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After the tumult of the last few years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life’s ailments, offering hope and comfort to readers in need. Here, he draws on the emails from the public he received during multiple lockdowns, as well as tried-and-true classics from his in-person pharmacies, to create an essential anthology of poetry for our times. Through his expert curation and insightful commentary, he reminds us of the power of words to help us heal, to reconnect us with the world and to recover what has been lost. From weathering sorrow and sudden loss, to dealing with environmental despair and burnout, this new selection speaks directly to a society in greater need of comfort and compassion than ever before.
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A gorgeous, heart-warming anthology of poems about love and romance selected and illustrated by Chris Riddell.
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Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by these shade-giving wonders of the world? Trees have sparked some of the biggest literary imaginations over the ages and – as the climate emergency escalates – it has never been more important to appreciate our vital connection to them. This beautifully illustrated anthology of 60 tree poems is a celebration of our love of trees. With poems by some of the world’s best-loved poets including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘The Book of Tree Poems’ will help you see trees as you’ve never seen them before.
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The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade has seen it grow with the addition of poets who are arguably the finest of their generation. The Faber Poetry Diary 2024 is a celebration of this remarkable Faber list.This diary contains poems by:Victoria Adukwei BulleyRachael AllenSimon ArmitageEmily BerryWilliam BlakeEmily and Charlotte BrontëRupert BrookeRobert BrowningMary Jean ChanJohn ClareGillian ClarkeArthur Hugh CloughWendy CopeJulia CopusW. H. DaviesEmily DickinsonGeorge EliotMatthew FrancisOrlando GibbonsThomas HardySeamus HeaneyA. E. HousmanTed HughesIshion HutchinsonIlya KaminskyZaffar KunialPhilip LarkinLachlan MackinnonCharlotte MewDaljit NagraDon PatersonChristopher ReidRowan Ricardo PhillipsSylvia PlathAlexander PopeSapphoRichard ScottWilliam ShakespeareSimonidesStevie SmithEdward ThomasDerek WalcottW. B.
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A handsome A5 hardback diary covered in Liberty fabric and printed in colour throughout with a ribbon bookmark and an elastic closure. A week to a view diary containing a new selection every year of more than forty poems along with illustrations from the Faber Archive.
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In this blistering anthology, poet, editor and DJ Kayo Chingonyi brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets. This is his dream mixtape featuring a cross-generational span of current poets extending and inhabiting the spirits of the ancestors. Following in the tread of Lemn Sissay’s ‘The Fire People’, ‘More Fiya’ aims to lodge in the mind of its readers for a lifetime, radiating to touch the lives of many.
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First published in 1998, ‘The Fire People’ celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names. Edited by the number one bestselling author and poet Lemn Sissay OBE, this seminal anthology takes inspiration from roots, reggae and hip-hop.
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This rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BCE Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices – from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata – this selection presents a number of canonical figures like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized, diverse poets going up to the present day.
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An electrifying anthology of queer poetry through the ages, edited by Dr Simon Avery, specialist in queer history and culture.
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Simon Armitage’s acclaimed version of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. This is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved, Pearl. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for ‘Gawain’, ‘Pearl’ is here brought to vivid and intricate life.
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More than 100 poems about Britain’s nature in a beautifully illustrated book
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An annotated gift edition of H. J. Massingham’s 1922 poetry anthology Poems About Birds.
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