Poet Laureate
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New Cemetery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
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New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
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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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Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
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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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Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £60.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
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Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £16.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
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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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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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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Simon ArmitageÕs Òcompulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited versionÓ (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers Òa brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetryÓ (Poetry Review) that Òrecreates the originalÕs gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its tableaux and…
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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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Summoned by Bells
- £35.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
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New Cemetery (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles…
- Add to basket
-
New Selected Poems (Hughes)
- £55.00
- A USA anthology of Hughes' poetry spanning his earliest books to his most at 1982, also including several uncollected poems.
- 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
-
Poems in the Porch
- £20.00
- Poems on ecclesiastical themes, written for broadcasting on Western Region radio, at request of Martin Willson, Director of Religious Broadcasting.
- 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
-
Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £60.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
- Add to basket
-
Rain Charm for the Duchy: And Other Laureate Poems
- £16.00
- In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects these…
- Add to basket
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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
- 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
-
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Simon ArmitageÕs Òcompulsively readable, energetic, free-flowing, high-spirited versionÓ (Edward Hirsch, The New York Times) of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight offers Òa brilliantly well-tuned modern score for one of the finest surviving examples of Middle English poetryÓ (Poetry Review) that Òrecreates the originalÕs gnarled, hypnotic muscle, its tableaux and…
- 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
-
Summoned by Bells
- £35.00
- From the leafy streets of Edwardian Hampstead to the halls of Oxford, this is the stirring early life of John Betjeman told in his own lively blank verse. Betjeman describes in lush detail hisformative years: the sounds and smells of a middle-class childhood spent in Cornwall; his discovery of literature…
- Add to basket