This collection brings together a wide range of reflections shaped from everyday living, quiet observations, and the emotional undercurrents that move through ordinary routines.
The literary works of past generations are a vital source of aesthetic delight, capable of awakening profound insight into the essence of human nature and the meaning of life.
From independence movements in Sri Lanka to train stations in contemporary Ontario, an intimate and witty selection of Michael Ondaatje s most widely loved poems taken across fifty years'My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje' JHUMPA LAHIRIThrough poems that grow out of his profound understanding of the subtle complexities of life and relationships, of how we lose and find ourselves, Michael Ondaatje navigates his own past, beginning with memories of his childhood in Sri Lanka and his eccentric family, to his life in rural southern Ontario with its beloved rivers, celebrations of treasured friends, the close ties of children.
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series presents a substantial selection of Pope's writings, arranged in chronological order to give a sense of the development of his literary career.
The English first edition of Dramatis Personae was published in May 1864, with the American first edition appearing hard on its heels in the following September.
Pipes o' pan at zekesbury presents a collection of poems and sketches that celebrate the quiet, idyllic rhythms of small town life in rural Indiana, centred on the fictional yet vividly realized town of Zekesbury.
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2026Shortlisted for the PEN Heaney Prize 2026Egrets, While War is a lyric field guide to grief and resilience, where attention becomes a form of devotion, and intimacy, a quiet resistance.
Beyond African Orality offers the first English translation and interpretation of sixty Wolof Ajami poems (Wolof written with an enriched form of the Arabic script) by Serin Mbay Jaxate (c.
L'arche majuscule de Noemina accueille un torrent de lettres minuscules, portant jusqu'a nous les echos d'une traversee qui tient autant du tumulte d'une machine infernale que du suspens d'un reve.
A child bride paralysed by fear, a man trapped in a life of slavery, a couple imprisoned for simply loving one another, a woman who refuses to bow to social pressure.
"e;God hath denied me that angelic measure / Without which no man sees in me the poet,"e; writes Zygmunt Krasinski in one of his most recognisable lyrics.
Because the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz is so closely identified with the history of the Polish nation, one often reads him as an institution, rather than a real person.
John Cooper Clarke may have an honorary doctorate and a poem on the English Literature GCSE syllabus, but don't let that fool you: the 'Poet Laureate of Punk' is still a bona fide iconoclast.
The familiar literary-critical category of 'graveyard poetry' has made the eighteenth-century churchyard a commonplace in the period's cultural imaginary: a location in which melancholy, religious poets get lost in imaginative reveries or didactic visions of the afterlife.
Recipient of the Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry 2024Jen Hadfield is increasingly recognized as one of the singular poetic voices of our time, admired for the sheer vitality of her style and for her devotion to the natural world.
The familiar literary-critical category of 'graveyard poetry' has made the eighteenth-century churchyard a commonplace in the period's cultural imaginary: a location in which melancholy, religious poets get lost in imaginative reveries or didactic visions of the afterlife.
'These poems are death-haunted but radiant with the felt experience of what it means to be alive' - Financial Times'Wise, witty, terrifying, unflinching and extraordinarily alive' - A.
A child bride paralysed by fear, a man trapped in a life of slavery, a couple imprisoned for simply loving one another, a woman who refuses to bow to social pressure.
