Collected Verse of John Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson
UWAP, PB, 9781742584454
John Shaw Neilson received only a basic education, yet became one of Australia's best poets. He was born at Penola, South Australia on 22 February 1872. Raised by a family of poor labourers, Neilson worked as a farm hand. In 1893 he won a national poetry prize, and as a young man he contributed to various publications, gathering both critical and ... More/Buy
Love, an Index
Rebecca Lindenberg
McSweeneys, HB, 9781936365791
A man disappears. The woman who loves him is left scarred and haunted. In her fiercely original debut, Rebecca Lindenberg tells the story—in verse—of her passionate relationship with Craig Arnold, a much-respected poet who disappeared in 2009 while hiking on a volcano in Japan. Lindenberg’s billowing, ‘I-contain-multitudes’ style lays bare the poet’s sadnesses, joys, and longings in poems that are lyric ... More/Buy
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation (tr) Sheila Fisher
Geoffrey Chaucer
Norton, PB, 9780393341782
Choosing 14 tales that range from the high style of courtly romance to raunchy ramblings and examples of religious zeal gone astray Sheila Fisher’s The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively and readable translation of the most famous work of England’s premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer’s rhyme and metre and articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes the tales accessible to ... More/Buy
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Poems
Vladimir Nabokov
Knopf, HB, 9780307593351
Vladimir Nabokov’s first love was poetry & this collection brings together the best of his verse, including many pieces that have never before appeared in English. The poems span the whole of Nabokov’s career, from the newly discovered Music, written in 1914, to the short, playful To Vera, composed in 1974. Many are newly translated by Dmitri Nabokov, including The University ... More/Buy