Poetry
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The Aeneid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£35.99| /Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down on the English p...
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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 Bad Wife
University of Alberta Press (CA)£15.99| /Micheline Maylor's The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should hav...
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The Bearded Bride
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /An edition, with stanza-by-stanza commentary and translation, of the late-medieval Icelandic rímur cycle Þrymlur, which is based on the story of th...
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The Beauty of It
Goose Lane Editions£3.99| /The Beauty of It is a collection of fifty-four poems written by a passionate professor and angler for Tuesday night gatherings at UNB.
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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 Black Horse and Other Stories
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Twelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets are collected here. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye ...
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The Book of Her Life
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /The Hackett edition of Teresa of Avila's spiritual autobiography features Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez's authoritative translation of The ...
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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 Burden of Gravity
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /"In this haunting and disarming debut, McConnell recalls a dark time in BCs history to give poetic voice to the many forgotten residents of the in...
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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten...
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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten...
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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 Conception of Winter
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /Powerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, an...
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The Conch Trumpet
Otago University Press (NZ)£11.50| /Calling to the scattered tribes of contemporary New Zealand, The Conch Trumpet sounds the signal to listen close, critically, and "in alert reverie...
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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 Dirty Knees of Prayer
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /These poems are hot and dark as night rain. The new Honeywell fan blows whips of simmered air against Shay's glistening back. He suspects a dystopi...
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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 Epic of The Cid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /The Epic of the Cid records the deeds of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the Cid of history and legend. A powerful warrior in the Christian reconquest of me...
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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 Essential Homer
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.