This work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson's Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction.
A buddy-cop dramedy starring a bottle of Advil and a headache that wont quitImagine youre standing in a room, and someone on the other side of the door wont stop knocking ever.
The Wound Register, or Casualty Book - which gives this book its title - is an official record of the casualty and sickness details for more than fifteen thousand soldiers of the Norfolk Regiment during the First World War.
In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia's Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool for over two hundred years.
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical'Powerful'DUA LIPA'Redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it.
Carolyn Forche is one of America's most important contemporary poets - renowned as a 'poet of witness' - as well as an indefatigable human rights activist.
An Ode To The PeopleA crushing defeat to humanityA hidden victory to insanityWhere patriots are sure to dieWhere tyrants believe they can flyThe full truth remains unseenBy those whose thoughts are uncleanThe lead us as lambs to the slaughterHaving forgot the word of our fatherAll life they willingly barterThey maul falling dollarDeceive yourself no more with their liesFor we all must stand now with one cryOr our land will surely dieThe time for justice is at handNo longer can we withstandThe shackles placed on us by manWhile they rob you and meWhat we have by our own decreeOur liberty and right to be free I tell you now of this theftBefore it leads us all to our deathsSo please do not be mistakenThe time is now to awakenThe future is ours for the takingUnited together we are unequaled Let us decided as a peopleFor we all are unique yet equalI Speak In A TongueI speak in a tongueUnfamiliar to someMy words have no meaningAmongst those who are dreamingMy words hold no angerOnly to a strangerMy words hold nourishmentAll those in punishmentMy words come cleanThose of you who have seenThey are right before your eyeDo not sit and let them go byeLiberty IsFreedom of libertyA curse for purityUnbridled free willSurely will killWhere is the fenceThat rein's arroganceOver ran by zealousnessEvil and greedHere is a lassoLet justice flyHere is a fenceIts righteousness, I cryThe Roaring Of A LuneAgain tonight he is on the prowlThis rather peculiar yet handsome night owlOnce something has become afoulOn his face appears his scowlIlluminating the night of our skyEvery night it seems he drives byA new day for him is to implyHis way of saying goodbye Those Who Seek to KnowFor those who seek to knowAs one goes about ones dayThru poems he seeks to showOur thoughts manifest the wayConsidering starting at high noonThe words one chooses to relayAppearing to thee ever so soonThe words one has chosen to preyAs we all move thru each hourThe spirit will choose to employAs we all move thru each powerThe spirit will choose to deployNow And ForeverNow you began to understandOne of the masters plansWilling stand forthAt once today henceforthNever blindingly yet everlastinglyDoing so eternally From now until evermoreOh, Lord Creator alwaysRemember praiseEternity your will partakeVainly work to remake Evermore will be your fateReaping what have you been of late?
Shirley Temple tap dancing at the Kiwanis Club, Stevie Nicks glaring at Lindsey Buckingham during a live version of "e;Silver Springs,"e; Frank Ocean lyrics staking new territory on the page: this is a taste of the cultural landscape sampled in Your New Feeling is the Artifact of a Bygone Era.
Theoretical accounts of modern American poetry often regard literary texts as the expression of a subjectivity irremediably fractured by the dividing practices of power.
A 1995 collection of poems that finds John Ashbery at his most conversational, funny, and surprisingIn Can You Hear, Bird, John Ashbery’s seventeenth collection, language is both a plaything and a sandbox.
In this extraordinary true story, Kojo Svedstrup Jantuah recounts his epic quest for identity and reconciliation with the past, following a hunch concerning his Scandinavian ancestors through six generations.
Spanning twenty years and five collections, Brenda Shaughnessy's Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems introduces new readers to one of America's most audacious and thrilling poets.
Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men.
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations.
A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "e;the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language.
Experimental poet and translator Mnica de la Torres new collection is a document of both the events of 2020 and the process of a poet rethinking artistic practice as she tracks subtle shifts in her experience during multiple global crises.
