Walt Whitman: The Great Poets by Walt. Whitman
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
From the highly controversial Leaves of Grass, with its overt sexual imagery and delight of sensual pleasures, to the iconic Captain, oh my captain immortalised in the film Dead Poets Society, this short collection is the ideal introduction to the poetry of Walt Whitman. One of the greats, he was celebr ...Show more
Chinese Fish by Grace Yee
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Category: Poetry
When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her waywa ...Show more
Ten Poems for a Picnic by JACQUELINE GABBITAS
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Category: Poetry
Lazing on a picnic rug under a clear blue sky, what could be more lovely than reading poetry? These ten poems have been selected to provide a perfect accompaniment to an open-air feast; some capture culinary delights such as strawberry tarts and custard while others have been chosen to add to the mood o ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Ten Poems about Horses by ALISON BRACKENBURY
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Category: Poetry
The poems in this selection take us on an exhilarating canter through our friendships with horses. Along the way, we meet an edgy stallion waiting for his winter bale and a pony picking her way across paddocks after having her hooves trimmed: "...she sidled through the silver air pretending to shy at sh ...Show more
Christmas Crackers: Ten Poems to Surprise and Delight by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry
The best things come in little packages. This latest mini-anthology from Candlestick belongs to our new 'Christmas Collection' series and contains brand new poems by ten leading contemporary poets. The poems range from the surreal to the tenderly nostalgic, taking in the perils of an over-crowded shoppi ...Show more
Christmas Spirit: Ten Poems to Warm the Heart by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Poetry
These ten specially commissioned poems celebrate the joy of Christmas in all its variety. Some evoke the bustle of untangling fairy lights, of shopping and cooking and opening presents, while others celebrate our more ancient seasonal traditions, such as collecting holly and ivy to bring into the house. ...Show more
Holly and Ivy by SEAN O'BRIEN
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Category: Poetry
A distant father, a vodka-fuelled stepmother, a fall of snow and carol singers who are not quite all they seem... These are the far from stock ingredients that add depth and zest to Sean O'Brien's spooky winter fable. Teenager Kate waits disconsolately for Christmas, annoying her parents by indulging in ...Show more
Notes on Shapeshifting by Gabi Abrão
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Category: Poetry
Abrāo's work has been described by The Outline as "an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts" that "publicly grapples with pillars of its own existence within the influencer economy." Alongside The Outline, her work has been featured in publications such as The Atlantic, Dazed, The Harvard Crimson, a ...Show more
Ten Poems about Mountains by HELEN MORT
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Category: Poetry
A mountain is something very particular a place that entices and daunts us, that commands our gaze while also making it very clear that we're not required. These glorious poems capture the majesty and wonder of mountain landscapes, whether they're encountered up-close by walkers and climbers or are bein ...Show more
Uyghur Poems
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Category: Poetry
An unprecedented collection of newly translated poems spanning the rich thousand-year cultural legacy of the Uyghur people. The Uyghur people of Central Asia have a long and distinguished tradition of poetry - indeed, their first oral epic was circulating as early as the 2nd century BCE. In the medieva ...Show more
Returning by Kirli Saunders
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Category: Poetry
'Mate, you're standing on stolen land.'Returning is a stunning work – a poetic and visual feast that takes you on Kirli’s journey of rediscovering self, Country and Connection. Kirli’s heartfelt experiences address large contemporary themes of decolonisation, self-determination, Identity, First Nations ...Show more