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London, United Kingdom: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994 This revised edition published by Sinclair-Stevenson 1994 (first published in UK in 1985 by Rivelin Grapheme Press). 47pp. Some age and shelf wear. Back cover has large white book store label at lower end but not covering any writing. Half title page has green ink stamp of book store name in right top corner. Both front and back cover has some soiling. Clean text pages. This collection is devoted entirely to cats. The poems are accomplished, delivered with Lykiard's acknowledged verve, and make a fine contribution to the love of the cat.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1987 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the hardback and paperback editions. Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date 3 August 1987.] Green soft cover. 69pp. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Gross is a well-known English poet and novelist who writes for both teenagers and adults. His poetry collection The Wasting Game was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. This title is now out of print in both hard and paperback editions.

London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1982 [First published in this collection 1980. Reprinted in paperback 1982.] This edition is now out of print. 412 pages with index. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased. Name of previous owner in blue ink on inside cover at top left hand corner. Otherwise no other markings, clean text pages. This collection was put together by the author. Ewart says in the Introduction "This collection is a collection - and not a selection - of my poems. This is not because I consider them all equally good but because I have aimed at completeness." Philip Larkin writing in Quarto said "The most remarkable phenomenon in the English poetic scene during the last ten years has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart". Ewart (1916-1995) was a prolific British poet known for his witty and sometimes unsettling treatments of unlikely subjects. He uses the rhythms and recurrent obsessions of demotic forms - limericks in particular -… Read More

London, United Kingdom: John Lane, 1899 Second Edition. 305pp. Green boards with gilt decoration. Dustjacket was not issued with this edition. B/w illustration of author protected by tissue paper. Name of previous owner on first front endpaper in ink. Pages rough cut and are beginning to spot on every page. Otherwise no other markings on text pages. Boards have some minor age and shelf wear - spine top and tail bumped with minor tearing. 147 poems in this collection - for example: Wordsworth's Grave; Shelley's Centenary; England and Her Colonies; The Raven's Shadow; To a Seabird; To Lord Tennyson; Bryon the Voluptuary; The Sovereign Poet; The Ruin Abbey; The Riddle of the Thames; Peace and War; The Tomb of Burns; Estrangement; The Lost Eden; The Captive's Dream; To Thomas Bailey Aldrich; etc.

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 [First published in 1989 by Faber and Faber Limited]. 364 pages with indexes, editor's note and introduction. Some age and shelf wear; spine creased; original dustjacket not price clipped; dustjacket's edges are rubbed. Edges of the pages have tanned through age. Clean text pages, no internal markings. Anthology of poetry and prose on illness divided into sections (Generalities; Illnesses, Greater and Lesser; Eyes, Ears and Teeth; Doctors and Cures; Hospitals and Patients; Philosophers and Kings; Intellectual and Spiritual Frets; Strange Complaints, Mishaps, Embarrassments; Imaginary, Feigned, Psychological; Melancholy and Love Sickness; Manias, Phobias, Fantasies, Fears; Breakdown and Madness; Young and Old; Animals; Invalids and Convalescents; Short and Sharp). Some of the writers included are: Virginia Woolf, Proust, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Susan Sontag, Brecht. Many of the pieces are light-hearted, even comical - it will amuse,… Read More

London, U.K. : The Harvill Press, 1991 This edition is the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Original dustjacket not price clipped which has some age and shelf wear - the dj edges are rubbed and there is a crease at the bottom of the front page of the dj. The boards are in better condition than the dj - tight copy. Previous owner has written in blue ink a note on the front endpaper; and on the half title page there is an inscription to the previous owner from a friend in blue ink. Otherwise no other markings in the book, clean text page. "The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from 250-759 AD. It was intended to demonstrate that the poets of the Yamato ascendancy could match, and even out-match, the Chinese poetry that was then regarded as the model of literary perfection. In Graeme Wilson's vivid English, seventy-six of these remarkable poems by warrior princes and Imperial princesses, priests ad provincial governors, courtiers and lovers, frontier-guards and conscript soldiers,… Read More

Eire: Bayleaf Publications, 2006 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to the edges. This is Power's fourth collection of poems. The first nine poems in this collection were written between 1962 and 1970. This is his final collection of poems; he died a year after its publication. Brian Power was a retired priest.

London, United Kingdom: Penguin Classics, 2006 Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. As new with very slight age and shelf wear to cover edges, otherwise tight copy with no internal markings. The Los Angeles Times considered this volume as "The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from 'the greatest twentieth-century writer ..'." Pessoa was the equal of Yeats, Rilke, Valery, Lorca, Pasternak or Hart Crane. This is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius.

London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1989 125 pages. Cover design by Salim Patell incorporating a painting by Michael Leonard on front cover; back cover author's photograph by Julian Ewart. Some shelf and age wear especially to edges of cover which are slightly bumped; spine creased; some small black smudges on back cover at top and bottom. No internal markings, clean text pages.

Cornwall, UK: Peterloo Poets, 2003 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text page. Slight edge wear to top right corner of cover. This is Elisabeth Rowe's first volume of poetry which includes a wide range of form and tone and embraces a fine balance of descriptive, intellectual, and emotional content. The poems convey an intense relationship with landscape, a gently satirical exploration of human behaviour, and strong elegiac vein.

Oxford, UK: Lion Hudson, 2011 238 pages. New book - no internal markings, clean text pages - recently published. "The poems in this anthology - chosen by sufferers themselves - powerfully respond to the deepest and most private thoughts and feelings that commonly preoccupy the seriously ill but are difficult to articulate or even recognize. Among them are poems of quietness and gratitude, prayers and spiritual verse." The editor of this anthology was a musician and publisher's editor before falling ill with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome more than 20 years ago. The anthology grew out of his fortuitous discovery of the extraordinary healing effect of Poetry Therapy, which makes use of verse that is relevant to the reader's experience - in this case, poems written by poets who themselves experienced illness or other life challenges.
The collection is divided into 7 parts reflecting the emotional and spiritual path most sufferers from serious illness follow: Part I: O Rose, Thou Art… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Faber and Faber, 1989 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY for the cased and paperback editions (actually copied by Faber from corrected page proofs). Prepublication first edition. [Probable publication date: 18 September 1989.] 55pp. Green soft cover. Clean text pages. "Wolfwatching" was Hughes' 14th collection of poetry - he digs deeply into his own childhood and his family history, as well as writing about nature's violence and the meaning he finds in it. Included in the collection is the poem "The Black Rhino" written for the purpose of raising funds to save this endangered animal. The Library Journal considered reading Wolfwatching was "like visiting a zoo envisioned by Hieronymus Bosch: we're caught between fright and fascination". He was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath until her death in 1963. Ted Hughes is considered one of England's finest modern poets - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year in two… Read More