English/ Irish/ Scottish/ Welsh
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
$15.95 Add to cart“Commentary on the greatest poems of the English language from one of America’s foremost lieterary critics”–Cover.
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Brooks, Cleanth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: February 23 1956
- ISBN10: 0156957051
- Language: English
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Loving the Dying
$17.95 Add to cartLoving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages. Set against the backdrop of a conflicted society, Len Verwey looks at a person’s life from youth and growing up to aging and dying… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Verwey, Len
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234685
- Language: English
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The Birthday Party and the Room: Two Plays
$16.00 Add to cartIn The Birthday Party, a musician who escapes to a dilapidated boarding house becomes the victim of a ritual murder in which everyone- assassins, victim, and observers- implacably plays out the role a… [more below]
- Author: Pinter, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0802151140
- Language: English
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Happy Days
$17.00 Add to cartIn Happy Days, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and… [more below]
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0802144403
- Language: English
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Snow
$15.95 Add to cartPart of the stunning collection of Walter de la Mare’s Four Seasons, illustrated by Caroline Rabei, comes Snow. This is a wonderful picture book, perfect for the festive time.
- Series: Four Seasons of Walter de la Mare
- Author: de la Mare, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0571312195
- Language: English
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Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
$24.99 Add to cartOriginally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it co
- Author: Satyamurti, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352498
- Language: English
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Plainchant
$15.95 Read moreGrennan’s new collection shows again his powers of close, patient, plainspoken observation. Whether his gaze falls on the dash of a hare, dive of a gannet, heavy stillness of a rain-flecked cow, the s
- Author: Grennan, Eamon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1636280137
- Language: English
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The Letters of Seamus Heaney
$45.00 Read moreThe letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind.
Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, o- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0374185298
- Language: English
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Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays
$24.99 Add to cartEavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey t
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074280
- Language: English
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Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis
$29.99 Add to cartAs I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called “Tollers” sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade.
“How did you get on?” he asked.
“I think rather well. I t
- Author: Sayer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 20 2005
- ISBN10: 1581347391
- Language: English
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Crowded House
$20.00 Read moreLike a Viewfinder with overlapping reels, Safia Jama examines the way inherited trauma–her parents and brother fleeing military dictatorship in Somalia–can overlay the present day: “when my husband
- Author: Jama, Safia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1957372052
- Language: English
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Collected Poems in English and French
$14.00 Add to cartOne of the most important playwrights and novelists of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett was also an accomplished poet and translator. Collected Poems in English and French is a complete collectio
- Series: Beckett, Samuel
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0802130968
- Language: English
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In a Time of Violence: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartThis, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed “the meeting place between womanhood and history.”
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0393312984
- Language: English
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Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
$18.99 Add to cart“[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer…. Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance…. A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393308227
- Language: English
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‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and Other Plays: The Lover’s Melancholy; The Broken Heart; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore; Perkin Warbeck
$12.95 Add to cartFord wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection of four plays also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Ford, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553866
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Lord George Gordon Byron
$19.00 Read moreThe selected poems of a legendary romantic.
Described as ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Byron, Lord George Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0140424504
- Language: English
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Indelible Miraculous
$18.49 Add to cartThis collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling’s death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: “The poems are funny, irreverent, moving… [more below]
- Author: Darling, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 191034530X
- Language: English
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What Was Said at the Burns Supper: Speeches about Robert Burns and Really Bad Scottish Jokes Best Washed Down with a Wee Dram
$16.95 Add to cartRobert Burns. The flawed hero of Scottish culture, a poet who inspired a nation, a man loved by the ladies despite his debauchery, appreciated by the menfolk in the pubs with his songs and stories, a
- Author: McColl, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1958363375
- Language: English
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The Lost Book of Barkynge
$20.00 Add to cartIn her debut collection The Lost Book of Barkynge, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine, plag… [more below]
- Author: Wiggins, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: March 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1848618638
- Language: English
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Rapture
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, “essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages” (The Guardian)
The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her much admi- Author: Duffy, Carol Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0865478864
- Language: English
