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Poetry
This collection includes poems, ballads, and limericks, and critical studies.
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Chapbook
Aberdeen Folk-song Club
1965
Focused on folk-songs, with a special article on McGonagall by Hamish Henderson.
Miss Bedell and other poems
Chatto and Windus
1924
Number 13 of 50 numbered and signed by the author as part of a special edition.
Some portraits of the Lake Poets and their homes
G. P. Abraham, Ltd.
1947
A collection of short biographies of poets who lived or worked in the Lake District, with
The Spenserian Holmes: being the annotated manuscript of 'The hell of the Baskervilles'
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
1998
The text of, and commentary on, a 'newly discovered' Sherlockian manuscript in the form of a Spenserian poem, with essays.
Old English riddles from the Exeter Book
Anvil Press Poetry
1980
Transcribed and translated riddles from secular poems in the Exeter Book.
In shabby streets, and other verses
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd.
1942
A collection of poems by the noted English educationalist, scholar and cleric. Gift inscription on the front cover from the author to Ada Shirlaw, the family nanny.
Selected poems
Cape Goliard
1968
The first collection by this major Israeli poet to be translated into English.
Squatter's luck, and other poems
Melbourne University Press in Association with Oxford University Press
1942
The first collection by the Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter.
Pillars to remembrance
Oxford University Press
1948
A collection of poems each of which is dedicated to a particular friend of the author.
Les yeux d'Elsa
Éditions Horizon-La France Libre
1943
A collection of poems by one of the leading voices in the French surrealist movement.
Of period and place
Jonathan Cape
1944
A collection of poems by the well known cricket commentator.
Clausentum
Jonathan Cape
1946
A combination of poetry and illustration that provides a picture of the ancient Roman Clausentum, which stood by the Itchen river near Southampton.
Sir Gawain and the green knight
Faber and Faber
2007
A new translation of the mediaeval poem.
Veronica's book: with notes on sleep-and-poetry
Polygon
1989
A cycle of poems recording the first six months of the author's daughter.
Vietnam poems
Carcanet Press
1970
Balaban was a conscientious objector who disregarded his student deferment to go to Vietnam with the International Volunteer Services. A limited edition of 600.
The lyric-epic of love : being love-sonnets divided into books according to the stages of love's growth and harmonised with the answering moods and phrases of nature
Eric Stevens
2001
A collection of poems by the Anglo-Indian writer and anarchist. A limited edition of 150 copies. From the library of Alan Anderson, of Tragara Press. With loosely laid in postcard from John Adlard to, and notes by, Alan Anderson.
Sir Gawain and the green knight
Manchester University Press
2004
Provides the original text side by side with a modern translation.
Twenty prose poems by Baudelaire
Editions Poetry London
1946
A selection from Baudelaire's 'Petits poèmes en prose'.
Loss of the Magyar, and other poems
Longmans, Green and Co
1959
A collection of poems including the winner of the second prize at the Cheltenham Festival of Art and Literature in 1958.
Songs of the hour
Scots Pictorial Publishing Co. Ltd.
1900
A collection of poems featuring the Scottish soldier.
Lays from Annandale on the occasion of the Royal Diamond Jubilee, and in aid of the Moffat Cottage Hospital
Robert Knight and William Forrest
1897
A collection of poems issued to raise funds for the Moffat Cottage Hospital.
