In his new collection of poems, Dick Davis, the acclaimed author of Belonging, addresses themes that he has long worked with-travel, the experience of being a stranger, the clash of cultures, the vagaries of love, the pleasures and epiphanies of meaning that art allows us.
Coleridge's ancient mariner and select poems gathers narrative and lyrical verse that blends imagination, symbolism, and emotional intensity to explore guilt, wonder, and spiritual insight.
There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings like a bell.
The definitive selection of John Burnside's extraordinary and vibrant poems, taken from across decades but always stirring, curious, alert to the natural world and the people in it'It s impossible not to love the world more when reading Burnside' GUARDIANOver thirty-five years and seventeen collections, John Burnside built a body of poetry that was consistently luminous, original and profound, always in thrall to the glamourie a magical, fleeting enchantment always in search of settlement, harmony and grace.
Tales of Ind, and other poems presents a wide ranging collection of verse centered on Indian cultural imagination, moral reflection, and emotional struggle.
An inviting and poignant new collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts'I love Michael Symmons Roberts' poetry' Jeanette Winterson'An existential wrestle between body and soul .
What YOU do in life echoes in eternity is not just a book—it is a call to awaken, to reclaim your inner light, and to live fully conscious of the eternal echoes of your actions.
More than 100 poems about Britain's nature in a beautifully illustrated bookSeven chapters touch on different aspects of the British countryside, including seasons, birds and wildlife, woods, water, moors and mountains.
Kinney shows how the Mass, the Divine Offices, and the liturgy underlie the themes and image clusters of Skeltons poems and argues that liturgical music, especially the plainsong, informs all of Skeltons meters.
Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.
Leggett traces the effect of several important theoretical works on the poetry and prose of Stevens during a period in which he was formulating an aesthetic between 1942 and 1954.
In this collection, eight distinguished critics of literature assess the nature and range of Dantes influence on the major British and American modernist writers.
The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugles comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India.
From moonlit rivers and windswept shorelines to love remembered, laughter shared, and life's deepest questions, Thomas's writing captures the moments that define us.
A vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet.
The career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.
The winning manuscript of the fourth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize is also the exciting American debut by a poet who has already established himself as an important international poetic voice.
In The Surface of the Lit World, Shane Seely draws on a wide range of sources-from personal memory to biblical narrative-to explore the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves, the ways in which we make meaning of our lives.
Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden's National Book Awardwinning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W.
