Poetry
Selected Poems - Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah's first book was greeted with amazement. The "Poetry Review" declared, 'Shall I put it in capitals? SOPHIE HANNAH IS A GENIUS.' Each subsequent collection has been formally more inventive, thematically more complex, yet each has met with a sSelected Poems by Sophie Hannah - review
A funny, passionate collection of poetry that delights with its artful rumpty-tumpty-tum I used to be suspicious of those poems that rhyme; I felt a snobbish need to sneer, or spurn, or shirk such verse. To understand it took too little time.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics - Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul Rouzer
Suitable for students, scholars, and poets on various aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more, this book reflects changes in literary and cultural studies, providing coverage and giving
Muscovy - Matthew Francis
Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes off for the moon in an engine drawn by geese, a poltergeist moves into a remote Welsh village, and a party of seveThe Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition edited by Roland Greene - review
If there is one thing we learn above all else from this book, it is that poetry is something people do everywhere, and have been doing ever since there was language It was James Dyson , inventor of not only a vacuum cleaner but also a hand dryer, who,
Found at Sea - Andrew Greig
Andrew Greig recounts in poetic sequence the tale of his open dinghy voyage from Stromness in Scapa Flow and an overnight stay on Cava (an island formerly inhabited for over twenty years by two unusual women) in poetic sequence. In sailing small boats in
Bookclub: Poet Gillian Clarke - Ice
Gillian Clarke discusses her poetry collection Ice with James Naughtie and readers.Found at Sea by Andrew Greig - review
A book-length poetic sequence set in remotest Orkney conjures up images of lives lived in isolation "And then went down to the ship, / Set keel to breaker, forth on the godly sea," runs the epigraph from Ezra Pound to Andrew Greig's Found at Sea . Bet
The Divine Comedy - Translated by Clive James
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translation--decades in the making--gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively readable lyric poem. Written in the early fourteenth century and completed in 1321, the y