Poetry By Individual Poets
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The Convent Mermaid
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /Rod Usher's third collection, Convent Mermaid, is full of wit and sadness, love and loss. Many of the poems spring from his long experience as a jo...
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The Divining Rod
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /An earthy second collection from Andrew Hubbard, whose work divines the poetic from things ordinary, recalling the lyrical mastery of Frost. His wo...
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The Drunken, Lovely Bird
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Winner, American Independent Publishers Poetry PrizeSue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of "Canadian women's" p...
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The Dying Meteorologist
DC Books (CA)£14.99| /In Acting My Age, the opening section of the collection, the poet Steve Luxton navigates retirement. With unflagging wit, he suspects he is viewed,...
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The Essential Aeneid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in...
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The Essential Aeneid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£27.99| /Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in...
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The Face of the Other
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /An evocative and thought-provoking collection of poetry that reveals more to the reader with each reread. Clara Joseph covers a wide range of theme...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Five
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustic...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Five
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustic...
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The Faerie Queene, Book One
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of Spenser's The Faerie Queene consists of a chivalr...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser ...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Book Six and the incomplete Book Seven of The Faerie Queene are the last sections of the unfinished poem to have been published. They show Spenser ...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Que...
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The Faerie Queene, Book Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£35.99| /From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Que...
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The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /These paired Arthurian legends suggest that erotic desire and the desire for companionship undergird national politics. The maiden Britomart, Queen...
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The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£60.99| /The Faerie Queene from Hackett Publishing Company: Spenser's great work in five volumes. Each includes its own Introduction, annotation, notes on t...
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The Farewell Tourist
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.00| /Pushing against the boundaries of what poetry might be, Alison Glennys The Farewell Tourist is haunting, many-layered and slightly surreal. In The...
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The Glassblowers
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, th...
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The Gleaming Clouds
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /Alfredson has many moods, many dictions, many themes. He at once glories in and laments the ephemeral, the only lasting quality in his world. This ...
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The Gun that Starts the Race
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The Gun That Starts the Race, alternately like a David Lynch film or an episode of The Simpsons, finds the uncanny in the everyday, surprise you, m...
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The Homeric Hymns
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /This is a collection of the standard texts of ancient Greek which are important components of what we know about Greek myth, religion, language and...
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The House is Still Standing
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The house is still standing is peopled with charlatans, gingerbread men, children, and savants -- the thousands and the particular. Adrienne Bartle...
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The Iliad
Paul Dry Books (US)£22.99| /Homer's epic about the horrors and heroism of the final year of the Trojan War is one of Western literature's most enduring and moving tales. Joe S...
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The Joy of a Ming Vase
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /As American critic Tom Disch quipped of many vintage poets: 'friends and pets die, the garden takes on a new significance.' There are poems in this...
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The Last Temptation of Bond
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilar...
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The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£15.99| /"Give me back my sword! screams the Angel of Death at the renowned Jewish sage Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi of Zippori as they battle high above the gat...
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The Life & Death of Peter Stubbe
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /Startlingly original poetry in which the human monster roams from past to present and back again, wreaking his havoc. "Glass interlaces bizarre, ar...
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The M Poems
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Sparse and elegant poems by the author of Songs and Dances. A subtle rhythmic sense and distaste for redundancies characterize this volume, which w...
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The Melancholy of Yorrick
Birch Brook Press (US)£12.99| /Poetry in a classical mode on the pain of lost youth, love, life...
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The Moon in a Bowl of Water
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.99| /Bound together by myth and music, Michael Harlows The Moon in a Bowl of Water is a stunning new collection from a poet in complete control of his ...
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The Mountain Road
Goose Lane Editions£4.99| /An early collection from the founder of Canadian Literature containing poems divided into four collections, excluding the preface and epilogue poem...
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The Nibelungenlied
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nib...
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The Occupied World
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /In ancient Roman times rituals were performed to sanctify the ground on which new cities were founded. With this invocation, space could then be oc...
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The Postcult Heart
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /On the eve of her wedding, a mother hands her daughter an unpublished manuscript -- a collection of love poems -- written by the famous poet and ma...
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The Radio Room
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /In The Radio Room, Poet Laureate Cilla McQueen travels space and time, throwing 'thought-lines' from her present-day corner of the world to the anc...
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The Response of Weeds
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /Bertrand Bickersteths debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographica...
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The Rudiments of Poetry
Sagging Meniscus Press£22.99| /In reading this vast new collection by the prolific Iván Argüelles, written in ten months straddling 2017 and 2018, we participate in a universal m...
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The Sacking of the Muses
Spinifex Press£14.95| /Muses have been sacked' their role in the pantheon, sold up for some new, real estate venture. When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Mu...
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The Screaming Middle
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /This is a memoir of a woman turning 50 who forgot to have a party. It takes you on road trips, into psych wards, into the chambers of marriage and ...
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The Small Way
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /What strange gravity draws two people together? What pulls them apart? In The Small Way, a woman re-evaluates herself and her marriage as she comes...
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The Snow in Us
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /In 1984, David Reiter began a journey of discovery well above the Arctic Circle. Rather than an expedition requiring physical strength and enduranc...
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The Snowbird Poems
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /It's a matter of knowing winter. Snowbird travels south, seeks warmth, and begins waiting. Robert Kroetsch's new collection, The Snowbird Poems, is...
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The Song of Roland
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Swift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John...
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The Song of Roland
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Swift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John...
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The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow
Dekel Publishing House£9.99| /The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow is not a conventional book about the holocaust. It does not describe the atrocities of WW2, especially towards the Jewis...
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The Sun, the Wind, the Summer Field
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /The Sun the Wind the Summer Field shows the wit, intellect, and skill with words and rhyme for which Alfred G. Bailey is famous. This collection ga...
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The Theories of Fish
Goose Lane Editions£3.99| /An early collection from a widely published poet featuring sometimes ironic poems on subjects ranging from haunted houses to lycanthropy to a tongu...
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The White Clock
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Delving both into 'the worlds of the mind' and 'where he happens to be', Owen Marshall brings us poetry that is steeped in the Classics, history an...
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