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Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
$22.99 NZD
$33.00 (30% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as "Bloody Men," "Men and Their Boring Arguments," "Two Cures for Love," "Kindness to Animals" and ...Show more
Short and Sweet by Simon Armitage
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
"Short and Sweet" is an inspiring anthology arranged to show how the short poem, defined here as no longer than thirteen lines - and sometimes a lot shorter than that - can tell a story, present a complex argument, and be packed with as much passion, wisdom and music as any more extended piece of writin ...Show more
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (Translator)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from around 1400, composed by an anonymous master, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of English literature, after "Beowulf", the poem narrate ...Show more
Stevie Smith: a Selection by Stevie Smith; Hermione Lee (Editor)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Designed especially for students but also for the general reader, this selection draws on the whole of Smith's output in poetry, prose, and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion (1972), complemented by biographical and textual notes.
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry. Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which ...Show more
T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted Hughes Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected ...Show more
T. S. Eliot Complete Poems: Volume 2 by Christopher Ricks
$120.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in ...Show more
T. S. Eliot the Poems: Volume 1 by T. S. Eliot
$120.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Poems of T. S. Eliot is the authoritative edition of one of our greatest poets, scrupulously edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue. It provides, for the first time, a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in ...Show more
Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems 1957-1994 by Ted Hughes
$39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A selection of work by the former Poet Laureate ranging from "The Hawk in the Rain" to "Rain-Charm for the Duchy", as well as uncollected poems from each decade of his working life. Hughes also included a group of new poems, some of which appeared later in "Birthday Letters".
The Ariel Poems: Illustrated Poems for Christmas by T. S. Eliot
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
A cherished part of his oeuvre, the 'Ariel Poems' of T. S. Eliot were originally commissioned for a pamphlet series of the same name that first ran between 1927 and 1931. ('Nobody else seemed to want the title afterward,' said Eliot of the series, 'so I kept it for myself'). That pamphlet series inventi ...Show more
The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Originally published in 1960, The Colossus was the only volume of Sylvia Plath's poetry published before her death in 1963. Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later confirm her status as one of the ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin by Archie Burnett
$75.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in "Collected Poems" (1988), and in the "Early Poems and Juvenilia" (2005), some unpublished pieces from Larkin's typescripts and workbooks are included, as well as verse (by turns scurrilous, satirical, affecti ...Show more