Virgil - Eclogues by Virgil; Robert Coleman (Editor); P. E. Easterling (Contribution by); Philip Hardie (Contribution by); Richard Hunter (Contribution by); E. J. Kenney (Contribution by)
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Ser.
Pastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Greek. Vergil not only transposed the spirit of Greek pastoral into an Italian setting, blending details from the life of his native countryside into the subsequent histo ...Show more
Outer Space: 100 Poems
Category: Poetry & Plays
Poets and astronomers often ask the same questions. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets, the moon, and space travel are used as metaphors for our feelings of love, ...Show more
Empire of the Son by Tetsuro Shigematsu; Donna Yamamoto (Foreword by); Jerry Wasserman (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry & Plays
Empire of the Son is an original one-hander that blurs the boundaries between artistic disciplines and continents. It is a unique theatrical hybrid that combines cinematography with the raw immediacy of a performance piece intimately connected to real life in real time. Through a series of audio intervi ...Show more
DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE (TCG EDITION) by Ruhl, Sarah
Category: Poetry & Plays
Satire is her oxygen… . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave. -The Washington Post Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look at the times we live in. -Variet ...Show more
Selected Poems by James Fenton
Category: Poetry & Plays
Listen to what they did.Don't listen to what they said.What was written in bloodHas been set up in lead.--from Blood and Lead The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of his career built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility. From the passionate political p ...Show more
Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems by Brian Bilston
Category: Poetry & Plays
In this playful, innovative collection, Brian Bilston writes a poem to accompany every day of the year. Each poem is inspired by a significant - often curious - event associated with that day: from Open an Umbrella Indoors Day to the day on which New York banned public flirting; from the launch of the R ...Show more
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney; Jonathan Galassi (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays
This is the first ever collected volume of Seamus Heaney's translations from languages including Old and Middle Irish and English, Medieval Italian, Classical Greek and Latin and Modern Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, German and Greek.
Exactly As I Am by Rae White
Category: Poetry & Plays
A defiant, unflinching exploration of gender identity, discrimination, and euphoria. Let me tell you how to lean gently on one another without rocking sideways. Rae White's much-anticipated second poetry collection, Exactly As I Am, speaks to their lived experience as a non-binary transgender person. Th ...Show more
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
Category: Poetry & Plays
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language - of speaking - to foster selfhood, articulate injust ...Show more
Refugia by Elfie Shiosaki
Category: Poetry & Plays
‘in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...’Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar Elfie Shiosaki. Inspired by the beeliar (Swan River) and the NASA James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of science, this collection ...Show more
Poems by James Joyce
Category: Poetry & Plays
It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to his comparative neglect as a poet. And yet his poems not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career, they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. 'Chamber Music' is an extraordinary debut, fusing a broad ...Show more
Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
Category: Poetry & Plays
From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her "meditations on kindness and hope" (NPR). Now, with Goldenro ...Show more