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Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (68 pages)
Language
English
Description
A lovely new collection by a leading New Zealand poet. This is among her best work, moving through a range of attentions--gardens, friends, works of art--with great charm and unexpected and quirky wit.--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Limited
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (122 pages)
Language
English
Description
This volume draws on the books Elizabeth Jennings published before Growing-Points and includes the poems which established her as one of the most passionate and precise of writers of her time, a woman of humane values, religious vision and natural sympathy.--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (88 pages)
Language
English
Description
An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labor and an emergency caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For the mother, her body flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by an intense and visceral grief. However, just as grief itself is not...
Author
Publisher
Seren
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (72 pages)
Language
English
Description
Often dark, with a concise and compelling style, this collection of poems brings together a variety of voices--dodos and wallpaper chant obsessively, a pair of shoes haunts a murderer's moll, a cheese weeps for the calf whose milk it stole, an army cook laments the dead, and a woman turned into soap dreams of her apotheosis as she washes into the sea. Combining the experimental with the traditional, this compilation sets poems of war against poems...
Author
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages)
Language
English
Description
The first new collection for five years from prize-winning poet Anne French. She writes about personal relationships better than any other New Zealand poet and the brutal honesty, the wit, the structural elegance of these new poems show once again her mastery of this territory.--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Limited
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (72 pages)
Language
English
Description
A first collection from a reviewer, editor, and scholar of poetry, Tonight the Summer's Over explores the themes of belonging and estrangement with precise resonance. Born in Belfast but brought up in rural Lincolnshire, England, Rory Waterman turns an unblinking eye on his own childhood, caught between two countries, two cultures, and two parents. The poems rise above the level of mere autobiography, however, rooted as they are in a broader concern...
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Limited
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (220 pages)
Language
English
Description
The work of an original, haunting, and experimental modernist poet is made available again for the first time in 50 years in this volume. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life in wartime. A late modernist, she works on two scales at the same time: the mythic and the domestic. As a Welsh writer, her best work stands alongside that of her near-contemporaries, David Jones,...
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (96 pages)
Language
English
Description
Rowan Williams's first collections of poems, After Silent Centuries and Remembering Jerusalem, along with a selection of new ones make up this new collection. It displays a poetry that embodies abstract ideas in vivid sensual images. The subject matter ranges widely: the natural world, works of art, recollections of a visit to the Holy Land at Easter, thoughts arising from fragments of the ancient Celtic world, and reflections on modern Welsh life....
9) Lantern Cage
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (96 pages)
Language
English
Description
The poems that Kelly Grovier's third collection, The Lantern Cage, brings together are prompted by scenes that occur in life's everyday spaces--city streets and secondhand shops, museum galleries and trains. The title conjures contrasting images of illumination and shadow, warmth and confinement, the burning soul and the material body. These are poems that seek to shine a warm light on the mysteries that underlie our existence. This is a world of...
10) Coriolanus
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“O mother, mother! What have you done?”
—Coriolanus
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this gripping political and personal tragedy—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to Coriolanus
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about...
—Coriolanus
Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this gripping political and personal tragedy—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including
• an original Introduction to Coriolanus
• incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about...
11) Cymbeline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
12) Major Barbara
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Language
English
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First performed in 1905 and published in 1907, "Major Barbara" is a dramatic play by the famed Irish playwright and activist George Bernard Shaw. The story centers around its title character who, as an officer in the Salvation Army, becomes disenchanted by the increasing social problems that she sees and the willingness of her organization to accept money from armament manufacturers. Barbara is disillusioned about the good work the Salvation Army...
13) United Kingdom
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Series
Language
English
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Provides basic information about the United Kingdom, including its history, people, culture, and economy.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Love's Labours Lost - William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to forswear the company of women for three years of study and fasting, and their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies. In...
17) Henry VIII
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry VIII - William Shakespeare - King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes...
18) Greece
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Language
English
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Examines Greece and its membership in the European Union.
Author
Language
English
Description
The crypt of Wawel Cathedral in Kraków is the Polish nation's greatest pantheon. Here lie the earthly remains of its storied kings and queens, and two of its greatest poets, Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki. At the conclusion of his speech at Słowacki's reburial in 1927, Marshal Józef Piłsudski commanded the guard of honour: "In the name of the Republic, I direct you, gentlemen, to carry this sarcophagus into the royal crypt, for he who rests...
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