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Poems of Love and Hate 

Catullus £8.95  <convert> 

Sensual, salacious and above all scandalous, the erotic verse of the Roman poet Catullus has delighted - and shocked - readers for centuries. Charting the lives and loves of a group of smart young men about Rome during the late Republic, Catullus' urbane poetry is renowned for its emotional range and psychological insight, not to mention its often startling obscenity. Josephine Balmer's new translation of the complete shorter poems highlights both the intense lyricism and the scabrous wit of the original, bringing Catullus' vivid cast of characters back to life for a new audience.

The Burial at Thebes 

Heaney, Seamus £12.99  <convert> 

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, 'Antigone' - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama. Faithful to the 'local row' and to the fierce specificity of the play's time and place, 'The Burial at Thebes' honours the separate and irreconcilable claims of its opposed voices, as they enact the ancient but perennial conflict between family and state in a time of crisis, pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service. Above all, 'The Burial at Thebes' honours the sovereign urgency and grandeur of Heaney's Sophoclean original, in which language speaks truth to power, then and now.

Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam 

Khayyam, Omar £8.99  <convert> 

Perhaps this is not so much a translation as a rendering in Scots. Rab Wilson's quatrains tackle the same themes as the original 'Ruba'iya't but with a Scottish take, not only in language but also in tone and reference.

Metamorphoses 

Ovid; Kenney, E.J. (ed.) £7.99  <convert> 

The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality.

All Day Permanent Red 

Logue, Christopher £8.99  <convert> 

"All Day Permanent Red" is the fourth installment of Christopher Logue's account of the "Iliad", the first three of which were collected in "Homer: War Music" (2001).

Poems and Fragments 

Sappho £7.95  <convert> 

The Greek poet Sappho is one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greatest women poets, but often as the greatest woman poet in world literature.

Piers Plowman 

Langland, William £6.99  <convert>