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Benjamin Britten’s Poets
$23.50Poetry affected Benjamin Britten’s musical ability and style of his composition. Friendships and collaborations with writers – Auden and Forster among them – left their mark. Arguably, no other composer…
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Bill Manhire
$25.95Containing select works from eight previous collections, this work covers the expanse of Bill Manhire’s distinguished career in poetry. Obsessed with barren landscapes, Manhire writes in twisting, threatening stanzas and…
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Donald Davie: Poems and Melodramas
$14.95Shortly before his death in 1995, Donald Davie sent his publisher the poem’Our Father’. This ten-part meditation broke a poetic silence which hadstretched from 1988, when with To Scorch or…
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Ends and Beginnings
$17.95Ends and Beginnings is Iain Crichton Smith’s most ambitious collection for years. It begins in elegy, with the exiles and deaths about which he writes so memorably, and progresses through…
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Enigmas and Arrivals
$18.95To mark ten years of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Alastair Niven, until recently Arts Council of England Literature Director and now Literature Director of the British Council, and Michael Schmidt…
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Passing Measures
$18.95Peter Riley is chiefly interested in making a poetry that is “available” rather than “accessible.” The poem offers the reader entry into an experience of the world mediated by the…
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Poets on Poets
$18.95To mark National Poetry, Day Nick Rennison, who compiled the Waterstone’s Guide to Poetry, and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work…
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The Hero and the Girl Next Door
$12.95The virtuosity and high spirits of Sophie Hannah’s poems are unusual at any time of day. She handles rhymed metrical forms with wily insouciance and passes the ‘memorability test’ with…
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True Paradise
$19.95Childhood in Ceylon is vividly portrayed in a sequence of stories and vignettes which evoke the exotic beauty of the author’s birthplace, the secretive pleasures of his boyhood there, and…
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Under Another Sky
$16.95Gathers poems by ten writers from Nigeria, Canada, Uganda, New Zealand, Trinidad, Jamaica, Australia, and India.
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Under Storm’s Wing
$19.95Helen Thomas married Edward Thomas (1878-1917) in 1899. In order to support his family, Edward became a prolific writer of essays, introductions, reviews, biographies, and studies of the English and…
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