• Rok vydání 2004

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

Kniha 9780571269907 Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press and Me Jean Hartley…

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. In 1798 he published the Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge,…

Musician and activist Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political…

\nThe dramatic story of Solange: a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more…

• Rok vydání 1930

\nIntroduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience onenew mother\'s psychological journey in this lost 1930foremother of…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nWhy do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate…

• Čeština

By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer…

John Clare (1793-1864), the 'peasant poet', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in…

Kniha 9780571219889 Simon Gray Four Plays Simon Gray…

• Rok vydání 2002

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.…

In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission -…

• Rok vydání 2012

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Since the publication of his poems in 1918 he…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nAphorisms have been described as \'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose\' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements…

Animates the characters of his childhood in County Cork. This book confirms author's place as one of the most approachable…

Adam Phillips uses the idea of flirtation to explore the virtues of being uncommitted - to people, to ideas, to methods -…

\nAnd in the fourth part of Paterson\'s ongoing poem \'The Alexandrian Library\', the poet-as-amateur scientist - from a…

The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'.…

• Čeština

In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two…

• Rok vydání 2018

A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZETHE BOOKSELLER'S Most Picked Book…

Sylvia Plath was one of the most gifted and innovative poets of the twentieth century, yet serious study of her work has…

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life…

• Rok vydání 2023

Kniha 9780571383023 How To Be Invisible Kate Bush…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nAnd each of them may soon disappear from the earth. A lavishly illustrated compendium of the staggering lives of some of…

• Angličtina

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years…

This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith\'s output in poetry, prose and drawings from…

First published in 1984, Paul Muldoon's The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry sought to establish a canon of Irish…

\nFollowing his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another…

He was rich, secretive and - through his friendship with a famous Russian singer - implicated in the abduction of a white…

• Rok vydání 2000

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written…

• Rok vydání 2015

\nWINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZEA GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2015FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY DAVID…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThis epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to…

• Rok vydání 2008

Written with the assistance, of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera, this book…

• Rok vydání 2018

A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the YearLONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEEmerging from the jazz clubs of the…

Edited by Alan Jenkins, this authoritative Collected Poems contains all of the poetry that Ian Hamilton chose to publish,…

\nAnd in the fourth part of Paterson\'s ongoing poem \'The Alexandrian Library\', the poet-as-amateur scientist - from a…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nCollectively these bring us closer to an understanding of the genius for interpretation and transformation that…

Larkin\'s final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and…

To understand Lebanon\'s history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nThe current UK Poet Laureate\'s popular series of lectures examining what poetry is and who it might be for.\n…

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies;…

• Čeština

After its publication in 1667, John Milton's Paradise Lost was celebrated throughout Europe as a supreme achievement of the…

• Čeština

It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. This work is a…

• Rok vydání 2025

\nProvides a set of dialogues with one of the writer-directors in American film.\n…

This third collection of Brian Friel's work contains:Three Sisters (Chekhov) (1981)The Communication Cord (1982) Fathers and…

Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent researcher and a deft reader of poetry - has…