Poetry by individual poets

A fresh selection of the finest poems-some previously uncollected-by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry?

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning.

Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions.

Weaving together universal themes of family, geography, and death with images of America's frontier landscape, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Survant has been lauded for his ability to capture the spirit of the land and its people.

Written between the years 1798 and 1801, The Lucy Poems is a charming, pocket-sized collection of William Wordsworth's Lucy poems, first published in one of his best-known works, Lyrical Ballads.

This study of the poetry of the eighteenth century is written with appropriate clarity, grace, and wit.

Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary YoungePioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politics and reggae rhythms.

Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy.

My heart in your hands is a platform for poets in Namibia to speak out.

';Twas the late, great William Shakespeare that said: ';All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts' I couldn't agree more with this statement.

Rilke schrieb seinen Gedichtzyklus "Duineser Elegien" in dem langen Jahrzehnt von 1912 bis 1922.

This is a book of ghost stories, and for the most part, ghosts are jealous monsters, intent upon our destruction.

Cet ouvrage, une compilation de 50 poèmes écrits par André Assiogbon Anani KUEVIDJEN (1926-2014), constitue le tome 3 d’une série de quatre, l’ensemble devant regrouper 200 poèmes consacrés à la liberté, à la démocratie, à l’éthique politique, au panafricanisme, etc.

American Poet Emily Dickinson's exquisite poetry spans a broad range of subjects, but perhaps none is so charming as those that she wrote concerning birds.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Don't Put your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington and over 250 more lyrics from Coward's musical masterpieces.

"e;Last Poems"e; is a 1936 collection of poetry by A.

Searchingfor Home, Packs splendid twenty-second collection of poems,written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search formeaning.

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.

Before and since his enforced exile from 1989, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China.

There's always a pause,between the inhale and the first word.

Where Outside the Body Is the Soul Today comprises two interwoven seriesone of linked prose poems called Another Letter to the Soul and one of individual lined poems that explore the connection between anima and animal.

In these fascinating and compelling poetic lines, the Author holds a dialogue with several entities, and especially, with God.

For the first time, the poems and accompanying letters of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) are published here with a translation and detailed commentary, along with a full introduction to Optatian's work during this period.

At times apocalyptic and other times passionate and intimate, Eleonore Schonmaier's poems show the beauty of the lived and natural world in both wilderness and urban settings.

“A lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like a who’s who of contemporary Chicago writers/residents”(Chicago Tribune).

It is that sort of morning for the heart; the living are giving the dead an honest test.

Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry.

The new century peeled me bone bare like a songinside a warbler - that bird, people,who knows not to go where the sky'sstopped.

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

Taking its title from lossless data compression algorithms,Losslesstransmits through time and space those stabs of self that intensify with loss of relationships, of faith, of childhood, of people.

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

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The day's an old room / stripped of its furniture; there are / never enough beds in winter.

In the night her whitened toes / cold sole on his calf / between his palms he warms / a slender foot - / twig bones, taut skin.

Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Ascension is a collection of lyric poems that chronicles life in and around Llano, Texas (population 3,033).

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet.

Der bedeutende Theaterwissenschaftler Hans-Thies Lehmann hat sich jahrzehntelang mit Bertolt Brecht beschäftigt.

Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets.

The elegance, verbal felicitousness, and subtle crafting that were the signature qualities of Carmine Starnino's debut, The New World, are once again on display in his second book, Credo.

Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist best known as the author of "e;The Prophet"e; (1923), which is one of the best-selling books of all time.

As he approaches eighty, Turner Cassity may finally be out of control.

Silence in the belly of the breathing house.