Blackwell Online - Books : Poetry

Mountain Tops & Lighthouses

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Melissa R. Martin

£7.05 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Candalyse Publishing

Patrick Kavanagh

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stan Smith

£17.95 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Irish Academic Press, US/ISBS

A comprehensive account of Patrick Kavanagh's work both in prose and verse. It situates his writings in the social and cultural contexts of the work-a-day Ireland which emerged from the heroics of nationalist insurrection and civil war.

Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Lost Manuscript

By Bob Dylan

£14.99 17 Nov 2008 Hardback Simon & Schuster Ltd

A folk and rock icon, Bob Dylan's newly rediscovered manuscript of early poetry, inspired by the Hollywood photographs of legendary photographer Barry Feinstein, is a never-before published illustrated collection of the observations and ruminations of a pop culture legend.

Aspects of Life (v. 2)

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Howard Croston

£3.99 17 Nov 2008 Paperback Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd

Brill's companion to Apollonius Rhodius

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Papanghelis, Theodore D. Rengakos, Antonios

£136.81 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

This 2nd edition of the "Companion to Apollonius Rhodius," comprising now nineteen articles by leading scholars from Europe and America, aims at giving an up-to-date outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and to provide a survey of recent and current trends in Apollonian studies which will be useful to students of Hellenistic poetry.

As When, in Season

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jim Schley

£12.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Marick Press

Offers a collection of poetry which comprises four sequences that turn upon phases of life - child and youthful traveler; apprentice to a group of uniquely challenging and insightful teachers; husband, homesteader, and new parent; and troubled but still engaged citizen of a village and the world.

Dark Card

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rebecca Foust

£7.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Texas Review Press

My labor heaves up in great waves like the moon-crazed tide; it raves like the tide-crazed moon, rising and rising too soon, too soon.

Cant O Englynion

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dafydd Islwyn

£5.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Cyhoeddiadau'r Gair

I am

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Book of Unintentional Thought

By Alexander Jackman

£7.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Pen Press Publishers

Set around the journey of a young man who experiences abortion with his first love.

An Elusive State

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Entering Al-Chwm

By Steve Griffiths

£7.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Cinnamon Press

The Mischievous Boy and Other Poems

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maurice Harmon

£10.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Salmon Publishing Ltd

Cape Breton wonders : featuring the paintings of Marie Moore

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Everett, Shirley.

£10.96 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Cape Breton Univ Pr, CN

The next country

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Novey, Idra.

£8.21 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Alice James Books/Perseus Distribution, US

How Does a Man Who is Dead Reinvent His Body?

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli

By M.T.C. Cronin, Peter Boyle

£9.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Shearsman Books

Subtitled "The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli" - a neglected 20th century poet much influenced by Celan and Vallejo - this collection represents the merging of two fine Australian poets into the consciousness of an other.

Settings

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tim Allen

£8.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Shearsman Books

"Settings".

Eleni Mewn Englynion

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Iwan Rhys

£4.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Biohell : a Combat-K novel

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Remic, Andy.

£8.24 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Solaris, UK/Simon & Schuster

The Combat-K squad are back in this new novel by War Machine author Andy Remic. In BioHell they must battle a nano-generated zombie plague and try to uncover the cause of these deformed mutations. And soon their focus is on the darkness at the Nano-Tek corporation...

The cracked earth : a Jack Liffey mystery

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shannon, John.

£8.21 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Pegasus Books/W W Norton

"A remarkable update on the Chandler knight-errant. Shannon matches the master."--Dick Lochte, "Los Angeles Times"
Her name is Lori Bright. You might remember seeing her in "A Week in Palm Springs," lounging enticingly in the bathtub while an aging and flustered Cary Grant tries to find her a suitably revealing towel. Jack Liffey remembers, and even now he can't help but fall for her just a little. The problem is that she's paying him good money to locate her missing daughter--a case that is about to get Jack stuck between the seedy violence of the old City of Angels and the new gleaming bloodlust of contemporary Los Angeles.

Men Who Knew Jesus Well

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Their Stories in Verse

By James Vasquez

£10.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Wheatmark Inc

Voice of My Soul

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Wisdom from the Stillness

By Marsha Eger

£13.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Wheatmark Inc

Ucensored vanities

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wayne, George.

£13.71 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Rodale Pr/St Martin's

Radical Vernacular

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place

By Elizabeth Willis

£34.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University of Iowa Press

When Lorine Niedecker died in 1970, the British poet and critic Basil Bunting eulogized her warmly. "In England," he wrote, 'she was, in the estimation of many, the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced.' This book presents a collection of essays that make a major contribution to the study of this important American poet.

Revolver

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Robyn Schiff

£13.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of Iowa Press

Reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later.

Inverse Sky

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Isles

£13.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of Iowa Press

It is nineteenth-century California, and the missions are still burning after the Americans establish the Bear Flag Republic; it is the twenty-first century, and the miners of '49 are relegated to a mural in an arcade. This title takes us on a journey where Native Americans are 'missing persons' outside a diorama of their ancestors.

60 seconds to shine., v.6 : 221 one-minute monologues from classic plays

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£10.96 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Smith & Kraus Inc

The complete fables of La Fontaine : a new translation in verse

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695.

£19.23 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Arcade Publ/Little Brown & Co

In this contemporary translation, Craig Hill has captured the liveliness, satiric wit, and poetic beauty that made Jean de La Fontaine famous during his lifetime and his Fables celebrated as a masterwork of world literature ever since.

Despite La Fontaine's deceptively modest claim that all he intended was to put the moral tales of Aesop and other ancient fabulists into poetry for the pleasure of Louis XIV's young son, his real accomplishment, as later generations have understood, was holding a mirror up to the society of his day and in the process fashioning a work that has become a classic.

Borrowing from a variety of sources, La Fontaine gave the hitherto mute animals in ancient fables the power of speech. Putting his characters on stage and endowing them with irresistibly witty dialogue, he portrayed with great humor the flaws and pretensions that still dog us. Backstabbing politicians, brainless nincompoops, charlatans, clueless heads of state, egomaniacs, empty-headed celebrities, foolish investors, gluttons, liars, penny pinchers, self-important blowhards, and wastrels - the targets of the poet's pen were legion and remain so today.

Craig Hill has given us a rare treat: both the irreverent spirit and the vivid poetry that have made La Fontaine's fables beloved through the ages, continuing to amuse and inspire centuries after they first appeared in print. Making this volume even more of a delight are a dozen scintillating illustrations by Edward Sorel.

Just after sunset : stories

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By King, Stephen, 1947-

£15.38 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Scribner/Simon & Schuster

Following his two recent critically acclaimed bestsellers, "Duma Key" and "Lisey's Story," celebrated author King delivers a stunning collection of short stories, his first in six years.

Search for the star stones

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Norton, Andre.

£15.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Baen Book/Simon & Schuster

Murdoc Jern's father, an interstellar gem trader, was murdered by outlaw competitors and left behind an odd ring, large enough to fit over the finger of a space suit. With his companion Eet, a strange feline mutant with phenomenal mental powers, he soon discovered that the stone in the ring was actually a Zero Stone--an alien device left behind by an ancient vanished race--and it was the key to powers beyond human imagination.

Murdoc and Eet had to solve the secret of the Zero Stone, and very quickly, because very greedy and dangerous people wanted that ring, and wouldn't hesitate at a second murder to obtain it.

Publisher's Note: "Search for the Star Stones" was originally published in parts as "The Zero Stone" and its sequel "Uncharted Stars," This is the first time both novels have appeared in one volume.

St. Antony's fire

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By White, Steve.

£15.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Baen Book/Simon & Schuster

Ponce de Leon is remembered for his fruitless search for the mythical fountain of youth. In an alternate universe, his quest had found something very different--and very dangerous. After his return to Spain, bizarre rumors fly about what he had found there, and what had come back with him.

Claws that catch

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ringo, John, 1963-

£16.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Baen Book/Simon & Schuster

In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for.

Into the Heart of European Poetry

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Taylor

£42.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Examines the work of many of the major poets who have deeply marked modern and contemporary European literature. This book delves into the widely translated literatures of Italy, Greece, Germany, and Austria, and also discovers impressive and overlooked work in Slovenia, Bosnia, Hungary, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands.

Statement of regret

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kwei-Armah, Kwame.

£8.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Methuen Drama, UK/A & C Black, UK/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

Kwame Kwei-Armah's third play for the National Theatre opens in November 2007 and takes a punchy, provocative look at the Black British experience and the need, or not, for solidarity.

The world is what it is : the authorized biography of V. S. Naipaul

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By French, Patrick, 1966-

£16.48 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Knopf/Random House

French offers the first authoritative biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial Nobel laureate. Informed by exclusive access to Naipaul's private papers and personal recollections, this biography does full justice to an enigmatic genius.

Somebody: the reckless life and remarkable career of Marlon Brando

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando

By Kanfer, Stefan.

£26.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Knopf/Random House

Marlon Brando is a perpetually fascinating character. Kanfer explores the life of this iconic artist, seamlessly intertwining the man and his work to give the full and illuminating appraisal of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary talents.

The Red Window

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marianne Aweagon Broyles

£8.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback West End Press

A collection of poems that acknowledges the historic oppression of Native Americans and other peoples, tracking the painful consequences. It also focuses on the resilience and surviving spirit of the people themselves, however wounded.

Legible heavens

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hix, H. L.

£9.86 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Etruscan Pr, US/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

"Untroubled authority . . . and the talent to make us weep."-Dan Chiasson, "Poetry"

"He has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesting American poet writing today, the least predictable and the most challenging."-David Caplan, "Pleiades"

"Legible Heavens "explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape.

The author of numerous books of poetry, criticism, and essay, H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming. His "Chromatic "was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Courts of Air and Earth

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Trevor Joyce

£8.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Shearsman Books

Shearsman published Trevor Joyce's collected poems with the "First dream of Fire They Hunt the Cold", and this book extracts his translation of the epic "Sweeny Peregrine" from that volume. It also offers other versions from the Old and Middle Irish.

Zong!

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By M. NourbeSe Philip

£18.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University Press of New England

In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. This book tells that story.

The Alphabet

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ron Silliman

£72.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback The University of Alabama Press

A work of American ethnography, a cultural collage of artifacts, moments, episodes, and voices - historical and private - that capture the dizzying evolution of America's social, cultural, and literary consciousness.

Intimate Verses

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Henri Zoghaib

£11.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Syracuse University Press

Offering an introduction to Arabic poetry, this title provides the multilingual translation of the author's work, offering each verse in the original Arabic as well as in English, French, and German.

Restoration

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Christina Pugh

£36.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Northwestern University Press,U.S.

A collection of poems that moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. It describes the image of a bed - as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming.

Restoration

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Christina Pugh

£12.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Northwestern University Press,U.S.

Harvest of Blossoms

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems from a Life Cut Short

By Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

£16.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Northwestern University Press,U.S.

Revealing an artist of remarkable talent and enduring hope, this collection of poetry presents a reminder of what the world has lost by a life cut short.

Stranger's notebook : poems

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Stone, Nomi.

£12.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Triquarterly Bks/Northwestern U Pr

A collection of poems that features a stranger who arrives at an ancient community that is both at home and estranged on the island. It tells how the people occupy the uneasy space of all insular communities, deciding when to let the world in and when to shut it out. It describes the daily lives of the Jews of Djerba and the Muslims next door.

Stranger's notebook : poems

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Stone, Nomi.

£36.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Triquarterly Bks/Northwestern U Pr

Lightning from the Depths

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology of Albanian Poetry

By Robert Elsie, Janice Mathie-Heck

£13.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Northwestern University Press,U.S.

An English collection to present the range of Albanian verse from the early Christian traditions to the influence of Islam and the Ottoman Empire and from the beginnings of a modern tradition, quashed by the Stalinists.

Lightning from the Depths

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology of Albanian Poetry

By Robert Elsie, Janice Mathie-Heck

£35.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Northwestern University Press,U.S.

Selected Poetry Delmira Agustini

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poetics of Eros

By Agustini, Delmira, 1886-1914.

£13.95 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Southern Illinois University Press

Presents an English-language translation of the ill-fated Uruguyan erotic poet Delmira Agustini. This book presents a representative sampling of the poetry Delmira Agustini published before her untimely death on July 6, 1914 at the age of twenty-seven.

Translation, subjectivity, and culture in France and England, 1600-1800

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hayes, Julie Candler, 1955-

£51.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Stanford U Pr

Examines the evolution of neoclassical translation theory from its origins among the first generation of French Academicians to its subsequent importation to England by royalist exiles, and its evolution in response to the philosophical and political ideas of the Enlightenment.

All the windwracked stars

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bear, Elizabeth.

£17.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Tor Books/Tom Doherty Assocs/St Martin's

It all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tarnished Ones battling to the death in the ice and the dark. At the end of the long battle, one Valkyrie survived, and one Valraven - the steeds of the Valkyrie. Because they lived, Valdyrgard was not wholly destroyed.

The gods return

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Crown of the Isles 3

By Drake, David.

£17.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Tor Books/St Martin's

"The Gods Return" is the end of the Crown of the Isles trilogy and the final chapter in the Lord of the Isles. The Isles have been unified under Garric's rule, but the Change that had created the continent has removed the old Gods of the Isles from reality and has released other Gods from other planes of existence.

Ender in exile

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Card, Orson Scott.

£17.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Tor Books/St Martin's

At the close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin--called Ender--is told that he can no longer live on Earth. The 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begins the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

Plays.

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Blue/orange, Dumb Show, Wild Turkey

By Penhall, Joe.

£14.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Methuen Drama, UK/A & C Black, UK/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

A second collection of plays by Joe Penhall, featuring the award-winning Blue/Orange and Dumb Show and with an introduction and chronology.

Winnie and Wolf

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wilson, A. N., 1950-

£13.74 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Farrar Straus Giroux

"Winnie and Wolf" tells the story of the remarkable relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that takes place during the years between the two world wars, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner House in Bayreuth.

Fear and loathing at Rolling Stone : the essential Hunter S. Thompson

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Thompson, Hunter S.

£16.46 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Little Brown & Co

From Hunter S. Thompson's first piece for Rolling Stone--the story of his infamous run for sheriff of Aspen in 1970--to his last--an examination of the Kerry/Bush showdown in 2004--FEAR AND LOATHING AT ROLLING STONE presents more than 40 examples of his best work. Thompson takes us on a roller-coaster ride filled with the likes of McGovern and Nixon, Watergate and Vietnam, Ali and Clinton. And buttressing the narrative throughout are letters and memos that illuminate the stories behind the stories--from the original back-and-forth resulting in Thompson's first pieces to the meticulous planning for his reporting of the '72 campaign. Simply put, FEAR AND LOATHING AT ROLLING STONE is the definitive work of the magazine's most popular writer.

The fire kimono

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rowland, Laura Joh.

£17.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback St Martin's Minotaur/St Martin's

Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war. Called away from the crisis by the shogun's orders to investigate a mysterious skeleton, Sano and his wife, Reiko, must confront dangerous, long-buried secrets.

Ziegfeld : the man who invented showbusiness

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Man Who Invented Show Business

By Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

£18.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback St Martin's

When Florenz Ziegfeld started in theatre, it was flea circus and sideshow rolled into one. From the muscle man Sandow, to the songbird Anna Held, Ziegfeld learned that a big star filled seats. He hired them for his "Follies" - Marilyn Miller, Will Rogers, Bert Williams, Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice. This book features the world of the Follies.

Snake dreams

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Doss, James D.

£13.71 15 Nov 2008 Hardback St Martin's Minotaur/St Martin's

Bestselling author Doss mixes a detective's reason and a shaman's intuition to find a killer, in the newest entry in his acclaimed Charlie Moon series.

A mercy

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Morrison, Toni.

£13.16 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Knopf/Random House

Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison's latest masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter, and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences.

Spring

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Oni Buchanan

£10.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of Illinois Press

Includes poems that attempt to discover how to fulfil the individual human responsibility of surviving as a resiliently loving and hopeful living creature. This work accompanies multimedia compact disc that offers a Flash-animated version of the printed kinetic work, "The Mandrake Vehicles."

Every which way but dead

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Harrison, Kim.

£12.06 15 Nov 2008 Hardback EOS/HarperCollins

There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice.

Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor.

Rachel must also take a stand in the war that's raging in the city's underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpin--and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation.

And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due.

The Long Gallery

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christopher Salveson

£8.95 14 Nov 2008 Paperback Shoestring Press

About Love and About Nothing Else

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Toon Tellegen

£8.95 14 Nov 2008 Paperback Shoestring Press

Wishbone

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Caroline Price

£8.95 14 Nov 2008 Paperback Shoestring Press

Polishing October

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By George Gomori

£9.50 14 Nov 2008 Paperback Shoestring Press

Selected Writings

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Marguerite De Navarre

£14.50 14 Nov 2008 Paperback The University of Chicago Press

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. This book contains sampling of Marguerite's varied works: from verse letters and fables to mythological-pastoral tales, from spiritual songs to a selection of novellas.

Selected Writings

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Bilingual Edition

By Marguerite De Navarre

£35.00 14 Nov 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maureen N. McLane

£55.00 13 Nov 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

Shows how Romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by literary and cultural researches into oral, vernacular poetries in the late eighteenth-century.

Honey with Tobacco

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peg Boyers

£18.00 13 Nov 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

In familiar tableaux drawn from the Bible that have inspired great works of art - the "Annunciation", the "Pieta", and "Judgment Day" - this book explores what it means in contemporary America to be "blessed among women" and whether and how art can contain grief.

The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christopher Ricks

£12.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology prsents a wonderfully varied collection of Victorian poetry, with 560 poems by 115 authors. With most poems given in their entirety, this is a lively and exciting anthology of Victorian verse selected by an expert in the field.

Troilus and Criseyde

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A New Translation

By Geoffrey Chaucer

£8.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs.

The Homeric Hymns

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£8.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Romance of the Rose

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun

£10.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Leaves of Grass

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Walt Whitman

£8.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Selected Poetry

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lord George Gordon Byron

£5.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

This selection of the Byron's poetical works includes such masterpieces as Childe Harold, The Corsair, Manfred, Bebbo, and Don Juan. There are many other less familiar works and shorter lyrics, and Jerome J. McGann's introduction and notes give fascinating insight into Byron's world.

John Donne - The Major Works

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Donne

£9.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Donne's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by rarely published letters and extracts from Donne's sermons - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

Collected Poems and Other Verse

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephane Mallarme

£9.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Stephane Mallarme was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. This is the fullest collection of Mallarme's poetry ever published in English, and the only edition in any language that presents his Poesies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author. It includes all the prose poems and the unique, unclassifiable Un Coup de des... (A Dice Throw...)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

£13.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Coleridge's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by important criticism, letters, and marginalia - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries (v. 2)

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Valentina Polukhina

£46.99 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Academic Studies Press

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been taken seriously by Russian leaders. He is the most important poet Russia has produced in the second part of the twentieth century. This collection of interviews draws on eye-witness accounts of Brodsky's friends, publishers, editors, translators, and fellow poets.

Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries (v. 1)

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Valentina Polukhina

£39.99 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Academic Studies Press

A record of 20 conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky, the 1987 Nobel Prize-winner for Literature. It combines biographical details with an interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalin Russia.

The Softer Side of Hip Hop

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poetic Reflections on Love, Family, and Relationships

By Laura Haskins-Bookser

£6.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Morning Glory Press Inc

Features a collection of poems. Partly based on experiences of the poet's friends and family, this collection paints portraits of such issues as alcoholism, adultery, and sexual abuse.

On Spec

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tyrone Williams

£9.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Omnidawn Publishing

Examining the African American position in the United States, this philosophical collection of poems offers insight into the personal, social, cultural, and racial networks that help to create identity. It is a venture that illuminates the human mind and the struggle faced when trying to communicate what we see and what we believe.

Poetry Oracle

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Brenda Knight, Amber Guetebier

£10.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Consortium of Collective Consciousness,U.S.

Discusses the ancient Greek art of Rhapsodomancy. This book contains such poetic excerpts as Polyhymnia (muse of sacred poetry) and Calliope (muse of epic poetry) who are chosen for their oracular wisdom.

Collected Poems, 1951-2006

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By C.K. Stead

£34.50 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Auckland University Press

Blues and Bliss

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke

By Clarke, George Elliott.

£8.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Wilfrid Laurier University Press

Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet - these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke's best work since his early poetry, this title offers readers a cross-section of those voices.

All These Roads

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Poetry of Louis Dudek

By Karis Shearer

£8.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Wilfrid Laurier University Press

A collection bringing together thirty-five of Louis Dudek's poems written over the course of his sixty-year career. It features poems - witty satires, short lyrics, and long sequences - that reflect self-consciously on the relationship between art and life and helps draw readers into the dramatic mid-century literary and cultural debates.

A Little Book of Western Verse

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Eugene Field

£71.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

A Child's Garden of Verses

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Louis Robert Stevenson

£70.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Indypublish.com

Coney Island of the Mind

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

£50.00 11 Nov 2008 Hardback New Directions Publishing Corporation

The Odyssey

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Dramatic Retelling of Homer's Epic

By Simon Armitage

£8.99 11 Nov 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

In this new verse adaptation, Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialogues: between gods and men; between no-nonsense Captain Odysseus and his unruly companions; and between subtle Odysseus and a range of shape-shifting adversaries.

Women Reading to the Sea

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Lisa Williams

£15.99 11 Nov 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

A new volume from the winner of the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize.
"Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. In wonderfully crafted language, with the startling subtlety of certain of Emily Dickinson's poems, Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds--the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier; she beguiles us with the most seductive of poetic possibilities....This slender volume constitutes a journey of sorts, a pilgrimage 'out' that returns the questing poet, imagined as a companion 'you, ' to her own life."--Joyce Carol Oates, prize citation.

Unmentionables

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Beth Ann Fennelly

£14.99 11 Nov 2008 Hardback W W Norton & Co Ltd

A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" ("Harvard Review").
With elegant wordplay and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly explores the "unmentionable"--not only what is considered too bold but also what can't be said because words are insufficient. In sections of short narratives, she questions our everyday human foibles. Three longer sequences display her admirable reach and fierce intelligence: One, "The Kudzu Chronicles," is a rollicking piece about the transplanted weed. Another, "Bertha Morisot: Retrospective," conjures up a complex life portrait of the French impressionist painter. The third presents fifteen dream songs that virtually out-Berryman Berryman.

The last theorem

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008.

£14.84 11 Nov 2008 Hardback Del Rey/Random House

Two of science fiction's most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. "The Last Theorem" is a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together--or perish.

The last station

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Parini, Jay.

£8.21 11 Nov 2008 Paperback Anchor Books/Random House

Blue Guide

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Yenser

£18.50 11 Nov 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

Takes readers on a heady trip through a world full of promise yet compromised by human weakness. Set in sunny southern California and Greece, the poems of this work cast the shadow of mortality, and the tones are elegiac. It offers a quatrain written to name a painting by Dorothea Tanning.

My index of slightly horrifying knowledge

11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Guest, Paul.

£13.16 11 Nov 2008 Hardback Ecco Press/HarperCollins

This fierce and original collection heralds the arrival of a powerful new voice in poetry. A beautiful, breathless torrent of language . . . a terrific book--Mark Strand.

Precious Oblivion

10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anthony Fostieris

£9.50 10 Nov 2008 Paperback Dionysia Press

Starve the Poets!

10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Poems

By Yi Sha

£9.95 10 Nov 2008 Paperback Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Yi Sha is a controversial Chinese poet, a member of the extreme avant-garde whose work has changed the face of Chinese poetry. His anti-lyrical poetry is minimal, unadorned - dramatising with facts. His poems present pared-down descriptions of seemingly banal incidents, or dramatic incidents described in an ironically banal manner.

New and Collected Poems

10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By George Szirtes

£15.00 10 Nov 2008 Paperback Bloodaxe Books Ltd

George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. This is a comprehensive retrospective of his work that covers poetry from over a dozen collections written over four decades, with a substantial gathering of other poems.

What it is

10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selected Poems

By Esther Jansma

£8.95 10 Nov 2008 Paperback Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Features selected poems by Esther Jansma, a Dutch poet and an archaeologist.

Mysteries

08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Chrissy Derbyshire

£6.99 08 Nov 2008 Paperback Awen Publications

The Bridport Prize

08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£12.00 08 Nov 2008 Paperback Redcliffe Press Ltd

Angels Over Elsinore

07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Collected Verse 2003-2008

By Clive James

£14.99 07 Nov 2008 Hardback Pan Macmillan

A collection of poems, which is impressive not only in terms of its execution, but also in terms of its scope and versatility.

Travellers without Baggage

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Valerie Clarke

£8.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Two Ravens Press

Eunoia

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christian Bok

£9.99 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Canongate Books Ltd

'Eunoia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them, but never at the same time. It includes five chapters that use only one vowel.