Poetry Library News
Items added to the Poetry Library collection in July 2009 | 04-Aug-09
Here is a list of items added to our collection in July 2009 and now available for reference or loan. They are listed alphabetically by title and include books from the Library of Neil Hornick which ranges from collections of nonsense verse by Dr. Seuss and Spike Milligan to collections by Leonard Cohen and anthologies of ballads, song lyrics being a particular strength.
Children's Collections:
Baa baa black sheep / GOWAR, MICK -- London: Franklin Watts, (Picture book) - Child collection
Barking back at dogs / MOSES BRIAN -- London: Macmillan Children's Books, (Book) - Child collection
Bingo lingo: supporting language development through songs and rhymes / MACGREGOR, HELEN; UMANSKY, KAYE -- London: A & C Black, (Book) - Child collection
Abstract: Includes musical scores, tecahing notes and a first line index.
Button up! : wrinkled rhymes / SCHERTLE, ALICE -- New York: Harcourt Children's Books, (Book) - Child collection
Cautionary tales for children : designed for the admonition of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years / BELLOC, HILAIRE -- London: Duckworth, (Book) - Child collection
Dr. Seuss's sleep book / SEUSS, DR. -- London: Collins, (Book) - Child collection
Edward Lear's nonsense omnibus : with all the original pictures, verses and stories of his Book of nonsense, More nonsense, Nonsense songs, Nonsense stories and Alphabets / LEAR, EDWARD; Strachey, E. (introduction) -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Child collection
Elfrida / FALL, KLARA -- Wellington, New Zealand: Gecko Press, (Picture book) - Child collection
Fairies and friends / FYLEMAN, ROSE -- New York: George H. Doran, (Book) - Child collection
Flora's family : understanding- adoption / AUBREY, ANNETTE -- London: QED Publishing, (Picture book) - Child collection
Abstract: Includes: notes for parents and teachers
Hickory, dickory dock / MOSES, BRIAN -- London: Franklin Watts, (Picture book) - Child collection
Hop on pop / SEUSS, DR. -- London: Collins and Harvill, (Book) - Child collection
Hot like fire and other poems : poems from The world is sweet, and, Hot like fire / BLOOM, VALERIE -- London: Bloomsbury, (Book) - Child collection
Abstract: "Two vibrant collections in one volume". -- Includes: glossary and biographical note
I had a litttle cat : collected poems for children / CAUSLEY, CHARLES -- London: Macmillan Children's Books, (Book) - Child collection
If I ran the zoo / SEUSS, DR. -- Eau Claire, Win. E. M. Hale and Co. (Book) - Child collection
In the land of the elves / DRESCHER, DANIELA -- Edinburgh: Floris Books, (Picture book) - Child collection
In the land of the merfolk / DRESCHER, DANIELA -- Edinburgh: Floris Books, (Picture book) - Child collection
Jack and Jill / MAGEE, WES -- London: Franklin Watts, (Picture book) - Child collection
Abstract: Includes: reading activities
Max and Moritz : with many more mischief-makers more or less human or approximately animal / BUSCH, WILHELM -- New York: Dover Publications, (Book) - Child collection
Monkey monkey monkey / MACLENNAN, CATHY -- London: Boxer Books, (Picture book) - Child collection
Mr Mosquito put on his tuxedo / MORROW, BARBARA OLENYIK -- New York: Holiday House, (Picture book) - Child collection
Old mother Hubbard / GOWAR, MICK -- London: Franklin Watts, (Picture book) - Child collection
Abstract: Includes: reading activities
Please do not encourage this nonsense by purchasing this book : poems / TUBB, PAUL H. -- Victoria, BC: Trafford, (Book) - Child collection
Scottish alphabet / PITTMAN, RICKEY E. -- Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, (Picture book) - Child collection
Snail trail / SAXTON, JO -- London: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, (Picture book) - Child collection
Abstract: Includes: images of paintings
The swamps of Sleethe : poems from beyond the solar system / PRELUTSKY, JACK -- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (Book) - Child collection
Talking with Mother Earth : poems = Hablando con Madre Tierra : poemas / ARGUETA, JORGE -- Toronto: Groundwood Books;House of Anansi Press, (Book) - Child collection
This little pig / MOSES, BRIAN -- London: Franklin Watts, (Picture book) - Child collection
Abstract: Includes: reading activities
Tickle tickle / OXENBURY, HELEN -- London: Walker Books, (Board book) - Child collection
Wee Willie Winkie on Mars / MAGEE, WES -- London: Franklin Watts, (Picture book) - Child collection
Abstract: Includes: reading activities
Winter afternoon = Tarde de invierno / LUJAN, JORGE -- Toronto: Groundwood Books;House of Anansi Press, (Picture book) - Child collection
Children's Anthologies:
A book of poetry for children: some nursery rhymes and a selection from the works of standard authors -- London: The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd. (Book) - Child anthology
Divine songs: attempted in easy language for the use of children / Pafford, J.H.P. [introduction]; WATTS, ISAAC -- London: Oxford University Press, (Book) - Child anthology
Abstract: Includes chapters on literature for children, especially in poetic form, before 1715 and on Isaac Watts views on education and the use of poetry.
Firewords : a book of wordplay poems -- Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Book) - Child anthology
Noisy poems / GLIORI, DEBBIE -- London: Walker Books, (Book) - Child anthology
Off by heart : poems to learn and love / Rosen, Michael (foreword) -- London: Scholastic, (Book) - Child anthology
Abstract: "As seem on BBC" -- cover
Shadow dance : poems of the night for young people -- London: Puffin Books, (Book) - Child anthology
Abstract: Includes an index of poets and an index of first lines
Usborne sing-along nursery rhymes [multimedia] -- London: Usborne, (Multimedia; Board book) - Child anthology
Abstract: "Each track on the CD has the tune of the nursery rhyme followed by a musical arrangement to sing along to"
Vibrations : poems of youth / Bowering, George (introduction) -- Toronto: Gage Educational Publishing, (Book) - Child anthology
Adult Collections:
Across the grid of streets / LEHR, QUINCY R. -- Dublin: Seven Towers Publication, (Book) - Adult collection
Adam Foulds [compact disc] : reading from his poems / FOULDS, ADAM; Foulds, Adam (reader) -- Stroud, Gloucestershire: Poetry Archive, (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Alastair Reid [compact disc] : reading from his poems / REID, ALASTAIR; Reid, Alastair (reader) -- Stroud, Gloucestershire: Poetry Archive, (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Along the Liffey : poems and short stories / O'HAGAN, SHEILA -- Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
Andromache, Britannicus, Berenice / RACINE, JEAN -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Anecdotal evidence / RAWNSLEY, IRENE -- Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Anon / PUSATERI, CHRIS -- Buffalo, N.Y. BlazeVOX, (Book) - Adult collection
Apollinaire : war poems : recastings, re-visions ; selected by Mario Petrucci / APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME -- Enfield: Perdika Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Are we not drawn- / PHILPOTT, PETER -- Exeter: Shearsman Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Are you ready? / CORLESS, JOHN -- Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
As transient as square, or, Inside 32 / PIERCE, MICHELLE NAKA -- [S.l.] Tir aux Pigeons, (Pamphlet) - Adult collection
Asylum notes / MAC EOCHAIDH, DAITHIDH -- Selby: Woodman's Press, (Book) - Adult collection
The authentic lie / NAMJOSHI, SUNITI -- Fredericton, N.B. Fiddlehead Poetry Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Back from beyond : poems / RUBIN, KATHERINE -- Brighton: Pen Press Publishers, (Book) - Adult collection
The bedside Milligan : or, Read your way to insomnia / MILLIGAN, SPIKE -- London: Tandem, (Book) - Adult collection
The beloved : reflections on the path of the heart / GIBRAN, KAHLIL; Waterfield, Robin (introduction) -- London: Arkana, Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Beloved integer / PIERCE, MICHELLE NAKA -- Lowell, Mass.;Pittsburgh, Pa. Bootstrap Press;PUB LUSH, (Book) - Adult collection
Between cup and lip / MANSON, PETER -- Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Blackwater quartet / POLLOCK, ESTILL -- Colchester: Kittiwake Editions, (Book) - Adult collection
Bob Cobbing [compact disc] / COBBING, BOB; Cobbing, Bob (reader) -- London: British Library;BBC, (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Abstract: "Includes previously unreleased recordings"
Borderlands [compact disc] : poems of discovery from the middle east / LAYCOCK, RONA; Laycock, Rona (reader) -- S.l. Cole's Press, (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Bridge over the Aire : the autobiography of a poet / TEBB, BARRY -- Nottingham: Sixties Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Bright, dusky, bright / MANNER, EEVA-LIISA -- Hove: Waterloo Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Bruce Springsteen / SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE; Wurtzel, Elizabeth (foreword) -- [London] Guardian, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes lyrics by Springsteen and an article about Springsteen from the Guardian and Observer archives
Bunnets n bowlers : a Clydeside odyssey / WHITTINGHAM, BRIAN -- Edinburgh: Luath Press, (Book) - Adult collection
A chariot of illusion : poems / ISKANDER, GAREEB -- [London] Exiled Writers Ink, (Book) - Adult collection
A child is born / Miller, Ingrid -- [Exeter?] [the author] (Book) - Adult collection
Children of a lesser demagogue- / LOCKLIN, GERALD -- Stockton, CA: Wormwood Review Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Chris McCabe [compact disc] : reading from his poems / MCCABE, CHRIS; McCabe, Chris (reader) -- Stroud, Gloucestershire: Poetry Archive, (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Cinema poems and others / WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER -- London: Gay and Hancock, (Book) - Adult collection
Clay / COE, MANDY -- Nottingham: Shoestring Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Close listening : poetry and the performed word -- New York;Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Bibliography: p385-390
Cold spring in winter = Pas revoir / ROUZEAU, VALÉRIE; Wicks, Susan (preface); Romer, Stephen (introduction) -- Todmorden: Arc Publications, (Book) - Adult collection
Collected poems, 1947-1997 / GINSBERG, ALLEN -- London: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an "Index of titles, first lines, and original book sources"
A compact of words / MCLENNAN, ROB -- Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
Complete poems of Robert Frost / FROST, ROBERT -- London: Jonathan Cape, (Book) - Adult collection
Corrupted ink / LEAGRAVE, LUCY -- [S.l.] Vintage Poison Press, (Book) - Adult collection
D. H. Lawrence / Young, Kenneth; Lawrence, D.H. (criticism of) -- London: Published for the British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co. (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Bibliography: p43-50
Dark room elegies : concerning the life and work of Tina Modotti / SHEPLER, MICHAEL -- Middlesbrough: Smokestack Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Darwin / LOPEZ, ANTONY (TONY) -- Totnes, Devon: Acts of Language, (Book) - Adult collection
Death suicide despair poetry / HARRIS, JASON -- Brentwood: Chipmunkapublishing, (Book) - Adult collection
Divagations : the author's 1897 arrangement ; together with "Autobiography" and "Music and letters" / MALLARMÉ, STÉPHANE -- Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
A dustbin of Milligan / MILLIGAN, SPIKE -- London: Tandem, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes a section of poems as well as stories, letters and fairy tales
The empty spaces : the poems of Sarah Churchill / CHURCHILL, SARAH -- London: Leslie Frewin, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Inlcudes an index of first lines
Everyman street / COLTON, JULIAN -- Middlesbrough: Smokestack Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Everyone but thee and me / NASH, OGDEN -- London: J. M. Dent & Sons, (Book) - Adult collection
Extracts from 'Stanley and Tie-tars' : le roman absurde and how to destroy it / NATIONS, OPAL L. -- [London] Covent Garden Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Fallables / GEESIN, RON -- Heathfield, Sussex: [the author] (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index of titles
Fierce departures : the poetry of Dionne Brand / BRAND, DIONNE; Sanders, Leslie C. (introduction); Brand, Dionne (afterword) -- Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Bibliography: p.xvi
Final demands / READING, PETER -- London: Secker & Warburg, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Poems written as letters
Five plays / MOLIÈRE; Roy, Donald (introduction) -- London: Methuen, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: The school for wives - Tartuffe - The misanthrope / translated into English verse by Richard Wilbur - The miser - The hypochondriac / translated into English prose by Alan Drury
Folk tunes / GOULD, ALAN -- London: Salt, (Book) - Adult collection
Footprints in the sand : poems / HARVEY, JACK -- Emsworth, Hants. Willow Bank Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Frank Freeman's dancing school / YATES, CLIFF -- London: Salt, (Book) - Adult collection
Ghostly subjects / TAKOLANDER, MARIA -- London: Salt, (Book) - Adult collection
God / SIVANANDA, SWAMI -- New York: William Morrow, (Book) - Adult collection
Good intentions / NASH, OGDEN -- Letchworth: J. M. Dent & Sons, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index of first lines
Grace must wander / MCKENZIE, STEPHANIE -- Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
The healing spirit of Haiku / ROSEN, DAVID; WEISHAUS, JOEL -- Berkeley, Calif. North Atlantic Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Hearing still / MESSO, GEORGE -- Exeter: Shearsman Books, (Book) - Adult collection
How to fall / ANNESEN, KAREN -- Cambridge: Salt, (Book) - Adult collection
Human songs / JOHNSON, KAY -- San Francisco;London: City Lights Books;Villiers Publications, (Book) - Adult collection
Hypomaniac / URWIN, STEVE -- Morpeth: Red Squirrel Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Inappropriate behaviour / LANDER, TIM -- Fredericton, N.B. Broken Jaw Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Inferno / ALIGHIERI, DANTE; Botterill, Steven (introduction); Oldcorn, Anthony (notes) -- Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an "Index of the damned"
Is / MYERS, KEVAN -- Whitstable: Dancing Yeti Books, (Book) - Adult collection
It is daylight / COLLINS, ARDA; Glück, Louise (foreword) -- New Haven;London: Yale University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
It must have been a Sunday / BENSON, CATHERINE -- Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop Books, (Book) - Adult collection
It's not what I wanted, though / COLLEY, SYLVIA -- London: Hodder and Barnes, (Book) - Adult collection
Journal with no subject / CALZADILLA, JUAN -- Cambridge: Salt, (Book) - Adult collection
Keening with spittal tongues : poems / KENNY, KATHLEEN -- [Morpeth] Red Squirrel Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Kissing cobblestones in Keighley / TEBB, BARRY -- Sutton, Surrey: Sixties Press, (Pamphlet) - Adult collection
Laforgue : ten translations with originals facing / LAFORGUE, JULES -- Enfield: Perdika Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Laments / KOCHANOWSKI, JAN; Heaney, Seamus (preface); Baranczak, Stanislaw (introduction) -- Oldcastle, County Meath: Gallery Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Language is / PHILLIPS, JOHN -- San Francisco: Sardines Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Lares- Manes : collected poems / MILLS, BILLY -- Exeter: Shearsman Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Later selected poems / PUGH, SHEENAGH -- Bridgend: Seren, (Book) - Adult collection
Latin poetry / SANNAZARO, JACOPO -- Cambridge, Mass.;London: Harvard University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index. Bibliography: p523-526
Leaf, sunlight, asphalt / HOWARD, BEN -- Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
Leaves from falling trees / STEVENS, PETER -- London: Writers Forum, (Book) - Adult collection
Life studies, and, For the Union dead / LOWELL, ROBERT -- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (Book) - Adult collection
The listing attic. The unstrung harp / GOREY, EDWARD -- London: Abelard-Schuman, (Book) - Adult collection
Load the guns / RIDGWELL, JOSEPH -- Narberth, Pembrokeshire: Blackheath Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Local habitation : a sequence of poems / DALE, PETER -- London: Anvil Press Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
Looking good / COATES, CAROLE -- Nottingham: Shoestring Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Lost in the slipstream / LOYDELL, RUPERT M. -- Maryport, Cumbria: Original Plus, (Book) - Adult collection
The lover's guide to trapping / PRUNTY, WYATT -- Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
A manner of utterance : the poetry of J. H. Prynne / Prynne, J. H. (criticism of); Brinton, Ian (introduction) -- Exeter: (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes bibliographic references
A masque of reason / FROST, ROBERT -- New York: Henry Holt and Co. (Book) - Adult collection
The maze : a daydream in five cantos / MORPHET, DAVID -- London: Notion Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Men and women : erotic works / VERLAINE, PAUL; Stone, Alan (introduction) -- London: W.H. Allen, (Book) - Adult collection
Metrophobia / LEAL, STEPHANIE -- London: Penned in the Margins, (Book) - Adult collection
Mind the gap / MAKOFF, CYRIL -- [S.l. The Author] (Book) - Adult collection
The misanthrope : and other plays / MOLIÈRE; Wood, John (introduction) -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Miscreants : poems / HOCH, JAMES -- New York;London: W. W. Norton & Co. (Book) - Adult collection
Mobility of light : the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication / BROSSARD, NICOLE; Forsyth, Louise H. (introduction); Brossard, Nicole (afterword) -- Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Mosaic Orpheus / SCOTT, PETER DALE -- Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, (Book) - Adult collection
My atrocity / KENNEDY, DAVID -- Old Hunstanton, Norfolk: Oystercatcher Press, (Pamphlet) - Adult collection
Napoleon's travelling bookshelf / HESKETH, SARAH -- London: Penned in the Margins, (Book) - Adult collection
New selected poems / ABSE, DANNIE; Whittome, Anthony (foreword) -- London: Hutchinson, (Book) - Adult collection
The night ships / GARDINER, SAM -- Belfast: Lagan Press, (Book) - Adult collection
No map / THISTLETHWAYTE, LIZZI -- Harleston, Norfolk: Water Flag Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Old heart : poems / PLUMLY, STANLEY -- New York;London: W. W. Norton & Co. (Book) - Adult collection
On the night watch / CARSON, CIARAN -- Old Castle, County Meath: Gallery Books, (Book) - Adult collection
One hundred great books in haiku / BADER, DAVID M. -- London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index of authors
Outside the narrative : poems, 1965-2009 / LEONARD, TOM -- Exbourne;Edinburgh: Etruscan Books;Word Power Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes some visual poems. Errata slip included for the last two poems in the book
Pale fire / NABOKOV, VLADIMIR; Kinbote, Charles (introduction) -- London: Corgi Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes extensive commentary on the text
Path / PHILLIPS, JOHN -- Vermont: Longhouse, (Book) - Adult collection
The Penguin John Lennon / LENNON, JOHN -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
A personal anthology / BORGES, JORGE LUIS; Kerrigan, Anthony (foreword) -- New York: Grove Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Pickering's salute to the sentimental bloke : verses by C. J. Dennis, illustrations by Pickering / DENNIS, C. J. -- London;Sydney: Angus and Robertson Publishers, (Book) - Adult collection
The picture never taken / GARDINER, SAM -- Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Planet young / POTTER, GERRY -- Manchester: Flapjack Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Poems / ZAVATI, MARIANA -- [London] Exiled Writers Ink, (Book) - Adult collection
Poems, 1972-2002 / LEUNIG, MICHAEL -- Victoria, Australia: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
The poems of St. John of the cross / SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS -- New York: Grove Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Precipitates of political militarism / EJEMANNU, MANNU -- Owerri, Nigeria: Alphabet Nigeria Publishers, (Book) - Adult collection
Pro eto = That's what / MAYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR; Wakeman, John (introduction) -- Todmorden: Arc Publications, (Book) - Adult collection
Prolog pages / WELLMAN, DONALD -- Tokyo;Toronto: Ahadada Books, (Book) - Adult collection
The prophet / GIBRAN, KAHLIL -- London: William Heinemann, (Book) - Adult collection
Quantum lyrics : poems / JORDAN, A. VAN -- New York;London: W. W. Norton & Co. (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Bibliography: p115-116
Rejoicing : new and collected poems / MOSS, STANLEY -- London: Anvil Press Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index of titles
Rimbaud / RIMBAUD, ARTHUR; Bernard, Oliver (introduction) -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index of titles and an index of first lines
Robert Graves [compact disc] / GRAVES, ROBERT; Graves, Robert (reader) -- London: BBC;British Library, (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Abstract: "The poet introduces and reads a selection of his poems"
The rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam / KHAYYAM, OMAR; Housman, Laurence (introduction) -- London;Glasgow: Collins, (Book) - Adult collection
Saint Michael in peril of the sea / SIMMONS, JANICE FITZPATRICK -- Cliffs of Moher, County Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
A sampler / ASHBY, CLIFF -- Glenrothes, Fife: HappenStance, (Pamphlet) - Adult collection
The selected letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder / GINSBERG, ALLEN (letters); SNYDER, GARY (letters) -- Berkeley: Counterpoint, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index
Selected writings of Edgar Allan Poe : poems, tales, essays and reviews / POE, EDGAR ALLAN; Galloway, David (introduction) -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult collection
The shameless hussy : selected stories, essays and poetry / ALTA; Grahn, Judy (introduction) -- Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Smart dust / NATZLER, CAROLINE -- [S.l.] Grenadine Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Sonata mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play / DOVE, RITA -- New York;London: W. W. Norton, (Book) - Adult collection
Songs of debacle / VERMA, SATISH -- Ajmer, India: A.R.A.W.LII Publications, (Book) - Adult collection
Sonnets to Orpheus / RILKE, RAINER MARIA -- Berkeley: University of California Press, (Book) - Adult collection
A Spaniard in the works / LENNON, JOHN -- London: Jonathan Cape, (Book) - Adult collection
Spell / PHILLIPS, JOHN -- [S.l.] Kater Murr's Press, (Pamphlet) - Adult collection
The spice-box of earth / COHEN, LEONARD -- Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes an index of titles
A stand of Jackpine / DEAHL, JAMES; ACORN, MILTON -- Toronto: Unfinished Monument Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Standing in the pizzicato rain / EDDISON, GEORGINA -- Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
Stevie Smith [compact disc] / SMITH, STEVIE; Smith, Stevie (reader) -- London: BBC;British Library, (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Abstract: "The poet introduces and reads a selection of her poems"
Stops / SLOMAN, JOEL; Levertov, Denise (preface) -- Cambridge, Mass. Zoland Books, (Book) - Adult collection
The summer of Agios Dimitrios / HUGHES, PETER -- Exeter: Shearsman Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Poetical journal of a stay in Greece
The testament of Cresseid & seven fables / HENRYSON, ROBERT; Heaney, Seamus (introduction) -- London: Faber and Faber, (Book) - Adult collection
These are not oranges, my love : selected poems / MERSAL, IMAN; Mattawa, Khaled (introduction) -- Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Sheep Meadow Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Three tragedies : Blood wedding, Yerma, The house of Bernarda Alba / LORCA, FEDERICO GARCÍA; Lorca, Francisco Garcia (introduction) -- London: Penguin Books in association with Secker and Warburg, (Book) - Adult collection
A touch of corrupted ink [compact disc] : selected poems / LEAGRAVE, LUCY; Leagrave, Lucy (reader) -- S.l. [the author] (Compact disc) - Adult collection
Tri- via / PIERCE, MICHELLE NAKA; CORPUZ, VERONICA -- Boulder, Colo.;Pittsburgh, Pa. Erudite Fangs;PUB LUSH, (Book) - Adult collection
Turn of the tide / PARTRIDGE, KATHLEEN -- London: Methuen & Co. (Book) - Adult collection
The twelve moons / RILEY, PETER -- Old Hunstanton, Norfolk: Oystercatcher Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Under an indigo moon : an anthology : pre and contemporary verse / STANLEY-MALLETT, K. -- Ilfracombe, Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell, (Book) - Adult collection
Unfair arguments with existence : seven plays for a new theatre / FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE -- New York: New Directions, (Book) - Adult collection
The unhaunting : new poems, 2003-2008 / TAYLOR, ANDREW -- London: Salt, (Book) - Adult collection
Universal beach / NARAYANAN, VIVEK -- Mumbai, India: Harbour Line, (Book) - Adult collection
Unscheduled halt / BROMLEY, CAROLE -- Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop Books, (Book) - Adult collection
The urinals of hell / PACHINKO, JOE -- Oakland, Calif. Superstition Street Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Virgil's machines : poems / SLOMAN, JOEL -- New York: W. W. Norton & Co. (Book) - Adult collection
Waterfalls / O'SULLIVAN, MAGGIE -- Exbourne: Etruscan Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Waterlight : selected poems / JAMIE, KATHLEEN -- Saint Paul, Minn. Graywolf Press, (Book) - Adult collection
Ways to disappear [multimedia] / MARSHALL, REBECCA E. -- Okehampton: Etruscan Books, (Multimedia) - Adult collection
Abstract: Accompanied by a DVD of a film poem
West End final / WILLIAMS, HUGO -- London: Faber and Faber, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Includes a triolet "Depression Olympics" p48
What the things sang / GOODLAND, GILES -- Exeter: Shearsman Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Abstract: Book ends with a poem which is an index to itself
What vanishes / MENAGHAN, JOHN -- Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, (Book) - Adult collection
White boats : poems / GREIG, ANDREW; CZERKAWSKA, CATHERINE LUCY -- Edinburgh: Garret Arts, (Book) - Adult collection
Windsong / TEBB, BARRY -- Sutton, Surrey: Sixties Press, (Pamphlet) - Adult collection
Winterlight / TEBB, BARRY -- Sutton, Surrey: Sixties Press, (Pamphlet) - Adult collection
The wisteria's children : one hundred haiku / LAWSON, SARAH -- London: Hearing Eye, (Book) - Adult collection
Woody Guthrie folk songs : a collection of songs by America's foremost balladeer / GUTHRIE, WOODY; Seeger, Pete (introduction) -- New York;London: Ludlow Music;Essex Music, (Book) - Adult collection
The wrong miracle / GALLAGHER, LIZ -- London: Salt, (Book) - Adult collection
The Yage letters / BURROUGHS, WILLIAM; GINSBERG, ALLEN -- San Francisco: City Lights Books, (Book) - Adult collection
Adult Anthologies:
And again last night- -- Stoney Stanton: Indigo Dreams Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
The ballad book : a selection of the choicest British ballads -- London: Macmillan and Co. (Book) - Adult anthology
Both sides of Hadrian's Wall : contemporary poetry from south Scotland and north England -- Selkirk: Selkirk Lapwing Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
The common muse : an anthology of popular British ballad poetry, 15th-20th century -- Harmondsworth: Pengin Books in association with Chatto and Windus, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes an index of titles and first lines and an index of authors
Dancing till dawn broke : an anthology of poems -- Bideford, Devon: Parkinson's Disease Society, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Poetry by people affected by Parkinson's Disease
Deaf American poetry : an anthology -- Washington, D.C. Gallaudet University Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: This anthology presents poems by American poets from the signing community, from the 19th century onwards. Bibliography: p.293-294
Double skin : new poetic voices from Italy and Singapore / YI-SHENG, NG; PANG, ALVIN; QIAN XI, TENG; HSIEN MIN, TOH; WONG, CYRIL; BONNIN, ANDREA; DIANA, VALENTINA; FRATUS, TIZIANO; LANGIU, ELIANA DEBORAH; BRUNOZZI, FRANCESCA TINI -- Singapore: Ethos Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
Drift : poems from OCTAVO -- [S.l. the authors, (Book) - Adult anthology
Famous American poems -- London: Vista Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
Field nocturnes / DAVIES, DAMIAN WALFORD; DE NOVELLIS, MARK; KAY, JAMES -- [S.l.] Marchog, (Book) - Adult anthology
Great poets of the 20th century [multimedia] -- [London] Guardian in association with Faber and Faber, (Portfolio) - Adult anthology
Abstract: All 7 pamphlets from The Guardian Great poets of the 20th century series and accompanying cd, in a presentation folder
The idiom of the people : English traditional verse, edited with an introduction and notes from the manuscripts of Cecil J. Sharp / Reeves, James (introduction); Sharp, Cecil J. -- London: Mercury Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes an index of first lines
In search of the world's worst writers : a celebration of triumphantly bad literature / Page, Nick (commentary) -- London: HarperCollins Publishers, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: The majority of writers featured in this book are poets. Inlcudes bibliographic reference and an index
Indigo poets : poets' choice : best of Reach poetry -- Stoney Stanton: Indigo Dreams Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Poems from Reach poetry magazine
Into the deep street : seven modern French poets, 1938-2008 / Romer, Stephen (introduction); FOLLAIN, JEAN; THOMAS, HENRI; JACCOTTET, PHILIPPE; RÉDA, JACQUES; ROUX, PAUL DE; GOFFETTE, GUY; ORTLIEB, GILLES -- London: Anvil Press Poetry, (Book) - Adult anthology
The long trail : soldiers' songs and slang, 1914-18 -- London: Sphere Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
My life in verse : a journey through poetry / Blackman, Malorie (selector); Hancock, Sheila (selector); Matthews, Cerys (selector); Webb, Robert (selector) -- London: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes an index of titles and first lines
New poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect / Crawford, Robert (preface); BURNSIDE, JOHN; CRAWFORD, ROBERT; DUNN, DOUGLAS; GRAY, ALASDAIR; HERBERT, W.N.; JAMIE, KATHLEEN; KAY, JACKIE; KINLOCH, DAVID; LEONARD, TOM; LOCHHEAD, LIZ; PATERSON, DON; ROBERTSON, ROBIN -- Edinburgh: Polygon, (Book) - Adult anthology
Not in so many words : poems and commentaries on poems : The Poetry Business Writing School, 2002-2004 / Sansom, Peter (introduction); Fisher, Janet (introduction) -- Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop Books, (Book) - Adult anthology Poets on poetry
Abstract: "This anthology is a collection of poems from the members of the first Poetry Business Writing School, written while on the course. They have also offered personal commentaries on their poems"--back cover. Includes poems and commentary by Chris Considine, Jane Routh, Ann Sansom, John Siddique and others
Old London street cries and the cries of today : with heaps of quaint cuts -- London: Scholar Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes an index
The Oxford book of ballads -- Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes an index of first lines
Patriotic poems / Leonard, R. M. (preface) -- London: Humphrey Milford;Oxford University Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Index of authors and an index of first lines
The Penguin book of comic and curious verse -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes an index of authors and an index of first lines
Penguin modern poets 13 : Charles Bukowski, Philip Lamantia, Harold Norse / BUKOWSKI, CHARLES; LAMANTIA, PHILIP; NORSE, HAROLD -- Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
The pleasures of poetry / Sitwell, Edith (introduction) -- London: Duckworth, (Book) - Adult anthology
A pocketful of ribaldry -- London: Bestseller Library, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes prose and poetry
Poetry 62 -- Toronto: Ryerson Press, (Book) - Adult anthology
Ribaldry of Rome : an anthology -- London: Bestseller Library, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes an index of authors
Rock salt : an anthology of contemporary BC poetry : new poetry & poetics -- Salt Spring Island, B.C. Mother Tongue Publishing Limited, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Includes a biography of each poet, a statement by them and a poem. Arranged alphabetically by poet
The song of God : Bhagavad-Gita / Huxley, Aldous (introduction) -- London: Phoenix House, (Book) - Adult anthology
Abstract: Bhagavadgita is a Sanskrit Hindu scripture, revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism
Ten poems about puddings / Slater, Nigel (introduction) -- Beeston, Nottingham: Candlestick Press, (Pamphlet) - Adult anthology
A treasury of American ballads : gay, naughty and classic -- London: Arco Publishers Ltd. (Book) - Adult anthology
Voicing visions [multimedia] : painting, sculpture and poetry / Szirtes, George (introduction) -- Norwich: Norwich Twenty Group, (Multimedia) - Adult anthology
Well versed : an anthology of poems from the Morning star -- London: Hearing Eye, (Book) - Adult anthology
The women troubadours / Bogin, Meg (essays) -- New York;London: W.W. Norton, (Book) - Adult anthology
Word for word : selected translations from German poets / Mead, Ruth (introduction); Mead, Matthew (introduction); ARTMANN, H. C.; BÄCHLER, WOLFGANG; BIENEK, HORST; BOBROWSKI, JOHANNES; BORCHERS, ELISABETH; FÜCHS, GUNTER BRUNO; GEISSLER, CHRISTIAN; HÖLZER, MAX; OBERLIN, URS; REINIG, CHRISTA; SABAIS, HEINZ WINFRIED; SACHS, NELLY -- London: Anvil Press Poetry, (Book) - Adult anthology
Zen : poems, prayers, sermons, anecdotes, interviews / Ikemoto, Takashi (introduction) -- Garden City, N.Y. Anchor Books, (Book) - Adult anthology
Books About Poets and Poetry:
All poets welcome [multimedia] : the Lower East Side poetry scene in the 1960s / KANE, DANIEL -- Berkeley: University of California Press, (Multimedia) - Criticism
Abstract: Accompanied by CD of poets featured in the book reading their work in the 1960s and 70s. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index
Archetypal patterns in poetry : psychological studies of imagination / Bodkin, Maud -- London: Oxford University Press, (Book) - Criticism
Auden and after : the liberation of poetry 1930-1941 / SCARFE, FRANCIS -- London: George Routledge & Sons, (Book) - History
Betjeman's Britain [DVD] / BETJEMAN, JOHN -- [Isle of Man] Green Umbrella, (DVD) - Guide
Abstract: "This video traces his steps and words round many of the places he enjoyed and celebrated"
Can poetry save the earth? : a field guide to nature poems / FELSTINER, JOHN -- New Haven;London: Yale University Press, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: Bibliography: p359-372
The concise encyclopedia of English and American poets and poetry -- London: Hutchinson, (Book) - Dictionary
E. E. Cummings / CUMMINGS, E. E. (criticism of); Triem, Eve -- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: Bibliography: p. 45-48
The force of poetry / RICKS, CHRISTOPHER -- Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Book) - Guide
Geoffrey Hill / HILL, GEOFFREY -- Milton Keynes: Open University Press, (Book) - Criticism
Hardy's Wessex [DVD] / HARDY, THOMAS -- [Isle of Man] Green Umbrella, (DVD) - Guide
Abstract: "This DVD shows how Hardy's life and art intertwined"
The hidden law : the poetry of W.H. Auden / HECHT, ANTHONY -- Cambridge, MA;London: Harvard University Press, (Book) - Criticism
How to read / POUND, EZRA -- London: Desmond Harmsworth, (Book) - Guide
Interpretations : essays on twelve English poems -- London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, (Book) - Criticism
John Berryman : a critical commentary / HAFFENDEN, JOHN -- London;Basingstoke: MacMillan Press, (Book) - Criticism
Literary companion dictionary : words about words / Grambs, David -- London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (Book) - Dictionary
Abstract: Contains: definitions of terms associated with literature and writing
Meter in poetry : a new theory / Fabb, Nigel; Morris Halle; Piera, Carlos -- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (Book) - Prosody
Abstract: A theory of poetic meter -- English strict meters -- English loose meters -- Southern Romance -- French -- Greek -- Classical Arabic -- Sanskrit -- Latvian -- Meters of the world -- The metrical poetry of the Old Testament. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-293) and index
Missing measures : modern poetry and the revolt against meter / STEELE, TIMOTHY -- Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, (Book) - Criticism
Not in so many words : poems and commentaries on poems : The Poetry Business Writing School, 2002-2004 / Sansom, Peter (introduction); Fisher, Janet (introduction) -- Huddersfield: Smith/Doorstop Books, (Book) - Adult anthology Poets on poetry
Abstract: "This anthology is a collection of poems from the members of the first Poetry Business Writing School, written while on the course. They have also offered personal commentaries on their poems"--back cover. Includes poems and commentary by Chris Considine, Jane Routh, Ann Sansom, John Siddique and others
The Nuttall dictionary of English synonyms and antonyms : 12,000 words showing 100,000 parallel expressions with opposite examples / Chris, G. Elgie -- London: Frederick Warne, (Book) - Dictionary
On extended wings : Wallace Stevens' longer poems / Vendler, Helen Hennessy -- Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, (Book) - Criticism
Our savage art : poetry and the civil tongue / LOGAN, WILLIAM -- New York: Columbia University Press, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: Includes a bibliography of "Books under review" and an "Index of authors reviewed". Also includes an interview with William Logan by Garrick Davis
Poetry and Ireland since 1800 : a source book -- London;New York: Routledge, (Book) - History
Poetry explication : a checklist of interpretation since 1925 of British and American poems past and present / Kuntz, Joseph M. -- Chicago: Swallow Press, (Book) - Bibliography
Poetry in the wars / LONGLEY, EDNA -- Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: Includes: chapters on poets from the two world wars and from the Troubles in Northern Ireland
The poetry of Ezra Pound / KENNER, HUGH -- London: Faber and Faber, (Book) - Criticism
Publishing & printing at home / Lewis, Roy; Easson, John B. -- Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (Book) - Guide
Randall Jarrell / Jarrell, Randall (criticism of); ROSENTHAL, M. L. -- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: Bibliography: p.47-48
Remembering Michael Hartnett / Hartnett, Michael (criticism of); Heaney, Seamus (introduction) -- Dublin: Four Courts Press, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: Bibliography: p171
Revaluation : tradition & development in Engish poetry / Leavis, F.R. -- London: Chatto & Windus, (Book) - Criticism
The sacred wood : essays on poetry and criticism / ELIOT, T.S. -- London: Methuen, (Book) - Criticism
A student's guide to the selected poems of Ezra Pound / Brooker, Peter -- London: Faber & Faber, (Book) - Criticism
Sylvia Plath : a literary life / Wagner-Martin, Linda; Plath, Sylvia (criticism of) -- Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: The final chapter of the book is about Ted Hughes' Birthday letters. Bibliography: p170-175
The writer's handbook 2010 -- Basingstoke: Macmillan, (Book) - Directory
Abstract: Includes the chapters: Twenty things I didn't know before becoming a poetry publisher / Chris Hamilton-Emery -- Poetry presses -- Poetry magazines -- Organisations of interest to poets -- Audio books
Yeats / Ure, Peter -- Edinburgh;London: Oliver and Boyd, (Book) - Criticism
Abstract: Includes: bibliography
Yeats and Anglo-Irish literature : critical essays / Ure, Peter -- Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, (Book) - Criticism
