Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
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Selected Poems From Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Ibex Publishers (US)£24.99| /RUMI at the age of thirty-seven meets SHAMS TABRIZI (the sun of Tabriz) "a weird figure wrapped in coarse black felt, who flits across the stage fo...
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Shy
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /"We're not exactly scene-stealers, so you don't hear much from us shy folk-and that's usually how we like it." -Elizabeth Zotova, "My Dear X" The p...
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Soul of Poetry Redefined
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£32.99| /What is the soul of poetry? The most influential answer was probably given in Aristotle's Poetics, but even within that tradition which claimed the...
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Sound and Bundy
Interactive Press£20.00| /In 2006, the posthumously-published works of little known poet Jason Silver caused a minor sensation on the Adelaide literary scene. His surreal, i...
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Spaces in Between
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This is a retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right...
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Spinning the Secrets of State
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clari...
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Start to Figure
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. In this wide-ranging collection, Andrew DuBois rounds up some 200 reviews of contemporary Canadian poets (from Jordan ...
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Stitching Things Together
Interactive Press£19.99| /This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to ...
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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Spinifex Press£12.95| /To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£46.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Tao of Walt Whitman
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...
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The Accidental Cage
Interactive Press£18.99| /She is a hunter of women brown eyes dilated, I watch her gracefully pouring tea. She smells of the chase, her blood-smeared nails assault you in th...
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The Comedies of Machiavelli
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor...
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The Complete Poems and Major Prose
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and af...
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The Essential Odyssey
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£32.99| /This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episod...
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The Golden Ass
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, ...
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The Hornbooks of Rita K
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Whe...
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The Jew of Malta
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /This edition answers the needs of both beginning and advanced students: It features the text of Marlowe's play with modern spelling and punctuation...
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The Layered Heart
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£62.99| /This book has been published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed our pre-eminent translator from Persian by The Washington Po...
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The Meters of Greek and Latin Poetry
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1980. This reliable text presents a clear and simple outline of Greek and Latin meters in ...
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The Mirror Of My Heart
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£76.99| /This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart - the poems in Persian and English on facing pages - is a unique and captivating collection ...
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The Office Tower Tales
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstone...
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This Way the Road
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£13.99| /Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of a...
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Time of Unrememberable Being
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£32.99| /This study views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numino...
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Two Lips Went Shopping
Spinifex Press£11.95| /A new poetry collection by Canberra poet, Lizz Murphy. Share in Lizz Murphy's experiences on the shop floor, her frustrations with today's supermar...
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Ultra Soundings
Interactive Press£20.00| /Like travellers from fabled lands, voices come telling tales, sometimes shocking, sometimes familiar, sometimes magnetic, like echoes, like ultra s...
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Vancouver Walking
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /Journey along Vancouver's colourful city streets, past its landmarks, through the sounds and smells of Chinatown. Ramble along the seawall on Engli...
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Walt Whitman & the Persian Poets
Ibex Publishers (US)£100.00| /Where did Walt Whitman get his religious ideas? This book follows in detail the similarities of the religious beliefs of the American writer/humani...
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We Are Not Avatars
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. B...
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Were the Bees
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /This is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful ...
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Wild Strawberries
Presa Press (US)£15.99| /"Wild Strawberries" collects fifty-nine new poems previously published in three dozen plus literary journals such as Backwards City Review, The Cal...
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Wire Dancing
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and priv...
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Writing the Sacred
Northstone Publishing (CA)£19.99| /In this unique book, Ray McGinnis offers us a new, deeper, and more meaningful way to explore and understand the Psalms. Vividly connecting us with...
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