Poetry

Lost and Certain of It

by Bryce Milligan

Lost and Certain of It is a genre-blending collection of Bryce Milligan's poetry and music. Travelling from Texas to New Orleans and from funerals to bus stops, these lyrical and imaginative writings cross...

Drive: The First Quartet: New Poems, 1980��2005

by Lorna Dee Dee Cervantes

This five-part collection of poems ranges from highly political to gently playful and personal.

Orlando Furioso

by Lodovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Mad Orlando"; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized) is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture....

The Light of Asia

by Edwin Arnold

The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life and philosophy of Prince Siddhartha Gautama who attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree and became the Buddha....

The Aeneid

by Virgil

Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments into a powerful myth about the...

New and Selected Poems

by Michael Ryan

“Ryan is a scrupulously observant poet with a gift for going for the jugular . . . His work is finely honed, provocative, questing, and humane.” – Edward Hirsch, Washington Post Book World

Michael Ryan’s...

Growing Old Together

by Robert W. Nero

Poems in tribute to the author's wife, Ruth - and to "Lady Grayl," the great gray owl Nero adopted in 1984 and who lived with the couple until her death in 2005.

Eyes with Winged Thoughts: Poems and Photographs

by Gordon Parks

In Eyes with Winged Thoughts, the forty-four photographs and fifty-eight poems, reflecting on his long and extraordinary life, offer a rare glimpse of his thoughts and feelings about everything from romantic...

David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer

by David Meltzer

One of the most respected poets of the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance periods, David Meltzer has kept alive interest in the interface between jazz and poetry that exploded in the 1950s. This new edition...

The Certainty Dream

by Kate Hall

Descartes asked, How can I know that I am not now dreaming? The Certainty Dream poses similar questions through poetry, but without the trappings of traditional philosophy. Kate Hall’s bracingly immediate,...

Eunoia: The Upgraded Edition

by Christian Bök

The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle),...

The Whispering Gallery

by William Logan

The poems here delve into what William Logan calls the “ill-lit kingdom of the past.” The book is haunted by the dead but equally penitent toward the rich insinuations of the living: the lost floral paradise...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

by Omar Khayyam

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). The word "Rubaiyat" means quatrains...

The Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll in 1874 and published in 1876. Describing "with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew...

Joy Is So Exhausting

by Susan Holbrook

Joyfully melding knowing humour and torqued-up wordplay, Holbrook’s second collection is a comic fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric. Punch lines become sucker punches,...

Latecomers

by Jaya Savige

Winner of the prestigious Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Jaya Savige's Latecomers is a first collection of poems by one of Australia's most exciting young poets. Lively, playful, and always intelligent,...

Gutted

by Evie Christie

Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, this collection manages to revel in the beauty of fragility and discover awe in the smallest things.

Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 1928

by , Siegfried Sassoon

Originally published in 1928, 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' by Siegfried Sassoon is the ever-popular novel featuring the young 'George Sherston', whom we follow through a series of frequently humorous stories...

Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes

by , Alfred Noyes

Originally published in 1912, this book contains an excellent collection of poetry by the much-loved English poet Alfred Noyes, best known for his ballads 'The Highwayman' and 'The Barrel-Organ'. Many of these...

The Earthly Paradise

by , William Morris

Originally published in 1903, 'The Earthly Paradise' is the most successful poem, in terms of popularity, by the great William Morris, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with...