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“frank foley”

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  • Countering Terrorism in Britain and France

    Institutions, Norms and the Shadow of the Past

    by Frank Foley ...
    Though Britain and France have faced a similar threat from Islamist terrorism in the years following September 11 2001, they have often responded in different ways to the challenges it posed. This groundbreaking work offers the first in-depth comparative analysis of counterterrorist policies and operations in these two leading liberal democracies. Challenging the widely held view that the nature ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • A Passport to Poetry

    by Frank Foley ...
    Poetry is indeed a journey one in which poets and their readers are travelling companions. While the poet supplies the words and phrases that conjure images, the ultimate shape of those images will be the reader’s own. The poetry to be found in this collection is quite varied. Some of the poems have a fixed metre and use end rhyme, while the majority are free verse and ‘unfettered’ in structure. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • The Spirit Level

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    'An irresistibly coherent book which celebrates the rising and the raising of the human spirit.' Michael Hofmann, The Times'If any poetry written today can have this 'redemptive effect' - as Heaney in his critical writing has begun to claim it can - then this is it.' Mick Imlah, Independent on Sunday ... Read more

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  • The Tennis Court Oath

    A Book of Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Program
    John Ashbery writes like no one else among contemporary American poets. In the construction of his intricate patterns, he uses words much as the contemporary painter uses form and color- words painstakingly chosen as conveyors of precise meaning, not as representations of sound. These linked in unexpected juxtapositions, at first glance unrelated and even anarchic, in the end create by their ... Read more

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  • District and Circle

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

    Poems Collected and New

    by Denis Johnson ...
    From the award-winning poet and novelist—a must-have collection of his four previous books of poetry plus a selection of new, unpublished work.This landmark collection brings together the essential work of a generational voice in American literature:Four Classic Books in One Volume: Includes the complete texts of The Man Among the Seals, Inner Weather, The Incognito Lounge, and The Veil, tracking ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems

    by James Tate ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of exquisite poems by "a poet of mad wit and stunning anecdote. Tate is now in the fullness of his powers" (Julian Moynahan, author of Sisters and Brothers).Selected Poems, James Tate's award-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Selected Poems

    by Les Murray ...
    A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry? For the weird unemployment.For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strikedown along your writing arm at the accumulated moment.For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verbbefore the trance leaves you. For working always beyondyour own intel... ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • In Secret

    Versions of Yannis Ritsos

    by David Harsent, Yannis Ritsos ...
    The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for the Winter Quarter, 2012.Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Poems

    by Christopher Reid ...
    Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary. Included here as well are poems ... Read more

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  • And the Stars Were Shining

    Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Witty yet heartbreaking, conversational yet richly lyrical, John Ashbery's sixteenth poetry collection showcases a mastery uniquely his ownAnd the Stars Were Shining originally appeared in 1994, toward the midpoint of a startlingly creative period in Ashbery's long career, during which the great American poet published no fewer than nine books in ten years. The collection brings together more than ... Read more

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  • Houseboat Days

    Poems

    by John Ashbery ...
    Is poetry the act of putting something together, or the art of taking something apart? Houseboat Days, one of John Ashbery's most celebrated collections, offers its own answerRemarkable for its introspection and for the response it elicited when it was first published in 1977, Houseboat Days is Ashbery's much-discussed follow-up to his 1975 masterpiece Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and remains ... Read more

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