Poetry of Place – serie
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Venice
Häftad, 2006
92 kr
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An extraordinarily ecclectic selection of poetry evoked by 'La Serenissima', including poetry from Longfellow, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Oscar Wilde, Pushkin, Rilke, Brodsky, Dante and Derek Walcott. With a scintillating introduction by John Julius Norwich, who as Chairman …
Andalus
Moorish Songs of Love and Wine
Häftad, 2007
106 kr
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Medieval Andalucia is famous as a land of regrets, the place of the Moorish King's last sigh, where travelers sense the desecration of the great mosque of Cordoba and feel the haunted emptiness of the Alhambra's gilded, plastered domes. This collection of poetry fills those deserted halls with a …
Istanbul
Av Altes Orga, Ates Orga
Häftad, 2007
106 kr
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Istanbul, capital of two great empires, confluence of Asia and Europe, has called forth poetry throughout her long history, from paupers and sultans, natives and visitors alike. When Mehmed the Conqueror first wandered through the ruins of the Byzantine palace, it was with the words of the Persian …
London
Häftad, 2003
103 kr
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London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this collection is full of grief, irony and delight. It …
Isles of Greece
Av John Lucas
Häftad, 2010
106 kr
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For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. "Isles of Greece" doesn't plot a course from island to island. Instead it groups together poems and prose extracts in order to …
Arabia
A Thousand Years of Arabic Verse
Av T J Gorton
Häftad, 2009
103 kr
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Even before Islam, poetry was at the heart of Arabic culture. It spread and developed wherever the Arabic language came to be spoken, from Damascus to Fez, Baghdad to Cairo as well as in the Arabian heartland. This book takes us on a poetic journey through the Classical age of Arabic poetry, from …
England
Av A. N. Wilson
Häftad, 2008
106 kr
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This is the patriot's song book, which includes such rollicking word-smiths as Hilaire Belloc, G K Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling and the lyrics of Gilbert and Sullivan. England, as every fan of Flanders and Swan will know, hasn't really got a national song. This collection more than fills the gap. …
Rome
Häftad, 2008
104 kr
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All roads lead to Rome, the eternal city, the centre of Christendom, the lodestone of the pilgrim and the artist, the seat of the only Empire that has ever succeeded in uniting the European landmass. No literate traveller can escape its fascination, and many get drawn back year after year. Despite …
Dublin
Häftad, 2008
106 kr
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Stuff Dublin into your coat pocket. The perfect companion for a visit to the Fair City, or indeed to any inn, bar or cafe in Ireland. Some of the greatest writers in the English language were born in Dublin and every corner of the city has links with the written word, made explicit in this …
Berber
Odes from the Atlas Mountains
Häftad, 2010
100 kr
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The Berber tribes of the Mountains of Morocco are one of the great and inspiring survival stories of our times. They have occupied their mountain homelands since before the dawn of history, and travellers have long marvelled at how their music, dance, pre-historic rock carvings, traditional …
Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Av Mary Miers
Häftad, 2010
100 kr
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There are few landscapes in the western world more bewitching than the mountain glens of the Scottish Highlands and the scattered islands of the Hebrides. From its bleak mountains to its flower-filled meadows, from savage sea-cliffs to pure white beaches, it has inspired an equally varied oral …
China
City & Exile
Av Alex Munro
Häftad, 2011
106 kr
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For two thousand years in China, the empires of politics and of the written word cohabited and depended on one another. The Chinese classics became the bedrock of political and cultural legitimacy, which was centred on the empire's great capital cities. One such classic was the "Book of Poetry", …
Paris
Poetry of Place
Häftad, 2014
104 kr
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Whether you're a backpacker from Idaho on your first visit, or a cultural swallow on an annual migration to Paris, this pocket book will intoxicate and inspire, goad and guide. Unlike the grand city of public architecture and political achievement, the poetic tradition of Paris is personal, …
Tuscany and Umbria
Häftad, 2011
106 kr
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Gaia Servadio is an Italian writer, long settled in Britain, who has retained a passionate relationship with her motherland and those who have expressed this in verse. The cast she has assembled has a spell-binding intensity, so that the reader twists between Byron and Dante, flickers between the …
Desert Air
Arabia, Deserts and the Orient of the Imagination
Häftad, 2007
84 kr
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A pocket-sized collection of all the favourite verses that have inspired desert travellers. This collection of poems delights in constructing a sensual Orient of the imagination, from the seven golden odes of Pre-Islamic Arabia to the fevered visions of Coleridge. It is a place where sand dunes …
