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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
$27.47 NZD
$28.00 (1% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Selected poems from a Nobel laureateIn 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from The Cure at Troy to Death of a Naturalist. It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney ha ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
$24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at th ...Show more
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as Lady Lazarus, Daddy, Edge and Paralytic, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. "If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same t ...Show more
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
$19.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Fa ...Show more
Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, guides us deep into the act and root of 'armistice': its stoppage or 'stand' of arms, its search ...Show more
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
No book has done more to define modern poetry than T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems. The pinnacle of a lifetime's curation by Eliot himself, it was initially published in 1936, and then revised by Eliot to form the present edition of the text that was issued in 1963. But over the course of a lifetime, and ...Show more
Collected Poems: Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete text of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales fr ...Show more
Complete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
$55.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quar ...Show more
Crossing the Water (PB) by Sylvia Plath
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Both published posthumously in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written along with those that went to form Ariel, from the exceptionally creative period that led up to Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963. Between them they evoke a sense of place and history, mythology both personal ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
In Flèche, Mary Jean Chan evokes the difficulties of reconciling one’s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one’s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world. Much like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collect ...Show more