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		Christopher Marlowe
		Poet and Spy		Literature
		Park Honan
		Oxford University Press 2005 422 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0199232695
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	'All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools,' Marlowe once said. Defiant blasphemer, atheist and homosexual, the author of Doctor Faustus seemed to his contemporaries to have made his own pact with the Devil. But it was his involvement in the murky world of espionage that probably cost him his life in a tavern brawl in Deptford. A work of impressive scholarship, this biography reads like a detective thriller as the author tracks his subject through the seedy underbelly of Elizabethan London.
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		Anna Akhmatova
		Her Poetry		Literature
		David Wells
		Berg Publishers 1996 224 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1859730949 216x138mm
		Published Price £50.00		Our Price £29.00
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		Selected Writings
				Literature
		Leopoldo Lugones
		Oxford University Press 2008 148 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0195174046
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		Victorian Women Poets
				Literature
		Alison Chapman (Edited by)
		DS Brewer 2005 216 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0859917878
		Published Price £30.00		Our Price £11.99
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		The Poems of Francis Thompson
				Literature
		Brigid M Boardman (Edited by)
		Continuum 2001 514 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0826463053
		Published Price £34.99		Our Price £5.99
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		For All My Walking
		Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka with Excerpts from His Diary		Literature
		Burton Watson (Translated by)
		Columbia University Press 2003 113 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0231125178
		Published Price £15.50		Our Price £4.99
	Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) was a master of both conventional and free-style haiku and, as part of his training as a Buddhist monk, he walked thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These walks inspired many of his poems, 245 of which are translated here, along with a short biography and the diary entries in which Santoka records the circumstances of their composition.
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		Forever and Anon
		A treasury of Poetry and Prose from the Pen of Author Unknown		Literature
		Gerry Hanson (Edited by)
		JR Books 2007 196 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1906217114
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	'Anonymous' - an author of the highest proliferation - has been responsible for such classics as The Vicar of Bray, The Man on the Flying Trapeze and Greensleeves. This entertaining anthology celebrates the mystery of how so many accomplished writers could fail to be identified, not to mention the fact that for 200 years the British have sung the words of their National Anthem without having a clue as to who wrote them.
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		The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown
				Literature
		Archie Bevan; Brian Murray (Edited by)
		John Murray 2006 548 pages		Qty Sold Out
		Paperback 0719568846
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	Throughout his life George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) produced hundreds of poems that remain unmistakable in their setting - 'the small green world' of his native Orkney. Here, his rich and resonant poetry is gathered in one volume, with the editors' introduction and a biographical note.
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		The Winter of the World
		Poems of the First World War		Literature
		Dominic Hibberd; John Onions (Edited by)
		Constable & Robinson 2007 362 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1845295153
		Published Price £25.00		Our Price £9.99
	The poetry that came out of the First World War exposed, for the first time, the horror of modern warfare. This terrible reality found its perfect expression in poetry as in no other form. The result is an extraordinary record of emotion and experience, written by men and women from widely differing backgrounds. This new anthology brings together 250 poems, arranged by year rather than by author, and is the first to reveal how poetry developed between 1914 and 1918, then on into the 1920s.
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		Beastly Tales
		From Here and There		Literature
		Vikram Seth
		Phoenix 2001 152 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0753813033 185x143mm
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	Old familiars such as the steady tortoise who out-ran the hare take their place alongside a newly minted gallery of quirky, witty and entertaining characters - among them the elephant and the tragopan - in this collection of animal stories in verse. Watercolour illustrations accompany ten poetic tales, sourced variously from India, China, Greece, Ukraine, and the Land of Gup.
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		The New Bath Guide
				Literature
		Christopher Anstey
		Broadcast 1994 176 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1874092117
		Published Price £14.95		Our Price £4.99
	An 18th century best-seller, Anstey's Guide offers satirical portraits of fashionable Bath society, as seen through the eyes of three innocents, fresh from the country. In 15 poetical letters home they breathlessly describe their social progress, 'taking the waters' and their ultimate misfortune at the hands of rakes, gamblers and charlatans. This edition is edited, with a critical introduction and notes, by Gavin Turner and illustrated with contemporary engravings and cartoons.
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		Auguries of Innocence
				Literature
		Patti Smith
		HarperCollins 2005 66 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0060832665
		Published Price $22.95		Our Price £4.99
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		Summoned by Bells
				Literature
		John Betjeman
		John Murray 2007 104 pages		Qty
		Hardback 071952220X
		Published Price £10.00		Our Price £4.99
	John Betjeman is arguably Britain's best-loved and most widely read poet, with his defiant, poignant and witty verse and his 'teddy-bear to the nation' TV persona. Summoned by Bells is his verse autobiography, brimming with his classic themes and style as it tells of a boy's growth to early manhood through seaside holidays, meddling aunts and school bullies, and on to sparkling pen-portraits of the literary greats Betjeman met at Oxford.
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		Speech! Speech!
				Literature
		Geoffrey Hill
		Counterpoint 2000 66 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1582432406
		Published Price £9.99		Our Price £4.99
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		Dogs in Poetry
		The Ideal Gift for Every Dog-Lover		Literature
		Tempus 2007 96 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0752443909
		Published Price £9.99		Our Price £2.99
	In this collection of 50 classic works, poets reflect on their faithful companions - Lord Byron's Boatswain, Matthew Arnold's Kaiser, Cowper's Beau - or sing the heroic deeds of legendary dogs such as Argus, who waited 20 years for his master Ulysses, or Prince Llewelyn's wolfhound, Gelert.
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