Poetry by individual poets

During the research for her biography of Francis Thompson, Between Heaven and Charing Cross it became clear to Brigid Boardman that a new edition of his poetry was essential for a full recognition of the range and variety of his work.

Offers a fresh interpretation of Virgil''s Aeneid via a detailed study of its child hero, Ascanius, young son of Aeneas.

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career.

Moniza Alvi's new book is unified by birds.

This new expanded edition of The Long and the Short of It covers 55 years of Roy Fisher's poetry.

An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare''s Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.

From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonc comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood.

This anthology of essays, poetry and photography offers an intimate view of this iconic Rust Belt city—“one of the best books about Buffalo ever created” (Buffalo News).

The Summer We Didnit Die is Christine Coatesi third poetry collection.

This nuanced yet accessible study is the first to examine the range of religious experience imagined in Hopkins'' writing.

The Bounty was the first book of poems Derek Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Praise for Saeed Jones:"e;Jones is the kind of writer who's more than wanted: he's desperately needed.

Today, we do not expect a symptomatic reading to refer to bodily symptoms, or a literary dissection to be more than metaphorical.

The dog of memory, an animal more often unbiddable and capricious than it is comforting and predictable, roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Helen Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself which is explored through re-readings of ten authors encountered during her school days.

This 2007 book explores the degree to which Statius'' Thebaid is engaged in a dialogue with the ideas and poetry of Virgil''s Aeneid.

First published in 1985, The Brave Never Write Poetry, the lone collection of poems by critic/novelist Daniel Jones (19591994), was a cult hit.

In Ashbery’s 1987 collection, ballads, folklore, and fairy tales mesh with the anxieties and idioms of modern lifeFor a book by one of the leading avant-garde poets of modern literature, John Ashbery’s April Galleons is suffused with voices from the past.

Millions of Americans today practice the asanas, or postures, of yoga, but many are unaware of the profound spiritual teachings at the heart of yoga's ancient source scriptures.

These deeply felt poems are at once plain-speaking and alive with complexity; Galgutis elegant response to both pain and loveliness is inspiring.

Introduced by Michael Longley, Goat's Milk is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Frank Ormsby, a central figure in the poetry of Northern Ireland for the past forty years.

The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era.

Amal’ezulu (Zulu Horizons), first published in 1945 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series by the University of the Witwatersrand Press, was the second volume of poetry produced by the renowned Zulu author B.

Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement.

The engaging autobiographical account of a poet-in-residence at a psychiatric hospital who helps a silent young man regain his speaking voice through writing poetry.

Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere.

Chinese culture held a well-known fascination for modernist poets like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux, whose life spanned the greater part of the fourth century AD, was one of the most significant literary and political figures of his age.

Stephen Spender, along with his friends W.

A landmark definitive edition of one of our most innovative and beloved poetsThe landmark oeuvre of Marianne Moore, one of the major inventors of poetic modernism, has had no straight path from beginning to end; until now, there has been no good vantage point from which to see the body of her remarkable work as a whole.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius of Bordeaux, whose life spanned the greater part of the fourth century AD, was one of the most significant literary and political figures of his age.

The history of the epic-ranging from the heroic narratives of cultural origin found in Homer and Virgil to the tumultuous theological and political conflicts depicted by Dante or Milton-is nearly as old as literature itself.

“A beautiful but urgent clarion call for freedom, justice, and resistance in every pocket of the world, from occupied Palestine to gentrified Brooklyn” (Marc Lamont Hill, academic and activist).

For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose.

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Walk away before you are threadbare / Preserve your strength, preserve your curly hair / For others' use.

A provocative, challenging masterpiece by John Ashbery that set a new standard for the modern prose poem“The pathos and liveliness of ordinary human communication is poetry to me,” John Ashbery has said of this controversial work, a collection of three long prose poems originally published in 1972, adding, “Three Poems tries to stay close to the way we talk and think without expecting what we say to be recorded or remembered.

Barry MacSweeney's last book, "e;The Book of Demons"e;, recorded his fierce fightagainst alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his life -- though only for three more years.

The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era.

For centuries, poets have looked into the mirror of classical myth to show us the many ways our emotional lives are still reflected in the ancient stories of heroism, hubris, transformation, and loss that myths so eloquently tell.

Through a balanced discussion of poetry as performance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition and scope of "e;woman's song"e; as a mode, partheneia (maidens' songs) and the girls' chorus, lyric in the drama, echoes and imitations of archaic woman's song in Hellenistic poetry, and inferences about the differences between male and female authors, Klinck demonstrates that woman's song is ultimately best understood as the product of a male-dominated culture but that feminine stereotypes, while refined by skilful male poets, are interrogated and shifted by female poets.

Hoard brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps for several years because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings.

Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma navi, or spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored mystical poem ever written.

BLOOD ORBITS is a series of poems and prose poems exploring various conceptualizations of history both as a generative principle of meaning and as particular contexts and events through which we shape our subjectivities.