Poetry by individual poets

Perhaps the most famous Castilian in history, Rodrigo Diaz - also known as 'the Cid' - lived in the second half of the eleventh century, distinguishing himself during the conquest of the Muslim kingdom of Valencia.

An overview of Frederick Seidel's best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet's craftFrederick Seidel has been hailed as "e;the poet of a new contemporary form"e; (Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books) and "e;the most frightening American poet ever"e; (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).

While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States.

Dreizehn ist im Tarot der Tod, die Dreizehn wird oft als böses Omen gedeutet und die 13.

Home resonates in this collection.

Poet, performance artist, and critic David Antin invented the "e;talk poem.

A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better .

At night we swim / following the fence: / diverted / we enter the net / shaped like a heart / and in the heart the hook / guides us to the back A stunning unfolding of memory, Wavelengths of Your Song juxtaposes a childhood in the northern Canadian wilderness with the adventures of an international creative life.

Horace's Epodes rank among the most under-valued texts of the early Roman principate.

From award-winning writer, spoken-word star, and spellbinding performer Kae Tempest, an unabashedly intimate poetry collection that confirms them as one of our most important poetic truth tellers.

The Dance Macabre(Paean on the nature of life and death as a Humanist Philosophy)in six cantosDanse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian and Spanish), or Totentanz (German), is a late-medieval allegory on the universality of death.

The hatching of the Cosmic Egg, the swallowing of Phanes by Zeus, and the murder of Dionysus by the Titans were just a few of the many stories that appeared in ancient Greek epic poems that were thought to have been written by the legendary singer Orpheus.

The Darkness of Snow is Frank Ormsby's most varied and versatile collection to date.

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Animals highlights pregnancy and motherhood from an introspective and blunt voice.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt.

Nance Van Winckel's wry, provocative slant on the world and her command of images and ideas enliven these stunning poems.

This study analyses the commentaries of four Muslim intellectuals who have turned to scripture as a liberating text to confront an array of problems, from patriarchy, racism, and empire to poverty and interreligious communal violence.

Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity.

At night we swim / following the fence: / diverted / we enter the net / shaped like a heart / and in the heart the hook / guides us to the back A stunning unfolding of memory, Wavelengths of Your Song juxtaposes a childhood in the northern Canadian wilderness with the adventures of an international creative life.

Few English poets have quite Kit Wright's range.

A poetic journey through short stories about high mountains, the inner occultism within us.

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.

Fiona Porch is passionate about helping others to leap their hurdles and pursue their goals.

The book explains Sadra's theory of the nature of afterlife.

Men carry a mattress retrievedfrom a dumpster past the floodedfoundations of an unfinishedhigh-rise, an old woman catchesa pigeon in the folds of her dressthe dead smile and rise from swimmingpools or stand at attentionon stamps.

Brittany Perham's first collection, THE CURIOSITIES, fixes its sure and unsettling gaze on daughters and fathers, sisters and brothers, madness, sickness, longing and love.

The definitive single-volume edition of the work of the greatest poet of the First World War2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War.

A beautiful collection of poems from bestselling author Louis de Berni res.

"e;The Great Way is not difficult / for those who have no preferences.

Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived.

FINALIST FOR THE 2025 PEGASUS AWARD FOR POETRY CRITICISMA virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.

A fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls.

Eleanor Brown's first collection, Maiden Speech, published by Bloodaxe in 1996, included her much anthologised "e;girlfriend's revenge"e; poem 'Bitcherel' along with a widely praised sequence of fifty love and end-of-love sonnets written during her 20s.

Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts.

The medieval Buddhist poet-monk Tonna (1289-1372) was regarded as the leading poet of his day and a prominent scholar and critic.

In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine drew from six decades of poetry to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered.

The Duende of Tetherball fearlessly ransacks the scrutinizing role of the past on the present; the interactions and accountabilities of ourselves and other species; the challenges and pleasures of getting older and forever striving to balance our most cherished and often incomprehensible relationships both with the world and each other.

This volume from the two-time National Book Award-finalist offers “splashes of beauty, yes–but also a fountain of shameless knowing and inspired telling” (Cynthia Ozick).

Richard Murphy, now in his eighties, is one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, known particularly for poems drawing on the people and history of the west of Ireland with classical rigour and 'unvarnished' clarity.

The New Red Negro surveys African-American poetry from the onset of the Depression to the early days of the Cold War.

The short stories and poems in this collection were written by students at King George VI School and centre for physically disabled children in Zimbabweis second city, Bulawayo.

This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together the most interesting experimental works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the major Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century.

This collection of timeless poetry celebrates the eternal spiritual truth within each heart.