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Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Paperback. A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, the author published versions of his notorious "Fable of the Bees" from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem "The Angry Hive, 1705". Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
Later Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140445411
ISBN
9780140445411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.79

Paperback. An anthology showcasing the generation of Latvian poets who started writing and publishing after the country gained independence following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. All six have been shortlisted for or received the top Latvian literary prizes yet have retained their ability to surprise and refusal to pander to any convention. Editor(s): Lesinska, Ieva. Series: New Voices from Europe. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AJB; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Arc Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906570392
ISBN
9781906570392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.16

Paperback. A selection of the earliest poems in English comprising works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. This work contains natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles that are witty linguistic puzzles. Love elegies include emotional speeches from an abandoned wife and separated lovers. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140433784
ISBN
9780140433784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.76

paperback. For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive reflections on it. A scholar of poetry and a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Lent. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5HE; DCQ; HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Canterbury Press Norwich
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848256781
ISBN
9781848256781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.96

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904634119
ISBN
9781904634119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.38

Paperback. Modern Poetry in Translation is one of the UK's most innovative and prestigious poetry magazines, founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort. Editor(s): Dugdale, Sasha; Constantine, David; Constantine, Helen. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780372648
ISBN
9781780372648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. Whether you're a backpacker from Idaho on your first visit, or a cultural swallow on an annual migration to Paris, this book helps you intoxicate and inspire, goad and guide. It delights in the company of such swashbuckling gallows-fodder as Francois Villon, and chuckles at the audacity of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, the perpetual rebels. Series: Poetry of Place. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 106.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906011314
ISBN
9781906011314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.35

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Merlin Unwin Books
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906122522
ISBN
9781906122522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.53

Paperback. Even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Many established writers and exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the vitality of the spoken word on the page. These traditions are represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140424607
ISBN
9780140424607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.43

Paperback. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a Douglas Dunn's anthology of poetry. Editor(s): Dunn, Douglas. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 36. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571228386
ISBN
9780571228386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.07

Paperback. Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This title reflects the diverse experience of those who lived through the war - bringing together the words of poets, soldiers and civilians affected by the conflict. Editor(s): Walter, Matthew George. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141181905
ISBN
9780141181905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Offers a collection of poems and songs from the eighteenth century. This title includes a selection from the work of Allan Ramsay and Robert Ferguson (Burns' 'elder brother in the muse'), as well as a wider selection from the men and women writers whose good-humoured accessibility so characterised the poetry of their time. Editor(s): MacLachlan, Christopher. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841952536
ISBN
9781841952536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 14.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Herbert, W. N. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 307 x 16. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Smokestack Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993454752
ISBN
9780993454752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. An anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and includes a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Editor(s): Joris, Pierre; Tengour, Habib. Num Pages: 792 pages, 22 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1044. The University of California Book of North African Literature. 792 pages. Editor(s): Joris, Pierre; Tengour, Habib. An anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and includes a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCQ. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 34. Weight: 1044.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
792
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273856
ISBN
9780520273856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.41

Paperback. A new edition of Jon Stallworthy's acclaimed anthology marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Complete with a revised introduction and 42 new poems, the volume offers diverse account of war poetry from Homer's The Iliad to poems written about the wars of the twenty-first century. Editor(s): Stallworthy, Jon. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198704485
ISBN
9780198704485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.95

Paperback. Features patriotic works from word-smiths such as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. Series: Poetry of Place. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 108 x 8. Weight in Grams: 78. Series: Poetry of Place. 150 pages. Features patriotic works from word-smiths such as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCQ. Dimension: 153 x 108 x 8. Weight: 78.
Publisher
Eland Books
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906011215
ISBN
9781906011215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.35

Paperback. Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. In this personal anthology, the author has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571321100
ISBN
9780571321100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.16

Paperback. An anthology of poems celebrating Venice from well-known poets such as Byron, Shelley, Wilde, and Pound. Editor(s): Hughes, Hetty. Series: Poetry of Place. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 100 x 9. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Eland Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907871682
ISBN
9780907871682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.99
€ 7.59

Hardcover. Features many kinds of equine characters from war horses to cowboys' trusty steeds, from broken-down nags to playful colts, from wild horses to dream horses. This book also features the famous Trojan horse in Virgil's "Aeneid", only to see it from a quite different perspective in Matthea Harvey's whimsical "Inside the Good Idea". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 110 x 18. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841597843
ISBN
9781841597843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. Home Front presents full-length collections by Bryony Doran and Isabel Palmer, both mothers of young British soldiers serving in Afghanistan; and two American poets, Jehanne Dubrow, wife of a serving US naval officer deployed to the Persian Gulf and other conflict zones, and Elyse Fenton, wife of a US army medic posted to Iraq. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373263
ISBN
9781780373263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.72

Paperback. POETRY / LITERATURE, CRITICISM, MEMOIRS, LETTERS Editor(s): Kelley, David; Khalfa, Jean. Num Pages: 320 pages, ports. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852242602
ISBN
9781852242602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 15.23

Paperback. This collection of up to 50 poems translated from the original Tamil, comes with an afterword that will provide readers with the historical and political context of Sri Lanka's war, while also mapping literary developments during that period. Translator(s): Holmstrom, Lakshmi; Ebeling, Sascha. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138. .
Publisher
Arc Publications United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904614999
ISBN
9781904614999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.13

Paperback. Translations of the three great Japanese haiku masters, Basho, Buson and Issa, each selection featuring an introduction, around 100 haiku, and other poetry or prose by the poet, plus a superb essay on the art of haiku. Editor(s): Hass, Robert. Translator(s): Hass, Robert. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First UK edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249724
ISBN
9781852249724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.53

Hardcover. Virgil (70 19 BCE) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His "Eclogues" deal with bucolic life and love, his "Georgics" with tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. His "Aeneid" is an epic on the theme of Rome s origins. Poems of the "Appendix Vergiliana" are traditionally, but in most cases probably wrongly, attributed to Virgil. Editor(s): Fairclough, H.R. Translator(s): Fairclough, H.R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 606 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 119 x 31. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Loeb
Number of pages
606
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674995833
ISBN
9780674995833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.65

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