• Rok vydání 2004

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

• Rok vydání 1930

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

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

\nA memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee - from viral articles to unpublished…

\nThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew\'s dreamlike jungle voyage ... \'An exhilarating experience ... As…

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

• Rok vydání 2022

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

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

• Rok vydání 2007

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

• Rok vydání 2011

A radical thinker and social campaigner, Shelley wrote some of the finest lyric verse in the English language which confirms…

• 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 2019

Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met, of transgressive and often tragic women - prostitutes and mothers,…

• Rok vydání 2019

Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the…

• Rok vydání 2021

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

• Rok vydání 2019

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…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRYIt is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval…

They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and…

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…

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

This is a revised and enlarged edition. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by identifying and…

• Angličtina

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

• Rok vydání 2022

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

• 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…

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…

• 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…

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…

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…

• Rok vydání 2017

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

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…

\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…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nIlluminating and authoritative treatise on \'how a poem works\', from the multi-award-winning poet, editor and professor…

• Rok vydání 1985

Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows…