John Gallas's new book is two volumes in one.
The Coalville Divan builds on the poet's fascination with Eastern literature which he tends to experience in Leicester and its environs, where he lives and works. These poems ponder a number of his besetting themes. How dull is Wisdom, then? What it wants is Ungathering. The Coalville Divan makes ......
The Ship of Birth records a father's responses in the days immediately before and after a child is born. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a Ship of Death, so this Ship of Birth contains what is significant to the child: the parents' wonder and trepidation, the nature of the soul, the child's future growth. The poems draw on a ......
Deeply refreshing, this poetic essay explores our human relationship to nature in all its nuances and depths. Again and again, Steffen shows how the child's intimate connection with nature can be regained by adults who find the enlivening forces of resurrection within themselves.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's greatest work, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", is unlike any other ballad. This annotated version helps to deepen the understanding of Coleridge's neglected masterpiece. It also includes a biographical sketch of the poet, which emphasizes those aspects of his personality that had the strongest bearing on the poem.
Robert Phillips is a prominent figure in what has been called America's neglected ''transition generation'' -- poets born in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Spinach Days is his sixth full-length collection, following his critically acclaimed Breakdown Lane (Johns Hopkins, 1994), named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. In content ......
Hugh MacDiarmid hailed William Dunbar (1461?-1520?) as "in many ways the most modern, as he is the most varied, of Scottish poets". This fully annotated edition makes the richness of Dunbar's language accessible to the modern reader.
Agnes Meadows' reputation as an International performance poet has made her a firm favourite at festivals all over the world, including the Austin International Poetry Festival, Mediterranean Poetry Festival, and Palestinian PEN's International Poetry Festival. Woman is a selection of new poems fused with work from; her two previous books You and ......
Poems, Songs and Jests on the Subject of Sensual Love
Sensual pleasure, gentle, violent or comic, is the theme of this anthology of 17th-century erotic writing. "Restoration Bawdy" brings vividly to life a "masquerading age". The book draws on high and low culture and the result is a lively social panorama of Restoration England.
Sir Walter Scott is the great poet of the Scottish people, yet he wrote at a time when Scottish culture and landscapes were changing rapidly under English pressure. Introducing this selection, James Reed sets Scott in context as both a European Romantic and a Scottish folk poet.
