Poet Laureate
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Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
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LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
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Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
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Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
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Maud and Other Poems
- £25.00
- Collection includes one of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Multitude and Solitude
- £15.00
- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
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October and other poems, with occasional verses on the war
- £15.00
- Bridges had become Poet Laureate in 1913 and inevitably the First World War preoccupied much of his writing subsequently. He, along with several other writers, worked at the War Propaganda Bureau in Wellington House.
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Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
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Right Royal
- £9.00
- In 1920, Masefield published three long narrative poems which dealt with man's relationship with the natural world, of which this was the second. The others were Reynard the Fox and King Cole
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Salt Water Ballads
- £15.00
- Masefield, an orphan who attended Warwick School, went to work on the HMS Conway. During that time, Masefield learned much about sea lore. This collection showcases some of his experiences that he wrote extensively about in his journals, as he dealt with sunstroke, witnessed a norcturnal rainbow, and saw so…
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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt', written…
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Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
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Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
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Sonnets & Poems
- £35.00
- A collection of 47 poems privately published by the poet during the First World War.
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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
- Add to basket
-
LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
- Add to basket
-
Martin Hyde, the Duke’s Messenger
- £80.00
- After his father's death in 1685, 12-year-old Martin goes to London to live with his uncle. Through circumstances he becomes messenger for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, as the Duke garners support for his claim to succede Charles II as King of England. With 16 b/w plates.
- Add to basket
-
Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
- Add to basket
-
Maud and Other Poems
- £25.00
- Collection includes one of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Add to basket
-
Multitude and Solitude
- £15.00
- Sometimes an actor hesitated for his lines, forgot a few words, or improvised others. He drew in his breath sharply, whenever this happened, it was like a false note in music, but he knew that he was the only person there who felt the discord. He found himself admiring the…
- Add to basket
-
October and other poems, with occasional verses on the war
- £15.00
- Bridges had become Poet Laureate in 1913 and inevitably the First World War preoccupied much of his writing subsequently. He, along with several other writers, worked at the War Propaganda Bureau in Wellington House.
- Add to basket
-
Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
- Add to basket
-
Right Royal
- £9.00
- In 1920, Masefield published three long narrative poems which dealt with man's relationship with the natural world, of which this was the second. The others were Reynard the Fox and King Cole
- Add to basket
-
Salt Water Ballads
- £15.00
- Masefield, an orphan who attended Warwick School, went to work on the HMS Conway. During that time, Masefield learned much about sea lore. This collection showcases some of his experiences that he wrote extensively about in his journals, as he dealt with sunstroke, witnessed a norcturnal rainbow, and saw so…
- Add to basket
-
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Over the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right. They vary from single poems, such as 'Zodiac T Shirt', written…
- Add to basket
-
Sea Life in Nelson’s Time
- £10.00
- Written by British Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1905, this lyrical tribute to sailors in the Age of Sail captures the grim reality of life at sea. In the clear, muscular English that made him famous, Masefield breathes life into the misery and barbarity that served as a foundation for…
- Add to basket
-
Silver: Return to Treasure Island (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high…
- Add to basket
-
Sonnets & Poems
- £35.00
- A collection of 47 poems privately published by the poet during the First World War.
- Add to basket
-
South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
- Add to basket
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