Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2013.

WINNER OF THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IRISH BOOK AWARD 2014Paul Durcan never imagined he would be clasped by a woman again, but life is full of surprises!

A wide-ranging discussion of the morality and legality of medically assisted death.

We are on the cusp of a reading revolution.

The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Dannie Abse's first poetry collection, After Every Green Thing, and since that time he has published an astonishing range of books, including poetry, fiction, criticism and autobiography.

Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read.

Israeli Documentary Poetry: Coming of Age with the Stateintroduces and explores documentary poetry written by Israeli poets who came of age during the first two decades of the state and who, since the 1970s and 1980s, have recorded their experiences of that period.

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This timely work is a balanced overview of end-of-life issues related to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Alan and Joanne marry in midlife and live a happily-ever-after existence until, at sixty-nine, Alan is diagnosed with a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative illness.

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

Never one to shy away from difficult subjects, in Love, Of a Kind Dennis brings awkwardness, pain and intimacy together in an inimitable and pithy way.

Assisted dying is still an extremely contested topic in Bioethics.

To make a testament is to attempt to pass on what matters most.

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.

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Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family.

'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is ridingthrough the space between one world and another .

Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an updated chapter of poems to bring you hope and happiness this year _______ A POEM CAN .

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poetFor the past fifty years, Louise Gl ck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems.

When Stevie Smith died in 1971 she was one of the twentieth-century's most popular poets; many of her poems have been widely anthologised, and 'Not Waving but Drowning' remains one of the nation's favourite poems to this day.

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016).

An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of our lives.

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets.

"e;God can stay asleep / these women in my life are magic enuff"e;An electrifying collection of poems that tells a universal tale of survival and revolution through the lens of Black femininity.

The idea of the end is an essential motivic force in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016).

In Western thought, suicide has evolved from sin to sin-and-crime, to crime, to mental illness, and to semilegal act.

Adrian Michael Greens Gedichte tun gut, denn sie sind tiefgründig, umarmend und überlaufend großzügig.

This revealing volume explores recent historical perspectives on the modern euthanasia and assisted-suicide debate and the political arenas in which it has unfolded.

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This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian emigre poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile.

This wonderfully witty and varied collection, illustrated in full-colour by the brilliant Sara Ogilvie, is perfect for younger readers to appreciate.

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth half-melted, lumpy .

'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'.

'Two hours ago I fell in love and trembled, and tremble still, and haven't a clue whom I should tell'From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and above all - love.

The thrilling story of the healers, artists and prodigies once persecuted as witches from the three-time T.

'A profoundly valuable collection, full of fresh perspective, and opening doors into all kinds of material that has been routinely neglected or patronized' Rowan Williams, TLSThis rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia.

Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly.

Kim Hyesoons Virtuosität liegt in ihrer Fähigkeit, einzigartige poetische, überraschende und doch zugängliche Bilder zu schaffen und sich gleichzeitig tief in der weiblichen Erfahrung und Erzähltradition zu verwurzeln.

Catching a sudden look of defiance from his granddaughter inspires Hugo Williams to take up his pen and write this deeply moving new collection of poetry - the first since I Knew the Bride (2014), shortlisted for the Forward and T.

'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition .

Watching her child die is the hardest thing a mother can ever do.