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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore." Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes,"than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communalexistence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocationno less essential for being impossible. Features Summary The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance. Author Ben Lerner Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions Release date 20160601 Pages 96 ISBN 1-910695-15-7 ISBN 13 978-1-910695-15-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A bestseller in hardback, this critically acclaimed collection of short essays and reflections on poetry is now available in paperback. llustrating Maxwell's poetic philosophy with examples from canonical poets, this is a beautiful, accessible guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature. Features Summary A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry which illustrate Maxwell's poetic philosophy. With examples from canonical poets, this is a beautiful... Author Glyn Maxwell Publisher Oberon Books Ltd Release date 20170325 Pages 176 ISBN 1-78682-086-2 ISBN 13 978-1-78682-086-0

Poetry Movement Volume ll A poetry anthology. Author     Bhekumuzi Kubheka ISBN     Format     Paperback Pages

Identifying 'The Others' is all about power dynamics. It is the messy intersection and interaction and interaction of multiple identities, mixed with toxic socializing, body scaling and the assumed hierachy inherited from racial, economic, religious and social identity. It lays bare our prejudices and biases. It exalts what we perceive as normal and points fingers and marginalizes the deviants. The others.  Who are the others? Where do I end? Where do the others begin? Poetry Potion number 12 Title: Infinite Wonders Author/s: Various Publisher: Black Letter Media Paperback, 71pp ISSN 2304-8107

Paperback. Book Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition.   Macmillan Education Australia 2003

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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

In the Heat of Shadows: South African Poetry, 1996-2013 In the Heat of Shadows: South African Poetry 1996-2013 presents the works of 32 poets and includes some translations from Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho, and Xitsonga. This collection follows on from Denis Hirson's 1997 anthology The Lava of This Land: South African Poetry 1960-1996. Today, South African poetry is charged with restlessness, bursting with diversity. Gone is the intense inward focus required to deal with a situation of systematic oppression, the enclosing effort of concentration on a single predicament. While politics and identity continue to be central themes, South African poetry since the late 1990s reveals a richer investigation of ancestors and history, alongside more experimentation with language and translation, and enduring concern with the touchstones of love, loss, memory, and acts of witnessing. The poets include: Jim Pascual Agustin * Gabeba Baderoon * Robert Berold * Vonani Bila * Jeremy Cronin * Ingrid de Kok * Isobel Dixon * Finuala Dowling * Khadija Tracey Heeger * Denis Hirson * Ronelda Kamfer * Keorapetse Kgositsile * Katharine Kilalea * Rustum Kozain * Antjie Krog * David wa Maahlamela * Bongekile Joyce Mbanjwa * Joan Metelerkamp * Kobus Moolman * Isabella Motadinyane * Petra Muller * Gert Vlok Nel * Mxolisi Nyezwa * Karen Press * Mongane Wally Serote * Ari Sitas * Kelwyn Sole * Rosamund Stanford * Toni Stuart * Nathan Trantraal * Marlene van Niekerk * Bulelani Zantsi. [Subject: African Studies, Poetry] About the editor  Denis Hirson was editor of a previous anthology of poetry: The Lava of this Land, South African Poetry 1960-1996 (Northwestern University Press and David Philip, 1997), was co-editor [with Martin Trump] of The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories (Heinemann, 1994), and the author of an historical survey of South African literature, Worlds in One Country (Jacana 2011). He has also edited two anthologies of South African poetry in French translation, and has done much to promote South African literature in Europe. Denis Hirson is the author of four books of memory: The House Next Door to Africa, I Remember King Kong (the Boxer), We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way, White Scars, a poetry collection, Gardening in the Dark, and a novel, The Dancing and the Death in Lemon Street. Editor     Denis Hirson ISBN      0987028235, 9780987028235 Format   Paperback Pages    279p.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days ""One of the virtues of good poetry is the fact that it irritates the mediocre."" Theodore Roethke was one of the most famous and outspoken poets and poetry teachers this country has ever known. In this volume of selected prose, Roethke articulates his commitments to imaginative possibilities, offers tender advice to young writers, and zings darts at stuffed shirts, lightweights and fools. ""Art is our defense against hysteria and death."" With the assistance of Roethke's widow, this volume has been edited to include the finest selections from out of print collections of prose and journal entries. Focused on the making and teaching of poetry, "On Poetry and Craft" will be prized in the classroom-and outrageous Roethke quotes will once again pepper our conversations. ""You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is."" Theodore Roethke was of an illustrious generation of poets which included Sexton, Plath, Lowell, Berryman, and like them he received nearly every major award in poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize and twice the National Book Award. In spite of his fame, he remained a legendary teacher, known for the care and attention he gave to his students, poets such as James Wright, Carolyn Kizer, Tess Gallagher, and Richard Hugo. Roethke died on August 1, 1963, while swimming in a friend's pool. ""But before I'm reduced to an absolute pulp by my own ambivalence, I must say goodbye. The old lion perisheth. Nymphs, I wish you the swoops of many fish. May your search for the abiding be forever furious."" On Poetry and Craft I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods. We can't escape what we are, and I'm afraid many of my notions about verse (I haven't too many) have been conditioned by the fact that for nearly 25 years I've been trying to teach the young something about the nature of verse by writing it--and that with very little formal knowledge of the subject or previous instruction. So it's going to be lik Features Summary Roethke's prose teems with fierce intelligence and outrageous quoteable quotes. Author Theodore Roethke (Author), Carolyn Kizer (Foreword by) Publisher Copper Canyon Press Release date 20010401 Pages 210 ISBN 1-55659-156-X ISBN 13 978-1-55659-156-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 9 working days This poetry collection for 5 year olds comprises 35 fun, accessible poems to read together at home. Featuring a fantastic range of children's poets and four exciting themes with full-colour illustrations, this is the ideal approach to encourage a love of reading, whilst developing an understanding of poetry, meeting the new requirements of the National Curriculum. Poetry is a fun way for children to enjoy learning to read, developing their vocabulary and understanding of ideas and themes. This collection offers a wide range of poems to appeal to all children, from poems about special days such as Christmas or Chinese New Year to poems that are great to read aloud, like 'The Wuzzy Wasps of Wasperton'. The collection has been carefully selected for children in Year 1 of school and includes helpful parent notes for every poem and a glossary of key terms from the series editor and children's poet, John Foster. It is the first of three poetry collections that will support your child from learning to read in Year 1 through to understanding themes and developing vocabulary in Year 3. This collection of poetry has the perfect balance of engaging rhyme, familiar themes and amusing illustrations to promote a lifelong love of reading. Features Summary This poetry collection for 5 year olds, with parental guidance and notes for every poem, has been created in line with the National Curriculum to support children learning to read at home and build confidence for school. Author John Foster Publisher Oxford UniversityPress Release date 20160204 Pages 96 ISBN 0-19-274470-4 ISBN 13 978-0-19-274470-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "I consider Kit Robinson to be one of his generation's most accomplished, innovative, and genuinely witty writers."--Anselm Hollo "The Messianic Trees" is the first major collection of thirty years of poetry by Kit Robinson, one of the core members of the Bay Area literary renaissance and language movement. Work in this collection ranges from 1973 to the twenty-first century, including work from thirteen books of Robinson's poetry. "3:15""The immediate impulse" "claimed" "in a light fog" "East Bay" "of night" "I alter nothing" "Save the sound" "of walking later" "through these leaves" In the 1970s and 1980s Kit Robinson performed with San Francisco Poets Theater and produced "In the American Tree: New Writing by Poets," a weekly radio program of live readings and interviews on KPFA radio in Berkeley (with Lyn Hejinian). He has published seventeen books of poetry and has also taught poetry writing in schools through the California Poets in the Schools program. Robinson's awards include a Fund for Poetry Prize and an NEA creative writing fellowship. Features Summary Selected Poetry ranging from early work in 1973 up to the early 21st century Author Kit Robinson Publisher Adventures in Poetry Release date 20081120 Pages 272 ISBN 0-9761612-6-5 ISBN 13 978-0-9761612-6-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days From a two-time winner of the National Poetry Series competition, a bold new collection of poems lamenting the state of the world--and offering poetry that might save it "Civil twilight" occurs just before dawn and just after dusk, when there is still light enough to distinguish the shapes and contours of objects but not the richness of their detail.Beginning with the idea that nothing can be seen clearly in the light of the present, the poems in Civil Twilight attempt to resuscitate lyric's revelatory impulse by taking nothing for granted, forming their materials under the light of a critical gaze. If there is any chance left for a humane world, a world in which poetry might become as transparent and evocative as it has always longed to be, these poems desire nothing but to find hints of that chance, and to follow them as far as they might lead. Jeffrey Schultz brings his distinct voice to bear on the stuff of twenty-first-century America--languishing FOIA requests, graffiti-covered city walls, the violent machinery of the state--without abandoning hope that the language of poetry might transport us to some better and as-yet-unimaginable world. Turning a call to be "civil" on its head, this collection nudges the reader toward revolution. Features Summary From a two-time winner of the National Poetry Series competition, a bold new collection of poems lamenting the state of the world--and offering poetry that might save it "Civil twilight" occurs just before dawn and just after dusk... Author Jeffrey Schultz Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20171002 Pages 104 ISBN 0-06-267898-1 ISBN 13 978-0-06-267898-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Lindsay's delight in imaginary and unknown worlds, her compulsion to write exactly what she doesn't know, removes her poems completely from the tired confessional anecdotalism of so much narrative poetry."--"Poetry" "Sarah Lindsay's niche in contemporary poetry might be likened to that of Joseph Cornell's in modern art. Anything might turn up in a Cornell box: a stuffed bird, images snipped from old engravings, dice, corks, a broken watch--anything. Like Cornell, Lindsay also creates tiny, complete worlds that operate according to their own particular laws."--"Parnassus" In her fourth collection of poetry, National Book Award finalist and Lannan Fellowship winner Sarah Lindsay presents a lyric menagerie of bizarrely imagined personae and historic figures revealing their long-held secrets, alongside surprising scientific subjects and discoveries layered into quirky, dark-edged, sometimes macabre, always intimate and graceful poems. Imbued with a buoying sense of respect for the different, the unexpected, and the challenging, Lindsay's poems are alive with wonder. And when asked the obvious question about the title, you can say, "A 'bone-eating snotflower' is the inelegant slang for the worm-like creature, "Osedax mucofloris," that feeds on the carcasses of minke whales in the North Sea." From "Without Warning": "Elizabeth Bishop leaned on a table, it cracked, both fell to the floor. A gesturegone sadly awry. This was close to factand quickly became symbolic, bound to occurin Florida, where she was surroundedby rotting abundance and greedy insects. One moment a laughing smile, a graceful handalighting on solid furniture, a casual shift of weight, the next, undignified splayed legs. The shell of the tableproved to be stuffed with termite eggs... " Sarah Lindsay graduated from St. Olaf College and holds a MFA from UNC Greensboro. Her first book of poetry, "Primate Behavior," was a finalist for the National Book Award. She currently works as a copy editor for Pace Communications, and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Features Summary "Lindsay's delight in imaginary and unknown worlds, her compulsion to write exactly what she doesn't know, removes her poems completely from the tired confessional anecdotalism of so much narrative poetry... Author Sarah Lindsay Publisher Copper Canyon Press Release date 20131121 Pages 133 ISBN 1-55659-446-1 ISBN 13 978-1-55659-446-5

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) Solly Greenfields, the first of the taxi poets, has been shot dead. At the Institute for Taxi Poetry, where they train young people to write poetry on the bodywork of Cape Town's taxis, Solly's protege Adam Ravens tries to make sense of his death. Who killed Solly, and why is Adam's son acting so weird? In the world of Imraan Coovadia's new tragicomic novel taxi companies thrive in a single-party state. Taxi poets are admired, sliding-door men rule, professors and politicians strut and fret and connive in a society shaped by violence and ambition, love, and the unsettling power of the imagination. Format:Paperback (Trade paperback, B format) Pages:224

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

SA in po____sie = SA in poetry This is a collectable book of South African poetry in English and Afrikaans. Authors Pieter Jacques Jan Conradie, J Van Wyk, Nik Constandaras (1988) ISBN 9780620112758 Format Paperback Length 890p

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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 This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained pre-eminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects not only the significant changes in this nation's postwar history, and the coming to grips with a nuclear age, but also an entirely new way of looking at and structuring reality. United by their "postmodernist" concerns with spontaneity, "instantism," formal and syntactic flexibility, and the revelation of both the creator and the process through the writing itself, these 38 poets represent very diverse strains of an essential American individualism. Included are many of the poets whose work first gained widespread national attention with the 1960 publication of The New American Poetry: Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and others. Among the poets included here for the first time are Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Jerome Rothenberg, and James Koller. In addition to a new preface by Allen and Butterick, the book provides autobiographical notes of all the poets and listings of their major works. Features Summary Presents brief biographies and representative selections of the writings of contemporary American poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, Joel Oppenheimer, John Ashbery... Author Donald Allen (Editor), George F Butterick (Editor) Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Release date 19940114 Pages 452 ISBN 0-8021-5035-7 ISBN 13 978-0-8021-5035-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "These are my songlines; they helped me to re-connect with the landscape, and with my own life," says Sabra Loomis of the poems which appear in "House Held Together by Winds." Winner of the 2007 National Poetry Series Open Competition as selected by James Tate (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award), Sabra's work perpetuates NPS's tradition of promoting exceptional poetry from lesser known poets. For over twenty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez. Features Summary "These are my songlines; they helped me to re-connect with the landscape, and with my own life," says Sabra Loomis of the poems which appear in House Held Together by Winds... Author Sabra Loomis Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20080827 Pages 96 ISBN 0-06-157715-4 ISBN 13 978-0-06-157715-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich legacy of poetry that is accessible yet profound, and that speaks to people's lives with wry observation and keen insight. For Nowlan fans and new readers alike, award-winning poets Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane help to review and recontextualize Nowlan's place in twentieth-century Canadian poetry. With these selected poems, Lane and Crozier's choices reflect the recurring themes that illuminate Nowlan's work. This new volume is truly the best of Alden Nowlan's poetry, and above all is a tribute to a poet who deserves to be treasured for all time. Features Summary "(Nowlan's) work is the work of a brave man... his details are fantastically clear. His clear direct language is no transformative--it's not about one thing changing another--but a descriptive language... Author Alden Nowlan (Author), Lorna Crozier (Volume editor), Patrick Lane (Volume editor) Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd,Canada Release date 19950831 Pages 176 ISBN 0-88784-573-8 ISBN 13 978-0-88784-573-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Drift Ice" is a collection of poetry from a new Etruscan author, Jennifer Atkinson. The poems in "Drift Ice" view the natural world through a lens of ecological and spiritual concerns. They focus especially on Prince William Sound in Alaska fifteen years after the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, Long Island Sound at the estuarial mouth of the Connecticut River, and Sri Lanka before (and, in one poem, after) the tsunami. The poems address the myth of a once pristine wilderness and the indifferent, ever-changing nature of "nature" and our human place in it, as they also investigate the flexibility and lambency of lyric form. Jennifer Atkinson is the author of two collections of poetry-"The Dogwood Tree," which won the University of Alabama Poetry Prize, and "The Drowned City," winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize. Her poetry and nonfiction can be seen in many leading journals and have been honored with Pushcart Prizes. She taught in Nepal and Japan and at the University of Iowa and Washington University before joining the faculty of George Mason University. Features Summary Poems of delicate sensibility that explore important environmental issues. Author Jennifer Atkinson Publisher Etruscan Press Release date 20080401 Pages 86 ISBN 0-9797450-0-4 ISBN 13 978-0-9797450-0-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Summary The Best Poetry Book in the World is a collection of popular poems from published poets from the last five years. Celebrating Burning Eye's 5th birthday... Author Jenn Hart Publisher Burning Eye Books Release date 20171021 Pages 150 ISBN 1-911570-15-3 ISBN 13 978-1-911570-15-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The "New York Times" has said that "Jorie Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have," and this new collection is a reminder of how startling, original, and deeply relevant her poetry is. In "Sea Change," Graham brings us to the once-unimaginable threshold at which civilization as we know it becomes unsustainable. How might the human spirit persist, caught between its abiding love of beauty, its acknowledgment of continuing injury and damage done, and the realization that the existence of a "future" itself may no longer be assured? There is no better writer to confront such crucial matters than Jorie Graham. In addition to her recognized achievements as a poet of philosophical, aesthetic, and moral concerns, Graham has also been acknowledged as "our most formidable nature poet" ("Publishers Weekly"). As gorgeous and formally inventive as anything she has written, "Sea Change" is an essential work speaking out for our planet and the world we have known. Features Summary The New York Times has said that "Jorie Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have," and this new collection is a reminder of how startling... Author Jorie Graham Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20090501 Pages 56 ISBN 0-06-153718-7 ISBN 13 978-0-06-153718-9

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  Author(s): various - Bongani Sitole, Denis Hirson, Lionel Abrahams et al, edited by Leon de Kock and Ian Tromp  Title:      The Heart in Exile, South African Poetry in English, 1990 -1995  ISBN:  0 14 058760 8  Publisher/place: Penguin South Africa, Johannesburg  This Edition: first  Year of Publication: 1996  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  332  Weight: 392g  Condition:   Very good  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.