Author : David Austin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2012
Category : English roses
ISBN : 9781870673709
Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr
Author : Judith Allnatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144648789X
It is 1841. Patty is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty finds her husband sitting, footsore, at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum over eighty miles away. Hopeful that his condition has improved, she takes his hands in delight but he fails to recognize her. She is devastated to discover that he has not returned home to find her, but to search for his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, to whom he believes he is married. Patty still loves John deeply, but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised image of a woman that she cannot possibly match. Plagued by jealousy, she seeks strength in memories: their whirlwind courtship, the poems John wrote for her, their shared affinity for the land. She must try to heal John's turbulent, unhappy soul and restore him to the man she married. But as John descends further into delusion and his behaviour becomes increasingly volatile, hope seems to be fading. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger and hurt and reconcile with this man she now barely knows?
Author : Mandy Sayer
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1742373534
In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Dreamtime Alice, Mandy Sayer tells the story of the ten years she and Yusef Komunyakaa spent together, first as lovers, then as husband and wife.
Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 057119995X
Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.
Author : Ann Thwaite
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : 9780571252145
It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. What kept them apart and what eventually brought them together has never before been fully explored. This major biography radically alters the picture of the poet's relationship with his wife, establishing in detail the person Emily Tennyson was. It is the story of a remarkable family as well as a remarkable woman, bringing into the foreground a neglected and often misunderstood character a century after her death. 'Meeting Emily Tennyson in the pages of Thwaite's enthralling book is pure delight.' Sunday Express 'A finely and deeply researched work, and clearly a labour of love ...She tells an ever absorbing story, and throws much light on that fascinating social area in which high art and worldly power meet.' The Times 'This fat and well-documented book will quickly establish its place in bibliographies of essential Tennyson background.' Literary Review 'A magnificent, surprising biography.' Lynne Truss, Mail on Sunday
Author : David Park
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408846470
From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet
Author : Sara Fitzgerald
Publisher :
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9781949759181
"The Poet's Girl is a work of fiction, written before the correspondence between T.S. Eliot and Emily Hale was opened"--
Author : Ada Limón
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781571315137
"Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." --WASHINGTON POST
Author : Israel Gollancz
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780341945420
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Author : Kate Baer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0063008432
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller A Goop Book Club Pick "If you want your breath to catch and your heart to stop, turn to Kate Baer."--Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo A stunning and honest debut poetry collection about the beauty and hardships of being a woman in the world today, and the many roles we play - mother, partner, and friend. “When life throws you a bag of sorrow, hold out your hands/Little by little, mountains are climbed.” So ends Kate Baer’s remarkable poem “Things My Girlfriends Teach Me.” In “Nothing Tastes as Good as Skinny Feels” she challenges her reader to consider their grandmother’s cake, the taste of the sea, the cool swill of freedom. In her poem “Deliverance” about her son’s birth she writes “What is the word for when the light leaves the body?/What is the word for when it/at last, returns?” Through poems that are as unforgettably beautiful as they are accessible, Kate Bear proves herself to truly be an exemplary voice in modern poetry. Her words make women feel seen in their own bodies, in their own marriages, and in their own lives. Her poems are those you share with your mother, your daughter, your sister, and your friends.
