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Dwell (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. The reawakened landscape with…
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Earth Hour (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia's most enduring and respected writers. David Malouf's new collection comes to rest at the perfect,…
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East Coker
- £35.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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East Coker
- £30.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
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Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). 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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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
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Etched by Silence: a pilgrimage through the poetry of R.S. Thomas
- £12.00
- This collection of poems by Wales' most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. Originally produced locally for visitors to the North Wales village and church where R S Thomas was the…
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Excursus in Autumn
- £15.00
- The follow up to John Smith's previous volume, The Birth Of Venus
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Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
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Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
- £75.00
- Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement…
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Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. 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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Flche (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Winner: COSTA POETRY AWARD POETRY and BOOK SOCIETY Recommendation Flche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer,…
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Flight into Reality (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Flight into Reality is the longest poem in terza rima in the English language and has been hailed by many poets for its power and relevance. Rosemarie Rowley has been president of the Irish Byron Society from 2008 to 2012 and she lives in Booterstown, County Dublin.
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Forever and Anon: A Treasury of Poetry and Prose from Author Unknown
- £12.00
- In this well-researched, imaginatively compiled and hugely enjoyable anthology, such gems as "The Vicar of Bray", "Greensleeves", "The British Grenadiers", "She was Poor but She was Honest", "The Foggy Foggy Dew" and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", rub shoulders with lesser known, but equally enjoyable, works such as "The…
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Forever Words, the unknown poems
- £15.00
- These never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash make the perfect gifts for music lovers and fans alike. Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash, this poetry collection is illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash's own handwritten pages. Now an album with music…
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Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
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Four Quartets
- £250.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
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Four Quartets
- £120.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
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Four Quartets
- £80.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
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Four Quartets
- £10.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
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Four Quartets (p/b)
- £15.00
- The 4 poems were first combined in one volume in 1944, which had been Eliot's intention from the start. This is Faber's first paperback edition.
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Frequencies
- £25.00
- R S Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales, despite the fact that he tended to write in English. This 1978 volume of poems includes Fishing, The Empty Church, In Great Waters and Epiphany.
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Frolic and Detour (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the…
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Frolic and Detour (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the…
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From the Morning of the World: Poems from the Manyoshu
- £25.00
- This is the first English language edition of 76 poems from the "Manyoshu", the earliest surviving collection of Japanese poetry, which was compiled in the mid-eighth century by the poet Otomo no Yakamochi. There are biographical notes on each of the poets included. The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from…
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From the Republic of Conscience
- £35.00
- From the Republic of Conscience... was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International and produced by Peter Fallon for Amnesty International Ireland.
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Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
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Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
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Dwell (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, an ambitious restoration project where history and mystery coexist. The reawakened landscape with…
- Add to basket
-
Earth Hour (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A breathtaking new volume of poetry from an Australian literary icon In his first full volume of poetry since Typewriter Music in 2007, David Malouf once again shows us why he is one of Australia's most enduring and respected writers. David Malouf's new collection comes to rest at the perfect,…
- Add to basket
-
East Coker
- £35.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
- Add to basket
-
East Coker
- £30.00
- The first part of what would be published a few years later as Eliot's wartime masterpiece, 'Four Quartets'.
- Add to basket
-
Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). 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
-
End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
- Add to basket
-
Etched by Silence: a pilgrimage through the poetry of R.S. Thomas
- £12.00
- This collection of poems by Wales' most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. Originally produced locally for visitors to the North Wales village and church where R S Thomas was the…
- Add to basket
-
Excursus in Autumn
- £15.00
- The follow up to John Smith's previous volume, The Birth Of Venus
- Add to basket
-
Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
- Add to basket
-
Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems
- £75.00
- Face at the Bottom of the World and Other Poems is a collection of Japanese poetry by master poet, Hagiwara Sakutaro. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942) is generally recognized in Japan as the best poet to have emerged since contact was re-established with the outside world. His work represents the astonishing achievement…
- Add to basket
-
Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. 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
-
Flche (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Winner: COSTA POETRY AWARD POETRY and BOOK SOCIETY Recommendation Flche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer,…
- Add to basket
-
Flight into Reality (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Flight into Reality is the longest poem in terza rima in the English language and has been hailed by many poets for its power and relevance. Rosemarie Rowley has been president of the Irish Byron Society from 2008 to 2012 and she lives in Booterstown, County Dublin.
- Add to basket
-
Forever and Anon: A Treasury of Poetry and Prose from Author Unknown
- £12.00
- In this well-researched, imaginatively compiled and hugely enjoyable anthology, such gems as "The Vicar of Bray", "Greensleeves", "The British Grenadiers", "She was Poor but She was Honest", "The Foggy Foggy Dew" and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", rub shoulders with lesser known, but equally enjoyable, works such as "The…
- Add to basket
-
Forever Words, the unknown poems
- £15.00
- These never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash make the perfect gifts for music lovers and fans alike. Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash, this poetry collection is illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash's own handwritten pages. Now an album with music…
- Add to basket
-
Forty-Two Fables of La Fontaine
- £15.00
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French…
- Add to basket
-
Four Quartets
- £250.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
- Add to basket
-
Four Quartets
- £120.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
- Add to basket
-
Four Quartets
- £80.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
- Add to basket
-
Four Quartets
- £10.00
- The first time the 4 poems were combined in one volume, which had been Eliot's intention from the start
- Add to basket
-
Four Quartets (p/b)
- £15.00
- The 4 poems were first combined in one volume in 1944, which had been Eliot's intention from the start. This is Faber's first paperback edition.
- Add to basket
-
Frequencies
- £25.00
- R S Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales, despite the fact that he tended to write in English. This 1978 volume of poems includes Fishing, The Empty Church, In Great Waters and Epiphany.
- Add to basket
-
Frolic and Detour (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the…
- Add to basket
-
Frolic and Detour (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Although Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon's thirteenth book, it has all the passion and provocation we more often associate with a first collection. Ranging as it does from poems that take as their subject matter the Native American leaders Joseph Brant and Mangas Coloradas, through the Great War, the…
- Add to basket
-
From the Morning of the World: Poems from the Manyoshu
- £25.00
- This is the first English language edition of 76 poems from the "Manyoshu", the earliest surviving collection of Japanese poetry, which was compiled in the mid-eighth century by the poet Otomo no Yakamochi. There are biographical notes on each of the poets included. The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from…
- Add to basket
-
From the Republic of Conscience
- £35.00
- From the Republic of Conscience... was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International and produced by Peter Fallon for Amnesty International Ireland.
- Add to basket
-
Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
- Add to basket
-
Good Friday – a play in verse
- £45.00
- Masefield wrote a number of poetic dramas on Christian themes (of which Good Friday was the first); but to his amazement, he encountered a ban on the performance of plays on biblical subjects that went back to the Reformation and had been revived a generation earlier to prevent production of…
- Add to basket