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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > From 1900 > Works by individual poets

Birthday Letters (Paperback, Main): Ted Hughes Birthday Letters (Paperback, Main)
Ted Hughes 2
R400 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R92 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. 'To read [Birthday Letters] is to experience the psychic equivalent of "the bends". It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping.' Seamus Heaney 'Even if it were possible to set aside its biographical value . . . its linguistic, technical and imaginative feats would guarantee its future. Hughes is one of the most important poets of the century and this is his greatest book.' Andrew Motion

Whisky Muse: Scotch Whisky in Poem and Song (Paperback): Robin Laing Whisky Muse: Scotch Whisky in Poem and Song (Paperback)
Robin Laing
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whisky - the water of life, perhaps Scotland's best known contribution to the world. Muse - goddess of creative endeavour. The Whisky Muse - the spark of inspiration to many of Scotland's great poets and songwriters.

Collected Poems, 1948-84 (Paperback, New Ed): Derek Walcott Collected Poems, 1948-84 (Paperback, New Ed)
Derek Walcott
R711 R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Save R103 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing--for several decades--a poetry with all the beauty, wisdom, directness, and narrative force of our classic myths and fairy tales, and in this hefty volume readers will find a full record of his important endeavor. "Walcott's virutes as a poet are extraordinary," James Dickey wrote in The New York Times Book Review. "He could turn his attention on anything at all and make it live with a reality beyond its own; through his fearless language it becomes not only its acquired life, but the real one, the one that lasts . . . Walcott is spontaneous, headlong, and inventive beyond the limits of most other poets now writing."

Seeing Things (Paperback, Main): Seamus Heaney Seeing Things (Paperback, Main)
Seamus Heaney 2
R335 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R33 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary while never relinquishing its feel for the textures and sensations of the world. Translations of Virgil and Homer provide a prelude and a coda where motifs implicit in the earlier lyrics are given direct expression in extended narratives. Journeys to underworlds and otherworlds correspond to the journeys made by poetic language itself. From the author of "The Haw Lantern", "Wintering Out", "Station Island" and "North".

Rumi The Book of Love  - Poems Of Ecstasy And Longing (Paperback): Coleman Barks Rumi The Book of Love - Poems Of Ecstasy And Longing (Paperback)
Coleman Barks
R316 R237 Discovery Miles 2 370 Save R79 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America′s bestselling poet Rumi′s finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks′ delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out.

′There are lovers content with longing.

I′m not one of them.′

Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds - erotic, divine, friendship -and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging from the ′wholeness′ one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover′s loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship - these poems cover all ′the magnificent regions of the heart′.

Vandag Is Boordensvol - Pablo Neruda In Afrikaans (Afrikaans, Paperback): De Waal Venter Vandag Is Boordensvol - Pablo Neruda In Afrikaans (Afrikaans, Paperback)
De Waal Venter
R10 R8 Discovery Miles 80 Save R2 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Die Spaanse digter Pablo Neruda is ’n reus op die verhoog van die wêreldletterkunde. De Waal Venter, Afrikaanse digter en skrywer, bring met hierdie wye keuse van vertalings die sorgsame en elementele wêreld van Neruda met groot toewyding aan die Afrikaanse leser.

Die woorde van ʼn digter en ʼn vertaler het mekaar hier gevind. Die Afrikaanse gevoels- en dinkwêreld word met hierdie bundel vertalings deur de Waal Venter eindeloos verruim.

Hierdie is ’n tydlose werk, toeganklik en leesbaar met ’n vars inslag!

Poems - New and Collected (Paperback, New Ed): 'Wislawa Szymborska Poems - New and Collected (Paperback, New Ed)
'Wislawa Szymborska; Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, Clare Cavanagh
R511 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R122 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Described by Robert Hass as "unquestionably one of the great living European poets" and by Charles Simic as "one of the finest poets living today," Szymborska mesmerizes her readers with poetry that captivates their minds and captures their hearts. This is the book that her many fans have been anxiously awaiting-the definitive, complete collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, including 164 poems in all, as well as the full text of her Nobel acceptance speech of December 7, 1996, in Stockholm. Beautifully translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, who won a 1996 PEN Translation Prize for their work, this volume is a must-have for all readers of poetry.

T.E.Lawrence Poems (Paperback): Gwendolyn MacEwen T.E.Lawrence Poems (Paperback)
Gwendolyn MacEwen
R326 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R55 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Complete Poems (Paperback, New Ed): D. H Lawrence Complete Poems (Paperback, New Ed)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by F.Warren Roberts, Vivian De Sola Pinto
R966 R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Save R139 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This definitive collection of Lawrence’s poems, with appendices containing juvenilia, variants, and early drafts, and Lawrence’s own critical introductions to his poems, also includes full textual and explanatory notes, glossary, and index for the work of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

Selected Writings (Paperback): Mirjam Tuominen Selected Writings (Paperback)
Mirjam Tuominen; Translated by David McDuff
R500 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R88 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Inward Moon, Outward Sun (Paperback): Shabbir Banoobhai Inward Moon, Outward Sun (Paperback)
Shabbir Banoobhai
R50 R39 Discovery Miles 390 Save R11 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The publication of inward moon, outward sun signals a welcome end to Shabbir Banoobhai's self-imposed silence that lasted well over a decade. In the body of South African writing, his is a rare voice with the courage and the artistic skill to articulate a contemporary spirituality convincingly. The utmost simplicity of expression is used to conceal and reveal, at one and the same time, ideas of intense profundity. The poems are often meditative songs of love, longing and loss in a mystical world but they remain rooted in the social and political struggles of this world.

As I Walked Out One Evening (Paperback, Main): W.H Auden As I Walked Out One Evening (Paperback, Main)
W.H Auden 2
R305 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R48 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A collection of W.H. Auden's light verse, assembled by his literary executor.

Wilfred Owen (Paperback, Main - Poet to Poet): Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen (Paperback, Main - Poet to Poet)
Wilfred Owen; Edited by Jon Stallworthy
R240 R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Save R34 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians, profiteers. Owen has now taken his place in literary history as perhaps the first, certainly the quintessential, war poet.

The Sovereign Sun - Selected Poems (Paperback, New ed): Odysseas Elytes, Odysseus Elytis The Sovereign Sun - Selected Poems (Paperback, New ed)
Odysseas Elytes, Odysseus Elytis; Translated by K Friar
R539 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R91 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memoirs of a beatnik (Paperback): Diane Di Prima Memoirs of a beatnik (Paperback)
Diane Di Prima
R437 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R80 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a small confederacy of men, many of whom she lived with and loved. Filled with anecdotes about her adventures in New York City, Diane di Prima's memoir shows her learning to "raise her rebellion into art," and making her way toward literary success. Memoirs of a Beatnik offers a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumphs of the imagination.

The Burial at Thebes - A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (Paperback): Seamus Heaney The Burial at Thebes - A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (Paperback)
Seamus Heaney; Sophocles
R379 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R99 (26%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone's release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a tragic repetition of events in her family's history.
In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses - Four Works (Paperback): Zakes Mda And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses - Four Works (Paperback)
Zakes Mda
R132 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R29 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and a child share a last loving waltz; a cynical, disabled gangster learns humanity from a committed social worker, and a young girl finds her missing father and her role in the political struggle. This collection of stage plays, one radio play and a cinepoem, captures the essence of Zakes Mda’s method as a dramatist- a slow but intimate process of revelation (on the part of the characters). It is an artistic cooperation of the most pleasurable kind.

Mad Love (Paperback, New ed): André Breton Mad Love (Paperback, New ed)
André Breton; Translated by Mary Ann Caws
R488 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R89 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Mad Love" has been acknowledged an undisputed classic of the surrealist movement since its first publication in France in 1937. Its adulation of love as both mystery and revelation places it in the most abiding of literary traditions, but its stormy history and technical difficulty have prevented it from being translated into English until now.

"There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine," writes Andre Breton, leader of the surrealists in Paris in the 1920s and '30s. "Mad Love" is dedicated to defying "the widespread opinion that love wears out, like the diamond, in its own dust." Celebrating breton's own love and lover, the book unveils the marvelous in everyday encounters and the hidden depths of ordinary things.

Selected Poems of Ri (Paperback, New ed): Rainer Maria Rilke Selected Poems of Ri (Paperback, New ed)
Rainer Maria Rilke; Introduction by Robert W. Bly
R505 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R63 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century.

Selected Poems (Paperback): Edwin Arlington Robinson Selected Poems (Paperback)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
R439 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R59 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Edwin Arlington Robinson's finely crafted, formal rhythms mirror the tension the poet sees between life's immutable circumstances and humanity's often tragic attempts to exert control. At once dramatic and witty, his poems lay bare the loneliness and despair of life in genteel small towns, the tyranny of love, and unspoken, unnoticed suffering. The fictional characters he created in 'Reuben Bright', 'Miniver Cheery', and 'Richard Cory' and the historical figures he brought to life - Lincoln in 'The Master' and the great painter in 'Rembrandt to Rembrandt' - harbour demons and passions the world treats with indifference or cruelty. With an introduction that sheds light on Robinson's influence on poets from Eliot and Pound to Frost and Berryman, this collection brings an unjustly neglected poet to a new generation of readers.

Nicaraguan New Time (Paperback): Ernesto Cardenal Nicaraguan New Time (Paperback)
Ernesto Cardenal; Illustrated by Armando Morales; Translated by Dinah Livingstone
R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of Ernesto Cardenal's poems expresses the strength and vitality of a nation still struggling to survive in the face of a bitter fight against the US-backed Contras.

Bright River Yonder (Paperback): John Hartley Williams Bright River Yonder (Paperback)
John Hartley Williams
R158 Discovery Miles 1 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Delights & Shadows (Paperback): Ted Kooser Delights & Shadows (Paperback)
Ted Kooser
R388 R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Save R71 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006), is a poet who works toward clarity and accessibility, so that each distinctive poem appears to be as fresh and bright and spontaneous as a good watercolor painting. He is a haiku-like imagist who imbues his poems with "tender wisdom," and draws inspiration from the overlooked details of daily life.

Praise for "Delights and Shadows"

"Ted Kooser...has a genius for making the ordinary sacred."--"The New York Times"

"A sense of wonder and compassion runs through this Pulitzer Prize winning volume... Kooser's poetry is understated yet manages to skillfully illuminate the small moments of life."--"Christian Science Monitor"

" Kooser] brushes poems over ordinary objects, revealing metaphysical themes that way an investigator dusts for fingerprints. His language is so controlled and convincing that one can't help but feel significant truths behind his lines."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

"There is a sense of quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser's work, but it especially seems to animate his new collection of poems, "Delights & Shadows." Every delight is shadowed by darkness in this book of small wonders and hard dualisms."--Edward Hirsch, "The Washington Post"

""Delights and Shadows" is a book with a deep stillness at its center, perfectly self-contained."--Carol Muske-Dukes, "Los Angeles Times"

"Kooser's ninth collection of poems reflects the simple and remarkable things of everyday life. That he often sees things we do not would be delight enough, but more amazing is exactly what he sees. Nothing escapes him; everything is illuminated....Highly recommended."--"Library Journal"

"Few poets depict the Midwest so accurately or with such tender regard... Kooser excels at the brief, imagistic poem."--"The Kansas City Star"

""Delights and Shadows" raises the voice of the poet above everything else. Each short, vivid poem on the page reads as if it were being spoken aloud. Details about cemeteries, dictionaries, a doctor's waiting room, and a jar of buttons bristle with sound and awareness. Kooser's ability to use brief lyrics to compose a music of discovery and regeneration makes his work radiant and consuming... This is not an extended, complex or experimental kind of writing, but poetry that rings true, allowing the human sound of being to exist on the page."--"Bloomsbury Review"

"Here is the gift and fragility of life."--"The Wichita Eagle"

"Kooser is a master of the subjective description. Empathetic without sentimentality, his eye ranges over all sorts of everyday subjects and finds material everywhere... wherever the unpredictable particularity of the world can be glimpsed... Perhaps Kooser's success lies in his determination to see the... things of this world with such clarity and passion that their underlying mysteries, delights, and shadows also become clear, if only for a moment."--"The Georgia Review"

"You can almost see Kooser behind the poems, watching the world like a sketch artist... Kooser displays the same kind of fluid strokes Degas used in his ballet pictures...He is an exquisite miniaturist of daily life."--"The Hartford Courant"

"The poet finds magic in activities and objects typically considered mundane... Metaphors are the treasure of these short, imagistic poems, emphasizing the wonder and delight latent in what is often merely taken for granted."--"Harvard Review"

"Kooser has written more perfect poems than any poet of his generation." --Dana Gioia

"Kooser is straightforward, possesses an American essence, is humble, gritty, ironic and has a gift for detail and a deceptive simplicity."--"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

As Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser launched the weekly poetry column "American Life in Poetry," which appears in over 100 newspapers nationwide. He is the author of ten books of poems, including the collaboration with Jim Harrison, "Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry" (isbn 9781556591877).

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes (Paperback): Billy Collins Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes (Paperback)
Billy Collins
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Billy Collins is one of America's best loved poets. From a poem about the relentless barking of next door's dog - "Another Reason Why I don't Keep a Gun in the House" - to an elegy to "The Best Cigarette".

Paterson (Spanish, Paperback): William Carlos Williams, Margarita Ardanaz Paterson (Spanish, Paperback)
William Carlos Williams, Margarita Ardanaz
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) fue un poeta de vocacion infatigable. Mantuvo estrecha relacion con los artistas expatriados de la llamada Generacion Perdida y con escritores franceses de su tiempo. Escribio tambien novela, teatro y ensayo. Williams pertenece a una generacion de ilustres poetas que intentan encontrar vias alternativas a la tradicion poetica inglesa, todavia vigente a principios del siglo XX, y que convirtieron la poesia norteamericana de ese siglo en una epoca dorada. Paterson es un poema-libro dividido en cinco partes, con una estructura organica.

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