Wyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister because she eats faster, and a house wren whose loud expectation is that she be let in. And there are others who populate the pages of this book, one stray ......
The drop of water on the tongue, writes Gillian Clarke, 'was the first word in the world', and the language of water is the element in which these poems live. Ocean currents create histories and cultures - the port cities of Cardiff and Mumbai; myths are born where great rivers have their source high in the mountains. A bottle of spring water ......
A poetic retelling of Rama's adventures, and a compendium of grammatical and rhetorical examples for students. Presenting a study aid to Panini's groundbreaking grammatical treatise, the Eight Books, it gives examples disguised as the gripping, morally improving 'Ramayana' story.
Bhanu is probably the most famous Sanskrit poet. His Bouquet of Rasa and River of Rasa, both composed in the early sixteenth century, probably under the patronage of the Nizam of Ahmadnagar in western India, attracted the attention of the most celebrated commentators in early modern India.
Reynard the Fox is one of the great poems of the English countryside and rural life. The headlong dash of John Masefield's narrative carries the reader on an exhilarating chase through the meadows and copses of the landscape the poet loved, pursued by a richly characterised community. In its deep sense of place and its humane sympathy for the ......
A collection of poetry that is dedicated to the late Brinsley Sheridan, the author's long-time friend and fellow poet. It features poems on themes of history, memory, everyday beauty and struggle. It explores the nature of friendship and the ingredients of endurance, joy and survival.
Combines unusual phraseology with occasional disregard for the rules of punctuation as the author takes on the cancer of American foreign policy, using the rhythms of his native Jamaica to mould the street lexicon of New York into potent, eloquent protests and exhortations.
When Govardhana composed his Seven Hundred Elegant Verses in Sanskrit in the twelfth century CE, the title suggested that this was a response to the 700 verses in the more demotic Prakrit language traditionally attributed to King Hala, composed almost a thousand years earlier. This book offers a translation of his poems.