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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic
poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the
finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the fourth
volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all
of Shelley's poems in chronological order and with full annotation.
Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem
and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an
authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and
footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific
information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley's varied
and allusive verse. Most of the poems in the present volume were
written between late autumn 1820 and late summer 1821. They include
Adonais, Shelley's lament on the death of John Keats, widely
recognised as one of the finest elegies in English poetry, as well
as Epipsychidion, a poem inspired by his relationship with the
nineteen-year-old Teresa Viviani ('Emilia'), the object of an
intense but temporary fascination for Shelley. The poems of this
period show the extent both of Shelley's engagement with Keats's
volume Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
(1820) - a copy of which he first read in October 1820 - and of his
interest in Italian history, culture and politics. Shelley's
translations of some of his own poems into Italian and his original
compositions in the language are also included here. In addition to
accompanying commentaries, there are extensive bibliographies to
the poems, a chronological table of Shelley's life and
publications, and indexes to titles and first lines. The volumes of
The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of
Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.
'A national treasure' Daily Express To mark and celebrate National
Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond
farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a
delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that most
beloved inhabitant of the British countryside, the common hedgehog.
Pam Ayres' spiky and wonderful creation reminds us that unless we
take steps to prevent it, they will soon be far from 'common'
indeed: beautifully illustrated by Alice Tait, the poem The
Hedgehog sees our hero tell of all the terrible ends his family
come to at our own hands - and exactly what we can still do to keep
them alive, and see them thrive once more. 'The Last Hedgehog is a
little book, but it's an important book and it's a profound book'
Graham Norton
This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of
three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the
modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and
honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a
bonus the complete version of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir
Gawain. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by
an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a
fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much
more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which
examines religious and social values. Pearl is apparently an elegy
on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great
personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and
moving debate on much less tangible matters. Sir Orfeo is a
slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition.
It was a special favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations
represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the
originals, and are uniquely accompanied with the complete text of
Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he
delivered on Sir Gawain.
For some it's their ailing grandparent living long enough to
witness the birth of their first grandchild. Whereas, for others
it's making it to their bed because the two individuals (Jack and
Morgan) they considered their best friends, utterly intoxicated
their body. From heat and a roof over your head to a pair of select
stilettos going on sale, everyone appends distinct components for
their interpretation of a miracle. For him it was receiving an
invitation to a professional hockey team's training camp. Though he
wasn't guaranteed anything other than an opportunity to rightfully
earn a roster spot, he was compelled to manifest the results of
diligence. Kiyaga-ism Act II: Unauthorized Departure is the second
chapter in the poetic landscape echoing an illustrious odyssey.
From Kampala, Uganda to Fort Wayne, Indiana I've constructed pages
that feel like a movie but read like a CD. Driven by hockey and
steered by everything our beautiful world has to offer, this book
promises to be fun yet profound.
One of the world's favourite poets, Kahlil Gibran was never more
profound than when he wrote about love. He believed it was the
raison d'etre of the universe. With the simplicity and lyrical
beauty of The Prophet, his reflections on love and friendship have
been gathered together in one volume and illustrated with the
poet's own paintings. Compiled by the world's leading expert on
Gibran, this beautiful collection is a timeless celebration of
humanity's most enduring force, and a perfect gift for those tired
of cliched romantic verse.
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In Winter Light
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Philippe Jaccottet; Translated by Tim Dooley
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'A la lumiere d'hiver' (1977) is a central work in the writing of
the Swiss French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021). Written in
middle age, it forms a bridge between the poet's intricate early
lyrics and his more expansive and meditative later work. Starting
from a direct confrontation with the raw facts of mortality, its
three poem-sequences strip away further layers of illusion until a
glimmer of meaning starts to appear in the 'winter light' of the
landscape of the Drome area of northern Provence, where Jaccottet
made his home from 1953 until the end of his life. Tim Dooley's
translation, 'In Winter Light', is the product of a long
relationship with the original, which he first read at the time of
its publication. His English version mirrors the tentative,
scrupulous exploration of being he finds in Jaccottet's French,
both its hesitancies and circular movements and, finally, its
'unblinking eyes'.
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Jennie Farley
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Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets, and
was a key figure in the Irish language poetry renaissance of the
1980s and 90s. His dual-language selection The Brindled Cat and the
Nightingale's Tongue was published in 2014, following his selected
poems, Rogha Danta (2012), voted one of the top ten collections in
Irish since the turn of the millennium. This new dual-language
selection is mainly drawn from two other collections, Cupla Siamach
an Ama/The Siamese Twins of Time and Gra fiar/Crooked Love, with
translations made by Louis de Paor with Kevin Anderson and Biddy
Jenkinson. It shows a paring back of language and a greater
flexibility of form in his poetry, as well as a preoccupation with
the passage of time and its implications for both familial and
sexual love. His narrative skill and inventiveness come together in
the sequence 'La da raibh/One day', which follows a day in the life
of an imaginary village in the west of Ireland where the living and
the dead, the real and the unreal, collide. This was adapted for a
dual-language radio feature with music by Dana Lyn broadcast on RTE
Lyric FM and Raidio na Gaeltachta in 2021.
Among Ulick O'Connor's prodigious literary output as biographer,
playwright, literary historian and critic, he is also a poet. Since
his first book of poems Life Styles appeared in 1973, he has been
writing and publishing memorable poetry. His engagement with his
subject matter, his deft use of form, craft and above all lyricism,
define these poems and make it a pleasure to rediscover them or
encounter them for the first time. In a judicious selection, they
are gathered here along with his translations from numerous
languages, including his exceptional renderings of Baudelaire and
more recent poems that have appeared in journals over the past
decade.
In this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles
Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak
himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful
poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them.
Whatever the country, most women will identify with Liz's poetry as
she explores the tapestry of women's daily lives in more than 100
witty and bittersweet poems in her own unique style--original,
provocative, and often with a devilish sting in the tail. Dealing
with the frustrations and disappointments along with the joys and
pleasures of life, Liz is delighted when readers say to her "I
don't normally like poetry, but I really love this."
What does it mean to have 'heritage', and how do we perform or undo
it? In these daring and sonorous poems, Anaxagorou conducts a
researched unpacking of two countries whose dividing lines of a
colonial past are still visible and felt. Uniquely engaged with the
complexities of Cyprus and the diasporic experience, these poems
map both an island's public history alongside a person's private
reckoning. They offer a ferocious and uncompromising look towards
the damaging historical structures that have led to now. Fearless,
intensely honest and hopeful, Heritage Aesthetics merges Anthony's
gift for performance and his brilliant experimentation with form to
create a vivid insistence to communicate a self in the world.
Material Properties asks what it might mean to interpret and
translate wildness into human language and human understanding. The
book is a multi-faceted and vital exploration of the non-human, the
elemental and the borders between existences. Through poems of
parenthood at a time of environmental emergency, and poetic
versions of Old English riddles in which animals, objects and
natural phenomena speak, the book poses essential questions about
our relationship with the living world and with each other. Praise
for previous work, Jackself, from T.S. Eliot Prize judges: 'a
firework of a book, inventive, exciting and outstanding in its
imaginative range and depth of feeling'.
With his exuberant and otherworldly poems, Roddy Lumsden has
quickly established himself among Britain's leading younger poets.
In his third book, the filmic tour de force of the title sequence,
by turns comic, tragic and fantastic, follows the twists in a maze
of madness, love and self-deception, from Edinburgh to Stoke
Newington via the Philippines. The collection's second half brings
together newer work with some favourite pieces which show why
Lumsden is such a popular reader on both the literary and
performance circuits.
In this collection of Carol Ann Duffy's poems, the stories of famous men - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontius Pilate, King Kong - are presented from the perspective of the lesser-known wife.
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