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The Drowned Book
Pan Macmillan UK 2007; US$ 18.03Many of the poems in Sean O?Brien?s new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of Dante?s Inferno, and occupy a dark, flooded, subterranean world, as dramatically compelling as it is disquieting. Circumstances have compelled O?Brien to return repeatedly to the elegiac form, and The Drowned Book contains... more...
Public Dream
Pan Macmillan UK 2007; US$ 18.03Public Dream, Frances Leviston?s first collection of poetry, is one of the most eagerly-awaited debuts in years. Although still in her early twenties, Leviston has already received considerable acclaim for her superbly-crafted and pitch-perfect verse. However, in the apparently effortless balancing of its lyric and metaphysical concerns, in the penetration,... more...
Heroes
Ebury Publishing 2011; US$ 13.35In 2010, with the full support of the MOD, John Jeffcock, poet and a former soldier in the Coldstream Guards, invited contributions for a book of modern war poems. He was overwhelmed by the response: contributions came from serving soldiers, veterans and their families - wives, sisters, daughters (one just 11 years old). The writers have one thing... more...
The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin
Penguin Books Ltd 2010; Not AvailableThe Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then little-known Keats and Blake, as well as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge, Pre-Raphaelite poetry 'etherialized sensation' (in the words of Antony Harrison), and popularized the notion of l'art pour l'art - art for art's sake. Where... more...
The First Poems in English
Penguin Books Ltd 2008; Not AvailableThis selection of the earliest poems in English comprises works from an age in which verse was not written down, but recited aloud and remembered. Heroic poems celebrate courage, loyalty and strength, in excerpts from Beowulf and in The Battle of Brunanburgh, depicting King Athelstan?s defeat of his northern enemies in 937 AD, while The Wanderer and... more...
The Drowned Book
Pan Macmillan 2008; US$ 8.95Many of the poems in Sean O?Brien?s new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of Dante?s Inferno, and occupy a dark, flooded, subterranean world, as dramatically compelling as it is disquieting. Circumstances have compelled O?Brien to return repeatedly to the elegiac form, and The Drowned Book contains... more...
Shakespeare: Poems
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 13.50The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Shakespeare contains selections from Shakespeare's work, including his sonnets, his narrative poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece , songs and speeches, and an index of first lines. more...
Public Dream
Pan Macmillan 2008; US$ 8.95Public Dream, Frances Leviston?s first collection of poetry, is one of the most eagerly-awaited debuts in years. Although still in her early twenties, Leviston has already received considerable acclaim for her superbly-crafted and pitch-perfect verse. However, in the apparently effortless balancing of its lyric and metaphysical concerns, in the penetration,... more...









