Product Description: A new version of “Phaethon”, unperformed since the fifth century BC, amounting to a new masterpiece. Classicist Alistair Elliot, renowned for his scholarly research and dramatic translations, has deciphered from the original Greek Euripides'327 lines and reconstructed the rest of the missing text, staying as faithful to the Greek masters time and context as possible...read more

Product Description: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) wrote three secret collections of verse, of which Femmes and Hombres remained almost unobtainable even in France until the 1970s. These strangely unrespectable poems celebrate the pleasures of sex, with women and men respectively, in loving detail - reversing the old view of Verlaine as a limp impressionist...read more

Product Description: Verlaine's lesser-known collections of erotic poems, straight and gay.

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The 'things' in the title of Alistair Elliot's collection include the writer's back lane, a flag with medieval Syrian embroidery which the Queen of the Fairies gave to 'the' MacLeod, a radio which has provided news for nearly six decades, and flowers.

Product Description: Alistair Elliot has claimed that anything he puts into a poem, he'll have in the after-life. Earlier books provide food and drink: he's now packing up whole countries, species, friends. Some poems here explain what it's like having a shower with women aged 20 when you're not, how horses express admiration for each other, what people do when world wars approach, and the greenish methods of an Iranian rubbish collector...read more

Product Description: Book by Heine, Heinrich, Elliot, Alistair

Erotic poems praise male and female lovers, and the joys of physical love

Product Description: Signed presentation copy to George MacBeth and wife. Sun faded spine, and small tear in back cover of DJ. Contents are v.good