|
Gay Love Poetry
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
This is a wide-ranging collection of gay love poetry - by and for men - ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to contemporary England and America. Organized thematically, it stretches from Catullus, Virgil and Ovid right up to modern writers such as Thom Gunn, Mark Doty and Gregory Woods, and including translations of essential European and other ...
see all copies
from $2.53!
new only
from $3.50!
|
first editions
|
|
Donald Davie Collected Poems
more books like this
by
Donald Davie, Neil Powell (Editor)
Donald Davie is a poet of the English perspective refracted through historical meditation, essay-poem, love lyric, satire, translation (notably the Psalter), epistle, eclogue and other forms. His passion is for our common language, its registers and tonalities.
see all copies
from $6.88!
new only
from $22.66!
|
first editions
|
|
|
Fate and fortune
more books like this
by
Brian Innes, Francis King, Neil Powell
see all copies
from $2.52!
new only
from $20.01!
|
first editions
|
|
Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
Two of the most successful British novelists of the last fifty years, Kingsley and Martin Amis are both known for their savage wit and their indifference to causing controversy. In his critical biography, Neil Powell looks at the careers of these two very divisive, and hugely talented writers: how they were formed by their upbringings, developed ...
see all copies
from $14.15!
new only
from $14.15!
|
first editions
|
|
The Language of Jazz
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
The word "jazz" did not begin to appear in print until around 1915 and was grudgingly admitted into polite society. This book explores the vocabulary which has grown up around it. Entries include words unique to jazz ("bebop", Dixieland", "ragtime"); ordinary words with specific jazz meanings ("cool", "jam", "stride"); musical terms adopted by ...
see all copies
from $20.10!
new only
from $24.39!
|
|
|
The Book of Change: How to Understand and Use the I Ching
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $3.00!
|
first editions
|
|
|
Daley : the last ten years
more books like this
by
Daley Thompson, Neil Wilson, Steve Powell
see all copies
from $11.99!
first editions
|
|
Adam Johnson Collected Poems
by
Adam Johnson, Neil Powell (Editor)
"When Adam Johnson, a young gay man from Cheshire, arrived in London in 1984, he possessed insatiable curiosity, irresistible charm, and unfocused literary ambition; when he died nine years later, he had become one of the most accomplished English poets of his generation. This collection of his poem
see all copies
from $5.00!
new only
from $21.76!
|
|
Carpenters of Light: Some Contemporary English Poets
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
No descriptive material is availabe for this title.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $31.87!
|
first editions
|
|
|
Alchemy, the ancient science
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $5.00!
first editions
|
|
Roy Fuller: Writer and Society
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
Drawing on letters, journals and published writing, this text provides an account of Roy Fuller's life and work. All the books of poetry are discussed and the novels receive attention. A story of Fuller's career also unfolds: provincial schoolboy; solicitor's clerk; law student; wartime Navy radar engineer in England and East Africa; post-war ...
see all copies
from $26.34!
new only
from $40.77!
|
first editions
|
|
Neil Powell: Selected Poems
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
The poems in this collection are drawn from four earlier Carcanet titles: "At the Edge" (1977); "A Season of Calm Weather" (1982); "True Colours" (1990); and "The Stones on Thorpeness Beach" (1994), as well as previously unpublished work.
see all copies
from $7.36!
new only
from $16.34!
|
|
|
Stones on Thorpeness Beach
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
This fourth collection of poems sets daunting images of mortality against the small, incomparable consolations of human life. There are elegies for Roy Fuller and Adam Johnson. The concluding poems explore ecological themes and celebrate Powell's loved Suffolk land- and seascapes.
see all copies
from $1.99!
new only
from $15.42!
|
first editions
|
|
|
Unreal City
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $11.00!
first editions
|
|
A Halfway House
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
Houses and gardens, remembered or imagined, dominate Neil Powell's sixth Carcanet collection. They range from a recollection of his grandmother's home in Chelsea to an abandoned, fog-shrouded building on the East Anglian coast; from a magical childhood garden in the Surrey hills to the composer Gerald Finzi's orchard in Hampshire. There is a ...
see all copies
from $15.42!
new only
from $15.42!
|
|
The Language of Jazz
more books like this
by
Powell Neil, Neil Powell (Editor)
The word "jazz" did not appear in print until around 1915 and was only grudgingly admitted into polite discourse. The Language of Jazz explores the vocabulary that has grown up around it. It includes words unique to jazz (bebop, Dixieland, ragtime); ordinary words with specific jazz meanings (cool, jam, stride); musical terms adopted by jazz (bar ...
see all copies
from $27.95!
new only
from $38.92!
|
first editions
|
view cover
|
George Crabbe: An English Life: 1754-1832
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
George Crabbe is today most widely known as the author of Peter Grimes, from The Borough (1810), one of a sequence of verse-narrative collections (the others include The Village (1783), The Parish Register (1807), Tales (1812) and Tales of the Hall (1819)), usually regarded as his major works. The reputation of that extraordinary poem has, ...
see all copies
from $13.96!
new only
from $16.61!
|
view cover
|
A Guide to the Birds of St Helena and Ascension Island
by
Neil McCulloch, Dan Powell (Illustrator)
see all copies
from $39.99!
|
|
|
Die Wissenschaft Der Alchimisten
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $32.59!
|
|
|
The supernatural. Alchemy, the ancient science
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $1.99!
|
|
|
Mysteries of magic
more books like this
by
Stuart Holroyd, Neil Powell
see all copies
from $12.50!
SVS
|
|
|
A Season of Calm Weather
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $1.99!
|
|
|
True Colours
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $12.13!
new only
from $12.72!
|
first editions
|
|
|
At the Edge
more books like this
by
Neil Powell
see all copies
from $15.00!
first editions
|
|
|
Illuminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology
by
Neil Beynon, Shaun Green, Gareth D. Jones, Dan Pawley, Justin Pickard, Gareth L. Powell, Martin McGrath, Paul Raven (Editor)
see all copies
from $13.93!
|