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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£30.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781324001805 | ISBN 10: 1324001801
One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing ... more
View book details£4.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781907598708 | ISBN 10: 1907598707
These ten poems take us to the heart of human experience with all the passion of the Russian spirit. We find poems of love and poems celebrating the beauty of birch-wood and steppe, alongside poems that touch on the anguish of being a poet i ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141984933 | ISBN 10: 0141984937
While half the world swept west, we trickled eastward, one by one, single-file, like fugitives. Next stop: Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job, Â and money, for the first time in years... Â Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784782085 | ISBN 10: 1784782084
A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II. In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under mod ... more
View book details£9.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9789949385522 | ISBN 10: 9949385520
Diana Aitai was born in Estonia in 1988. She wrote poetry and prose under the name "Andeora Astraea". She learned many languages, won prizes in linguistics and philosophy, and studied psychology at university. She participated in eco-communities and ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781631491115 | ISBN 10: 1631491113
An historic publication in which the legendary dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht’s poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of h ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908058249 | ISBN 10: 1908058242
"the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, the statue standing like something outraged remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this, that hope marked you too."(From 'This City', by Adrianne Kalfopoulou) Futures features some of the most darin ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780372785 | ISBN 10: 1780372787
Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society a ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781906570002 | ISBN 10: 1906570000
This collection covers the broad vision of mankind's history with a story of an individual journey, in the course of which the poet explores the cosmic and the microcosm, the immensities of Time and Space, of becoming and Being. The poems came ... more
View book details£11.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780946162819 | ISBN 10: 0946162816
Marina Tsvetaeva’s verse drama Phaedra is perhaps the most extraordinary of all literary treatments of the Phaedra legend. It is primarily about female passion, and its most powerful figures are the female ones. Dangerously high voltage runs through ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780140455571 | ISBN 10: 0140455574
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199537372 | ISBN 10: 0199537372
The theme of the Metamorphoses is change and transformation, as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth and legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast and kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives, in which the often parado ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141185835 | ISBN 10: 014118583x
Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood. From the playful Suit ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (1984) - ISBN 13: 9781852242015 | ISBN 10: 1852242019
The Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greates ... more
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