Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)

She swims into the medals and then into oblivion - a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding British writer.

A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.

A lyrical and beautifully realised novel about a blind man's experiences of the world around him, from the acclaimed author of Ghost MacIndoe.

A superb distillation of the wisdom of one of Britain's most admired writers on the human condition.

A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho - a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.

Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.

Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die.

Acclaimed author of 'Wartime', Juliet Gardiner, brings to life the long neglected decade of the twentieth century - the 1930s.

Brian Patten is renowned as an accessible and popular poet.

Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

This edition does not include illustrations.

A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve.

*Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age.

Bending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashirs poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.

Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry.

As Far as I Know is a wonderful new book of poems by Roger McGough, the nation's favourite poetTake comfort from this You have a book in your hand not a loaded gun or a parking fine or an invitation card to the wedding of the one you should have marriedRoger McGough's new book of poems shows him writing as fluently and inventively as ever.

This is not the time for adultery.

'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea.

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 .

I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America.

'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.

'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem.

'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy'McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him' The Times_______________For fifty years, Roger McGough has delighted readers with poetry that is at once playful and poignant, intimate and universal.

Over the course of his career, Tomas Transtr mer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential global voices.

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silverBeautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations.

'I have lived in important places, timesWhen great events were decided .

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!

A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential reading about love, life and care' Kate Mosse'Nobody has written on dementia as well as Nicci Gerrard in this new book' Andrew Marr'Dementia is all around us, in our families and in our genes; perhaps in our own futures.

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published.

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published.

'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet.

A Glance into Ilja Kostovski's Selected PoetryIt is a slightly smirking smile that accompanies the voice calling on Muses in Ilja Kostovski's epic poetry and final book, Sisiphus and I.

Ask, Can we for a moment make of beauty / the measure of our pain?

Ask, Can we for a moment make of beauty / the measure of our pain?

Die Würde eines Volkes besteht in seiner Fähigkeit die Würde des Einzelnen zu fördern und dafür Angebote zu ermöglichen, mit denen die Befreiung des Menschen, innerhalb des gesellschaftlichen Ganzen, von den körperlichen, geistigen, psychischen und seelischen Leiden, erfolgen kann.

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying.

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The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

The author lived in Ireland for about ten years in the 90s of the last millennium.

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Assisted dying is still an extremely contested topic in Bioethics.

Assisted dying is still an extremely contested topic in Bioethics.

The majority of gun deaths in the United States are suicide deaths, and the majority of suicide deaths are gun deaths.

The majority of gun deaths in the United States are suicide deaths, and the majority of suicide deaths are gun deaths.

The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda.

The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda.

The case of Terri Schiavo, a young woman who spent 15 years in a persistent vegetative state, has emerged as a watershed in debates over end-of-life care.