Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Akhmatova, Anna

Poetry

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The Season of Comfort

Morrison, Vincent

This single poem (included in his Selected Poetry) is attractively printed in a six page phamplet and illustrated with five graceful line drawings of kumquats. The drawings are executed in a pastel color to match the cover, and kumquats.

Kumquat for John Keats

tony-harrison

Complete Poems

Edith Södergran

History & Criticism

Poet Reclining: Selected Poems, 1962-80

The definitive edition of his work, including all the best poetry Smith published from 1962 to 1980, as well as some previously unpublished poems.

Poet Reclining

SMITH, Ken

David Constantine's second book shows a remarkable development in the range and power of his poetry. After establishing his reputation with the quiet but resonant poems of A Brightness to Cast Shadows (1980), Constantine has gone on to achieve a classical mastery of form and to further develop a highly individual voice, which now has an almost visionary edge. In the poems and related Greek translations of Watching for Dolphins David Constantine recreates a complete imaginative world. Mythical an biblical figures - Christ, Lazarus, Aphrodite and Persephone - appear as opposing forces of Christian compassion and classical excellence. Contrasts and contradictions are at the heart of Constantine's poetic world. The possibility of personal happiness is insisted upon: any wider optimism would be out of place.

Watching for Dolphins

CONSTANTINE, David

Wonderful verse translations of medieval Latin lyrics.

The Virgin & the Nightingale: medieval Latin lyrics

Adcock, Fleur

The stubborn forest

Paul Hyland

Snow light, water light

Frances Horovitz

Persephone

Persephone loses her innocence in the Underworld, but finds herself. She is Everywoman coming through darkness, betrayal and disillusion to discover a new life, a new sense of herself. And she is many women in Jenny Joseph's extraordinary novel, which retells the Greek myth of spring and winter, of good and evil.Demeter the earth goddess is every worried mother struggling to understand her daughter. Hades is the reckless man, brutal, possessive, but mellowed by the girl he takes for himself, the woman who goes back to him.In Persephone, Jenny Joseph has created a new kind of novel, a story made up of many stories, our stories, using poetry, narrative, parody and many other kinds of writing. Like the myth itself, Persephone is unforgettable. The book won her the 1986 James Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

Joseph, Jenny

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