The Long Take by Robin Robertson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Picador Poetry | Reading Level: near fine
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018. Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2018. Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' - John Banville, Guardian A noir narrative written with the in ...Show more
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The #1 New York Times bestselling poetry and prose collection by Rupi Kaur, which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. This clothbound edition features deckled edg ...Show more
Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry by Bonny Cassidy, Jessica Wilkinson
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Category: Poetry
Australia has a rich history of feminist poetry but there is no one kind of feminist voice. The seventy new poems commissioned for this anthology demonstrate a complexity of social, political, and cultural visions. Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry is united by the shared effort to shape ‘respons ...Show more
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Poetry
Although a very prolific poet--and arguably America's greatest--Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her ...Show more
Gate of Lilacs - A Verse Commentary on Proust by Clive James
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading #65533; la recherche du temps perdu. Then he spent half a century trying to get up to speed with Proust's great novel in two different languages. Gate of Lilacs is the unique product of James's love and enga ...Show more
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden
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Category: Poetry
A unique collection of poetry so powerful that 100 grown men--bestselling authors, poets laureate, and other eminent figures from the arts, sciences, and politics--have been moved to tears. Here they deliver touching and insightful personal introductions to a range of beloved poems. Grown men don't ...Show more
Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter by Rosemary Hill
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Category: Poetry
a) The Unicorn As with the night-scented stock, the full splendour of the unicorn manifests itself most potently at twilight. Then the horn sprouts, swells, blooms in all its glory. SEE THE HORN (bend the tab, slit in slot marked 'x') Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the p ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry
A stunning new gift edition of this much-loved classic. Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad. Some are good, and some are bad . . . The original Old Possum's illustrations have been lovingly restored and are showcased in this beautiful new hardback edition, perfect for children and Eliot aficionados al ...Show more
Lang Leav - Lullabies by Lang Leav
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Category: Poetry | Series: Lang Leav | Reading Level: near fine
A sequel to the hugely popular, best-selling Love & Misadventure, Lullabies continues to explore the intricacies of love and loss.Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece fr ...Show more
Poems that make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden
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Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
GROWN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY. But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their earl ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter by Dorothy Porter
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Category: Poetry
Dorothy Porter was one of Australia's true originals, renowned for her passionate, punchy poetry and verse novels. This collection, the best of her life's work as selected by her partner Andrea Goldsmith, presents the many facets of Porter, from her break-out verse novel The Monkey's Mask to her posthum ...Show more
Inferno by Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri
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Category: Poetry
'Through me you go to the grief-wracked city. Through me to everlasting pain you go . . . ' Depicting one man's horrifying journey into the depths of Hell, Inferno, the first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, is a soaring spiritual epic that continues to echo through the centuries with its moving portrayal ...Show more