German Romance V: Erec - Prijzen

Dreaming Frankenstein

Liz Lochhead has built an impressive reputation as poet, playwright and performer attracting a large and admiring public. Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems stands as a monument to her early wo...

Bloodshot Monochrome

Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious poetic take on all things black, white and read. Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to grow...

Faerie Queene Book 2

From its opening scenes--in which the hero refrains from fighting a duel, then discovers that his horse has been stolen--Book Two of The Faerie Queene redefines the nature of heroism and of chivalry....

The Lease

Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) Shortlisted for the Gerard Lampert Award (2013) Inspired largely by the poet's experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfield...

Flash Cards

Flash Cards is a primer of modern Chinese life, constructing a complex philosophical vision from swatches of daily events and observations. As Yu Jian has written about his own work: It is possible t...

The Green Man

The Chameleon Couch

A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 | Finalist for the National Book Award for PoetryAn intimate collection from one of America's most important poetsThe latest collection from one of our preemine...

Dover Beach and Other Poems

This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822&;1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that continue to rank him among the most loved and admi...

Boneyard Nose Art

When aircraft retire from active service, they are sent to boneyards, usually in dry desert locations to limit damage from the elements. There the planes are stored, ready to be revamped for future...

Picture Bride

Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese picture brides whose arranged ma...

Postcolonial Dublin

For hundreds of years, Ireland has been a testing ground for colonizing techniques. Postcolonial Dublin shows how perpetrators of colonialism have made use of urban planning and architecture to unders...

One Night in Italy

One Night in Italy is a charming, funny and heartwarming novel from Lucy Diamond, author of The Beach Cafe. Is Italian really the language of love? A new class of students hopes to find out . . ....