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Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses by Yannis Ritsos 9780691019086
Booksplease Price: £41.19The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter... -
Monochords by Yannis Ritsos
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.61Returning to the island of Samos during the summer of 1979, where he had spent long periods of exile throughout his life, Greek poet Yannis Ritsos composed a remarkable collection of 336 single-line... -
Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988 by Yannis Ritsos 9780918526670
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918526670Author Yannis RitsosFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint -
Yannis Ritsos among his contemporaries: Twentieth-century Greek poetry by Yannis Ritsos
Booksplease Price: £22.77The first half of the book is devoted to the poetry of Yannis Ritsos and includes several of his longer poems in their entirety. In the second half are selections of mainly shorter by poems by the... -
Yannis Ritsos - Poems by Manolis 9781926763071
RRP: £18.55Booksplease Price: £17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926763071Author ManolisFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint -
Ritsos in Parentheses by Yannis Ritsos 9780691284552
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.08Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American PoetsA bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth... -
Late Into the Night by Yannis Ritsos 9780932440716
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.61The last poems of this 20th-century Greek master are tinged with sadness and loss, but they also, in their candidly poetic reporting of the life and world around him, hum with vitality and an odd... -
Ritsos in Parentheses by Yannis Ritsos 9780691603391
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three... -
A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yannis Ritsos David Harsent 9781780376493
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Yannis Ritsos (1909-90) is generally considered to be - along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis - one of the most significant Greek poets of the last century. His life was, to say the least,... -
Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry: Essays in Memory of C. A. Trypanis by Peter Mackridge 9781032508979
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and... -
Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry: Essays in Memory of C. A. Trypanis Peter Mackridge 9781032509242
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Originally published in 1996, this volume contains essays by scholars, critics and translators and includes themes such as the myth in the Cretan Renaissance and the use of ancient myth by 19th and... -
The Wound by David Harsent 9781915968111
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66‘Versions of a great poet’s work by another great poet provide fascinating examples of exchange, cross-over, transposition, modulation, sensitive homage and daring challenge. In Harsent’s Cavafy,... -
PROTOTYPE 4: 2022 by Jess Chandler 9781913513252
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11The fourth instalment of Prototype's annual anthology: a space for new work, open to all and free from formal guidelines or restrictions. Poetry, prose, visual work and experiments in between... -
Trojan Women by Gwendolyn MacEwen 9781550961232
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.30With a stunning command of the Greek language and a mastery of poetic nuance, this translation of Euripides' play breathes unparalleled life into an ancient masterpiece. Using vocabulary that gives... -
Of Certain Angels by David Harsent 9780993331176
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.66A new sequence of startling, haunting poems by award-winning poet David Harsent. These are no guardian angels. They are dangerous, feral. They arrive uninvited, unrefusable and each visceral... -
Errant Gabriel Levin 9781784106348
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Errant, Gabriel Levin's sixth collection, opens and ends with invocations: of Venus at dawn and Hesperus at dusk. The book's day takes us on a three-part planetary journey. `What Drew Me On' is... -
Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry of Eugenio de Andrade by Eugenio De Andrade 9780811215237
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Eugenio de Andrade is the author of twenty-nine volumes of poetry as well as numerous children's books, collections of prose writings, and translations into Portuguese of Sappho, Federico Garcia... -
This Number Does Not Exist by Mangalesh Dabral 9781942683124
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.98An attentive critique on contemporary reality-modernity, capitalism, industrialization-this first United States publication of Mangalesh Dabral, presented in bilingual English and Hindi, speaks for... -
The Axion Esti by Odysseus Elytis
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most... -
In a Flash of Lightning: Fifty-Four Poems of Cosmic Vision by Zhao Si 9781550969412
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £13.08A poet who skillfully manages lines both long and short to create narratives and lyric diction as she composes universes of elegance, raw sorrows, and the joys of human existence. 'Zhao Si is a poet... -
Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West by Phil Pastras 9780520236875
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84When Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast... -
Tasos Leivaditis' Triptych: Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World by N.N. Trakakis 9781785278822
Booksplease Price: £21.96Collected here are the three poetry books with which one of Greece's finest writers, Tasos Leivaditis, made his literary debut in 1952-53. Greece was at this time emerging out of the devastating... -
Good Will Come From The Sea by Christos Ikonomou
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.06Seeking to escape the paralysing effects of the Greek economic crisis, a group of Athenian friends move to an Aegean island in the hopes of starting over. Viewed with suspicion and disdain by the... -
Wildcat Under Glass by Alki Zei 9781632063649
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Melia is spellbound by the stuffed wildcat in her family's living room-her cousin swears that it comes to life and roams the streets at night. When she finds a signed note from the animal with secret...