Plays & Poetry

solitary bachelors and disillusioned youths - these are the watchers, not the players. This is the aftermath of being one who - in Matthew Arnold's words - 'has reached his utmost limits and finds .

Twinning is well embedded in Lawrence Sail's family: himself the son of a twin, he has a twin sister and twin daughters. His title Double Takes reflects the poems' central concern with many aspects of duality - whether in the context of human relations, translations, 'the moment saved from time' or the touchstone of mortality.

From the editor of the bestselling volumes: Modern and Contemporary Monologues for Men and for Women

A powerful collection of 150 poems written by women.

The sixty poems in this beautifully illustrated anthology celebrate our connection to the trees that we encounter every day. The perfect gift for nature lovers.

A guide that explains and celebrates various parallel poetry projects. It examines the range of contemporary tendencies - from the baroque swagger of the Dandies to the restrained elegance of the Oxford Elegists; from the layered, haunting verse of Mythopoesis to the inventive explorations of the New Formalists.

When Eva's parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins the process of denial of her roots. It is only when her own daughter discovers some letters in their attic that Eva is forced to confront the truth about the past.

Here are Sappho’s songs and poems as English poems, all her famous pieces, all the fragments that can make connected sense, and all the discoveries of 2004 and 2014.

150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of Turkey. Little remains of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. This title covers this surviving texts that consists of fragmented body of lyric poetry.