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Selected Poems of Andrew Motion
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 18.94In this book Andrew Motion has made his own choice from his outstandingly fine and varied body of work. Dramatic monologues, elegies, poems of social and political observation, love lyrics - all are part of this important poet's repertoire. Andrew Motion's concern for the extremes of human experience and the artistic integrity that insists on his... more...
The Cinder Path
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 14.57A new poetry collection from Andrew Motion - the last published in his role as Poet Laureate more...
The Song of Lunch
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 11.65Published to tie-in with a major BBC 2 dramatization for National Poetry Day, starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. more...
Robert Herrick
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 8.74In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature. Robert Herrick... more...
The Solitudes
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 18.99An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as "the Prince of Darkness." The Solitudes,... more...
Emily Dickinson
Faber and Faber 2011; US$ 8.74In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. Emily Dickinson... more...
William Blake's Poetry
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 15.95Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative... more...
The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 65.00This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics. more...
Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 65.00Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience. more...
God and Mystery in Words
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 34.99In God and Mystery in Words David Brown uses the way in which poetry and drama have in the past opened people to the possibility of religious experience as a launch pad for advocating less wooden approaches to Christian worship today. So far from encouraging imagination and exploration, hymns and sermons now more commonly merely consolidate belief.... more...









