Includes messenger poems that evoke the pain of separated sweethearts through the formula of an estranged lover pleading with a messenger to take a message to his or her beloved.
An anthology that presents the poetry of twenty-two writers. It includes work by poets ranging from their early twenties to their late sixties, and harking from Canada, England, Iran, New Zealand, the Philippines, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, the United States and Wales.
From the first New Poetries anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world. Many have gone on to achieve notable success: Sophie Hannah, Patrick McGuinness, Kei Miller, Caroline Bird, David Morley, Jane Yeh, ......
This latest volume of the bestselling anthology series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world.
Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.
This is the first anthology of British surrealist writing in the world. Herbert Reads words when he opened the Surrealist Poems and Objects exhibition at the London Gallery at midnight on 24 November 1937 provide the title. The British surrealist movement was, as it were, ploughed under by the Second World War which, as Read spoke, ......
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for children - from famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar figures like Christina Moody, an African American ......
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry
Over the River and Through the Wood is the first and only collection of its kind, offering readers a an unequaled view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Most American poets wrote for childrenfrom famous names such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to less familiar figures like Christina Moody, an African American ......
