Poems on the go, a travel-sized, daily source of inspiration on themes of experience, nature, passion and spirit, including the selected work of celebrated classic poets as well as collaborations with Australian contemporary authors in partnership with Red Room Poetry.
Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.
Chinese poetry is unique in world literature in that it was written for the best part of 3,000 years by exiles, and Chinese history can be read as a matter of course in the words of poets.
In this collection from the Tang Dynasty are poems of war and peace, flight and refuge but above all they are plain-spoken, everyday poems;
An anthology celebrating the winner and shortlistees of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Winner Dillon Jaxx Shortlistees Will Fleming Lucy Holme Jam Kraprayoon Adam Panichi
The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early ......
Founded in 1933 near Asheville, North Carolina, Black Mountain College fostered experimentation and interdisciplinary learning, placing the arts, including poetry, at the heart of its curriculum. As such, the college was home to and served as inspiration for many modern American poets. Some, including Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov, and Edward ......
Carol Rumens has been contributing `Poem of the Week to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. This is a wide ranging anthology of work by contemporary poets from different backgrounds, with accompanying prose commentaries, drawn from the Guardian Poem of the Week blog.
Simin Behbahani's collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her poetry reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped Iranian history: revolution and war. Behbahani balances artful inquiry and shocking realism in both her language and imagery to ......
This book, the companion volume to Collected French Translations: Poetry, presents his version of the classic French fairytale The White Cat by Marie-Catherine dAulnoy, alongside works by innovative masters such as Raymond Roussel and Giorgio de Chirico. Here are Roussels Documents to Serve as an Outline and extracts from his ......
