Poëzie (5)
Omeros
2002 || Paperback || Derek Walcott Estate || Faber & Faber
Features a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, this book charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement - and unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
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A Little History of Poetry
2025 || Paperback || John Carey || Yale University Press
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
Faber Modern Classics
2015 || Paperback || T. S. Eliot || Faber & Faber
T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtually every English language poet since owes him a debt of gratitude.
Voted as Britain's favourite poet in a 2009 BBC poll, Eliot selected and designed this collection himself in 1954 as an introduction to his work for new readers. Containing 'The Waste Land' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Selected Poems is the perfect way to begin with ...
Song of Myself
2015 || Paperback || Walt Whitman || Vintage Publishing
Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous - this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races.
Liquid Gold
A collection of poems & art
2025 || Paperback || Kit Ming Chung || Kit Ming Chung
Liquid Gold is a collection of poems inspired by the Japanese age old concept of Kintsugi - in which they glue gold on shards of broken pottery to mend them again. The philosophy behind it is to show the world our scars, instead of hiding it. It's about embracing all of our felt emotions as a human being, to take our broken hearts - not to discharge it - but to alchemize it into a new whole - to celebrate our new being.
Liquid Gold is also inspired by my obsession for tea. One of the rarest...