Little Poems

Michael Hennessy

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Everyman Hardcovers
01 September 2023

Poetry; Poetry anthologies

Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

From Catullus and Li Bai to Wendy Cope and Ocean Vuong- a pocket-sized treasury of tiny, jewel-like poems (works of twelve lines and fewer) from around the world and through the ages

Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out - a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Japan; a brief nature poem by John Clare, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes or Boris Pasternak; a compact love poem by Alexander Pushkin or Anne Bradstreet, Robert Herrick or Carol Ann Duffy; a miniature story by Hardy, Rumi or Roethke; a pithy meditation by Wang Wei, Emily Dickinson, Tennyson or Lorca. Dip again, and discover the compressed wit of Dorothy Parker and Ogden Nash; contemporary poets Simon Armitage and Moniza Alvi at their most succinct; short poems in very odd shapes from Apollinaire and Vaclav Havel ... So few lines, so much variety- epitaphs and epigrams; couplets and quatrains; lyrics, limericks and lullabies - go on, dip again.

Edited by: Michael Hennessy
Imprint: Everyman Hardcovers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 166mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 230g
ISBN: 9781841598284
ISBN 10: 1841598283
Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Hennessy (External Editor) EDITOR BIOGRAPHY Michael Hennessy loves poetry, studies poetry, teaches poetry, reviews poetry. He lives in Chicago.