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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
27.99 NZD
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
Ariel: Faber Modern Classics by Sylvia Plath
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
29.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvi ...Show more
Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot
45.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
Fleche by Mary Jean Chan
27.99 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
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher ...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
The Poem : Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
49.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work ? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation, The Poem is an ambitious contempor ...Show more
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation which has lost none of its power as w ...Show more