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  • Rapunzel, Rapunzel

    Poems by Janet Charman

    by Janet Charman ...
    A substantial fourth collection from a feminist poet chronicling life in the suburbs in all its banal and joyous detail. Janet Charman writes with wit, irony and sometimes anger, about being a wife, a mother, a daughter. ... Read more

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  • Snowing Down South

    Poems by Janet Charman

    by Janet Charman ...
    This fifth collection of poems by a well-established poet is a vivid and compassionate evocation of ordinary domestic life. Unflinching realism about the situation of women gives her work power. Her handling of language, rhythm, and imagery is sophisticated and skilled. In this collection, the poet recalls her childhood, full of voices and stories, and preserves bits of New Zealand's past as well ... Read more

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  • At the White Coast

    by Janet Charman ...
    Making landfall among the inhabitants of a gritty metropolis, these poems transport the reader from the white coast of New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, to the shores of another country and another time. Set on the cusp of the 1970s and 1980s, Janet Charman's compelling poetry collection centers on the disorienting experiences of a young woman from the former British colony of New ... Read more

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  • Cold Snack

    by Janet Charman ...
    A well-loved New Zealand poet returns to territory that will be familiar to all readers in this collection of verse that takes on the uncelebrated, even mundane aspects of everyday life: family, work, suburbia. The book is divided into three sections. The first deals with a midlife career change; the second looks back to a period earlier in the poet's life, when she was a receptionist for a ... Read more

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  • Mothering Sunday

    (from the poem The Summer Fires)What will they remember when they wakeThose children who built this for a thrill?sprawled around it one warm night,spread dusty laughter on the sun hardened hillthen rolled away at the first hint of light,left the sun to blind and killall threat and fear of discovery,left the ashes for the wind to rake,and let the memory slip beyond recovery. ... Read more

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  • George Eliot Six Pack - Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede

    by George Eliot ...
    This illustrated anthology of George Eliot novels includes Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede. ... Read more

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  • An Andrew Crozier Reader

    Reintroducing the poetry and prose of a remarkable poet, editor, and critic, this is a comprehensive selection of Andrew Crozier's work. A definitive anthology, it offers insight into Crozier's influences and praises him for championing writing excluded from the familiar canon, and for helping to create a space for new voices within English poetry. Meticulous in its attention to language and ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti

    Series series Wordsworth Poetry Library
    With an Introduction and Notes by Katherine McGowran.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of nineteenth century poetry can be complete without attention to this prolific and popular poet. Rosetti's inner life dominates her poetry, exploring loss and unattainable hope.Her divine poems have a freshness and ... Read more

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  • The Long Road to Teatime

    Poems by Anna Jackson

    by Anna Jackson ...
    An enchanting collection by a new young poet, this includes six playful, warm and allusive sequences, literary variations on domestic life, domestic takes on literature. ... Read more

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  • Otherwise Unchanged

    by Owen Lowery ...
    Combining poems of historical depth, human fascination, and personal sensitivity with a willingness to explore the possibilities of poetic form and technique, this compilation produces diverse formal arrangements from Arabic, English, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Welsh poetry. As it aims to assimilate aspects of these traditions with the poet's own voice, this collection pays homage to the lives ... Read more

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  • The Crossing Fee

    by Iain Bamforth ...
    Reimagining myth, history, and literature, this compilation draws upon the poet's remarkable travels and experiences as a doctor while working in some of the most remote parts of the world. As it brings Rimbaud, Dante, and 17th-century picaresque into play, this compilation explores the ultimate journey of crossing into another world or another life. ... Read more

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