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Zonal(2022) PATERSON, DONZonal is an experiment in science-fictional and fantastic autobiography, with all of its poems taking their imaginative cue from the first season of The Twilight Zone (1959-1960), playing fast and loose with both their source material and their author's oVezava: Mehka14,90 €
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Three Poems(2018) SULLIVAN, HANNAHWINNER OF THE 2018 T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRYHannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity and substance.Vezava: Mehka17,61 €
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Salt(2019) HARSENT, DAVID'They belong to each other in mood, in tone and by way of certain images and words that form a ricochet of echoes - not least the word "salt".' Mineral, eerie, sensory, the poems in the collection are experienced as encounters - some with the surety of daVezava: Mehka16,25 €
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Us(2018) KUNIAL, ZAFFARYet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his father was born and now lives, to the Midlands of his mother's birth, and further north to ancestors in Orkney, as well as through language, memory and time.Vezava: Mehka17,61 €
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Song of Roland(1990)On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a Pyrenean pass. Written by an unknown poet, this book tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of Breton Marches,Vezava: Mehka13,54 €
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Arthurian Romances(1991) DE TROYES, CHRETIENThe "Arthurian Romances" contains prose translations of all five of Chretien's "verse romans" - "Erec and Enide", "Cliges", "Lancelot", "Yvain", "Perceval".Vezava: Mehka20,32 €
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Complete Odes and Epodes(1983) HORACEHorace (65-8 bc) was one of the poets of the Augustan age of Latin literature. This poetry is based around such diverse themes as the virtues of pastoral life, the joys of wine, friendship and love, and the poet's personal anguish following Brutus' defeatVezava: Mehka17,61 €
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Eclogues(1984) VIRGILHaunting and enigmatic, Virgil's "Eclogues" combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their phraVezava: Mehka13,54 €
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Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam(1981) KHAYYAM, OMAROmar Khayyam was revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher. Presented in short epigrammatic stanza form, this title contains his verses of reckless romanticism and pragmatic fatalism in the face of death.Vezava: Mehka12,19 €
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Orlando Furioso(1977) ARIOSTO, LUDOVICOA dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.Vezava: Mehka24,38 €
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Divine Comedy & Paradise(2004) ALIGHIERI, DANTEHaving climbed the Mount of Purgatory, Dante ascends to Heaven, continuing his soul's search for God guided by his beloved, Beatrice. As he progresses through the spheres of Paradise he grows in understanding, until he finally experiences divine love in GVezava: Mehka14,90 €
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Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas(1974) VON STRASSBURG, GOTTFRIEDBy slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde's hand in marriage for his uncle, King Mark. On their journey back to Mark's court, however, the pair mistakenly drink a love-potion intended for the king and his young bride, and areVezava: Mehka17,61 €
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Divine Comedy(2004) ALIGHIERI, DANTEBeginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, 'Purgatory' relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels, formed from rock forced upwards when God threw Satan into the depths of the earth.Vezava: Mehka14,90 €
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Comedy of Dante Alighieri(2005) ALIGHIERI, DANTEGuided by the poet Virgil, the author plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned, who tell of their saVezava: Mehka14,90 €
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Collected Poems(2019) LOWELL, ROBERTEdmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition'. This book compiles a comprehensive selection oVezava: Mehka40,65 €
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Entertainer(2016) OSBORNE, JOHNSet against the backdrop of post-war Britain, this book conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.Vezava: Mehka14,90 €
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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic(2020) ARMITAGE, SIMONOver the course of several years, Simon Armitage has written hundreds of poems for various projects, commissions, collaborations and events, which stand outside of his mainstream collections but now form a substantial body of work in their own right.Vezava: Mehka17,61 €
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Black Sun(2018) MARTINEZ DE LAS RIVAS, TOBYBlack Sun confronts the dark dreams and hidden powers of this world, and, through the poet's attentive watching and wondering, offers its readers a way 'to know - & still to resist a last despair'. 'A lucid and spontaneous lyricism .Vezava: Mehka17,61 €
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Unaccompanied(2018) ARMITAGE, SIMON'A writer who has had a game-changing influence on his contemporaries.' Guardian'Armitage is that rare beast: a poet whose work is ambitious, accomplished and complex as well as popular.' Sunday Telegraph'The best poet of his generation.' Craig Raine, ObsVezava: Mehka17,61 €
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British Museum(2019) NAGRA, DALJITWith compassion and charisma, Nagra explores the impact of the first wave of mass migration to our shores, the Arab Spring, the allure of extremism along with a series of personal poems about the pressures of growing up in a traditional community.Vezava: Mehka17,61 €