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“anne rouse”

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  • Ox-Eye

    by Anne Rouse ...
    Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her perspective in Ox-Eye – the term for a small cloud presaging a storm – is one of apprehension in poems relating to personal and social change. Ranging from her native east coast of America to her adopted home on the south coast of England, these incisive but often amused ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Opened Ground

    Selected Poems, 1966–1996

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    From the Irish Nobel laureate: Essential poems selected by the author from throughout his career, plus several previously unselected works and his Nobel lecture."[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today." —Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book ReviewOpened Ground includes the essential poems from Seamus Heaney's twelve ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

    by Les Murray ...
    From his life’s work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as ‘The Broad Bean Sermon’, ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ and ‘The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever’, this elegant hardback is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Selected Poems 1988–2013

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    A new edition of later selected works of the Nobel Prize winner, "arguably the finest poet now writing in English" (James Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review ).Includes Heaney's final poem, "In Time"Often considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" ( The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Inside the Wave

    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

    by Helen Dunmore ...
    COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2017 Costa Poetry Award.To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead – the underworld and the human living world – and the exquisitely intense being of both. They possess a spare, eloquent lyricism as they explore the bliss and anguish of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Spirit Level

    Poems

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    In The Spirit Level, as ever with Seamus Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • District & Circle

    Poems

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    A T. S. Eliot Prize and Irish Times Poetry Now Award–winning poetry collection from the Irish Nobel laureate."The world shines up from these pages with refreshed particularity and tactile exactitude." —Peter Campion, The Boston Sunday GlobeIn their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems of District and Circle, Seamus Heaney's critically acclaimed collecti... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Station Island

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present. Writing in The Washington Post Book World, Hugh Kenner called the narrative sequence in Seamus Heaney's Station Island "as fine a long poem as we've had in fifty years." ... Read more

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  • Wintering Out

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without which no imagination can be seen to have grown up.' Eavan Boland, Irish Times'Keyed and pitched unlike any other ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • New Selected Poems

    by Les Murray ...
    A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry? For the weird unemployment.For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strikedown along your writing arm at the accumulated moment.For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verbbefore the trance leaves you. For working always beyondyour own intel... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Counting Backwards

    Poems 1975-2017

    by Helen Dunmore ...
    Winner of the Costa Book of the Year for her final collection, Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore was as spellbinding a storyteller in her poetry as in her prose. Many of her haunting narratives draw us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes in poetry of rare luminosity, while all her poetry also casts a bright, revealing light on the living world, by land and sea, on love, longing and loss. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Malarkey

    by Helen Dunmore ...
    The malarkey is over in the back of the car… As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the past, questions it, tries to get in touch with it and stretches the power of memory to its limits, are central to this new collection by Helen Dunmore. Joseph Severn recalls Keats hurling a bad dinner ... Read more

    $7.99 USD