Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

A critical assessment by leading scholars on the relationship between music and the life’s work of Stanley Cavell....  Read More >>

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows...  Read More >>

The first collection to engage with “Instapoetry,” this book explores the aesthetics and ideologies of the 21st...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2025 Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, The Gum Trees of Kerikeri by Lynn Jenner is a beautiful, compelling...  Read More >>

This collection shares stories in verse collected from the weeks leading up to the coronavirus pandemic through...  Read More >>

A first collection of poems by a contemporary Welsh artist.  Read More >>

Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

A fully revised and expanded edition of Loss, bringing together all of Donna Ashworth's poems for the bereaved from...  Read More >>

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary...  Read More >>

Poetry of the Zodiac is a fun and enlightening collection that takes you on a journey around the different signs...  Read More >>

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An inspirational poem about those friends who have loved us unconditionally What Do You Do When Your Dog Grows...  Read More >>

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An edition with commentary of Book IV of Homer's Iliad aimed primarily at undergraduates and graduate students....  Read More >>

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Exploring 'early globalism and Chinese literature' through the lens of 'literary diffusion,' this Element analyzes...  Read More >>

How did Lady Church become a theological person and literary figure in patristic, medieval, and early modern texts?...  Read More >>

The established idea that people learn about politics and relevant societal issues via the news media can be put...  Read More >>

Oliver James went viral on TikTok after he shared five simple words: “What's up? I can't read.” Thus began a journey...  Read More >>

An intervention into contemporary debates on care by positioning it as a matter of attunement or resonance through...  Read More >>

An exploration of nineteenth-century fiction written by descendants of Puritans and Pilgrims who intended to shape...  Read More >>

This book analyzes how racialized and gendered city spaces are presented in post-apartheid South African literature....  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

An analytical look at mothers and mother figures in multiple works under a feminist psychoanalytic framework  Read More >>