Literature & Poetry

The new collection of poems from Christopher Reid.

A Vertical Art gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his acclaimed four-year tenure as Oxford University Professor of Poetry.

African poetry is unique in its complexity, both because of its linguistic diversity and the devastating impact of colonialism and slavery. The collection includes a mix of poetry -humorous, celebratory, thoughtful and angry - and above all is a look at the history of Africa through the voices of those who lived through it.

A poem does not have to be famous to be cherished. The best-known poems of Robert Burns have been loved by countless people over the years, but there are other poems that may be largely unknown that will mean a great deal to the few who are familiar with them.

This anthology is a personal curation and ...

Since he lived six times as many working-days as Sundays, Oak's appearance in his old clothes was most peculiarly his own - the mental picture formed by his neighbours in imagining him being always dressed in that way. He wore a low-crowned felt hat, spread out at the base by tight jamming upon the head ...

'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in 'books of the year'.

Chapters from eight novels on IPAF longlists; Sudanese novelist Amir Tag Elsir writes Literary Influences; chapters from Goat Mountain, 30-year-old debut novel of Habib Selmi; "Arabic Literature in Russia" - essay by Russian Arabist Viktoria Zorytovskaya. Guest author is Spanish poet Angel Guinda. Plus a new Banipal Photo Album section.

To know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together-or what T. S. Eliot calls ""the pattern in his carpet".

A guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and theorists accessible and understandable. It provides definitions of terms and concepts in literary theory, along with explanations of the major movements and figures in literary and cultural theory and a bibliography.

"The best known facts about James--his illustrious, wealthy family and famous siblings; his prolific literary output with its numerous quirky female heroines; his long-term bachelorhood, and the rumours that accompanied it; and his flamboyant adoption of British citizenship in 1915--have all served to ...

In May 1913, Rupert Brooke embarked on a year-long expedition of North America, visiting the United States, Canada, and finally the South Seas. He sent his impressions home in a series of letters, written for publication in the Westminster Gazette, describing all his various experiences and reflections: ...

His hands were scornfully in his pockets. --

The UK debut of Heather Christle: a poet whose award-winning work is wild and wistful and fully alive to the moment.

This major new anthology brings together for the first time the work of poets who saw active service on the Western Front, but not with a gun in their hand. Their role was to save life, not to take it.

Collecting the most controversial work from the prolific founding father of "new journalism," this anthology of countercultural rantings, riffs, and revolutionary writings carries readers from the 1950s through the sexual revolution and into the 1990s.

A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets

A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets

Introducing students to the full range of approaches to the study of Renaissance poetry that they are likely to encounter in their course of study, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period. Each chapter covers a major figure in ...