""Oh! there are spirits of the air," wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley. In this stunningly original book Maureen N. McLane channels the spirits and voices that make up the music in one poet's mind. Weaving criticism and memoir, "My Poets" explores a life reading and...

"Pre-Raphaelite poetry etherialized sensation and popularized the notion of art for arts sake. Where Victorian realism explored the grime of industrialised society, Pre-Raphaelite poems concentrated on more abstract themes of romantic love, artistic...

""I am much more than the way that I look; And these lines on my face are like lines from a book; That holds all the tales of the things gone before me; So come, take a seat, and I'll tell you my story". Words to Remember is the fifth collection by Becky...

"Brings together Portis' writings other than his four novels, including journalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a play"--Publisher's description.

"The Organised Writer is a practical, no-nonsense system that allows you to write without worrying about administration, business affairs, or scheduling. This straight-talking guide will help you become more productive, cope with multiple projects, and make...

"The extraordinary lives of the great Victorian actors Ellen Terry and Henry Irving are unveiled in David Hare's sweeping family drama. People arguing, that isn't theatre. People making points. And what's more, you and I don't belong in drawing rooms. Drawing...

"In August 2014, Michael Brown a young, unarmed black man was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing...

"'We're all failing a generation of boys, and therefore we're failing a whole generation of girls.' Jessica Parks is smart, compassionate, and a true maverick at the peak of her career as a London Crown Court Judge. The system needs to change, and she's...

"Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. 'A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away'Willy Loman is on...

"Why waste time inventing your own insults when you can borrow top-notch snipes from a literary genius? With 'The Jane Austen insult guide for well-bred women,' you can clap back at bad dates, micromanaging bosses, irritating strangers, and tiresome guests...

""This book was compiled by Michelle Porte from interviews for the two television broadcasts entitled 'Les Lieux de Marguerite Duras,' produced by the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, and aired in May 1976 on TF1." -- page [10]"--Publisher's description.

"Recounts the quests of knights as they struggled to achieve specific virtues"--Publisher's description.

"In Ecstasy, Alex Dimitrov embraces a life on the edge in New York and the finely wrought poetry that can come out of it. He explores sex, drugs, parties, pleasure, and God in the 2020s, and looks back to a coming-of-age in the 1990s that still informs who his...

"This issue of Granta magazine, on the subject of Dead Friends, features writing from leading novelists and story-writers on intimate connections they have lost. This issue of Granta, Dead Friends, brings vital figures from the past momentarily back into...

Poems by Rupert Brooke.

"An anthology of women's poetry from the 17th century to the present day. Ranging through the spectrum of poetry in the English language, it is distilled from Germaine Greer's pioneering commitment and scholarly contribution to the history of women's writing."...

"After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In...

A collection of poems with a light and dancing quality.

"A sublime anthology of nature poetry to enjoy on those long summer evenings, with one poem for every day of the season"--Publisher's description.

"As an entrepreneur or business owner, how do you turn a goldmine of expertise and experience into a brilliant book that will build your business? Step by step, Lucy McCarraher takes you through the challenging but hugely rewarding transition from...

"Silent Catastrophes brings together the two books W.G. Sebald wrote on the Austrian writers who meant so much to him: The Description of Misfortune and Strange Homeland, published in Austria in 1985 and 1991. As a German in self-chosen exile from his country...

"From the author of Women's Prize 2022 longlisted novel THE PAPER PALACE comes a beautiful work of poetry looking sequentially at childhood, motherhood, marriage, divorce and mortality. WHAT THE DEEP WATER KNOWS is the debut poetry collection from bestselling...

"This is a brilliant, elegantly reasoned meditation on the nature of biography. Janet Malcolm (author of Reading Chekhov, The Journalist and the Murderer, In the Freud Archives) examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne...

In summer when I picked dandelions for the geriatric guinea pig I changed the world. I killed a weed. I filled a mouth with gold. In this debut poetry collection, Sophie van Waardenberg considers girlhood and grief, love and its loss, distance and the return...

It is a national pastime to point out the dickheads in our society, but how do you spot one? In many cases they are trying hard to hide their dickheadedness. Two acclaimed writers, Kathryn Burnett and Nick Ward have written a guide for us. They have broken...

"Theatre has a complex history of responding to crises, long before they happen. Through stage plays, contemporary challenges can be presented, explored and even foreshadowed in ways that help audiences understand the world around them. Since the theatre of...

"From Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles (2012) to Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships (2019), there has been a huge rise in women's literary receptions of classics in recent years. This first volume in a two-volume set explores the different ways that woman have...

"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discussion as to why classical creative retellings are so popular...

"An epic play with music that examines the human costs of the quest for artistic greatness. The place: Sausalito. The time: the mid-1970s. The carpet: brown shag. Stereophonic brings us inside the cloistered world of a recording studio as a rock band on the...

"The first-ever autobiographical collection, from the global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher. From urgently scribbling out his debut Killing Floor in pencil (the stub of which he still owns), to taking a step back with Blue Moon, and everything in...

"Our entire lives are dictated by love. Love creates our brightest joys and our deepest aches. Love cures and love scars. It brings out both the best and the worst in us. Through the highs and lows, we learn and grow, preparing ourselves to find enduring love....

"When you're Paula Green and the world contracts to tubes and veins, sound bites and zigzags of pain, when the effort to take the smallest sip of water is equivalent to walking up a mountain, when Venetian blinds dissect the horizon and all you love, then you...

"Wankernomics is the hilarious must-have handbook for anyone who has ever had to endure the buzzwords, bureaucracy and bullsh*t of the modern working world.Written by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth, this business self-help guide teaches readers...

"Who am I to tell my story? And how can we grant ourselves permission to write the stories we're compelled to tell when we've been told we shouldn't? Without fail, almost every writer--new or experienced--has faced dire questions of permission and story...

"With a new foreword by poet, translator, and author Jane Reichhold, this anniversary edition presents a concise history of the Japanese haiku, including the dynamic changes throughout the twentieth century as this beloved poetry form has been adapted to...

"A complete edition, including much previously uncollected and unpublished material. The Collected Prose stands alongside the Journals (2000) and the two volume Letters (2017 and 2018) to support a more complete understanding of Sylvia Plath's ambition and...

"This collection of one hundred and fifty new poems responds to each of the Psalms, and allows these ancient words to speak into our own condition. The poems are woven into a corona, a crown or coronet of poems, where the last line of one becomes the first...

"A mother falls into complete silence. Upon her death, her twin children are asked to uproot the source of that silence. They must find the father they never knew, and the brother they never knew they had. Their journey begins in Montreal but the answers lie...

"This volume contains all the poetry published during his lifetime, including Endymion in its entirety, the Odes, "Lamia", and both versions of "Hyperion." The poetry is presented in chronological order , illustrating the staggering speed with which Keats's...

"Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton looks at the attention economy, which organises our political perceptions around...

"Strong Words 4 continues the tradition of showcasing Aotearoa New Zealand's best contemporary essays, presenting a diverse collection of thought-provoking, beautifully crafted works. Selected from the 2023 and 2024 Landfall Essay Competition entries, this...

"In this collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, First Nations writers and writers of colour bend and shift boundaries, query the past and envision new futures. They ask: How do we write or hold our former selves,...

"Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. He realized that awareness of divine reality was shifting, and that if it were lost, dire...

"'Do you remember how long ago it was? The last time we saw each other...' On the eve of July 4th, in the Hamptons, Elena is preparing to throw a party to celebrate her husband, Henry, as he unveils his latest architectural masterpiece. But their already...

"First Witches: Women of Power in Ancient Greece and Rome takes you on a journey into the world of Classical literature, from the adventurous Homeric epic of the Odyssey to the grim warfare of Lucan's De Bello Civili. In doing so, you will be introduced to a...

"The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left-hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his...

"Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime bringing joy to the nation with her poetry, providing profound and hilarious insights into the delights and tribulations of daily life. In pursuing a career as a performer and a writer as a young girl, she stepped outside of...

"A widely admired writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg now gives us a distillation of that experience in an distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be...

"Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century, part of the first generation of New York Poets. He was born in Baltimore in 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and worked in New York, both for Art News and for the Museum of...

"Breaking the silence Lemn Sissay is back with a sensational new book. Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice - visionary,...

"Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural...

"Spain's national epic relates the exploits of the warrior Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1040-1099) after Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile, banishes him for reasons unknown. In exile, he gathers an irresistible raiding party that conquers or exacts tribute...

"Originally published in 1939, this book examines the critical careers of a number of English poets. Bronowski looks at the reasons why English poets took an interest in criticism and how the role of poets as critics affected English criticism using Sidney,...

"Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas' works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This selection includes some of his best poetry, celebrating both inner and outer...

"You'll remember how much of living is really just forgetting. The family home is more than a building. It's a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or magic. But for brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all...

"A literary jaunt in praise of the lost art of letter writing that explores a cultural history and the undeniable thrill of old-school correspondence-from New Yorker culture writer Rachel Syme. Inspired by a bestselling turn-of-the-century correspondence...

"Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. The twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami blends erotic longing and spiritual self-denial in an...

"Inspired by writer and philosopher Audre Lorde's famous claim: "Poetry is not a luxury," this anthology proves the vitality of poetry as a crucial source of inspiration, comfort, and delight.In a first section, "Summer," you'll find lush landscapes and love...

"The only constant in life is change. Climate is a journey in embracing change both internally and externally. It guides you through all the weather you face. From heartbreak to the storms you create inside your brain, Climate reminds you to embrace the sun,...

"S is For is an investigation by poet William Archila of the Central American migrant crisis haunted by the past of the civil war in El Salvador, the meanings of family spirits, and trees disappearing to urban sprawl—always wielding the voice of the immigrant,...

"The second poetry collection from award-winning Queer Poz (PLHIV) writer and performance-maker. In Act Cute, the poet addresses the gap between memory and the present, and asks how to perform a coherent self amidst the forces of nostalgia, institutional...

"From Australian poet John Kinsella comes this exceptional new collection that traces the ghosts of this country's violent and destructive history through the marks left on the land, in language and in ourselves. Ghost of Myself explores who we are when we...

"Parallel Movement of the Hands collects five long, serial poems (and prose poems) which John Ashbery left unfinished and will become part of his archive at Harvard University's Houghton Library. 'In-progress and realised' as their editor Emily Skillings puts...

"At times surreal, at times philosophical, the poems of Strange Beach demarcate a fiercely interior voice inside of queer Black masculinity. Oluwaseun's speakers--usually, but not specified, as two men--move between watery landscapes, snowy terrains, and...

"'The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,' Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's...

"Award winning poet of our times Shane McCrae, 'peer to the peerless' (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell. Of death the muse is death the muse of Hell Is death the muse of Heaven I...

A wide range of people – from consultants, coaches, executives to academics, authors, journalists and scientists – are also speakers today. Indeed, anyone with expertise, knowledge or the motivation can and should become a public speaker. But to become a...

"A gloriously dark book filled with witty illustrations about life and death, Deep Thoughts from a Shallow Grave celebrates life in its humorous and often satirical confrontation of death. Conceived, written and drawn by Anthony Martignetti over the past few...

"First Edition poetry book by Christchurch poet, Catherine Fitchett"--Provided by publisher.

I was born this way. I was made to be soft and pleasant to touch. It's the silicone. Father is considering polyvinyl chloride for my future siblings because it's cheaper. I hope you understand how special that makes me. Were you born this way too? Your body...

In her second book of poetry, Nina Mingya Powles skilfully threads together themes of belonging and material inheritance against a backdrop of verse, collage and textile. From shorelines in Aotearoa, the UK and across Asia, this collection moves through words...

I stored my plan for world peacesafely in my coat pocket, and then I washed the coat. Sick Power Trip is Erik Kennedy's most personal and vulnerable book yet. These are poems that tell us: the world is unwell, and sometimes writers are, too. Kennedy...

"Featuring work from participants Jess Young, Elise Koncsek, Hana Pera Aoake (Ōtepoti Writers Lab Writer in Residence 2022), Ime Corkery, Martin Swann, Marina Lathouraki, Robyn Restieaux, Keri McMullan, Jade Young, Hera Cook, Tūī Krall, Nicola Brown, Martin...

Two Left Feet takes the reader on a literary journey from the sunny hills of Tasman to summer rain in Central Otago, down to Invercargill and back up again to the sandfly-ridden West Coast, as two travellers explore the struggles and joys of a close-knit...

Written across the years of 2017 and 2018 while living in the Motueka region of the Tasman District Council, The Tasman Journey by W.F. Stubbs features deeply wrought poetry exploring the loss of friendships, local cafe life, finding a way through depression...

A cure for the blues: Satiric literary criticism of the pompous rhetoric and purple prose displayed in an all but forgotten piece of Southern fiction -- The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant is a Short Story written by Mark Twain. I begin this little work...

A composite chronicle of various loves-desired, lost, or never realised-and their corresponding joys and griefs against the backdrops of contemporary art and late capitalism. These poems radiate with Aoake's characteristic force, tenderness, intelligence, and...