- £30.00
- Egan is an Irish poet who has published 24 collections and whose work has been translated into multiple languages. In this sequence of poems, he meditates on the parallels between the Irish and Jewish experience and considers some character traits resulting from and common to each race.
- Add to basket
-
In the Meantime
- £10.00
- Elizabeth Jennings turned seventy the year this was published. This book of poems is graced by a firm wisdom and achieves moments of religious and individual serenity. "In the Meantime" strives to come to terms with losses, with failure, loves, and most of all with time. It celebrates, too, the…
- Add to basket
-
John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £14.00
- Lord Birkenhead's famous compilation made publishing history when first published, has sold over two million copies.
- Add to basket
-
Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
- Add to basket
-
Kent’s Miniature Poets: Longfellow (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Longfellow includes: - Vol I: Poems on Slavery, The Seaside and Fireside, Birds of Passage, Misc. - Vol II: Hiawatha, Keramos, Later Poems, Translations
- Add to basket
-
Kent’s Miniature Poets: Wordsworth (Vol. I & II)
- £40.00
- Kent's Miniature Poets library is a real gem. Different poets published as pairs of volumes. Each is 112x70mm. Wordsworth includes: - Vol I: Youthful verse, Poems of the Affections, Of the Imagination, of the Fancy - Vol II: Memorials of Tours in Scotland, and on Continent, Miscellaneous Sonnets and Poems
- Add to basket
-
Kipling and War: From ‘Tommy’ to ‘My Boy Jack’
- £15.00
- Although Rudyard Kipling never fought, he was one of Britiain's foremost observers of and commentators on war. Through his writing on the harsh realities of life as a private and accounts of feats of courage and comradeship during the frontier wars in India, 19th century British campaigns in Sudan, the…
- Add to basket
-
Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Add to basket
-
Last Poems (Housman)
- £20.00
- Last Poems (1922) was the last of the two volumes of poems which A. E. Housman published during his lifetime. Of the 42 poems there, seventeen were given titles, a greater proportion than in his previous collection, A Shropshire Lad (1896). Although it was not quite so popular with composers,…
- Add to basket
-
Lest we forget, a war anthology
- £20.00
- Edited by H. B. Elliott and published in aid of Queen Mary Needlework Guild, the writers and poets featured include James Elroy Flecker, Thomas Hardy, Frank Sidgwick, Alfred Noyes, Grace Tollemache et al. The foreword was written by Baroness Orczy (writter of the Scarlet Pimpernel novels).
- Add to basket
-
Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 and some early poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Lift Every Heart brings together the collected hymn texts of Timothy Dudley-Smith, one of the most respected and widely published contemporary English hymnwriters. This volume is arranged thematically. It includes informative notes on all the hymns listing themes, suggested tunes, and details of interest, with an extensive series of indexes.
- Add to basket