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Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make ...Show more
Percy Bysshe Shelley : Poems Selected by Fiona Sampson by Fiona Sampson; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Maurice Riordan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was born in Sussex and died in Italy when his sailing boat overturned while returning from a visit to Byron. A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms his standing as a major figure in Rom ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot; Seamus Heaney (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude. Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this c ...Show more
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land". Other volumes in this series, includ ...Show more
Selected Poetry and Prose by Mew, Charlotte and Copus, Julia(Edited by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The best of Charlotte Mew's poetry and prose selected by Julia Copus, in the 150th anniversary of Mew's birth.
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as "Bloody Men," "Men and Their Boring Arguments," "Two Cures for Love," "Kindness to Animals" and ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which ...Show more
T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected ...Show more
T S Eliot - Selected Poems by T S Eliot
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry | Reading Level: very good
As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land. Other volumes in this series: Auden, Bet ...Show more
Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems 1957-1994 by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A selection of work by the former Poet Laureate ranging from "The Hawk in the Rain" to "Rain-Charm for the Duchy", as well as uncollected poems from each decade of his working life. Hughes also included a group of new poems, some of which appeared later in "Birthday Letters".