‘Billy Collins is one of my favourite poets in the world’ Carol Ann Duffy Readers will only have to open this book at random to realize the privation a life without Billy Collins has been.
DetailsNine Horses
While his poems often begin in the everyday and domestic, fans know that they might end anywhere – and that they will lift their heads from the book to a world startlingly different from the one they had left moments before.
DetailsThe Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems
The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever.
DetailsAimless Love
Weaving the themes of love, loss, joy and poetry itself, these poems showcase the best work of this ‘poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace’.
DetailsThe Author's Effects
... Emily Dickinson's corpse was hidden in one of the house's many secret com- partments and came to life (or at least ... Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes OUP CORRECTED AUTOPAGE PROOFS – FINAL, 05/12/19, SPi.
DetailsThe Norton Introduction to Literature Shorter
... Emily Dickinson 1062 WENDY COPE , Emily Dickinson 1062 BILLY COLLINS , Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes 1062 W. B. Yeats : An Album 1067 Poems by W. B. Yeats 1069 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 1069 AUTHORS ON THEIR WORK : W. B. Yeats ...
DetailsEmily Dickinson International Society Bulletin
... Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes . On reflection , it might well be impossible for a poetry lover to avoid ... Clothes : Selected Poems . London : Picador , 2000 . " Emily Dickinson : An Introduc- tion " in The Selected Poems of ...
DetailsBallistics
But he now writes, more simply and assuredly than he used to, about the flights of imagination that keep melancholy at bay . . . Ballistics glows with the confidence of a writer fully aware of his work’s power to delight’ New York Times
DetailsMusical Tables
Whether reflecting on mornings spent in the thicket of Los Angeles traffic, or turning over clichés on the tongue until old metaphors become new again, Musical Tables is Billy Collins at his most meditative: brief, and all the more ...
DetailsThe Trouble with Poetry
The Trouble with Poetry is the new collection from probably the most popular poet in the entire planet, and finds everyone's favourite contemporary Pre-Socratic in as funny and wise (and sometimes joyfully silly) form as ever.
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