Blackbird Singing : Poems and Lyrics 1965-1999

Arts & Photography

MCCARTNEY, Paul

Music

Faber Faber Poetry

Yellow Tulips

JAMES FENTON

An anthology that gathers fourteen centuries of extraordinary verse - beginning with the first writings from the old languages of England and Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and culminating in some of our most recent poets, speaking in our present-day tongues.

The Map and the Clock

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award. When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow , Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs. Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned and looks instead to a temporary measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility of her promise to Troilus, and in despair succumbs to another. Lavinia Greenlaw's pinpoint retelling of this heart-wrenching tale is neither a translation nor strictly a 'version' of Chaucer's work, but instead creates something new: a sequence of glimpses from the medieval poem that refine the psychological drama of the classical story through a process of detonation or amplification of image and phrase into original poems. In a series of skillfully crafted seven-line vignettes, the author creates a zoetrope that serves to illuminate the intensity with which these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read -contemporary and timeless - that builds into an unforgettable telling of this most heartbreaking of love stories.

A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde

Lavinia Greenlaw

Dramas & Plays

<p>Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award. When Chaucer composed Troilus and Criseyde he gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. A Double Sorrow , Lavinia Greenlaw's new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs. Set against the Siege of Troy, A Double Sorrow is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned and looks instead to a temporary measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility of her promise to Troilus, and in despair succumbs to another. Lavinia Greenlaw's pinpoint retelling of this heart-wrenching tale is neither a translation nor strictly a 'version' of Chaucer's work, but instead creates something new: a sequence of glimpses from the medieval poem that refine the psychological drama of the classical story through a process of detonation or amplification of image and phrase into original poems. In a series of skillfully crafted seven-line vignettes, the author creates a zoetrope that serves to illuminate the intensity with which these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking and shattering read -contemporary and timeless - that builds into an unforgettable telling of this most heartbreaking of love stories.</p>

Double Sorrow

Greenlaw, Lavinia

History & Criticism

Paper Aeroplane

Simon Armitage

<p>Addressed to friends and strangers, the living and the dead, to children, poets, musicians and dogs, this collection of verse shows one of Britains most ambitious, wide-ranging and accomplished poets at the height of his powers.</p>

40 Sonnets

Don Paterson

Over 65 years, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott has created a body of work unequalled in its breadth, range and linguistic inventiveness. This selection by his friend and fellow poet Glyn Maxwell draws on every stage of Walcott's career, from his earliest work, published when he was just 18, to recent reflections on old age. Its topics include family, love and nature, his homeland of St Lucia, colonialism, identity, and the celebrated yet problematic canon of Western literature.

POETRY OF DEREK WALCOTT 19482013

Derek Walcott

Faber New Poets 11: Part 11

Zaffar Kunial

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