How to Lay an Egg With a Horse Inside
£16.99Welcome to Brian Bilston's ‘writing masterclass': a collection of more than 100 poems woven into a charming and informative guide on how to read, write and enjoy poetry.
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How to Think Like a Poet
£10.99How history’s most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O’Hara – can teach us to better understand the world.
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Sonnets
£18.99A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Shakespeare’s immortal poems with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare’s sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery – why did Shakespeare write them, and to whom? Each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive.
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Peck & Peck
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Pre order price: £22.00THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GLOBAL SENSATION LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY RETURNS . . . Peck & Peck tells the irresistible story of a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck. Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that automatically command respect and security. Now Batter is in his early 20s, living in New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some people and bores most. Poetry. And yet to him – and exactly thirty-nine editors at a company called Peck & Peck – poetry not only represents the power of humanity but holds the key to its survival.Batter was named after his mother’s dog, who seemed to have achieved more in his short years on earth than he ever will. But
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Burns for Every Day of the Year
£25.00Across the world, as midnight strikes on New Year’s Eve, Burns’s beloved song ‘Auld Lang Syne’ is sung in a spirit of friendship and togetherness. But his exuberant wit, insight and generous-hearted humanity can be celebrated every day. This collection – perfect for Burns aficionados and Burns beginners alike – reminds us of old favourites and introduces new treasures. Thoughtfully curated by Dr Pauline Mackay of the University of Glasgow, it offers 366 glimpses into the genius of this remarkable bard, creating a panoramic view of his colourful life and multifaceted literary legacy.
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Book Of Longing
£11.99This collection of poems contains erotic, playful and provocative line drawings by the author, which interact in unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is at times darkly humorous.
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Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
£12.99This collection of poems from T.S. Eliot will delight his many fans and will provide an accessible introduction to new readers.