BLOODAXE BOOKS

PERFECT BLEMISH / PERFFAITH NAM
Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. The extraordinary international range of her subjects, breathtaking inventiveness and generosity of vision place her among Europe’s leading poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes all her work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man’s Kiss / Cusan Dyn Dall (2001), as well as the first English translations of Perffaith Nam (2005) and a selection of new poems. The Welsh originals in this book have facing English translations by Elin...
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(P/B) KIOSK
As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Born in 1929 in Bavaria, he grew up in Nazi Nuremberg. His poetry's social and moral criticism of the post-war world owes much to Marxism, yet insists on the freedoms which often denied by Communist governments: like Orwell he maintains that satire and criticism should not be party-political. In 1994 he publ...
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(P/B) LIGHTER THAN AIR
As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range of interests and his moral passion. Lighter than Air, his latest collection of moral poems, weighs lightness against seriousness. These are witty, lightly ironic poems on all kinds of subjects, easy in style, engaging in tone, often conversational. Enzensberger is a cultured, learned, widely knowledgeable man, but his poems wear their knowledge...
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(P/B) IN THE SKIN HOUSE

REVERDY: SELECTED POEMS (P/B)

LA JEUNE PARQUE

HOLDERLIN: SELECTED POEMS

THE BOOK OF CATS

THE BLOODAXE BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN POETS (P/B)

(P/B) SOPHOCLES: ANTIGONE (1852243643)

(H/B) EURIPIDES: THE TROJAN WOMEN (1852242418)

(P/B) EURIPIDES: THE TROJAN WOMEN (1852242418)

(H/B) SOPHOCLES: ANTIGONE (1852243635)

CLASSICAL WOMEN POETS
'Their songs delight the gods . . . and mortals too for all time' Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these were the 'earthly Muses' whose poetic skills rivalled those of their heavenly namesakes. Today only a fraction of their work survives - lyrical, witty, often innovative, and always moving - offering surprising insights into the closed world of women in antiquity, from childhood fr...
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