Spoils war poems

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

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a `war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected - until now. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final `goodbye' to `all that'. In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete. Features Summary The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves... Author Jean Moorcroft Wilson Publisher Bloomsbury Continuum Release date 20180802 Pages 480 ISBN 1-4729-2914-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4729-2914-3

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 - 11 working days Jonathan Sumption's Cursed Kings is the eagerly anticipated fourth volume in what Allan Massie has called "one of the great historical works of our time." Cursed Kings tells the story of the destruction of France by the madness of its king and the greed and violence of his family. In the early fifteenth century France, Europe's strongest and most populous state, suffered a complete internal collapse. As the warring parties within fought for the spoils of the kingdom under the vacant gaze of the mad King Charles VI, the country was left at the mercy of one of the most remarkable rulers of the European Middle Ages: Henry V of England, who had destroyed the French army on the field of Agincourt in October 1415 and left most of France's leadership dead. Sumption recounts in extraordinary detail the relentless campaign of conquest that brought Henry to the streets and palaces of Paris within just a few years. He died at the age of thirty-six in a French royal castle in 1422, just two months before he would have become king of France. Six centuries later, these extraordinary events are overlaid by the resounding words of Shakespeare and the potent national myths of England and France. In Cursed Kings, Jonathan Sumption strips away the layers to rediscover the personalities and events that lie beneath. Features Summary The eagerly anticipated fourth volume of Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War. Author Jonathan Sumption Publisher University of PennsylvaniaPress Release date 20170420 Pages 928 ISBN 0-8122-2388-8 ISBN 13 978-0-8122-2388-0

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

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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 "For the Nobel Prize to come to Aleixandre now is fitting, not only because of the energy and intensity of his own poetry, but because it comes at this moment in Spanish history."-The New York Times A Longing for the Light is the only available bilingual Spanish-English translation of the poetry of Nobel Laureate Vicente Aleixandre. The collection spans the entirety of Aleixandre's career-from early surrealist work to his complex and fascinating "dialogues." It also contains prose interludes, an introduction by editor Lewis Hyde, and a descriptive bibliography. Aleixandre was a member of Spain's "Generation of 27" and was one of the few writers to remain in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. His passive but staunch political independence kept his writings banned for a decade, but his vivid poems of harmony and commonality would eventually symbolize much of what post-Civil War Spain aspired toward. As Aleixandre wrote in his Nobel lecture: "The poet, the truly determinative poet, is always a revealer; he is, essentially, a seer, a prophet." From "With All Due Respect": I don't notice our clothes. Do you? Dressed up in three-hundred burlap suits, wrapped in my roughest heaviest get-up, I maintain a dawn-like dignity and brag of how much I know about nakedness. Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. He died in Madrid in 1984. Features Summary "Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre's poetry available." --Express Books Author Vincente Aleixandre (Author), Vicente Aleixandre (Author) Publisher American Poetry Review Release date 20070501 Pages 320 ISBN 1-55659-254-X ISBN 13 978-1-55659-254-6

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

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

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Rita Dove's Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove's reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum. She sets the moving love story of Thomas and Beulah against the backdrop of war, industrialisation and the civil right struggles. The multifaceted gems of Grace Notes, the reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of Mother Love, the troubling rapids of recent history in On the Bus with Rosa Parks and the homage to America's kaleidoscopic cultural heritage in American Smooth all celebrate Dove's mastery of narrative context with lyrical finesse. Features Summary Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume. Author Rita Dove Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc Release date 20160507 Pages 432 ISBN 0-393-28594-4 ISBN 13 978-0-393-28594-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days This volume of Sayyid Qutb's tafsir, commentary on the Qur'an, covers Surah 8 Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War). Features Summary "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful." Author Sayyid Qutb (Author), Adil Salahi (Translator) Publisher Islamic Foundation Release date 20070715 Pages 240 ISBN 0-86037-323-1 ISBN 13 978-0-86037-323-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "Lars Gustafsson has an uncompromising vision of the utter complexity of modern life."-"The New York Times Book Review" From the moment it begins, Lars Gustafsson's "A Time in Xanadu" throws open questions of geography and narration. Where are we? How do we know? Throughout the book, the speaker's voice proves a powerful one as it muses on questions of travel, war, philosophy, and thought itself. The language of Gustafsson's poems is sparse, and his lines are compact and taut. But beneath the neat surfaces of these poems lie surreal and sometimes eerie landscapes: a castle in Cremona, Italy; "those white, strangely meaningless / days between Christmas and New Year;" a library which is "a kind of subway." There are strains of Ezra Pound in this work, and allusions to great continental thinkers-Goethe, Fichte, Nietzsche, Einstein-drift across it. Yet tracing those allusions to their source is neither desirable nor, ultimately, possible. For in the wake of Gustafsson's highly evocative poems, we can only wonder just how much time we have spent, or lost, in Xanadu, or where we went from there. "The Khan leaves Xanadu and milk from white goats only is hurled high into the air on his departure to nourish the spirits of the air. So says Marco Polo, our Venetian witness." Lars Gustafsson is a renowned Swedish poet, novelist, and philosopher who has written dozens of books. He taught philosophy for many years at the University of Texas, Austin. He now lives in Sweden. Features Summary Lars Gustafsson--poet, novelist, and philosopher--is one of Sweden's leading and most prolific writers. Author Lars Gustafsson (Author), John Irons (Translator) Publisher Copper Canyon Press Release date 20080517 Pages 89 ISBN 1-55659-275-2 ISBN 13 978-1-55659-275-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Belly Of Fire is a metaphor for the anxiety and fear that we hold within ourselves; the voices of those who are disempowered by racism, poverty, war and gendered abuse, voices that remain silenced, are housed as fire in our bellies. Themes of abuse, xenophobia, female genital mutilation, reawakening, are unpacked here in a collection of seven reflective, compelling stories intertwined with no more than thirteen contemporary poems that bring out the essence of the themes developed in the narratives. Features Summary Belly Of Fire is a metaphor for the anxiety and fear that we hold within ourselves; the voices of those who are disempowered by racism, poverty, war and gendered abuse... Author Shafinaaz Hassim Publisher WordFire Press Pages 133 ISBN 0-620-49632-0 ISBN 13 978-0-620-49632-2