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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWFor those looking for inspiration, peace and acceptance on the bumpy road that is life, Donna Ashworth\'s poems give insight into the enigmas of ageing, body image, family and the rapidly changing world around us.For every twist, turn and roadblock the journey has to offer, this collection provides relief to busy minds and dares us to live with a reckless abundance of joy.Readers are embracing Life- \'One of today\'s best poets.\' ***** NetGalley- \'Donna\'s writing conveys so beautifully what it is to be human\' ***** Amazon- \'Each time I read a poem and decide that is my favourite I turn the page and find another beautifully written, eloquent piece that resonates, comforts, and that makes you stop and reflect.\' ***** Amazon- \'They are wonderful books to dip in and out of when you need inspiration, some advice, a hug, a friendly word.\' ***** Amazon Σελίδες: 160, Διαστάσεις: 13.8x13.8cm

AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu.In these reflections on being and blackness, informed by empathy and intellectual curiosity, Nwulu melds the golden light of Senegal with the harsh winds of Yorkshire. Here, blackness itself is complicated, and the resonances of being are extended to offer an image of the self in a state of flux – a fugitive spirit battling the harm of erasure. In its profound joy, all the more powerful for being hard-won, A Little Resurrection heralds the branching out of an important trajectory in Anglophone poetry. Σελίδες: 64, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0131, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeA New Yorker Essential Read of 2022A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022An NPR Best Book of 2022A Literary Hub Best Reviewed Poetry Collection of 2022_______________‘Witty and incisive… [Sharif] masterfully traverses the landscape of exile and all its complicated grief’ New York Times_______________The devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif, author of Look, a National Book Award finalistWith Customs, Solmaz Sharif offers a series of poetic refusals, weighing nuanced questions about what it means to belong to a place. In the face of hard borders these poems seek a reckoning with the structures, in society, in language itself, by which these limits act on us.Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal; to navigate a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that can become a relentless challenge; a mutating shibboleth.Through the poet\'s adept balancing of tonal and formal elements, these poems interrogate the ‘customs’ of the nation-state, of the English language, of the paces these systems put us through. But this work is not enjoined to a hopeless quest. Instead, the propulsive force that informs each line, each white space, and punctuation mark, is a powerfully galvanizing and healing force.Customs reminds us of the generative possibilities of restlessness, of seeking in each poem to refresh what it is a poem can be and do. Σελίδες: 112, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0801, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

25 postcards featuring artwork from The Book of Cat Poems illustrated by Sarah Maycock. Features the feline friends inspired by the poems of John Keats, Margaret Atwood and Oscar Wilde among others, alongside short quotations from the works on the back. Beautifully packaged in a paperback case. Each card has space on the back for your personal message. Σελίδες: 50, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0611, Διαστάσεις: 12x12cm

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFYAnna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. Thomas, illustrates her broad scope and brilliant imaginative gifts. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities. Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of William Blake\'s revolutionary publication Songs of Innocence and of Experience, a rare and wonderful collection of poetry from one of Britain\'s most important artists. Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and of Experience also occupies a key position in the history of Western art. This authentic and unique edition of the work allows William Blake to communicate with his readers as he intended, reproducing his own illumination and lettering from the finest existing example of the original work. In this way, readers can experience the mystery and beauty of Blake\'s poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.  Each poem is accompanied by a literal transcription, and the volume is introduced by the renowned historian and critic, Richard Holmes. This beautiful edition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is both essential for those familiar with Blake\'s work and also an ideal way into his world for those encountering him for the first time. Σελίδες: 108, Διαστάσεις: 10.4x10.4cm

The British Museum’s vast collections include wonderful images of birds from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in realistic detail, going about their daily lives. Other artists concentrate on scientific accuracy. The endless variety of birds, their freedom of sky, land and water, and especially their song have also inspired writers through the ages. Each striking image in this beautiful anthology is matched with a poem about the same species. Some were composed by our best-loved writers – including Shakespeare, Chaucer and Tennyson – and others have been selected from less familiar or even anonymous voices around the world. Now in a fresh new paperback format, this is an irresistible gift for anyone who loves birds. Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0401, Διαστάσεις: 17x17cm

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930. The many volumes he published thereafter included poetry, plays, essays and libretti, and his ceaseless experimentation, consummate craftsmanship and originality established him as one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. He died in 1973. Σελίδες: 112, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0407, Διαστάσεις: 12x12cm

A stunning new edition of T. S. Eliot\'s beloved cat poems Old Possum\'s Book of Practical Cats, containing beautiful original colour illustrations by Axel Scheffler.Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you\'ll be lucky to meet Macavity because Macavity\'s not there!In 1925 T.S. Eliot became co-director of Faber & Faber, who remain his publishers to this day. Throughout the 1930s he composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of \'Old Possum\'. In 1981 Eliot\'s poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as Cats which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musical in history. \'If cats, witchy or not, are your child\'s thing don\'t miss the new Old Possum\'s Book of Practical Cats.\' The Times\'A lovely edition of an old favourite . . . it will be enjoyed again and again.\' Carousel\'Classic cat poems . . . are given a delightful new look.\' LoveReading4Kids Σελίδες: 72, Διαστάσεις: 21.6x21.6cm

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The first ever collection of poems by the acclaimed author of the Aubrey/Maturin series of Napoleonic naval adventures. As we have stood with Jack and Stephen on the deck of the Surprise and other ships, readers around the world have been transported to a place and time at once familiar and exotic, routine and dramatic. At all times, Patrick O’Brian’s deep knowledge of the period and profound empathy with the landscape of the sea has ensured there is always a firm hand on the tiller. The writer’s command of language is combined with the poet’s eye for visual detail to remarkable, and unforgettable effect. In The Uncertain Land and Other Poems, those same strengths are vividly displayed as O’Brian leads us on a journey through his own life. Here, we see a writer full of a young man’s spirit, challenging life, and here an author reflecting an old man’s melancholy at youth gone; in between, as he describes the places that he lived and people that he encountered, are poems of sly observation, wry humour and delicate beauty. Through more than 100 poems, O’Brian reveals insights into the world that captivated him while he was at work on a succession of novels that would reach its apotheosis in the Aubrey/Maturin adventures, which would secure his reputation as ‘the Homer of the Napoleonic Wars’. Intensely personal, allusive and unique, this is the work of a lifetime, published now for the very first time. Σελίδες: 176, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionA Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn\'tIt is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us our fortune. Radicals liberate a zoo, teenagers flirt in a bowling alley, and the dead are cherished. In these inventive, playful, dream-like poems, Stephen Sexton takes us on a journey through the past and the present, while Cheryl translates from the future, showing us how we exist in all three at once.Reckoning with both public and private tragedies, the book is divided into three parts. In Part One, the poems range across old Europe: \'Edelweiss\' and Titanic setting sail, to a transatlantic, cross-century symposium in Part Two, where two giants perfect their arts in collaboration. In Part Three we are back in the land where the past keeps breaking through, it\'s practically always the anniversary of something terrible, but there\'s always Cheryl in the moonlight and her deck of tarot cards. A thrillingly strange exploration of the comfort of the fantastical when the real is hard to bear, Cheryl\'s Destinies is the enchanting follow-up to the Forward Prize for Best First Collection-winning If All the World and Love Were Young, by one of the most exciting young poets writing today. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

___ A year of looking, listening and noticing across four unique seasons and thirty-five beautifully illustrated poems. \'Dazzling, moving... A book that will touch many, and be given often: here, take this, you must read this.\' ROBERT MACFARLANE \'So vivid... A call out to our elemental relationship with love and nature. Beautiful.\' WILLEM DAFOE ___ The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we once lived altered completely. The Heeding paints a picture of a year caught in the grip of history, yet filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand: a sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved-one\'s hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard - the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own. Across four seasons and thirty-five luminous poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes lead us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, The Heeding is a profound meditation to a time no-one will forget. At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share and this history we\'re living through, to be aware of how valuable and fragile we are, to grieve what\'s lost and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow. ____ \'The Heeding speaks to us all, guiding us through the emotional journey the nation has gone through during the past year, with humour, pathos and forensically sharp portrayals of people and nature at a time like no other.\' Stephen Moss, author of The Robin \'Poignant and exquisite\' Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden \'Vivid, beating, aching. The Heeding feels like both a eulogy and a defiant, wild challenge to go on. I loved it.\' Josie George, author of A Still Life \'It is rare to find a writer that is able to tease apart the threads that make up the fragile fabric of our loves, hopes and despairs with such care and humility. An exceptionally good book for an exceptionally bad time.\' Matt Gaw, author of Under the Stars Σελίδες: 112, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0720, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely observed portraits in words and ink elevate the everyday adventures of cats: taking a nap on a Buddha statue\'s lap, daintily eating a rice ball, courting the neighbor\'s cat. This curated collection of poems, prints, and paintings will leave you inspired to cultivate the serenity and wonder embodied by these creators - and by the cats themselves. Presented as a sweet, jacketed paperback with thoughtful design touches, this volume includes each poem in both English and Japanese. Σελίδες: 156, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

An unflinching, heartbreaking collection of poetry about life in the U.S. as a Brazilian immigrant, Aline Mello’s debut poetry collection, More Salt Than Diamond, is a true testament to the power of finding a home.Born in Brazil, Aline Mello immigrated to the United States in 1997. Using her experience as an undocumented woman during a time of incredible flux and tension, Mello’s debut collection of poetry, More Salt than Diamond, speaks to her struggles while also addressing the larger cultural issues on an inclusive and global scale.Lyrical, moving, deeply emotional, and sometimes painful to read, Mello uses exquisitely sharp yet widely accessible language to crack open a life in multitudes. She shines a rare light on what it means to be a Brazilian immigrant in diaspora, stretched thin between borders and fraught family tension yet belonging nowhere. Aline is poised to not only change the face of Latinx poetry in years to come but to redefine the power of undocumented creators and artists.  Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0512, Διαστάσεις: 14.7x14.7cm

A sister volume to the poetry collection She is Fierce this is a stunning gift book featuring 130 poems written by women. With poems from classic, well loved poets as well as innovative and bold modern voices, She Will Soar is a stunning collection and an essential addition to any bookshelf.From the ancient world right up to the present day, it includes poems on wanderlust, travel, daydreams, flights of fancy, escaping into books, tranquillity, courage, hope and resilience. From frustrated housewives to passionate activists, from servants and suffragettes to some of today’s most gifted writers, here is a bold choir of voices demanding independence and celebrating their hard-won power.Compiled by Ana Sampson, immerse yourself in poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Christina Rossetti, Stevie Smith, Sarah Crossan, Emily Dickinson, Salena Godden, Mary Jean Chan, Charly Cox, Nikita Gill, Fiona Benson, Hollie McNish and Grace Nichols to name but a few. Σελίδες: 304, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0726, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Some of the poets included in this anthology: Theocritus, Edmund Spenser, Edward Lear, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Philip Larkin, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Rossetti, Shelley and Kipling... Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 11.5x11.5cm

Shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2021. Winner of the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (February 2020). A Telegraph Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. The Air Year is a time of flight, transition and suspension: signatures scribbled on the sky. Bird\'s speakers exist in a state of unrest, trapped in a liminal place between take-off and landing, undeniably lost. Love is uncontrollable, joy comes and goes at hurricane speed. They walk to the cliff edge, close their eyes and step out into the air. Caroline Bird has five previous collections published by Carcanet. Her fifth collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. Σελίδες: 64, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Recommendation. In Discipline, her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn\'t and is, as performance, as struggle, as change, as art, with penetrating wit, channeling the voices of outsiders, artists, misfits, and others. Discipline inhabits the space between the real and the surreal, a mash-up of deadpan humour and heartbreaking imagery where novelty T-shirts and lady astronaut centaurs can coexist. The poems are triggered by videos, paintings and installations by contemporary artists, animals and city life. They bristle with striking details and observations. Imaginary landscapes converge with episodes from recent history: power, resistance and the structures of oppression are seen inexorably in operation. These miniature dramas perform their own autopsies: `Sweet, then sour. My lips the colour of Doubt\'. Σελίδες: 64, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

A Kingdom of Love is a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world from poet and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann. Σελίδες: 72, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

Finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2020. Winner of an English PEN Award. Beyond the Barbed Wire is a selection of work by Morocco\'s greatest living poet. Abdellatif Laabi\'s poetry and literary activism has inspired a generation of writers and thinkers, and it resulted in his decade-long imprisonment. This volume gives a career-spanning overview of Laabi\'s poetry, from the late 1960s to the 2010s. It includes a generous selection of the prison-writings of the 1970s, poems that speak from \'beyond the borders of what is human\', as the poet writes, a hinterland of physical and emotional torture, in which hunger strikes are \'the only weapon we\'ve left\'. Among these is a poem addressed to the poet\'s cell, which is \'right here / inside me / like a second body\', and another written piecemeal to friends on the outside and later reassembled. Beyond the Barbed Wire pays testament to the human need to speak in the face of censorship, that \'epic of silence\'. These poems, Laabi\'s \'bitter fruits of the murderous twilight\', renew the possibility of a poetry that is genuinely urgent, necessary: a poetry of anger, anguish, love, wit, and hope, touched by a philosopher\'s vision and perspicuity. The book includes an interview with the poet in which he discusses his practice, his views on education, his beliefs about a poet\'s duty, the influence of his parents, and his optimism. With Laabi\'s renewed prominence in the Moroccan intellectual scene following the Arab Spring, and with a new generation of artists and activists looking to him as a source of inspiration, this book shows why Laabi is more than Morocco\'s leading poet, but also a guiding cultural and political force. Σελίδες: 224

The definitive translation of the world\'s oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, predates Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh\'s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind\'s eternal struggle with the fear of death. This new edition of Andrew George\'s translation has been extensively revised to include recently discovered fragments and new sources. Translated and revised with an introduction by Andrew George\'Our first recognisable epic poem. What is exhilarating, the more we learn of it, is how directly it speaks to us\' Literary Review Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols\'s poems preach disquiet\' OBSERVER\'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean\' GWENDOLYN BROOKS\'Grace Nichols has wit, acidity, tenderness, any number of gifts at her disposal\' JEANETTE WINTERSONCelebrating five decades of the feminist publisher, each of the Five Gold Reads represents an iconic moment in Virago\'s history, from the 1970s to today.A stunning collection of poems from Grace Nicholas, winner of the Queen\'s Gold Medal for Poetry 2021 Nichols gives us images that stare us straight in the eye, images of joy, challenge, accusation. Her \'fat black woman\' is brash; rejoices in herself; poses awkward questions to politicians, rulers, suitors. In other sequences of this collection, Grace Nichols writes in a language that is wonderfully vivid yet economical of the pleasures and sadnesses of memory, of loving, of \'the power to be what I am, a woman, charting my own futures\'. Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0613, Διαστάσεις: 12.2x12.2cm

Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly\'s first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds. Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the imagination to find ways round and ways through. `The idea of fluency interests me - and whether we can ever claim fluency in any language.\' Her mother speaking Danish - which she cannot herself understand - is familiar and yet alienating: how Danish can she herself be when she cannot hear her mother\'s tongue with understanding? Her own attempts with British Sign Language are another challenge, a form of translation of sense in the absence of sound. `I have to work hard to listen and this requires me to place you to my right side, to watch your lips, to watch your hands, to watch your gestures. How ca form not matter?\' The poems touch on these themes in various ways, not least in what they do with form. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O\'Hara. Zohar Atkins\'s poems offer humour and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigmatic, mystical theophany. The division between secular and religious is blurred, the two coexist in a generous exchange. The Bible is near at hand but rendered unfamiliar in the combination of anachronism with classical allusion. The poems produce jarring, contemporary Midrashim - interpretative retellings of canonical tales. Cain and Abel appear as business executives, Ishmael is a Palestinian dying in an Israeli hospital, Rachel and Leah are the projected identities of a demented Jacob, and God is a perfectionist who procrastinates by binge-watching TV. These poems are for intellectuals disenchanted with intellectualism and for seekers and sensualists in search of a renewing approach to language. Scholar and rabbi, Atkins has learned that poetry and not erudition offers a securer saving power. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019. Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible. She has created in this unprogrammatic series, mixing memory, history, daily life, all her intersecting geographies and cultures, a self-portrait in all her moods, anxieties and delights. The sonnet form is stretched in all sorts of fruitful directions. Just as she adapted the ghazal form to English use, here she puts the Petrarchan sonnet to striking, unfamiliar use, widening the possibilities of the form. The poems are rich with Khalvati\'s personal history, her Iranian origins, her long years in Great Britain. The poems play between cultures, ancestral and acquired. Σελίδες: 72, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

Shortlisted for the 2019 East Anglian Book (Poetry) Award. In Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. From a woman struck by lightning to a baby who understands shadows, Goss navigates the real and the imagined with equal flair. At the heart of the collection is a distinctive, sensual series of poems responding to the work of the artist Alison Watt: the result is a fearless exploration of the female body and female desire. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

This sixth collection by one of Carcanet\'s most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

Wales Book of the Year 2018. Winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. The opening poem sequence, \'Diary of the Last Man\', sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick\'s book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an elegy, a caution. His Wales is a touchstone; other landscapes and cityscapes are tried against it, with its erratic weather, its sudden changes of mood, \'a black tonic\'. The sequence remembers all the geographies of his earlier work, old and new world, but now unpeopled and the lonely spirit free to go anywhere, do anything, but meaning with mankind has drained away. Yet still alive, and still with language, registering. The rest of the book is filled with voices: of children, of rivers, terrorists, magicians; and voices translated from the Welsh, and from Turkish and Arabic, shared, enriching with their difference, their other worlds. History washes over and washes up on the strand of this Welsh book. It is seen and recognised, it begins to be transformed. In the long concluding poem, \'The Sand Orchestra\', the poet returns to his own voice, and to the voice of a Bechstein piano abandoned in the open air, played now by nature, its winds and sand. The last man, who has been looking for Ulysses, is the very man he has been looking for. Σελίδες: 88, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

There are all types of bodies.If you\'re lucky you\'ll find someone whose skinis a canvas for the story of your life.Write well. Take care of the heartbeat behind it. Billy Letford\'s Dirt revels in the fallow, the tainted, the off , and the unloved. The poems embrace a good life stitched together with bad circumstances, bungled chances, missed callings. Whether loitering on the street corner, \'poackets ful eh ma fingers\', or stumbling from a bar \'like a monkey in the jungle of traffic, stinking, wild and free\', the characters in Letford\'s poems deliver one thing in spades: heart. \'On Friday I visit my seventy-seven-year-old granny. She\'s smoking a joint. It\'s not a surprise.\' Letford\'s words are lightly worn yet carefully measured; they move between English and Scots, lyrical and concrete, accumulating what the poet has described as an array of textures. Resisting modernity\'s unearthly glare, it is a life with grain, with grit, \'rotten with wonder\', that Letford seeks. The poems dig for a grace within dirt\'s humble endurance. \'There\'s dignity there. Lay yourself open.\' Σελίδες: 72

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) now takes a place among the English poets. His range is wide, including the First World War, in which he served as an infantry private, the passionate celebration of his native Gloucestershire, and fears of the mental imbalance which led to his eventual confinement in a mental hospital. Out of these experiences, he made a poetry unique, vigorous, musical, and direct. This selection of over 150 of his poems, was made by the poet P.J. Kavanagh from his edition of the \"Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney\". It is reissued now, with a few corrected readings, and with a Chronology and Introduction to Gurney\'s life, by P.J. Kavanagh. Σελίδες: 149

The January-February 2023 issue Horatio Morpurgo revisits Bertrand Russell and Jurassic Marble Lesley Harrison and the whalers\' diaries, how a language and culture survive Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Islands Basil Bunting\'s Letters from two perspectives: Don Share and August Kleinzahler Craig Raine being and not being Whitman Anthony Huen on the Hong Kong Moment New to PN Review this issue: Kate Hendry, Petra White, Diane Mehta and Philip Armstrong and more... Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 21x21cm

This work is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. \"Forms of Distance\" is Bei Dao\'s second bilingual collection since his enforced exile from China in 1989. Michael Hofmann described the first, \"Old Snow\", as \'the work of one of the great poets of our time\', and John Cayley wrote in the \"Times Literary Supplement\" that \'in a sense he is the only contemporary Chinese poet who is knowable for the non-specialist...we can hear the maturing poetic voice of a highly talented, individual Chinese writer.\' Σελίδες: 96

The July-August 2022 issue. Major autobiographical essay by Alberto Manguel. Fleur Adcock writes an elegy for her long-time editor. James Campbell takes us on a tour of the TLS and his celebrated NB page. Vahni Capildeo visits Charles Causley\'s world. Tony Roberts evokes the original Iowa Writers\' Workshop and its personalities. Richard Gwyn takes us into the Dark Woods of Latin America. New to PN Review this issue: Hsien Min Toh, Catherine Esther-Cowie, Dominic Leonard and Kit Fan. And more... Σελίδες: 64, Διαστάσεις: 21x21cm

When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy\'s citation singled out \"The Axion Esti\", first published in 1959, as \'one of twentieth-century literature\'s most concentrated and richly faceted poems.\' It can be seen both as a secular oratorio, reflecting the Greek heritage and the country\'s revolutionary spirit, and also as a kind of autobiography, in which the spiritual roots of the poet\'s very individual sensibility are set in the wider philosophical context of the Greek tradition. In his evocation of eternal Greece, his vision of the war and its aftermath, and his concluding celebration of human life, Elytis is a true voice of our age A- a deeply personal lyric poet who speaks for humanity at large. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 15.6x15.6cm

Shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award. In Farm by the Shore, Thomas A Clark continues his investigations into the landscape and culture of the Scottish highlands and islands. His brief notations and fragments embody the precarious balance between sea and land, wilderness and civilisation, while everything is played out in a context of weather. The spaces between the poems, which both link and divide them, are shades of quiet, indications of time or distance, or graphs of the vagaries of attention. In such a climate, to farm, or walk, or write, is to persist. You come to one thing and then another. Σελίδες: 104, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm