Collection of love poems by celebrated American author. Garrison Keillor reads (or sings) all the poems in the book on two free CDs inside, with music by Rich Dworsky.
Presents poems about home, exile and shifting frontiers. This work includes a selection from the author's collections, "A Grip on Thin Air" and "Icarus on Earth". It celebrates the... Læs mere
A portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. It emerges through a series of short poems, often related to animals: how she is preyed upon and betrayed, misunderstood, compromised and not allowed to be herself.
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
The title-poem of George Szirtes' "The Burning of the Books and Other Poems" is the core of this collection of narrative sequences by a writer who came to Britain... Læs mere
An Cailleach Bhearra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland. Recognising the Cailleach as a... Læs mere
Brings together four poem sequences about motherhood. This book explores love and having a mother. It shows the impact of Asperger's syndrome on both mother and child.
One of Russia's leading poets, Tatiana Voltskaia is also a distinguished journalist and essayist. She belongs to the generation who began to write poetry seriously during... Læs mere
Includes selections from Allnutt's books "Spitting the Pips Out" (1981), "Beginning the Avocado" (1987), "Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and the Angel" (1997), as well as the whole of "Lintel" (2001), "Sojourner" (2004), and a collection of new poems, "Wolflight" (2007).
Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the... Læs mere
Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human.