Poems

Poems by: Alcman, Sappho & Ibycus A limited edition of 950 copies hardcover published by Knopf in 1945 Brown cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, slipcase is damaged at the bottom Packaging and Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation **DAVE**

Poems of a South African - The Collected Verse of A. Vine Hall A fourth edition hardcover published by Longmans in 1931 Green cloth covers with gold writing to the spine & front cover, loss to spinetop & insect damage to cover boards, binding is tight & strong, foxing & agecolour to pages, Postage inside South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quote

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days In Poems to Live Your Life By, Chris Riddell, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about life, death and everything in between. This gorgeously illustrated collection includes forty-six poems and is divided into sections covering: musings, youth, family, love, imaginings, nature, war and endings. Chris Riddell brings them to life with his exquisite, intricate artwork in this beautiful anthology. This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses from William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, W. B. Yeats and Christina Rossetti sit alongside poems from Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Carol Ann Duffy, Neil Gaiman and Roger McGough to create the ultimate collection. Features Summary A gorgeous anthology of poems to live your life by from award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell. Author Chris Riddell Publisher Macmillan Children's Books Release date 20180926 Pages 198 ISBN 1-5098-1437-X ISBN 13 978-1-5098-1437-4

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  REALITIES, 2001. Book Condition: Very Good Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page.  Previous owner inscription on front free end paper. Struggle poetry where solitary confinement could not take away from him his ability to turn words into poems.  Struggle poetry. 55 pp. 

  Author(s): Gerard Manley Hopkins, selected and edited by W.H. Gardner  Title:      Poems and Prose  ISBN: 0 14 042015 0  Publisher: Penguin  This Edition: first of this selection, 6th reprint of 1985  Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1953  Binding: paperback Number of pages: 254  Weight: 166g  Condition:   Very good   

  Author(s): Bremer Hofmeyr  Title:      Poems of Trial and Triumph  ISBN: 0 620 06654 7  Publisher/place: Grosvenor Books, Johannesburg  This Edition: first  Year of Publication: 1983  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  56  Weight:  127g  Condition:   Good  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.  

  Author(s): various -ranging from Frances Bacon to Rudyard Kipling.  Compiled by John Kierna  Title:      Poems I Remeber  ISBN: n/a  Publisher: Garden City Publishing, New York  This Edition: reprint edition    Year of Publication: 1945  Place Of Publication: USA  First Published: 1942  Binding: hardcover Dustjacket: none/missing  Number of pages: 565  Weight: 664g   Condition:   Beautiful vintage book in very good condition.   - has a dedication written inside Please see pictures below, as these form part of the description.    

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author Al Purdy (Author), Steven Heighton (Introduction by) Publisher House of Anansi Press Release date 20130326 Pages 104 ISBN 1-77089-260-5 ISBN 13 978-1-77089-260-6

1962 hardcover with dust jacket in secondhand condition. Name in ink in front and celotape marks. R60 postage in SA.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author James Thomas Fields Publisher Wentworth Press Release date 20190220 Pages 106 ISBN 0-353-98127-3 ISBN 13 978-0-353-98127-0

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) 'The joy for me is that this is my anthology, and I love every single poem in this book.' Jacqueline Wilson This is a gorgeous, stunningly produced collection of classic and modern poems that girls will turn to again and again throughout their lives. Jacqueline has taken great delight in selecting and arranging her favourite poems for this book, and you can hear her voice in the beautiful poems she has chosen, making it a truly personal collection. There are poems that will make you smile, laugh, frown and cry, and poems that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Format:Paperback Pages:288

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth, beauty and wit can now be fully appreciated. Longley's poetry combines intense concentration with remarkable variety. The formal and thematic range laid down in No Continuing City (1969) has undergone a series of rich metamorphoses up to Snow Water (2004), and the two poems included here as an epilogue. Longley's genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry. He has extended the capacity of the lyric to absorb dark matter: the Great War, the Holocaust, the Northern Irish 'Troubles'. His poetic landscape intermingles Belfast (where he lives), western Ireland, Italy, Japan and Homeric Greece. Longley's superb translations from classical poets (such as 'Ceasefire', which greets the IRA ceasefire in terms of the Iliad) speak to contemporary issues while activating the deepest sources of European poetry. Features Summary A collection of poems of the author whose genres span love poetry, war poetry, nature poetry, elegies, satires, verse epistles, and poems that reflect on art and the art of poetry.. Author Michael Longley Publisher Jonathan Cape Release date 20071004 Pages 368 ISBN 0-224-08044-X ISBN 13 978-0-224-08044-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems Volume I reissued as a Carcanet Classic. Described by Thom Gunn as `an ideal edition', this first volume of William Carlos Williams' Collected Poems is a vivid account of his formation as a poet, his time in Europe, and his interactions with the major players of Modernism (he never quite appreciated that he was one of them). The poems are printed in the order of original publication, starting with The Tempers (1913) and ending with Poems 1936-1939. Williams remains one of the most popular American poets of all time, Whitman's heir but with a voice wholly unlike Whitman's: provincial, particular, never quite settled. His material is the stuff of daily life, though he takes big risks of theme: `the urgent insurgent now' that he lives and celebrates becomes history; it can generate energy even from the past. Features Summary The first of the monumental, definitive two-volume edition of Williams's Collected Poems for the twenty-first century reader. Author William Carlos Williams (Author), Walton Litz (Editor), Christopher McGowan (Editor) Publisher Carcanet Classics Release date 20180913 Pages 608 ISBN 1-78410-671-2 ISBN 13 978-1-78410-671-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Keith Althaus has the kind of straightforward voice that commands attention: He makes a series of seemingly calm statements and wham, you're hit by the fact that he's telling the truth, the beautiful truth of what it's like to be alive right now."--Alan Dugan Keith Althaus published his first book ("Rival Heavens," Provincetown Arts Press) in 1993 and has been working in relative obscurity ever since. "Ladder of Hours "gathers poems written over four decades, a selection that teaches us how insight into everyday life can transform the world. Composed in language that is spare, almost skeletal, yet lacking nothing, "Ladder of Hours "investigates the subtleties of moments we might otherwise overlook. Althaus is interested in everything, from the label on a whiskey bottle to the distance between emotion and idea. His poems explode "ordinary" moments of perception, revealing unexpected meaning and resonance, and they do so in a way that seems strangely without ego, bent entirely on extracting and capturing the essence of his discoveries. "Ladder of Hours "takes us into numinous territory we didn't know was there. "Lullaby" "The painful series of operation that culminate in death: becoming forty, eighty, neither one. Dying young or old, awake or drugged, or pleasantly unaware in sleep as they say Auden wanted to and did, with just the slightest sensation, like a sleeping baby handed from one pair of arms into another." Keith Althaus has published poems in "The New Yorker," "The American Poetry Review," "Poetry," and numerous other magazines. He has worked at many jobs, including carpentry, tree planting, loft renovation, and clerical work, and now runs a gallery with his wife, the artist Susan Baker. They live in North Truro, Massachusetts. Features Summary Minimal yet full of mystery, Althaus poems explore complexities and subtle moments of everyday experience. Author Keith Althaus Publisher Ausable Press Release date 20050901 Pages 176 ISBN 1-931337-27-6 ISBN 13 978-1-931337-27-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days In his eighth book of poems, John Koethe offers readers the reflections of a poet in midlife, an "aging child of sixty-two," passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to meditate on memory, time, and the mysteries of human existence. In "Ninety-fifth Street," Koethe retraces narratives from his life and moves across various landscapes he once inhabited; in his hands these stories and places become poems of beauty, feeling, and poignant candor. Disarmingly conversational and always accessible, these new poems offer the pleasures of a lucid intelligence and a distinctive poetic voice, by turns contemplative and worldly, lyrical, witty, and elegiac. Features Summary In his eighth book of poems, John Koethe offers readers the reflections of a poet in midlife, an "aging child of sixty-two," passionately engaged with the world yet drawn to meditate on memory... Author John Koethe Publisher HarperPerennial Release date 20090908 Pages 80 ISBN 0-06-176823-5 ISBN 13 978-0-06-176823-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the "seven ages" of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life - whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes - when only a poem will do. Features Summary Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this anthology brings together the poems in English. Beginning with babies... Author Laura Barber Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20080925 Pages 389 ISBN 0-14-042470-9 ISBN 13 978-0-14-042470-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Tina Celona's darkly lucid, lightly comic poems are explicit in their attentiveness to the primacy of poetry as a natural force, akin to that of tides or the correlative lunar cycle. Describing war, freedom, dream, "Satisfaction," and imagination in clear, unabstracted terms, Celona invokes poems and their poet with a focused intensity. Features Summary Celona's darkly lucid, lightly comic poems are explicit in their attentiveness to the primacy of poetry as a natural force. Author Tina Celona Publisher University Press of New England Release date 20020831 Pages 72 ISBN 0-9713189-3-X ISBN 13 978-0-9713189-3-9

100 Great Poems by Victoria Parker, 2009 Hardcover, 189 pages Published 2009 by Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd 100 great poems: favourite poems and their poets. selected by Victoria Parker; introduction by Fiona Waters.

 OSCAR WILDE Plays Prose and Poems ; annotations by H Montgomery Hyde   ; Hardcover; Published 1989 (Reprint)  by MacDonald & Co -  (Publishers) Ltd. " under the Blackcat imprint ".     (This book First published by Orbis Publishing in 1982 )                            ISBN  0 7481 0259 0 ; No. of Pages; 487 including the Index . Illustrated. List of Contents includes; Introduction; Poems; Poems in Prose; Prose Fiction Plays  (including The Importance of Being Earnest;; Lady Windomere's Fan ; Salome'; The Gribsby Episode ;) Lectures and Essays; and Lettrs.  Very very good condition, no damage very clean, no inscriptions. For postage via SA PO and within SA  please add R70.00 (due to weight (1.9kg)  and size) alternatively via Postnet to Postnet   for a parcel of total weight not exceeding 5kg then please add R105.00. Buyers from outsid e of SA  can contact us for a postal quotation.      

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days There are eighty of Roger McGough's wonderful poems in this hugely enjoyable collection, gathered into a new volume to celebrate Roger's 80th birthday! The poems have been specially chosen to reflect Roger's unique sense of humour, his wit and wisdom and sharp observations on all aspects of life. New, quirky illustrations by the author himself add further enjoyment! Features Summary There are eighty of Roger McGough's wonderful poems in this hugely enjoyable collection, gathered into a new volume to celebrate Roger's 80th birthday! Author Roger McGough Publisher Puffin Release date 20171005 Pages 144 ISBN 0-14-138882-X ISBN 13 978-0-14-138882-3

Into the Okavango, The africa Poems and Photographs Poems by Marianne Harding Burgoyne Photographs by Marianne & Robert H Burgoyne A first edition hard cover published by the authors in 2005 Brown leatherette cover boards with gold writing to the spine & front cover, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, every page is glossy colour photos with poems. Dustjacket is complete & not priceclipped no marks no nicks or tears clean & bright, a magnificent coffee table book. Postage within South Africa will be R50-00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote. abe #06401

Mandela The Spear and Other Poems Neither the poems, nor Okai himself, need my voice the poet has long established himself as one of the towering figures in the field of modern African poetry in English. Readers will find that all the familiar elements of the Okai signature are present the declamatory posture of the poet persona; the tactical deployment of assonances, the mobilization of memory; and remembrance; the constant mingling of customary codes and the violent conjoining of names from diverse epochs - all these and more are patently in evidence here. Author      Atukwei Okai ISBN        9780992187514 Format     Paperback Pages       131p.  

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days This collection of 180 poems can be used by teachers to help children build reading skills through the enjoyment of poetry. The poems have been selected by Dr. Walter B. Barbe, and all have been previously published in Highlights for Children. The Book features an introduction and teacher footnotes by Dr. Barbe. Features Summary A Highlights poem for each school day. Author Dennis Hockerman Publisher Boyds Mills Press Release date 20050915 Pages 116 ISBN 1-59078-395-6 ISBN 13 978-1-59078-395-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. Features Summary Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past. Author Charles Bukowski Publisher Ecco Press Release date 19920817 Pages 405 ISBN 0-87685-863-9 ISBN 13 978-0-87685-863-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days In her fourth book of poems, Deborah Tall serves up, as Charles Simic remarks, "a huge feast of words and images." Spare, charged, eloquently complex, her poems distill emotion to its precipitate. In "Cottage by the Beach, Normandy, " loneliness is this: A dozen tulips/ erect in the centerpiece, / hold their allotment of empty air. In "Winter Solstice, " war yields, A hillside of markers, /a showroom of tombs./The bushes fruited with ice. Summons is a call to speak out -- in the face of violence, cruelty, and loss -- and a summoning up of the forces of nature and humanity that console. Features Summary Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, judge Charles Simic. Author Deborah Tall Publisher Sarabande Books Release date 20001101 Pages 88 ISBN 1-889330-49-3 ISBN 13 978-1-889330-49-5