Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions by Walt Whitman
Category: Poetry & Plays
In 1855, a small volume appeared, self-published by a failed Brooklyn journalist and carpenter: twelve untitled poems and a preface announcing the author's aims. A commercial failure, this book was the first stage of a massive, lifelong enterprise. Six editions and thirty-seven years later, Leaves of Gr ...Show more
The Pocket Guide to Poets and Poetry by Andrew Taylor
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Pocket Guides
Continuing the success of the Pocket Guide series, Andrew Taylors Pocket Guide to Poets and Poetry starts with a history of poetry, setting the poets and their work in the context of their time and the influence of their work including political agenda, festivities and historical celebrations and their ...Show more
Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Poetry for Young People (Hardcover)
Whether he's capturing a cold New England winter or the simple beauty of an old abandoned house, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Frost creates magic. This stunning celebration of his best-loved work includes over 25 poems, including "Mending Wall," "Birches" and, of course, "The Road Not Ta ...Show more
Our Ways on Earth by Peter Bakowski
Category: Poetry & Plays
Via numerous portrait poems of real and fictitious people revealed in Our Ways On Earth Peter Bakowski returns our attention to the individual. Via clear, non-judgemental portraiture Our Ways On Earth saves, for our consideration, individuals who might otherwise be buried, lost to us, under a slag heap ...Show more
Magnetic Field by Simon Armitage
Category: Poetry & Plays
Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those 'private, moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in the village providing rich subject matter for his ...Show more
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Pocket Poets
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pond ...Show more
Paradise by Kae Tempest
Category: Poetry & Plays
Lyricist, novelist, poet and playwright Kate Tempest will make her National Theatre debut in June with Paradise, a potent and dynamic reimagining of the Greek classic Philoctetes by Sophocles. Once comrades, now enemies after Odysseus abandoned Philoctetes to suffer a terrible wound alone, Odysseus is p ...Show more
She Doesn’t Seem Autistic by Esther Ottaway
Category: Poetry & Plays
How could other parents understand she can’t regulate, can’t dress, screams in wind? Their girls touch down, their modules steady, small footsteps breaking the moon-sand’s surface, their milestones cosmic miracles of the ordinary. We long for their basic okayness, their assumption that the whole team wi ...Show more
In the Photograph by Luke Beesley
Category: Poetry & Plays
The poems in In the Photograph unfold in domestic and suburban settings. They capture the exact moment of writing: how, from it, possibilities branch out into observation, memory, word play, analogy, fantasy, other artworks and other art forms. Cinema, photography, theatre, painting and music all move f ...Show more
Canopy: Poems by Linda Gregerson
Category: Poetry & Plays
A long-awaited yet startlingly urgent new collection from "a contemporary master"*--a fierce, big-hearted eye on our last, tumultuous decade, and our fragile environment *Los Angeles Review of Books Linda Gregerson's long-awaited new collection is a tour de force, a compendium of lives touched by the ra ...Show more
The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa): Bilingual Edition by Fernando Pessoa; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Patricio Ferrari (Translator)
Category: Poetry & Plays
Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend, the ...Show more