Poesiantologier

"En skimrande skattkista av svensk diktning som både värmer och väcker tankar... Det är denna blandning av det bekanta och det nyskapande som gör antologin så tilltalande... En av bokens största styrkor är dess tillgänglighet. Dikterna känns ...

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Poesi är livet i koncentrat, menar riksdagens talman Andreas Norlén. Poesin utforskar det som berör oss allra mest: lycka, lidande, kärlek, längtan, smärta och saknad. Poesi utvecklar oss människor, vår fantasi och vårt känsloliv. Talmannen har öp...

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Pär Lagerkvist är en portalfigur inom svensk modernism och betraktas som en av 1900-talets viktigaste diktare. Med sitt djärva bildspråk och den lätthet med vilken han tacklade mänsklighetens stora frågor förnyade han svensk poesi. För första gång...

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Föreningen Arbetarskrivares elfte antologi, nu i storpocket. Här vässar 44 författare pennorna i kampen mot pressade arbetsvillkor och försämrade arbetsmiljöer. Prosa, lyrik och serier gestaltar hur det dagliga slitet påverkar oss människor samt h...

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A calming collection of nature poems to help you relax and unwind at the end of every day. Now more than ever we're all in need of a daily fix of the natural world, to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life. Keep this beautiful bo...

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365 poems celebrating nature and the changing seasons. This is the perfect bedside companion for any nature or poetry fan, featuring famous odes from big-name poets alongside unsung poems from less-well-known writers. Each poem is chosen to chime ...

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DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTER A beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better. From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and ...

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Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six...

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First published in 1977, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a collection of Bukowski's poetry from the mid-seventies. A classic in the Bukowski canon, Love Is a Dog from Hell is a raw, lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.

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DISCOVER THE AMAZING POWER OF POETRY TO MAKE EVEN THE MOST F**KED UP TIMES FEEL BETTERA beautiful little book of short, simple, classic and contemporary poems to dip into, to make life feel better.From Shakespeare and Shelley to Lemn Sissay and Ka...

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Poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.

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Discover 365 Poems for Life, an uplifting poem-a-day collection from award-winning curator Allie Esiri. This nourishing poetry collection offers readers a brief moment of escape from daily life through some of the warmest words in the English lang...

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Den mångsidige humanisten Tage Danielsson har i sin diktning skildrat allt från vardagliga miljöer och händelser till politiska företeelser. Det kan vara riktigt stämningsfullt eller ganska elakt och vasst. Trubaduren John Ulf Anderson blev mycket...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks. You can also hear Jim Morris...

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Poems of the Decade 2011-2020 celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Forward Prizes for Poetry. Gathering one hundred poems by writers and performers who have drawn new audiences to the artform, it highlights poetry as a space for fresh power...

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Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prin...

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Dikterna i den här boken är en kör av röster som sjunger om krig och förluster, stängda gränser och längtan efter en annan värld. Det är en samling av 28 poeter och en poesigrupp vars texter vill något mer än att vara ord. Vill vara tröst, men ock...

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The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco to Iraq. As a unifying principle, editor Marlé Hammond has selected eighty poems reflecting desire and longing of various kinds: for ...

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The world has reopened and so has the Poetry Pharmacy: the powerful final instalment in the hugely beloved series After the tumult of the last years, William Sieghart is back to prescribe the perfect poem for a variety of life's ailments, offering...

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Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Go...

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There is always a link. This is the magic of Taylor Swift . . . She has trained her fans to follow her threads. An anthology of 113 brand new poems. Responding to 113 songs by Taylor Swift. Can you match every poem to the song that inspired it? In...

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Under Ukrainas öppna himmel. Röster ur ett krig är en antologi med texter som ger uttryck för erfarenheterna av den ryska invasionen av Ukraina och som ger en inblick i ¿bakgrunden till den. Boken innehåller nära tre hundra sidor poesi, dramatik, ...

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'Paths of glory', 'Theirs not to reason why', 'When you are old and grey and full of sleep', 'A handful of dust', 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'. ___________ 'Glorious' - Tribune 'Superb' - The Good Book Guide ___________ These and many ...

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James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peace in everyday life. As Crew...

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Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The Oxford Book of English Verse, created in 1900 by...

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Noble verse. The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter consists of almost any topic, excluding only the scurrilous and obscene. In this completely new...

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This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times ol...

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Förlaget Natur och Kultur publicerade vid mitten av 1950-talet en lärobok med en översikt över den tyska lyrikens utveckling under de gångna ca 200 åren, Deutsche Dichtungen med fyllig kommentar på tyska. Jag använde boken i min tyskundervisning p...

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