Poetry anthologies (various poets)
Poetry Society Poetry Review: 97/2: ARS Poetica
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£9.64
Poetry Society Poetry Review: 100:4: Poet's Progress
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£9.64
Poetry Society Poetry Review: Winter 2011: v. 101
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£9.64
Poetry Society The Poetry Review: Part 102:2
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£9.64
Poetry Society Poetry Review: Autumn: 2012
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£9.64
Poetry Society Poetry Review: Offending Frequencies
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£10.38
Poetry Society The Poetry Review: Vol 103, Issue 1
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£10.38
Poetry Society Poetry Review Volume 103.4 Winter 2013: v. 103.4:
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£10.38
Poetry Society The Poetry Review: Part 105:3
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£10.38
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Everything to Play For: 99 Poems about Sport
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£11.40
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review Issue 117
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£9.50
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review
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£9.50
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review Issue 120
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£9.50
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review Issue 121
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£9.50
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review Issue 127
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£9.50
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review Issue 128
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£9.50
Poetry Ireland Ltd. Poetry Ireland Review Issue 129
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£9.50
Prospect Books Open-mouthed: Food Poems
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£8.99
Galileo Publishing Sound the Deep Waters
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£12.34
Salmon Poetry Thornfield: Poems by the Thornfield Poets
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£11.40
Enitharmon Press Pearl
Book Synopsis"Pearl" is one of the greatest English Medieval poems, a dream vision that is both a profoundly personal elegy for the dreamer's lost daughter and a subtle theological debate about the most difficult existential questions. In this parallel text edition the original poem is printed opposite a modernised version which retains all the formal features of the original - its elaborate musical schemes of alliteration and rhyme, and its rich vocabulary. Words unfamiliar to the contemporary reader are glossed alongside the modernisation so that the poem can easily be read by anybody not familiar with its idiom. In her introduction (almost the last piece of writing completed before her death) Kathleen Raine discusses the poem's celebration 'of all that the anima means and has meant throughout human history and as the inspiration of so much of the greatest poetry'.
£12.34
bluechrome Publishing Boho: Bringing it All Back Home
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£7.81
Shoestring Press Behind the Lines
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£10.38
Shoestring Press Take Five 04
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£10.00
Shoestring Press Take Five 06
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£10.38
Worple Press Map: Poems After William Smith's Geological Map of 1815
Book SynopsisThe poems in this anthology celebrate a map, a man, and a science. The science is geology. The man is William Smith (1769 - 1839), civil engineer and geologist. The map is Smith's masterpiece: A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland, the first geological map of an entire country, published in 1815. 2 As a working engineer, not a gentleman, Smith was unable to become a member of the newly formed Geological Society. His contribution to the new science of geology was initially dismissed by the Society, which set out to produce its own rival map. Coupled with some imprudent investments, Smith's venture culminated in a stretch in debtor's prison. By the time of his death in 1839, however, Smith's achievements had been recognised; in 1831 he was awarded the Geological Society's first Wollaston Medal in recognition of his work, and honoured by the Society's President, Adam Sedgwick, as 'the father of English geology'. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of its publication, I invited a number of poets to respond to the map, Smith's life, and his legacy. I was thrilled by the generosity and enthusiasm with which they embraced this invitation and the different routes their poems took. It was a pleasure to introduce many of them to the Geological Society's map up close and to listen to their astute and creative observations. There are poems in this anthology that tell the story of Smith's genius and his misfortune; poems about fossil hunting and map making; poems about the drive of the Industrial Revolution and our continuing reliance on fossil fuels. When most of us look at a map we look for home, and the same is true of many of these poets. But Smith's alien cartography of colour makes us see home in a radically different light, and so the poets, representing the geographical reach of Smith's map, confront the reader with new ways of seeing the landscape and history of Britain. Their poems illustrate not only the vibrancy and variety of contemporary poetry but also poetry's unique ability to take on uncharted territory with vision, to make connections and find relevance: the poems here make Smith's map anew in moving and surprising ways.Trade Review"These poems illustrate not only the vibrancy and variety of contemporary poetry but also poetry's unique ability to take on uncharted territory with vision, to make connections and find relevance: the poems here make Smith's map anew in moving and surprising ways." - Michael McKimmTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Michael McKimm Treasure Island 5 Maura Dooley The 1815 Overture 6 Philip Gross Smith 8 Matt Merritt The New Red Sandstone 11 Peter Robinson Complex 13 John Greening strata 15 Mario Petrucci From a Chalkface 17 Anthony Wilson Mappa sub-Mundi 18 Alyson Hallett Lithologies / Mythologies 19 Andy Brown Allegory of the Navigation Canal 21 James Brookes Conversation 22 Isabel Galleymore Strata Smith 23 John Freeman greensand and gault: a portrait of the young palaeontologist 24 Elizabeth Cook The Drainage Engineer 26 Alison Brackenbury William Smith's Poem 29 Jonathan Davidson My Brilliant Career 30 John Freeman Classical Bust of William Smith in Oxford University Museum 31 James Brookes Clever and Capable Men 32 David M. Orchard Mapping on Tilberthwaite Fells 33 Barbara Cumbers Shades of Hades 34 John Freeman Beachcombing 35 Peter Robinson Itinerary 36 John Wedgwood Clarke Red Rock 44 Alan Buckley The only proper way to go on a fossil hunt is in a minibus 46 Ailsa Holland Ammonites 47 Alyson Hallett To Make a Map Look Old 48 Penelope Shuttle Geological Survey 50 Stephen Boyce chroma : mapping 51 Alyson Hallett Greensand Ridge 52 James Brookes Parchment Scalpel Rock: Stratigraphical Economics 53 George Ttoouli Whole 58 Helen Mort Pathways 60 Sally Flint 1815 61 John Greening The Chalk Hills of Surry and Kent 62 Peter Carpenter The Mud Pump 64 John McAuliffe Sequence 66 Isabel Galleymore To read a history in the Earth 67 Kate Potts A Fold in the Map 69 Stephen Boyce Smith the Poet 71 John Freeman The Afterlife of William Smith 72 Andrew Motion On Discovery 74 Jane Commane The Painted Soil 76 Isobel Dixon Map 78 Penelope Shuttle Notes on Contributors
£10.00
Worple Press The Tree Line: Poems for Trees, Woods and People
Book SynopsisOver a period of several months poets were invited to write new poems in response to the 1217 Charter of the Forest, to trees or woodland of personal significance to them, or how trees have shaped our society, landscape and lives. They sent poems about trees in gardens and along the sides of roads, trees to climb and build dens in, favourite trees cut down. Poems about childhood, memory, history, motherhood, nationhood, law, mythology and death. Poems about turning into trees. Poems about getting lost in the woods. Poems about oak, ash, alder, pine, chestnut, birch and many more besides. They are a profound celebration of trees. A structure emerged which echoed the three branches of the Charter: Trees, Woods, People. Although many of the poems could find a home in any one of the three parts, in 'Trees' poems were gathered in which we encounter individual trees as species or organisms: their life cycles, the pleasure of standing in their presence, the act of taking them apart. In 'Woods' we meet trees en masse, go deeper into the forest and get lost in the beauty and otherworldliness of ancient woodland. A number of poems take inspiration from the original 1217 Charter, soaking up the language, giving us woods haunted by foresters, hunts and pageantry. In 'People' we come out of the woods and witness how trees shape our lives: our culture, our society and our psyche. The poems are at times dark, sometimes painfully sad, and often incredibly funny.Trade ReviewThis anthology reflects our attitude towards trees and celebrates our delight in woodland today... to enjoy rather like a walk in the woods - the eye attracted by a variety of shades and tones of subtly different subject matter, style and form: wit and irony intertwined with eulogies, effusions and epiphanies.Clive Anderson From ForewordTable of ContentsForeword 1 Clive Anderson Introduction 3 Michael McKimm TREES Thoughts in the Presence of Trees 9 D.M. Black Kestanesi 11 Mary Woodward In the Shade of a London Plane Tree 13 Grace Nichols The Lime-Tree Year 14 John Freeman Tree Rings 15 John Greening The Elephant Tree 17 Elizabeth Cook 'On the raw shoulder' 18 Simon Armitage How to Take Apart a Tree 19 Gillian Clarke Felled 20 Philip Gross To my hand-saw's screeching a robin responds 22 Paul Sutherland 'Reader, allow' 25 Simon Armitage Forgiveness 26 David Morley Some Hope 28 Michael Laskey The Blossom Falls 29 Joanna Seldon Tree in the Garden 31 Peter Carpenter Song of the Retail Park Tree 32 Jonathan Edwards A Redwood 33 Swithun Cooper Brinsop Poplars 34 John Freeman Tree Time 36 Peter Kane Dufault The Ashground 38 Andrew Motion Alders 40 Ruth Calway Spruce Sonogram 42 Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Midland Hawthorn 44 Matt Merritt Tears I Shed Yesterday Have Become Rain 46 Helen Moore WOODS Fathoms 51 Ben Smith On Entering Duncliffe Wood 52 Stephen Boyce The Homecoming 53 Kate Potts Wyre 55 Suzannah Evans Shadow's Shade 57 Linda Saunders Regarders of the Forest 58 Jean Atkin Forest Diptych 60 Penelope Shuttle Waves 62 William Wootten The Royal Forests 63 Judy Brown Twisting Out 64 John Wedgwood Clarke Oncology - Ethie Woods 66 Lesley Harrison beetles 70 Mario Petrucci The Grace of JCBs 72 David Morley Die Holzwege 74 Peter Robinson Final Memo from the Ministry 76 James Brookes Love Poem with Beech Coppard 77 Michael McKimm Refuge 79 Stephen Boyce What Newton Didn't Notice 80 Ailsa Holland Stand 81 Matthew Griffiths The Audition 83 Claire Trevien Almost 84 Linda Saunders Among the Birches 85 Barry Patterson The Greenwood 87 Jonathan Davidson PEOPLE The Forests of South London 91 Maura Dooley Woods, and us 92 Alison Brackenbury Out of the Woods 93 Sally Flint The New Term 94 Carolyn Oulton Ash Tree 95 Richard Evans Harlow New Town 97 Vivien Freeman Collins Guide to Trees 102 Harry Man Struck 104 Helen Mort Tree, Bird, Plane, Cloud, Sky, Moon 105 Luigi Coppola Laws For Trees 106 Alyson Hallett The boy who hurts trees 108 Elizabeth Cook I Found a Tree-jinn in the Lake 110 Mona Arshi 100 mile drive to my father's care home 112 Martyn Crucefix The woman who loved trees 114 Carol Rowntree Jones Hurricanes are always given women's names 116 Patricia McCarthy Melia (an ash tree spirit) 118 Joanne Ashcroft Poem of Leaves 121 Anthony Wilson Prisoner Writing Home 122 Em Strang View from a Manchester flat 123 Harriet Fraser How the Light Filtered Through the Leaves 124 Isobel Dixon They've No Time for Trees Today 126 Martina Evans Mothers 128 Rachel Curzon Committal 129 Andy Brown The Acacia 130 Mary Woodward Notes on Contributors 131 Thanks 145 Michael McKimm
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Flipped Eye Publishing Limited To Be Languaged Thus
Book SynopsisFrom horror movie tropes and hospital wards to thepoetics of botany, a meditation on the colour blue,and many other points along the way, the poems inTo Be Languaged Thusstand as a compelling collective vision of what'spossible in contemporary poetry.
£8.95
Five Leaves Publications The Night Shift
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Eland Publishing Ltd China: City & Exile
Book SynopsisFor two thousand years in China, the empires of politics and of the written word cohabited and depended on one another. The Chinese classics became the bedrock of political and cultural legitimacy, which was centred on the empire's great capital cities. One such classic was the "Book of Poetry", written perhaps three millennia ago. In the centuries that followed, poetry became China's highest art form. This collection gathers poems about four of these venerable cities - Chang'an (now Xi'an), Luoyang, Beijing and Hangzhou. To the Chinese, the city was a depiction of the Confucian ideal of social harmony. To leave the city was to exile oneself from high culture and high politics. This collection also chronicles that Taoist escape and exile: the poetry of personal loss and disappointment, the veiled political polemic and poetry extolling the natural world that lay beyond the Emperor's courts. These are small books that open our vast landscapes of the mind.
£6.99
Luath Press Ltd 100 Favourite Scottish Poems to Read Out Loud
Book SynopsisEncouraged by Burns Nights, ceilidhs and poetry slams, reading poetry aloud is a valued Scottish tradition enjoyed by young and old alike. This anthology includes old favourites like Burns and Matt McGinn and new classics from contemporary Scottish poetry. Covering a range of themes, this wonderful collection really does have something for everyone.
£7.99
Luath Press Ltd 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of Scots poetry devoted entirely to football. It includes many of 20th century Scotland's best known poets such as Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith and Jackie Kay. Spanning centuries and a wide variety of perspectives on the popular sport, this brilliant collection sums up the best and the worst of football spirit.Trade ReviewPerhaps verse is the ideal field for football’s dreams to be realised. It certainly works wonders on the pages of this effort collected up by Alistair Findlay THE LIST In other countries, football is taken seriously enough, but only in Scotland is the game woven into the warp and weft of cultural life so seamlessly. That becomes clear when you read Findlay’s latest work, 100 Favourite Scottish Football Poems, an edited odyssey through the nation’s cultural history, seen through the prisms of poetry and football. THE TIMES As an ex-senior oleyer, he kin descrieve the airt o fitba lik nae ither poet I ken o. LALLANS MAGAZINE
£7.99
Luath Press Ltd Chuckies fir the Cairn: Poems in Scots and Gaelic
Book SynopsisScotland has built great literature out of its richly textured language. Like the stones bound together in a wall, the poets linkied here by location and shared language embody the beauty of their country and the passion 'pulsin through its heirt'. These Dumfries and Galloway poets, free in their own inimitable styles and approaches, are bound together by the unique culture of Scotland. Their poems help to raise the wall of that culture in the modern world.Trade Review'The poets Rab Wilson has gathered in this anthology represent and important and often neglected strand in contemporary Scottish poetry. Native Scots-speaking poets whose chosen language is distinct from English and expressive beyond the capacities of that sister-language, they are committed to their country, their place and the people who inhabit the world beside them. However, earthed and native as they are, there is nothing narrowing or oversimplified here.'- ALAN RIACHThe range and liveliness of the poems are a testament to the continuing vitality of the Scots language in Dumfries and Galloway- THE HERALDTable of ContentsIntroductionLIZ NIVENEfter Ye Cam Back Fae MalawiEatin LocustsIn Memoriam Solway HarvesterCometHearin A Sang Fae Ma BoatHinnieDOUG CURRANThe Basket MakersAye When Simmer CamInaThe Smiddy At The WhaupThe Silent HooseWalkin The Horses HameOn Cairnfield HeichtsAuld Time DancinFactory DeemsThe Men Frae Radio UlsterDAVID DOUGLASDancin FrogsDangerous WurdsIn A To?oerLiftinMaternityThe GiraffeHideyoshi RepliesJoes FieldKennin EinsteinPuffin BillyTam Bides HameJOHN BURNSBricht In The Licht O HeavenAbuin The Hill FuitsScliffs O LichtJohnny Maxwell DancesFriscoThe Boonds O HeavenThe Licht Aye-BidanKenshoThe Leafs Maun FaaUntitledJOSIE NEILLMe An Katie MorrisonThe WattergawHeritageMullwharcharMairi StuartOrra TinkTibbie LogieA Christmas PoemLament For MacDiarmidMakars WarslinHUGH BRYDENBalloonChappin Chairlie?FagsHis Faither's VoiceChipshop CheckmateMetaphor?Cryin In Ma BeerShavingIf Ah Could Talk Tae The AirtistsJOHN MANSONToun GraveyairdSounAuld Notes1903GellLoddan NeepsPleuanThe StirkReidmasachSan Martino Del CarsoDeid O NichtBleck Stane On Tap O A White StaneWILLIE NEILLThe Auld GrunnDrumbarchan MainsKailyard And AfterFirst Keek At A CorpHielant John 1930Fitsides Wi A Prood HizzieA Faur Cry Frae AuchinleckSeasonsThe Power Of AdvertisingA Celtic HistoryFaur Ahint Maun Follae FasterHertsawBETTY TINDALPreservin MemoriesGreen MossThe LetterThe SlaesGlimpsing The UnicornReelin Back The YearsJist A DomesticTurning Tae SangJoyfu SouchWalking The LineWinter GlaurP- P- P ?? ProstitutionANGUS MACMILLANBalla Samhach / Lown WaTha e sileadh an Leodhas / It Is Rainin In LewisGearan na cuilegeagan-mheanbh / The Midges' ComplaintToimhseachan / ConundrumFear-labhairt deireannach / The Hinmaist SpeikerUisge Beatha / Uisge BeathaDannsa 'san t-seomar-feitheamh / Dancin In The Waitin RoomCiste / KistGaelic HaikuHistorical ShortsTartan BriefsDEREK ROSSWaterloo Tower, New AbbeyStaunin StanesFirst GemmeMuseum O ScotlandHadrian?s WaDunbae RoadTideOriginsForest CottageDry Stane DykeRAB WILSONBigginExtract from The Ruba?iyat of Omar Khayyam: In ScotsThe National ConversationHeraclitusDiffugere NivesHeroesDumfounert Wi WunnerSomerfield Checkout Coonter #2Playin MacDiarmid At Scrabble
£8.54
Association for Scottish Literary Studies Poets of the People's Journal: Newspaper Poetry
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£14.95
Association for Scottish Literary Studies Voices of Scotland: An Anthology of Scottish
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£11.74
Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Last Good Year: New Writing Scotland 38
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£11.74
Association for Scottish Literary Studies Jacobean Parnassus: Scottish poetry from the
Book SynopsisA great deal of excellent poetry was composed in Scotland in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. In 1603, when James Stewart became also king of England and Ireland, several Scottish poets moved to London, and commented on events at Court. Others preferred to remain in their homeland, at a distance from the metropolis; and some who had gone south soon returned home. In addition to the perennial themes of love and religion, attention was given to topics such as national identity, foreign travel, civil society, monarchy, the good life, friendship, retreat, and the nature and language of literature itself. Poets faced the political and cultural challenges inherent in the novel concept of Great Britain in a variety of ways, and the thistle and the rose bloomed together in the Jacobean garden of verses.
£18.95
Salmon Poetry Honouring the Word: Celebrating Maurice Harmon
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£11.40
Vagabond Voices Be the First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry
Book SynopsisThrow a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determination was in the air. A generation of poets has emerged who have grown up in an age of change, political and technological, with the internet providing them not only with new ways of sharing writing - through their websites, podcasts, Twitter - but also in some cases with a subject too. The Sound of Youngish Scotland is the first attempt to capture the spirit of a diverse scene where every poet is their own movement - from McGuire's hilarious, Beat-inflected deconstructions of sexuality to MacGillivray's mystic tales of Scottish cowboys, equal parts MacDiarmid and McCarthy; from William Letford's building-site tales to Russell Jones' sci-fi poetry. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters. The Sound of Youngish Scotland features forty poets, mostly under-forty who have made Scotland their home. It's a survey, a yearbook, a celebration and a promise of things to come.
£11.95
Luath Press Ltd Earth
Book SynopsisJohn Hudson’s Earth is a beautiful exploration of our dependence on our planet. Through a variety of different poetic techniques, Hudson skilfully blends form and content in order to create a work of poetic genius. In Earth, Hudson asks the perennial question: What does it mean to be human?Trade ReviewThere’s intellectual energy at work and a rich frame of reference. There’s a sense of place that has both extent and depth. KENNETH WHITE Its economy is striking, vivid images conjured up in just a few words; the commonplace in counterpoint to the uncommon; well-worn figures of speech shining with new meaning; the profound rubbing up against the everyday and, in the process, teasing out unconsidered layers of meaning.LIZ THOMSON, BookBrunchI liked the underpinning rhythmic drive, the subtle half-rhymes, and the thought-provoking wit tinged with occasional sensuous/sensual imagery … the referencing to other cultures and belief-systems. You have got a winner of a collection there.ROGER ELKIN, former editor of Envoi magazine
£8.54
Ward Wood Publishing Bedford Square: 6
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Ward Wood Publishing Articulus
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Salmon Poetry Over the Edge: The First Ten Years
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£11.40
Eyewear Publishing Donald Langosy: Poet's Painter
Book SynopsisPoetry. Art. In this beautifully produced full-color art volume, poet Eric Sigler responds to 99 paintings by the legendary painter Donald Langosy. Donald Langosy and Eric Sigler. 99 poems by Eric Sigler illustrating 99 paintings. In this unique collaboration, painter Donald Langosy and poet Eric Sigler draw on a long friendship to create a fantastical world realised in images and words. Langosy''s vivid colours, dramatic uses of light and wide cast of characters combine to create artworks of great energy and interest, while Sigler layers the paintings with glimpses into an internal element, bringing them truly to life. Drawing on mythological elements, moments from history and religion, this is a multimedia work that delights all the senses.
£21.24
Eyewear Publishing The Best of British and Irish Poets: 2016
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£9.49
Sidekick Books Bad Kid Catullus: 2
Book SynopsisHow well do you know Gaius Valerius Catullus, Ancient Rome's most notorious scandal-monger, filthsmith and lovelorn wretch? Impress your friends by having his muckiest quotes and most stinging jibes to hand at all times! In this customisable handbook, you'll find him at his most sexy, tender, savage and scurrilous, translated in myriad ways by Sidekick Books' many talented scribes. Catullus is seven genres; emoji Catullus; Catullus in Scots; poems sculpted into sex positions - and pages for you, the reader, to fill in, in your own obsene fashion.
£9.50
Sidekick Books Future Perfect Tense
Book SynopsisA thrilling new collection of genre-straddling stories and poems from graduates of one of the most exciting and eclectic creative writing MAs in the UK.
£9.50
The Rialto Cold Fire
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