Best Contemporary British Poets - April 2024

Best Kept Secret (The Clifton Chronicles)

Jeffrey Archer's mesmerizing saga of the Clifton and Barrington families continues...1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her father's office on the night he was killed. When the general election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Comm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250055563
• ASIN: 1250055563
• ISBN: 1250055563
• Brand: St Martin s Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Plays on the Passions (Essential Poets (Guernica))

Baillie’s eminently readable dramas stand at the crossroads of the Scottish Enlightenment and early Romanticism, and compellingly engage with questions of women’s rights. Her exploration of the passions, first published in 1798, is here reissued with a wealth of contextual materials including “The Introductory Discourse,” Baillie’s own brand of feminist literary criticism. The three plays included here are “Count Basil: A Tragedy,” and “The Tryal: A Comedy,” which show love from opposing perspectives; and “De Monfort: A Tragedy,” which explores the drama of hate. Among o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1551111853
• ASIN: 1551111853
• ISBN: 9781551111858
• Brand: Brand: Broadview Press Ltd
• Manufacturer: Broadview Press

The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose: Second Edition

The definitive edition of the most influential poem of the twentieth century One of the twentieth century’s most powerful—and controversial—works, The Waste Land waspublished in the desolate wake of the First World War. This definitive edition of T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece presents a new and authoritative version of the poem, along with all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing The Waste Land,seven of them never before published in book form. The volume is enriched with period photographs and a London map of locations mentioned in the poem. Featured in the book are Lawrence Rainey�... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0300119941
• ASIN: 0300119941
• ISBN: 0300119941
• Brand: Rainey, Lawrence S. (EDT)
• Manufacturer: Yale University Press

Love Her Wild: Poems

The first collection of poetry by Instagram sensation AtticusLove Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, who has captured the hearts and minds of well over 300k followers on his Instagram account, @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss and Shay Mitchell.  With honesty, poignancy, and romantic flare, Love Her Wild captures what is both raw and relatable about the smallest and the grandest moments in life: the first glimpse of a new love, a late night drive singing along to a car radio, the irrepressible exuberance of the female spirit, the simple pl... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MRM50IY
• ASIN: B01MRM50IY
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry

Most readers of contemporary poetry would agree with literary critic Helen Vendler that "there is no significant poet whose work does not mirror, both formally and in its preoccupations, the absence of the transcendent"--that no major modern poet writes religious poetry. Indeed, the very idea that a vital Christian poetry might arise within our thoroughly secular culture seems almost inconceivable. Is it possible that a body of Christian poetry is now being produced whose literary merit is equal to its religious conviction? David Impastato's splendid anthology, Upholding Mystery, answers that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195104005
• ASIN: 0195104005
• ISBN: 0195104005
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art

At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a poetic meter, stanza, or form, describe it, recount its history, and provide favorite examples. The essays represent a remarkably diverse range of literary styles and approaches, and show how the forms of contemporary English-language poetry derive from a wealth of different traditions.The forms range from hendecasyllabics to prose poetry, haiku ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0472067257
• ASIN: 0472067257
• ISBN: 0472067257
• Brand: Brand: University of Michigan Press
• Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press

Rebecca

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWith these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie pres... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0380778556
• ASIN: 0380778556
• ISBN: 0380778556
• Brand: Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame
• Manufacturer: Avon

The Best of Frank O'Connor (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

• ASIN: B005MHI0CQ
• ASIN: B005MHI0CQ
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

One Lark, One Horse: Poems

A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann―his first in twenty yearsMichael Hofmann, renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators, is also regarded as among our most respected poets. Hofmann’s status―he is the author of “one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century" (The Times Literary Supplement)―is all the more impressive for his relatively concentrated output. One Lark, One Horse is his fifth collection of poems since his debut in 1983, and his first since Approximately Nowhere in 1999. Tt is also one of the most anticipated gatherings of new wo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374226598
• ASIN: 0374226598
• ISBN: 0374226598
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

101 Famous Poems

Fully indexed by title, author, and first line, this much-loved collection, in print since 1916, is a wide-ranging collection of the best-known English language poets, from William Shakespeare Robert Frost, from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edna St. Vincent Millay.

• ASIN: 0071419306
• UPC: 639785413967
• ASIN: 0071419306
• ISBN: 9780071419307
• Brand: McGraw-Hill Education
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Rumi: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences. Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi’s poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms.... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307263525
• ASIN: 0307263525
• ISBN: 9780307263520
• Brand: Everyman s Library
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

Possession (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B007OLYPW2
• ASIN: B007OLYPW2
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Atonement: A Novel

National Bestseller Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose. On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant and Cecilia’s childhood friend. But Briony’ s incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precocious literary gifts–brings about a crime that will change all their lives... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038572179X
• ASIN: 038572179X
• ISBN: 9780385721790
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor Books

The Power of One: A Novel

“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”–The New York Times“Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.”–Cleveland Plain DealerIn 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to surviv... [Read More]

• ASIN: 034541005X
• ASIN: 034541005X
• ISBN: 034541005X
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Regeneration (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

“Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.”—The Boston GlobeThe first book of the Regeneration Trilogy—a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainment Weekly’s 100 All-Time Greatest Novels. In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142180599
• ASIN: 0142180599
• ISBN: 0142180599
• Brand: Plume Books
• Manufacturer: Plume

The Best New British and Irish Poets 2017

Poetry. Modeled on the famous United States competition, the second annual Best New British and Irish Poets competition was open to any poet of British or Irish citizenship and/or UK or Irish residency who has

• UPC: 56018881

The Best New British & Irish Poets 2018

Poetry. Modelled on the famous United States competition, the third annual Best New British and Irish Poets competition was open to any poet of British or Irish citizenship and/or UK or Irish residency who has

• UPC: 681283767

Illustrated by Frank McIntoshs cover for Asia Magazine of the Taj Mahal Rudyard Kipling 1865 1936 was a British author and poet Born in Bombay in British India he is best known for his works of ficti

Illustrated by Frank McIntosh's cover for Asia Magazine of the Taj Mahal; Rudyard Kipling, 1865 _ 1936 was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his

• UPC: 166591471
• Model: BLL0587271949
• Color: Multicolor

Rudyard Kipling 1865 1936 was a British author and poet Born in Bombay in British India he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book Kim many short stories including The Man Who Would Be

Rudyard Kipling, 1865 _ 1936 was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which

• UPC: 278090175
• Model: BLL0587271965LARGE
• Color: Multicolor

The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016

Poetry. Edited by Todd Swift and Kelly Davio. The inaugural anthology of poems by fifty rising stars in the UK and Ireland, this volume gathers the work of the most important, interesting new poets working

• UPC: 51979236

The Enchanted Years; A Book of Contemporary Verse, Dedicated by Poets Great Britain and America to the University of Virgina on the Occasion of Its One-Hundredth Anniversary;

The Enchanted Years; A Book of Contemporary Verse, Dedicated by Poets Great Britain and America to the University of Virgina on the Occasion of Its On Height : 0.38 In Length : 9.00 In Width

• UPC: 785523551

Flowers of British Poetry, Consisting of Fugitive and Classical Pieces of the Best Poets of Great Britain; Embellished with Seven Beautiful Designs on Wood by Thomas and John Bewick

Flowers of British Poetry, Consisting of Fugitive and Classical Pieces of the Best Poets of Great

• UPC: 269697925

The Enchanted Years: A Book of Contemporary Verse, Dedicated by Poets of Great Britain and America to the University of Virginia on the Occ

The Enchanted Years: A Book of Contemporary Verse, Dedicated by Poets of Great Britain and America to the University of Virginia on the

• UPC: 859036858

The Enchanted Years; A Book of Contemporary Verse, Dedicated by Poets Great Britain and America to T Hardcover

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• UPC: 436497752

Love's Repository, or a New Collection of Valentines; Selected from the Best British Poets; ... by a Lady.

Love's Repository, or a New Collection of Valentines; Selected from the Best British Poets; ... by a

• UPC: 357327573