Poetry By Individual Poets
Subjects
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Surrender
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.99| /"As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong. Written out o...
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Sweet Water
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This book gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary ...
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Sybil
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both ...
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Syzygy
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Louise Bak's third collection of poetry continues to reinvent the English language as a sharp and challenging post-modern argot that combines termi...
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Taking My Mother to the Opera
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From careful...
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Tar Swan
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /An allegorical reckoning of the physical and psychic wounds inflicted by the oil sands.
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Temporary Shelter
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /In Temporary Shelter, Travis Lane demonstrates that she is one of Canada's finest and most rigorous poets. Yet, she writes with a subtle, sometimes...
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Tender Machines
Otago University Press (NZ)£11.50| /In this follow-up collection to the award-winning The Truth Garden, Emma Neale asks where exactly do the personal and the political drop hands? In ...
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That Light Feeling Under Your Feet
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers.
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The Architect of Love
Kopernik Inc£20.99| /True spiritual Masters are like rivers, each with their own uniquely pure, sweet water, nourished by the highest peaks. Although one may see them f...
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the bentleys
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel...
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The Brightest Thing
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In her first full-length collection, award-winning poet Ruth Daniell offers work that is both earnest and hopeful, even in the face of trauma. In f...
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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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