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Shapes of Clay
A collection of Bierce’s verse, ranging from sharp satire and comic portraits to more reflective poems. Human vanity, public behavior, mortality, and the uses of language recur throughout the volume.
Rhyme? and reason?
Carroll brings together comic and imaginative poems filled with unusual creatures, playful logic, and unexpected turns of language. The collection includes The Hunting of the Snark alongside other verse.
Three Sunsets and Other Poems
A collection of Carroll’s verse ranging from reflective poems to imaginative scenes and playful turns of language. The title sequence follows changing light, landscape and memory.
Sea-ice: Vol. 3 in the FicSci Series
What is science communication? This collection proposes that it can be creative writing aimed at the heart, rather than information directed to the mind.
The Human Heart of Leadership
An illustrated anthology of poems by members of the University of Johannesburg’s Executive Leadership Group and invited contributors. The writers reflect on family, memory, work, solitude, travel and the personal experiences that shape leadership.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Separated during the expulsion of the Acadians, Evangeline searches for Gabriel across a changing North American landscape. Longfellow’s narrative poem follows enduring affection through years of displacement.
Night-sky: Vol. 2
Creative writers respond to an encounter with astronomy in the second FicSci collection. Poems and short prose pieces explore the night sky, observation and the possibilities that emerge when scientific inquiry meets literary imagination.
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
Chesterton’s early poems range from dramatic scenes and imaginative figures to reflections on faith, landscape and ordinary experience. The collection includes the title poem and shorter lyrical works.
The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels
Legends, ghost stories and comic narratives unfold in verse and prose under the name Thomas Ingoldsby. Richard Harris Barham combines supernatural happenings with playful language and unexpected reversals.
A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson’s poems return to the experiences of childhood: bedtime, gardens, journeys, make-believe and the changing scale of the world. The collection includes its named groups of poems, with individual poem navigation.
Poetics of Place
A collection exploring the relationship between poetry and architecture. Poems, essays, a visual study and conversations consider how writing expresses experiences of place and how language can inform spatial thinking.
The Lady of the Lake
Walter Scott’s narrative poem unfolds around Loch Katrine and the rivalries of the Scottish Highlands. Encounters involving Ellen Douglas, Roderick Dhu and a mysterious traveller connect romance with conflict. This edition also includes explanatory notes.
Ditaola Di A Itlhathola/The Oracles are Self-Deciphering
Lefifi Tladi’s collection brings together poetry in English and Setswana. Wordplay, spoken rhythms and reflections on experience connect language, memory, perception and the act of creating meaning.
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires
Alexander Pope’s verse considers human character, ambition, judgment and the conduct of social life. This collected edition brings An Essay on Man together with moral essays and satires, with introductory material placing the poems within his writing.
The Kitten's Garden of Verses
Oliver Herford turns the experiences of kittens into a playful collection of poems and drawings. Games, lessons, household objects and encounters with other animals become subjects for verses that echo the forms of childhood poetry.
Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
An English-language anthology brings together Babylonian and Assyrian epics, prayers and other ancient writings. The selections include narratives of journeys, encounters with divine figures and reflections on human life, accompanied by introductory material.
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
James Whitcomb Riley’s illustrated poem follows a speaker remembering an earlier sweetheart and imagining the life they might have shared. Domestic details, remembered scenes and recurring images of home give the verse its shape.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
An old sailor detains a wedding guest to tell the story of a disastrous voyage. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem follows the ship, its crew and the mariner through changes in weather, extraordinary encounters and the consequences of his actions.
The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem follows Hiawatha through childhood, relationships and the events of his community. The sequence brings together episodes of travel, invention, courtship and encounters with the natural world.