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Anthology - Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past Carol Ann Duffy Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poets of the past by Carol Ann Duffy One of Britain's best and most accessible contemporary poets brings us a very unique poetry anthology, in a small-hardback-format astutely designed as the perfect gift book for Christmas! She has ask… |
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Anthology - Never Such Innocence: Poems of the First World War Martin Stephen Not just the obvious ones. Wilfred Owen et al are here, but also popular songs of the day and poems by women waiting for news of loved ones. This anthology, more than most, offers voices of the people, in trauma, and at the threshold of the democratic age. Paperback - Phoenix … |
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Anthology - No Bliss Like This: 5 Centuries of Love Poems by Women Compiled by Jiill Hollis Poetic Love A brand new book collecting together poetry from women across the ages - on love, fickleness, jealousy, sex and romance. A lively blend of some classics and some lesser known works, it's not a saccharine, gloopey mix but but rather a moving blend of heartfelt wit, happiness, pa… |
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Anthology - The Rattle Bag - Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes A wonderful selection of Heaney and Hughes' favourite poems, arranged not by theme, chronologically or according to author, but instead alphabetically by title or first line. This random, surpise element is a delight! An inspirational, accessible and diverse anthology, rich with masterpiece… |
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Bennett, Alan - The History Boys This is a play with a pedigree. Produced for stage and screen by Nick Hytner, Alan Bennett's latest play, structured around the English obsession with Oxbridge, explores the themes of authority, sexuality and adolescent sensitivities. It is also a great hoot! Read the play, then see the fil… |
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Laird, Nick - On Purpose Nick Laird became a favourite of Mr B's with his novel "Utterly Monkey" (for obvious reasons) and now we very impressed with his new poetry collection. Laird must feel somewhat daunted by his Irish forerunners – Heaney, Mahon or Muldoon for example – but his latest … |
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Nagra, Daljit - Look we have coming to Dover! A new poet who is the talk of the town. Nagra, a second-generation Punjabi, whose poem "Look we have coming to Dover!" won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem in 2004, explores a multicultural Britain with a vivid, witty and mischievous use of language. In mostly suburban setting… |
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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook Shel Silverstein This books tickles me pink. I can't resist a peek at a new silly poem every day when I pass the book on our Bath display. As hilarious and clever as anything by Spike Milligan or Edward Lear. Silverstein was a hugely popular and talented U.S. author, musician and cartoonist who knew how … |
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Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale Shakespeare's late tragic-comedy dealing with jealousy and redemption set partly in Sicily and partly in Bohemia, with the usual excellent introduction and notes by Arden. Paperback - Arden - 2000… |
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Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet Ultimate Tragic Love Iconic forbidden love with a tragic twist that will never be beaten as Romeo "How am I supposed to get up there?" Montague and Juliet "You had me at ' What light through yonder window ' " Capulet play out their tumultuous story. Paperback … |
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The Lusíads Luis de Camões One of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance intertwines classical mythology with an account of the voyage of Vasco de Gama to India via the Cape of Good Hope. Paperback - Oxford Paperbacks - 2008… |
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles/Fagles Pride, power, blindness, duty, and incest. And punishment all round. Sophocles dishes up lashings of Horror and Pity in the ultimate cycle of tragedy, and provides the metaphorical framework for Freud's analysis of the human psyche. Paperback - Penguin - 1984… |
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