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For more than thirty-five years, McGuire's Irish Pub has been serving authentic fare to its customers in Pensacola, Florida. Now, fans of McGuire's fun-loving food and drinks can try all their best dishes at home. This mouth-watering volume covers McGuire's signature recipes for everything from bread and brunch to fish and fowl to meat and desserts. Also included in the foreword are thirty-two color photographs of McGuire's itself to give readers...
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The controversial comedic play from a master dramatist that shattered social conventions in England. Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners, has delighted millions with countless productions since its first performance at London's St. James' Theatre in 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but also for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating...
4) The Poems
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A collection of modern English poetry from the celebrated author of Lady Chatterly's Lover. This definitive collection of D. H. Lawrence's poems, both previously published and some not, presents here with the poems in their intended forms, reversing censorship and correcting long-missed errors for the first time. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive study of the composition, publication and reception of Lawrence's most iconic poetry.
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By the time of his death in January 1996, Norman MacCaig was known widely as the grand old man of Scottish poetry, honored by an Order of the British Empire (OBE) and the Queen's Medal for Poetry. This book is a celebration of MacCaig's life-published in 2010, the hundredth anniversary of his birth-and it features 100 of his best poems, edited by his son Ewen.
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Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical skills of any living poet', the work of 'one who is not afraid of big subjects, whose enthusiastic gaze is directed outward with energy and gladness'. Then Auden and the Romantics lighted his way. To those influences are now added the challenges of a Modernist style, drawing on Marianne Moore, T.S....
7) Edward II
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The classic Renaissance play of royal intrigue, infidelity, betrayal, and murder by the acclaimed author of “Doctor Faustus” and “Hero and Leander”.
Upon the death of King Edward I of England, his son, Edward II, takes the throne and revokes the banishment of his favorite, Piers Gaveston. Upon Gaveston's return to court, Edward II bestows upon him titles, wealth, and protection-and soon ignores his duties as leader. The king's nobles see Gaveston...
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In a dour Holland Park house with rooms and secrets long shuttered live three unyielding forces for morality: rigidly religious sisters Helen and Teresa, and their brother, a Roman Catholic priest. Into the lives of this insular trio comes their young grandniece, Rose Pemberton, following the death of her mother. To the mortification of her aunts, Rose has also brought her lover, Michael Dennis, who is twenty-five years Rose's senior, married, and...
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Poems of the Pretentious Minds features a wide array of self-indulgent, darkly comical but heart-wrenching poetry that covers many topics such as love, family, friendship, death, sex addiction, abuse, anxiety, depression, suicide, mental turmoil, the city of London, various other locations around the UK and the intricacies of the world itself. Some of the poems also explore the contradiction of humanity and how one can appreciate the minute things...
10) Memo for Spring
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Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. This, her debut collection, published in 1972, was a landmark publication. Writing at a time when the landscape of Scottish poetry was male dominated, hers was a new voice, tackling subjects that resonated with readers – as it still does. Her poetry paved the way, and inspired, countless new voices including Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Carol Ann Duffy. Still writing...
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PTSD is a 4 Letter Word. Actually it's an acronym but it's also quite the life sentence, a curse in its own right. PTSD is a 4 Letter Word is a poetry collection about mental health, about what it is like to live with depression, PTSD, intrusive thoughts, eating disorders and dissociation. There are three parts. My Head is a Battlefield, My Scars and My Fixes. My Fixes is at the last and is more hopeful, more outward looking.This is a dark poetry...
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Edited by Andrew Noble and Patrick Scott Hogg. The Canongate Burns is the most comprehensive and challenging edition of the poems and songs of Robert Burns ever published. Drawing on extensive scholarship and the poets own inimitable letters, this definitive edition offers a wealth of information on Burns’ life and times, the hardship of his early days, his political beliefs, his hatred of injustice and his fate as a writer too often sentimentalised...
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE
T. S. Eliot's most famous drama, a retelling of the murder of the archbishop of Canterbury
Written in 1934, Murder in the Cathedral tells of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral during the reign of Henry II in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's celebrated play solidified his reputation as the most significant...
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Sea-Fever' remains one of the most popular poems of the last century, and John Masefield one of the most popular poets, a superb spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships, exotic seas, of the deep-rooted life of rural England, and of the great narratives of Troy and Arthurian legend. This book includes his most popular poems and a few previously uncollected rarities. All share Masefield's love of particular lives: he draws the reader into his stories...
15) Years of Poetry
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Alan Amos' comprehensive collection of poems represents a lyrical journey where emotions find release through the potent power of words.
Years of Poetry chronicles the unexpected voyage of an ordinary individual who finds solace and escape in crafting poems, never anticipating the profound impact they would wield. Trapped in the enigmatic interplay between reality and dreamlike states, the poet explores heartache, joy, and the indomitable spirit that...
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Edición bilingüe traducido por Violeta Gil. "Que se coman el caos" es un canto a la actual generación perdida, personalizado por varios personajes situados en Londres que sufren las consecuencias de la globalización, el cambio climático y otros problemas actuales como la falta de oportunidades laborales. Kae Tempest siempre encuentra algo absolutamente magnético en su trabajo híbrido, que le habla al corazón y a la conciencia y a las condiciones...
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As a fairly quiet person, I find it easier to express myself through poetry. My poetry is generally about life events and God as a huge part in my life, as I turned to him many times. They are short poems but straight to the point. I hope they are uplifting to you as they uplift me.'
Beverley Deeming
18) Child Ballad
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A Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation 2023In Child Ballad, David Wheatley's sixth collection, he explores a world transformed by the experience of parenthood. Conducting his children through landscapes of Northern Scotland, he follows pathways laid down by departed Irish missionaries and by wolves. He maps a rich territory of rivers, trees and mountains. Also present are histories, some evidenced, some no longer visible and yet to be inferred.Stylistically,...
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The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. In 'The Coin Cabinet' they are conjured in their variety by means of a series of epithetic evocations, so that one does not doubt their reality, or the complex mythology they evoke and the economy rooted in long traditions and rich in known, shared narratives.
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Let us start somewhere in the middle. Jessica is in the future now with her colleagues Natalie, and Tony. She's in Love, but as yet we know not with whom.
Now let's go to the start. Orlon is also in Love-so he discovers-he is dreaming the armies of Hades into existence and is getting lost.
Maintenant-the present: Orlo is with his father seated in the beautiful sunshine sharing the occasional poignant question.
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