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For readers who enjoyed Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Gone are the gender stereotypes of obliging lovers, violent men and girls...
Editeur :
Trapeze
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2018-09-06
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Abu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy, and the extraordinary range and virtuosity...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-05-01
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In Rise Like Lions, Booker Prize winning writer Ben Okri has compiled a collection of poems that celebrate the many voices of politics, from polemics and rallying cries to lyrics and meditations. Many of these poems have resonated with readers over lifetimes and through...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2018-04-19
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This beautiful collection of poetry and prose through the seasons rhapsodises on the spectacle of colour and everything green and flourishing in the garden. The perfect book for a moment’s reflection, whether you are cooped up on a rainy day in your potting shed or...
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Summersdale
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2018-04-12
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From well-known poets Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella comes a tete-a-tete that is powerful, thought provoking, challenging and unapologetic. Papertalk Green and Kinsella call into question what we think we know about our country, colonisation, land and...
Editeur :
Magabala Books
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2018-03-01
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C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden bridle of Pegasus, which Day-Lewis invoked on several occasions as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-26
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'You cannot burn awayWhat has always been aflame'WILD EMBERS explores the fire that lies within every soul, weaving words around ideas of feeling at home in your own skin, allowing yourself to heal and learning to embrace your uniqueness with love from the universe....
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Trapeze
Parution :
2017-11-16
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Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis ofOvid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-07
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Why do we find it hard to explain what happens when words are set to music? This study looks at the kind of language we use to describe word/music relations, both in the academic literature and in manuals for singers or programme notes prepared by professional...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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Why do we find it hard to explain what happens when words are set to music? This study looks at the kind of language we use to describe word/music relations, both in the academic literature and in manuals for singers or programme notes prepared by professional...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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C. Day-Lewis was a major figure in British poetry and culture from the 1930s until his death in 1972. The Golden Bridle: Selected Prose takes its title from the myth of Bellerophon and the golden bridle of Pegasus, which Day-Lewis invoked on several occasions as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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Steve Garrett is a Cardiff-based social entrepreneur, writer, poet and musician. Originally from Wrexham,Steve spent many years living in Canada trying out a lot of different occupations before returning to settle in Wales, where, amongst other things, he has set up and...
Editeur :
Headline Accent
Parution :
2017-09-14
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Inspire students to enjoy poetry while helping them to prepare effectively for the CSEC® examination; ensure coverage of all prescribed poems for the revised CSEC® English A and English B syllabuses with an anthology that has been compiled with the approval of the...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-08-14
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I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Hath led me – who knows how? – To thy chamber window, Sweet! Percy Bysshe Shelley The...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2017-01-12
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In this innovative book, Bahman Solati presents a comparative study of ?afe?, an internationally renowned poet in the West, particularly in Germany, France, and the Anglophone world for the past 250 years, and his influence on the fifteenth-century classical Persian...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-12-30
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Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never entirely recovered from her suicide in 1963, though he chose to remain...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-08-11
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Sarah Kay's powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences. In her second single-poem volume, Kay takes readers along a lyrical road toward empowerment, exploring the promise...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2016-02-09
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Widely celebrated as the author of the worldwide bestselling novels A SUITABLE BOY and AN EQUAL MUSIC, Vikram Seth is also a highly acclaimed poet with a substantial body of work. Here, for the first time in one volume, readers can appreciate the beauty and scope of his...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-11-12
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'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world'
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived, and his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-12
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The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer.Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Traveller' and 'Seven Elements', they...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-06-25
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