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Studying Poetry
Bloomsbury Publishing 2011; US$ 19.49Studying Poetry is a fun, concise and helpful guide to understanding poetry which is divided into three parts, form and meaning, critical approaches and interpreting poetry, all of which help to illuminate the beauty and validity of poetry using a wide variety of examples, from Dylan Thomas to Bob Dylan. more...
FitzGeralds Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Anthem Press 2011; US$ 99.00For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGeralds Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) has been largely ignored by the academic establishment. This volume explores the reasons for both its popularity and neglect. more...
Beyond the Lyric
Random House 2012; US$ 22.66British poetry is enjoying a period of exceptional richness and variety. This is exciting but it's also confusing, and throws up the need for an enthusiastic guide that can explain and celebrate the many parallel poetry projects now underway. Beyond the Lyric does just that. This is a book of enthusiasms: an intelligent and witty map of... more...
The Harvill Book of 20th Century Poetry in English
Random House 2012; US$ 25.33Michael Schmidt's anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new. The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and... more...
Mental Fight
Ebury Publishing 2012; US$ 13.34This epic poem by Booker Prize winner Ben Okri is an intimate song of rage and restoration. It speaks to each new moment and each person, like sunlight or like pain. It is an anthem to our ascending dreams, and a hymn of inspiration. more...
John Donne
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94'Donne is perhaps the most intellectual of English poets, and John Carey is perhaps the most intelligent of contemporary English literary critics. The encounter, as one might expect, is fierce and enthralling... This book is sensitive, searching, powerful, exciting, provocative and witty. It is a superb achievement.' Christopher Hill, TLS John Donne:... more...
Not Love Perhaps
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 14.57This selection of just over sixty poems made by his friend and literary executor, Hubert Nicholson, contains the best of A. S. J. Tessimond. And the best of A. S. J. Tessimond is good. Read, for example, 'The man in the bowler hat', 'Black Monday Lovesong', 'Song in a saloon bar' 'Cats 11' and, perhaps, best of all, 'Not love perhaps' itself. In their... more...
Hoping It Might Be So
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94Hoping It Might Be So brings together all of Kit Wright's previous collections for adults as well as three dozen new poems. The collection, first published in 2000, was described by Christina Patterson in the Sunday Times as 'funny and profoundly humane' and by Sophie Hannah in the PN Review as 'full of verve and energy, with a strong musical quality... more...
Selected Poems 1933-1993
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 18.94'The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene during the last ten years or so has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart' wrote Philip Larkin. Larkin was one among many poets and critics who admired Gavin Ewart's work; Stephen Spender, Anthony Thwaite and Peter Porter were also fans. Influenced by T.... more...
Against Oblivion
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 18.94"Ian Hamilton's last book, published posthumously in 2002, is a typically brilliant revisiting of the concept of Samuel Johnson's classic Lives of the English Poets, wherein Hamilton considers 45 deceased poets of the twentieth century, offering his personal estimation of what claims they will have on posterity and 'against oblivion.' Examples of... more...









