A poet, artist, and mystic, Blake declared that "I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's." And create he did. Included here are such well-known poems as "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright."
English poetry
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Author:Blake, WilliamSummary: -
Author:Moritz, A.F.Summary:Mortality, Love, Ethics, Civilization, Divine Presence, Human Body, Modernity, The Natural World, and Constructed Spaces. The Sentinel watches and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and worthy of trust. Whether describing...
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Author:Dubie, NormanSummary:In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities....
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Author:Antrobus, RaymondSummary:The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories. The...
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Author:Nicolson, AdamSummary:SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019. Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It...
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Author:Summary:The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s...
- Author:Chaucer, GeoffreySummary:
At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time...
- Author:Bernard, Jay.Summary:
Brought To You By Penguin. The audiobook edition of Surge, written and read by Jay Bernard. Winner of The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020. * Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018 * Jay Bernard'...
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Author:Priest, RobertSummary:Daring new verse from one of Canada's most-established poets
Previously Feared Darkness picks up and pulls at the vibrant threads of Robert Priest's last collection, Reading the Bible Backwards. One...
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Author:Richardson, RobinSummary:Sexy, irreverent, and inventive
Lovesick Stormtroopers, dowsing Girl Guides, movie stars, pool hustlers, and the mad queen Ranavalona … With Knife Throwing Through Self–Hypnosis, Robin Richardson charts a path...
- Author:Miller, LucastaSummary:
A dazzling new look into the short but intense, tragic life and remarkable work of John Keats, one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language, seen in a whole new light, not as the mythologized Victorian guileless nature-lover...
- Author:Editors of the Montreal Poetry PrizeSummary:
The Global Poetry Anthology 2015 is a one-of-a-kind collection of contemporary poems, previously unpublished, and gathered from all corners of the English-speaking world. The international editorial board ensures the present volume’s...
- Author:Buis, SusanSummary:
Poems about British Columbia, the author's relationship to the land, reconciliation, nature.
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Author:Burt, StephenSummary:In his 2015 Garnett Sedgewick lecture, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephen Burt discusses the relation of poetry to time, space and place. He examines the widespread and popular view of contemporary critics who claim that...
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Author:Wordsworth, WilliamSummary:Widely considered the greatest and most influential of the English Romantic poets, William Wordsworth (1770–1850) remains today among the most admired and studied of all English writers. He is best remembered for the poems he wrote...
- Author:Oswald, AliceSummary:
Alice Oswald’s award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial (“wryly ingenious,” said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers from Homer’s Iliad. Falling Awake expands on that imagery―defining life as a slowly...
- Author:Oswald, AliceSummary:
Over the course of three years Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in Dart a narrative of the river,...
- Author:Shire, WarsanSummary:
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Black Is King and Lemonade, award-winning Somali-British poet Warsan Shire. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire...
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Author:Summary:The best field recordings of songs and calls of fifty birds of England and North America are here paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as well as poems by Dickinson, Shelley, Longfellow, Tennyson, and more....
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