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  • The Man with Night Sweats

    Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    Series series FSG Poetry
    With an illuminating new introduction by Colm Tóibín, here is Thom Gunn’s extraordinary memorial to love, life, and death in the time of the AIDS crisis.The Man with Night Sweats is a haunting depiction of a world ravaged by illness that is part elegy for those who have been lost and part evocation of the changes that await those who survive.Thom Gunn’s collection is one of the few works of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Letters of Thom Gunn

    by Thom Gunn ...
    The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry.“I write about love, I write about friendship,” remarked Thom Gunn. “I find that they are absolutely intertwined.” These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and they ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Boss Cupid

    Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    A great poet's freshest, most provocative book.He dreams at the center of a closed system,Like the prison system, or a system of love,Where folktale, recipe, and household customRefer back to the maze that they are of.--from "A System: PCP, or Angel Dust"Taste and appetite are contraposed in Boss Cupid, the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet, who is also the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Sense of Movement

    by Thom Gunn ...
    The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first published in 1957.'This book . . . establishes Gunn as one of the few really interesting poets of his generation and promises greatly for the future.' Times Literary Supplement ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • New Selected Poems

    by Thom Gunn ...
    A new selection of poems by the celebrated gay poetThom Gunn has been described as "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century" ( Times Literary Supplement). Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there's nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

    by Stephen Spender ...
    Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, with whom he was to develop a poetics of engagement, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He visited Spain during the Civil War, in 1937, where he assisted the Republican ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Heart of Things

    On Memory and Lament

    by Richard Holloway ...
    Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life’s challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which have been his own guide, offered in the hope they will help us too.This is a book to turn to for inspiration, guidance and comfort. It offers ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • An Ordinary Dog

    by Gregory Woods ...
    Both intimate and detached, this poetry compilation delves into the politics and aesthetics of desire—sacred and profane, frantic and serene, refined and grubby. Reflecting upon the comedy of human needs and the vanity of human wishes, these poems consider times of crisis when history is lived and reinvented, myth degenerates into faith, and reason falters. On this journey in which chance always ... Read more

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  • The Four Quartets

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which ... Read more

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  • District & Circle

    Poems

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    A T. S. Eliot Prize and Irish Times Poetry Now Award–winning poetry collection from the Irish Nobel laureate."The world shines up from these pages with refreshed particularity and tactile exactitude." —Peter Campion, The Boston Sunday GlobeIn their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems of District and Circle, Seamus Heaney's critically acclaimed collecti... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jailbreaks

    99 Canadian Sonnets

    Edited by Zachariah Wells ...
    In 1910 Lawrence J. Burpee published an anthology of 100 Canadian Sonnets. Poet and critic Zachariah Wells figured it was high time for an update on that dusty tome. In Jailbreaks, Wells has gathered 99 of his favourite sonnets written by Canadians, from the 19th century to the present day. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

    by Brian Cox ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKERThe incredible rags-to-riches story of acclaimed actor Brian Cox, best known as Succession’s Logan Roy, from a troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotland to a prolific career across theatre, film and television.**From Hannibal Lecktor in Manhunter to media magnate Logan Roy in HBO's Succession, Brian Cox has made his name as an actor of unparalleled ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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