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“lynette roberts”

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  • Collected Poems: Lynette Roberts

    by Lynette Roberts ...
    The work of an original, haunting, and experimental modernist poet is made available again for the first time in 50 years in this volume. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two published collections take as their subject a woman's life in wartime. A late modernist, she works on two scales at the same time: the mythic and the domestic. As a Welsh writer, her best work stands ... Read more

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  • A Letter to the Dead

    Collected Poems

    by Lynette Roberts ...
    ' Between now and then, I will offer youA fist full of rock cress fresh from the bankThe valley tips of garlic red with dewCooler than shallots, a breath you can swankIn the village when you come. At noon-dayI will offer you a choice bowl of cawlServed with a ' lover' s' spoon and a chopped sprayOf leeks or savori fach, not used now,In the old way you' ll understand. The dinOf children singing ... Read more

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  • To the River

    A Journey Beneath the Surface

    by Olivia Laing ...
    Series Book 71 - Canons
    An author's walk "from source to sea along the Ouse in Sussex is a meandering, meditative delight" drawing on history, literature, and the river itself ( The Guardian, UK).In To The River, author Olivia Laing embarks on a weeklong, midsummer odyssey along the banks of the River Ouse in Sussex, England, from its source near Haywards Heath to the sea, where it empties into the Channel at Newhaven. ... Read more

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  • Opened Ground

    Selected Poems, 1966–1996

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    From the Irish Nobel laureate: Essential poems selected by the author from throughout his career, plus several previously unselected works and his Nobel lecture."[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today." —Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book ReviewOpened Ground includes the essential poems from Seamus Heaney's twelve ... Read more

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  • The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition

    The Original Edition

    by Dylan Thomas ...
    The original and classic The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas is available once again, now with a brilliant new preface by Paul Muldoon.The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. (A piece of New Directions history: it was our founder ... Read more

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  • The Nation's Favourite

    Twentieth Century Poems

    by Griff Rhys Jones ...
    This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is ... Read more

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  • R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry

    by rev R.S. Thomas ...
    A best of R.S. Thomas's poems in a beautiful new gift editionR. S. Thomas (1913- 2000) was born in Cardiff. He studied classics, then theology and, after ordination, served six rural Welsh parishes for most of his life. His first book of poems was published in 1946. He won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964 and published regularly, Collected Poems 1945-90 marking his eightieth birthday. ... Read more

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  • A Writer's House in Wales

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Directions
    Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and ... Read more

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  • The Bees

    by Carol Ann Duffy ...
    A winner of the Costa Book Award, "beautiful and moving poetry for the real world" ( The Guardian)The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize–winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book, The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems ... Read more

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  • The Life of Rebecca Jones

    by Angharad Price ...
    Translated by Lloyd Jones ...
    In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; her family have been working the land for a thousand years, but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life.Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with haunting dignity and a simple intimacy, while her evocation ... Read more

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  • Turned Out Nice Again

    On Living With the Weather

    by Richard Mabey ...
    In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with London smog, seasonal affective disorder (SAD - do we all get it?) and the mysteries of storm ... Read more

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