The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. In her second volume of essays, ...Show more
All the Good Things You Deserve by Elaine Feeney
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Category: writing poetry literature
The new collection from feminist Irish poet and multi-awarding winning author of As You Were and How to Build a Boat Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation ...Show more
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: writing poetry literature
A unique collaborative publication which documents the lyrics written by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for the platinum selling, Grammy nominated, Jazz singer Stacey Kent.
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
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Category: writing poetry literature
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
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Category: writing poetry literature
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet - With the Letters from the Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke; Damion Searls
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Category: writing poetry literature
For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars have long assumed that the letters from the young poet were forever los ...Show more
The Times Great Letters : Notable Correspondence to the Newspaper by James (EDT) Owen
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Category: writing poetry literature
The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper. This delightful selection of over 300 items of correspondence over the last century shows precisely why. As a forum for debate, playground for opinion-formers, advertising space for decision-makers and noticeboard for eccentrics, nothing rival ...Show more
New Orleans: A Writer's City by T. R. Johnson
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: Imagining Cities Ser.
The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the reader along five thoroughfares that define these dif ...Show more
Birds and Fish: Life on the Hawkesbury by Robert Adamson
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Category: writing poetry literature
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River' In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real. Now I feel a small fluttering Bird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky. -from 'The Kingfisher's Soul' In the last year of his ...Show more
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Category: writing poetry literature | Series: The\Great Poets Ser.
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest o ...Show more
You Do You by Sam Morley
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Category: writing poetry literature
Meditations on parenthood, memory, death, the natural world, the fluctuations of pop culture, and the suburban grind with aplomb in a keen observational styleSam Morley's second collection comprises poetry that is image-rich, fusing the sublime with the common. Always committed to observation as a chann ...Show more
This Day Is Dark by r.h. Sin
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Category: writing poetry literature
r.h. Sin’s This Day Is Dark is a blistering case study of when red flags are mistaken for passion and love falls in the hands of the wrong people, as explored in his signature poetic voice. From New York Times bestselling author r.h. Sin comes This Day Is Dark, a heartbreakingly relatable collection of ...Show more