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“1914” Five Sonnets
- £120.00
- Published in his lifetime, this little anthology includes one of his best-loved poems, The Soldier
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1914 & Other Poems
- £7.00
- Early collection of Rupert Brooke's war poetry including the 1914 poems, The South Seas, and Grantchester.
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4 Greek Women: Love Poems (Greek Women Poets Series)
- £15.00
- A collection of poems by 4 Greek women: Eleni Fourtouni (who edited and translated the poems into English); Victoria Theodorou; Angeliki Pavlopoulou; Katerina Angelaki-Rooke. Dedicated to 'all the Aegean Women'
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40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
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73 Poems
- £55.00
- Composed between 1958 and his death in 1962, this was the last published collection by E. E. Cummings. It contains some of his surest and most characteristic work.Much has been made of his innovations in typography and punctuation, which have been often misunderstood as mere 'effects'. But it is evident…
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A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
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A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £12.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
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A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £25.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
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A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
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A Generation Risen
- £15.00
- 24 poems by Masefield and 43 of Edward Seago's atmospheric b/w paintings and drawings of the people and places at the sharp end of World War II - soldiers, sailors, and airmen, land-girls and technicians, drawn at work or rest.
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A Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). 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 the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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A Row of Pharaohs
- £30.00
- Patrick Creagh was a British poet and translator who lived for many years in Italy. This is his first volume of poems, and was a choice of the Poetry Book Society
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A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
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A Shropshire Lad
- £30.00
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for this cycle of poems. This made him one of the best-loved of his day, his verse demonstrating a simplicity of form that belied its hidden complexities. Haunting woodcut illustrations from…
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A Timbered Choir: the Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
- £12.00
- BerryÕs Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life_beauty, death, peace, and hope. In his preface, Berry writes about the growing audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life of the…
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About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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Alternative Values: poems & paintings (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Frieda Hughes's poems and paintings reflect her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, and her later experiences when living in London, Australia, and most recently, Wales. From childhood, writing and painting have been the two driving forces behind her commitment to life. They first came together in her illustration of…
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
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Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
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Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
-
“1914” Five Sonnets
- £120.00
- Published in his lifetime, this little anthology includes one of his best-loved poems, The Soldier
- Add to basket
-
1914 & Other Poems
- £7.00
- Early collection of Rupert Brooke's war poetry including the 1914 poems, The South Seas, and Grantchester.
- Add to basket
-
4 Greek Women: Love Poems (Greek Women Poets Series)
- £15.00
- A collection of poems by 4 Greek women: Eleni Fourtouni (who edited and translated the poems into English); Victoria Theodorou; Angeliki Pavlopoulou; Katerina Angelaki-Rooke. Dedicated to 'all the Aegean Women'
- Add to basket
-
40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
- Add to basket
-
73 Poems
- £55.00
- Composed between 1958 and his death in 1962, this was the last published collection by E. E. Cummings. It contains some of his surest and most characteristic work.Much has been made of his innovations in typography and punctuation, which have been often misunderstood as mere 'effects'. But it is evident…
- Add to basket
-
A Choice of Kipling’s Verse
- £15.00
- Eliot's anthology on Kipling, including his essay about the poet.
- Add to basket
-
A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
- Add to basket
-
A Christmas Cracker, being a commonplace selection
- £25.00
- In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge word-of-mouth success. And soon the arrival of John Julius Norwich's…
- Add to basket
-
A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £12.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
- Add to basket
-
A Few Late Chrysanthemums
- £25.00
- An anthology of poetry grouped under the headings - medium, light and gloom -with a variety of subject and mood including poems entitled 'Christmas', 'Business Girls' 'The Olympic Girl' and 'How To Get On In Society'
- Add to basket
-
A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
- Add to basket
-
A Generation Risen
- £15.00
- 24 poems by Masefield and 43 of Edward Seago's atmospheric b/w paintings and drawings of the people and places at the sharp end of World War II - soldiers, sailors, and airmen, land-girls and technicians, drawn at work or rest.
- Add to basket
-
A Masque of Reason (& A Masque of Mercy)
- £20.00
- Contains two so-called "New England Biblicals" (A Masque of Reason - 1945, A Masque of Mercy - 1947), plus Steeple Bush and other poems. The title piece is a comedy purporting to be a missing chapter of Job, while the Masque of Mercy takes on the story of Jonah.
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). 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 the elegiac mode of his…
- Add to basket
-
A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
- Add to basket
-
A Row of Pharaohs
- £30.00
- Patrick Creagh was a British poet and translator who lived for many years in Italy. This is his first volume of poems, and was a choice of the Poetry Book Society
- Add to basket
-
A Sailor’s Garland
- £60.00
- Large collection of maritime verse from across the centuries.
- Add to basket
-
A Shropshire Lad
- £30.00
- Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for this cycle of poems. This made him one of the best-loved of his day, his verse demonstrating a simplicity of form that belied its hidden complexities. Haunting woodcut illustrations from…
- Add to basket
-
A Timbered Choir: the Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
- £12.00
- BerryÕs Sabbath Poems embrace much that is elemental to human life_beauty, death, peace, and hope. In his preface, Berry writes about the growing audience for public poetry readings. While he sees poetry in the public eye as a good thing, Berry asks us to recognize the private life of the…
- Add to basket
-
About the House
- £100.00
- First published in 1965 by Random House (first published in England by Faber & Faber in 1966). The book is in two unnumbered parts, "Thanksgiving for a Habitat", a sequence of poems about Auden's house in Kirchstetten, Austria, and a miscellaneous group of poems headed "In and Out". Almost all…
- Add to basket
-
After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
- Add to basket
-
Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
- Add to basket
-
Alternative Values: poems & paintings (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Frieda Hughes's poems and paintings reflect her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, and her later experiences when living in London, Australia, and most recently, Wales. From childhood, writing and painting have been the two driving forces behind her commitment to life. They first came together in her illustration of…
- Add to basket
-
An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
- Add to basket
-
An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
- Add to basket
-
An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
- Add to basket
-
Anabasis, a poem
- £75.00
- This internationally famous poem, considered to have exerted a wide influence on modern poetry, was first introduced to English-language readers in the translation by T.S. Eliot. In his Preface, Eliot describes it as "a series of images of migration" in the vast spaces of the ancient East and ranks it…
- Add to basket
-
Ararat
- £18.00
- Louise Glck, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. Ararat, Glck's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father.…
- Add to basket
-
Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
-
Areté: The Arts Tri-Quarterly: 39 (Winter 2012)
- £10.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket