Poesiantologier

Poesi är livet i koncentrat, menar riksdagens talman Andreas Norlén. Poesin utforskar det som berör oss allra mest: lycka, lidande, kärlek, längtan, smärta och saknad. Poesi utvecklar oss människor, vår fantasi och vårt känsloliv. Talmannen har öp...

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This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of tim...

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Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri. This nourishing poetry collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English lang...

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Föreningen Arbetarskrivares elfte antologi, nu i storpocket. Här vässar 44 författare pennorna i kampen mot pressade arbetsvillkor och försämrade arbetsmiljöer. Prosa, lyrik och serier gestaltar hur det dagliga slitet påverkar oss människor samt h...

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Pär Lagerkvist är en portalfigur inom svensk modernism och betraktas som en av 1900-talets viktigaste diktare. Med sitt djärva bildspråk och den lätthet med vilken han tacklade mänsklighetens stora frågor förnyade han svensk poesi. För första gång...

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DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTERA beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better.From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and Ka...

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Ny poesi är en poesiantologi som samlar delar av det kommande litterära landskapet. Det är en debutantantologi: Här möter läsaren poeter som ännu inte har släppt någon egen bok men som kanske kan komma att göra det i framtiden. Trettioen poeter fr...

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'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' -William Wordsworth No generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this indispe...

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Dikten har i alla tider kunnat tradera motstånd och medmänsklighet. Den kan vara en öppen, sårbar plats där man kan andas, mötas. En fri dikt är i sig själv ett försvar för det fria ordet. Detta är några av tankarna bakom det upprop som poeterna o...

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This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

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Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Winter Day, you will find verse that will transport you to sparkling winter scenes, taking you from Christmas, to New Years Eve and the joys of Valentines Day. The...

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Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revol...

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This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.

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En diktsamling av åtta poeter från Norrland LEO ALETTI STEINA ERICSSON OPAL LÖFVING SIV WESTMAN VUOKKO NORDSTRÖM GITTAN ENGSTRÖM DANIEL LÅNG HASAN ALYASIRI

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25 postcards featuring artwork from The Book of Cat Poems illustrated by Sarah Maycock. Features the feline friends inspired by the poems of John Keats, Margaret Atwood and Oscar Wilde among others, alongside short quotations from the works on the...

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This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious. This collection brings together the work of nine inventive and brilliant poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre. From the Caribbean, Canada and the UK, the poetry in this collectio...

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Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today. Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before pu...

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Reginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964) was a prime mover in the popularization of haiku and Zen philosophy in western culture. Born in England, Blyth spent most of his working life in Japan, where he acted as a professor of English and foreign liaison,...

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Reginald Horace Blyth (1898-1964) was a prime mover in the popularization of haiku and Zen philosophy in western culture. Born in England, Blyth spent most of his working life in Japan, where he acted as a professor of English and foreign liaison,...

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The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of its culture's ideals and anxieties. This anthol...

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Det judiska lockar. En betydande del av samtidslitteraturen ägnar sig åt judiska teman. Som en undertext till denna löper en fantasieggande jiddischvärld. Jiddischens konstutövare kunde hålla sig fria från schablonerna. Inspirationen hämtades från...

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Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister är de välkända första orden ur Karin Boyes dikt. Och visst kan en dikt lindra om en människa försvinner och du är ledsen, sorgsen eller arg. I boken finns mer än femtio trösterika dikter av äldre poeter som...

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Allie Esiris beautiful gift anthology, A Poet for Every Day of the Year, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the worlds greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family throughout the year, it is bursting at...

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The Satires of Horace (65-8 BC), written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus' regime, provide an amusing treatment of men's perennial enslavement to money, power, glory and sex. Epistles I, addressed to the poet's frie...

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Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the death poem. Such ...

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En vacker antologi med 130 av de mest kända svenska dikterna. De som oftast citeras. Mer än 60 poeter. Men här finns också en del mindre känd poesi av moderna poeter. Det handlar om kärlek, om vänskap, om de stora besluten och om de små, om etik, ...

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Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch's Latin epic Africa imitated Virgil and his compen...

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25 postcards featuring artwork from The Book of Dog Poems illustrated by Sarah Maycock. Features the canine companions inspired by the poems of William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson and Thomas Hardy among others, alongside short quo...

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Celebrate Irish culture with this literary collection, which includes traditional ballads; poems by Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, William Allingham, William Butler Yeats, and others; short stories by Wilde, Le Fanu, and Carleton; the novels...

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'Remarkable: combines her exceptional experience as a war correspondent with selected poetry in an act of witness' ANDREW MOTION I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came t...

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