WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DIRECTOR JANE CAMPIONJohn Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 25. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection - centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death and resurrection - encountering pathologists'...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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In his first two collections - Soft Keys and Raising Sparks - Michael Symmons Roberts established himself as a lyric and dramatic poet with metaphysical concerns.In this new collection, those concerns are as strong as ever, but rooted in a specific place and time. These...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets.The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-09-27
Collection : Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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Dammtor is the old city gate and now the centre of ground transport for the great port of Hamburg. In James Sheard's second collection it is a 'station for midnights, hitched up on stone legs, hollow with sunken light' - a hub for the damaged and deracinated. These...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-02

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For the past four decades, Robert Bringhurst has been writing some of the most powerful poetry in English. Distinguished by engaged and passionate curiosity, a wide-ranging intelligence and true originality, his poetry has sometimes been mistaken as austere and opaque....

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-09-02

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After his first collection - SOFT KEYS - Michael Symmons Roberts was hailed by Les Murray as 'a poet for the new, chastened, unenforcing age of faith that has just dawned'. The metaphysical concerns of that first book are central to this new collection, written in a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-03

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James Lasdun's third book of poems explores the themes and tensions of his last two with a new boldness and exuberance, in a series of poems about life in the Catskill mountains outside Woodstock, where the author moved with his family some years ago. Questions of exile...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-03

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Subversive and satirical, inventive, wry and unconventional, John Hartley Williams has long been celebrated for his maverick sensibility, for his outsider's take on the way we live our lives. In Blues, his eighth collection, he focuses with new directness on the turmoil...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-08-03

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Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections - 'Blood', 'Tin', ' 'Straw', ' 'Fire' and 'Light' - each made up of fourteen poems whose dominant imagery is drawn from one of these elements. The poems are rooted in different moments of an ordinary life and weave...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-07-31

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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-07-22

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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much ofW.B. Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great poet is inspired and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-07-22

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The poems in this remarkable first collection have been hard won: 'Fruits of much grief they are,' as Donne said, 'emblems of more.' Having lost ten years to heroin addiction and recovery, Sam Willetts emerges now - suddenly, and apparently from nowhere - as a...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-07-06

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From the posing of the very first question in the opening poem, 'Fragment of a Victorian Dialogue', John Fuller's enquiring and elegiac new collection arrives with a sharp sense of mortality, marked by the passing of time. Pebble & I responds to its own philosophical...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-07-06

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The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts's fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. As ever, this is a metaphysical poetry rooted in physical detail - but the bodies here are displaced, disguised, in need of rescue. A...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-06-30

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John Fuller is one of the most accomplished, prolific and popular of contemporary poets. His Collected Poems brings together most of his poems, from his first collection, Fairground Music (1961) to Stones and Fires (winner of the 1996 Forward Poetry Prize), and enables...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-06-30

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Like the possible phantoms that stalk the dark passageways of its title poem, John Fuller's beautifully lucid collection explores the grey area between life and death. Full of self-deprecating wit and subtle insight, the poems contemplate the inevitability that, when...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-06-30

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When Corpus won the Whitbread Poetry Award, the judges described it as 'an outstanding, perfectly weighted collection that inspires meditation on the nature of the soul...reading it feels like making an exciting discovery and coming back to an acknowledged classic all...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-06-30

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The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' This is a book about how poetry, seen through the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-06-24

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The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' This is a book about how poetry, seen through the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-06-24

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