Thomas Hardy 
Select Poems of William Barnes [PDF ebook] 
Chosen and Edited With a Preface and Glossarial Notes

At the heart of poetry lies the desire to belong – to a place, a space, a country. Our experiences of the spaces we inhabit shape our identities and define the contours of our lives. In this collecti …

Climate change, the cost-of-living crisis; corporate greed, insomnia and mortality – yes, they all feature here, delicately interwoven with joyful poems celebrating love, family, food, basking lizard …

The thing about poetry is, that She has but the simplest of rules.She does not have to rhyme, Nor be written in clear lines.She doesn’t even need true letters, All she has to do, is move the spirit, …

Postcolonial Metaphysics is a debut poetry collection with a difference. The poems in this collection deal with contemporary political issues like colonialism, classism, migration, racism and social …

‘My original thought when writing this book was as a paean to the church – the Black Church – that had sustained me throughout my childhood and boyhood. I wanted to say thank you for all the joy, str …

Clay Tablets in Nietzsche’s Cave is a masterful, poetic work–and as momentousfor the reception of Arabic poetry in English as was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls for theologians and anthropolo …

‘Bracing’ is a full collection of poems, mostly about contemporary life, experienced richly, intensely, unsentimentally and with humour. The writing is humane and accessible, wearing its intelligence …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer”s work, enabling students and research …

This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) – a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian’s works constitute some of the greatest a …