Poetry
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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 House That Stands
Anchorage Press£15.99| /An impressionistic long poem in twenty-two parts by Stefan Rose about residence life through a reimagining of the 60-history of the Trueman House r...
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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 Lays of Marie de France
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...
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The Lays of Marie de France
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /This edition includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of The Lays of Marie de France ; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lay...
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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 Lifers
Otago University Press£14.00| /Get in! Hurry the fuck up! Go! Go! Go! From Sean Macgregors lounge occupied by stoned youths, to three bank robbers en route to the Penrose ANZ, M...
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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 Measure of Paris
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself const...
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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 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)£42.99| /So speaks one of the many distinctive voices in this new anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been transla...
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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 Outlines of Our Warm Bodies
Goose Lane Editions£7.99| /Pat Jasper collects memories, peels off their labels, gives them a good wash, and transforms them into insights. She focuses on the "small close sp...
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The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In this sensuously defiant collection of new poems, the winner of the 2004 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal expands and deepens a poetic ruse. In hi...
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The Poetic Edda
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc£17.99| /"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be prai...
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The Poetic Edda
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be prai...
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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 Power of Women
Interactive Publications£19.99| /While women account for 50% of the population they only occupy around 0.5% of recorded history. When pre-history turned into history, and, as new c...
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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 Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£22.00| /In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspect...
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The Royal Collector of Dreams
Fiddlehead Poetry Books£3.99| /From the eponymous first poem set in the world of dreams to the pain of growing up and the people who inhabit the author's life, Gail Fox offers of...
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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 Scare in the Crow
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /As Tammy Armstrong rode horseback on a one-month sojourn in Iceland, up rose the ley lines that crosshatched the landscape -- ancient tracks rife w...
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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 Sets
Otago University Press£14.00| /The Sets returns again and again to the ever-present sea as a metaphor, a mirror, a compan-ion and an otherworld that contains our dreams and nig...
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The Sicknesses of Hats
Goose Lane Editions£5.99| /The Sickness of Hats is an early collection by a member of the writing ensemble Pain Not Bread.
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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 Stars Like Sand
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /Following on from the highly acclaimed Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, this anthology extends the focus to Speculative content a...
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The STU Reader
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /St. Thomas University has nurtured exemplary people for a century -- from its first alighting in Newcastle to its current perch on a Fredericton hi...
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The Stunted Strong
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /The Stunted Strong is a new edition of the first book published by Fiddlehead Poetry Books, the company that became Goose Lane Editions. Fred Cogsw...
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The Summer King
Otago University Press (NZ)£13.50| /The Summer King tells stories, exploring the world we inhabit and our relationships with the other. Myth, catastrophe, family, strangers, sex, spor...
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The Sun In Winter
Fiddlehead Poetry Books£4.99| /A substantial collection from a talented young poet.
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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 Sweet Fuels
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /With a supple, meditative approach, Erin Knight explores the complexity of beauty in this first collection by an astonishing new talent. The Sweet ...
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