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It has been over a decade since Henry Shukman published his award-winning first collection, In Doctor No’s Garden. Now, in his greatly anticipated second collection, he explores a little-known piece of Jewish history, in a sequence of poems that forms the centre-piece...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-03-07
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Multi-millionaires are not supposed to write poetry. It offends against natural justice. But following a life-threatening illness, Felix Dennis, the man behind the magazine publishing powerhouse responsible for The Week and Maxim found himself scribbling lines in the...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2013-01-31
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The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, 'Jabberwocky'. This...
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Penguin
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2012-09-06
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Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance. The book situates these writings and this writer within the patronage networks and political...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-06-14
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The second collection of original verse by the maverick multimillionaire publisher Felix Dennis.Praise for Felix Dennis's first volume of poetry, A Glass Half Full:'The unpredictable Felix Dennis bursts forth as a 21st-century Kipling' Tom Wolfe'If Waugh were still...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2012-05-31
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Critic, essayist, educator and poet, author of The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach, The Forsaken Merman and other popular poems.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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A selection of poems by George Crabbe, edited by Stephen Derry
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Both major novelist and major poet, with a distinctive off-beat and intensely personal style, Hardy is a modern writer born out of his time.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Chief satirist of the Augustan age, as seen in The rape of the Lock, Pope spoke out against society and his profession, in poetry of bitter invective and biting humour.
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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A selection of Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry, edited by Martin Dodsworth
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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Skelton is probably the greatest unknown poet of English literature. The outspoken tutor of the future Henry VIII,Skelton was an idiosyncratic genius whose poetry defies rules and boundaries....
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-04-26
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From the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, 'The Nation's Favourite Love Poems' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age...
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Bbc Digital
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2012-04-24
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The Grey AmongThe Green is John Fuller's eleventh collection, and his first since Selected Poems 1954-1982. Generally acknowledged to be the most accomplished and influential poet of his generation, John Fuller is always brilliantly in command of a dazzling diversity of...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-03-31
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Paul Durcan's twenty-second collection finds Monsieur le Poète on the road in Paris, New York City, Chicago, Brisbane, and Achill Island, meditating upon the sanctuary of home and what it means to feel truly at home. Regarded by many as the great poet of contemporary...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-03-29
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The long poem at the centre of John Hartley Williams' new collection is a dramatic monologue narrated by a laconic, possibly lamed, forest dweller, a lowly crewmember on a barge travelling an unnamed waterway. Some of his remarks are addressed to his talisman, the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-01-31
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With the publication of his first book, HOUSEHOLDER, Gerard Woodward emerged as one of the most talented and unusual new poets of the 1990s. In his forthcoming collection AFTER THE DEAFENING, Woodward's powerful imagination, and the details of everyday life take on an...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-01-31
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A breakthrough book of poetry by one of the most exciting young poets in Britain. Dealing with issues of childhood, betrayal and domestic and sexual violence, SWIMMING IN THE FLOOD is Burnside's darkest and most powerful collection yet.
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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From memories of childhood and personal loss to the quiet celebration of a lover's navigational skills, from meditations on nature and sexuality to the fantasy world of aquarium fish, the poems in A NORMAL SKIN cover a wide range: lyrical in tone, and highly visual,...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-11-30
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Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy -...
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Penguin
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2011-10-27
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For most of us Christmas is the season of huge helpings of good food, good drink, and with luck, good cheer, as the rituals of cracker-pulling, present-giving and happy or sulphurous family reunions fizzle and bang through the long afternoon.For anyone who has ever had...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-09-30
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