American Yiddish Poetry - A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin Harshav; Barbara Harshav
$45.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
This remarkable volume introduces what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. Includes a bilingual facing-page format, notes and biographies of poets, and selections from Yiddish theory and criticism.
Ben Jonson - The Complete Poems by Ben Jonson; George Parfitt (Introduction by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
His adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urbane elegance of his verse forms he contrived a directness and energy of statement clearly related to colloquial speech, and this characteristic fusion of restrain ...Show more
Rain-Charm for the Duchy and Other Laureate Poems by Ted Hughes
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In 1984 Ted Hughes was made Poet Laureate. Since then, he has fulfilled his duties by writing a number of poems celebrating important royal occasions. These are major works, calling on the Laureate's full powers and embodying a complete vision of royalty and nationhood. Rain-Charm for the Duchy collects ...Show more
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship w ...Show more
T S Eliot Inventions of the March Hare Poems 1909-1917 by Eliot T S
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
In 1922 T.S. Eliot sold his benefactor, John Quinn, a notebook containing about 50 poems, including several sequences written during Eliot's twenties. These poems, many of them previously unpublished, are presented in this book. They are of various kinds and cover a wide range of subjects.
Selected Poems by Tony Harrison
$8.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin International Poets Ser. | Reading Level: good
A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v.', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard which caused enorm ...Show more
Matthew Arnold - Selected Poems and Prose by Matthew Arnold; Miriam Allott (Introduction by, Notes by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
The Place We Call Home and Other Poems by Kofi Anyidoho
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A lamentation and celebration of epic events in world history, told through a powerful collection of poetry. One of these poems, 'Countdown to Ground Zero', was born out of 9/11 and its tragic aftermath and records a touching anecdote of how Anyidoho arrived in the US as a writer-in-residence at the end ...Show more
Lifted by Bill Manhire
$12.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: VUP Classics | Reading Level: very good
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; ...Show more
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts
$14.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Very Good
"Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914 -1919, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous mo ...Show more