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Published to coincide with an exhibition at Blickling Hall, this book celebrates the skills of independent memorial makers and lettering artists. It contains photographs of all 54 works in the exhibition, along with essays on such topics as life, death and spirituality.

A collection of poetry featuring a theme of the search for spiritual values.

Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation This selection introduces a major poet who is also a business studies professor, a combination which may explain his vigorous questioning of human values in poetry which asks What is worthwhile? His poems are characterized by simplicity and clarity, narrative and reasoning: he claims they at least ...

One of the greatest poets of the subcontinent, Jibanananda Das (1899-1954) redefined the parameters of Bengali poetry in the wake of the impression left by the work of his more traditional compatriot, Rabindranath Tagore. This book presents an English translation of his poetry.

A collection of poetry and prose from the presenter of Radio 4's "Poetry Please".

Francois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. While we do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, the poems he produced in just six years capture in forceful, intelligent and candid verse the low and high life of Paris. This book presents a translation of his works.

Incorporating revisions, fresh translations and other supplementary material, this title presents Holderlin's poetry.

A fascinating but shadowy figure of Romanticism, John Polidori was the sensitive but fierce writer behind one of literature's most notorious characters--the vampyre. This short story reveals the seductive figure of evil, who continues to exert a powerful influence over popular culture and who cemented Polidori's status within the Gothic tradition. This collection also makes available many of Polidori's lesser-known and hard-to-find works, incl...

Gathers over half a century's inventive, brilliant writing by one of Britain's modern poets.

Matthew Mead began publishing his poetry in the 1960s. Over the years he has published five collections of poetry. This work analyses the special and uncommon qualities of Mead's poetry, concluding 'His tone is unmistakable, and once encountered it is never forgotten'.

Featuring a collection of the author's poems and verse translations, this title includes the whole of "The Blue Winged Bee", "The Feast & The Gypsies", and the adaptation of "The Genealogy of Women".

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Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.

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PBS Autumn Special Commendation 2018

He was E.M. Forster's "favourite contemporary poet". W.H. Auden extolled his "first-class visual imagination". Yet for most readers, William Plomer is now a faintly remembered name. This rich and thorough selection presents, for the first time in almost fifty years, Plomer's best.

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Includes three sections - 'Berlin', 'Oslo' and 'Stockholm' - that are reminders of the restless and rootless life of the exile, written after Tiananmen Square (4 June 1989), when the author was away from his Peking home, to which he has so far been unable to return.

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