Folkish is a trickster figure masquerading as a poetry collection. Full of ghosts, worms, saints, and Northern English folklore, Kym Deyn's debut is playful, spirited and absolutely furious - moving between the alive, the legendary and the haunted in endlessly inventive forms.
In Seamus Heaney's volume of The Poet's Chair Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill discusses the importance of place in Irish literature and the need to preserve important sites of Irish literary activity, brings us on a turbulent Turkish adventure, and explores Ireland's rich folklore tradition.
Here, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic, and portrayed with a glowing intimacy: the alphabet of a hand in the dark, the hips' silvered percussion, a thigh's red-gold geometry, the emerald tigers that leap in a throat.
Explore the enigmatic life and poetry of Emily Dickinson, whose poetry delves into themes of death, nature, love and the complexities of the human soul, making her a timeless figure in American literature.
This attractive collection gathers more than 150 of her memorable works. Featuring insights about nature, love, life, death and immortality, these poems are among the best loved in English literature.
Presents the poems in their original contexts; and where alternate readings were suggested. It includes a brief explanation of poet's selection of texts and outlines his career.
One of Greece's most beloved contemporary writers, the author is considered by many to be her homeland's national poet. This title offers a collection of 80 poems that are selected from throughout his long career.