Poetry anthologies (various poets)
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
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Tell You Their Favourite Ghost Story
Book SynopsisTen poems. Ten poets. Ten eerie apparitions recalled.
£8.89
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Get to the Bottom of Some Grisly Crimes
Book SynopsisTen poems. Ten poets. Ten deadly and desperate deeds uncovered.
£8.89
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Charm the Pants Off Ten Historical
Book SynopsisTen poems. Ten poets. Ten sensational acts of seduction.
£8.89
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon
Book SynopsisThe fifth title in Sidekick's popular '10 Poets' series sees ten new poets bravely embarking (in varied fashion and with unpredictable results) on far-ranging lunar expeditions.
£7.60
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Prowl the Seas in Search of Plunder
£7.60
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Spend the Night at a Vampires Castle
£7.60
The Rialto Cold Fire
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£9.50
Two Rivers Press The Arts of Peace: An Anthology of Poems
Book SynopsisThe first of August nineteen-fourteen saw the beginning of the war that was to end all wars and which, instead, ushered in a century of armed conflicts, two of them described as global. This anthology’s title is borrowed from Andrew Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’, in which he deprecates ‘the inglorious arts of peace’. With this gathering of newly composed poems, and against that grain, this anthology looks to celebrate all that is left behind in times of conflict and which conflict is so often evoked to defend. In this spirit, Adrian Blamires and Peter Robinson have edited a collection of poems that address peace and war from an unusually varied range of angles. The more than fifty contributors include Fleur Adcock, Robyn Bolam, Vahni Capildeo, Fred D’Aguiar, Gerald Dawe, Jane Draycott, Elaine Feinstein, Roy Fisher, Debora Greger, Philip Gross, Angela Leighton, William Logan, Allison McVety, Bill Manhire, John Matthias, Anthony Rudolf, Carol Rumens, Elizabeth Smither and Gregory Woods.
£9.50
GINGKO A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East &
Book SynopsisIn honour of Goethe and the 200th anniversary of the first publication of his outstanding poem sequence the West-Eastern Divan (1819), A New Divan contains outstanding original poems by twenty-four leading poets - twelve from the `East' and twelve from the `West' - and presents a truly international poetic dialogue inspired by the culture of the Other and Goethe's late, great work. The poets come from across the East - from Morocco to Turkey, Syria to Afghanistan - and from across the West - from Germany to the USA, Estonia to Brazil. Writing in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Slovenian, each pair of poets has responded to one of the themes of the twelve books of Goethe's original Divan, including `The Poet', `Love', `The Tyrant', `Faith' and `Paradise'. Working directly with the original poets or via a bridge translation the twenty-two English-language poets have created new poems that draw on the poetic forms and cultures of the poets taking part. Three pairs of essays enhance and complement the poems, mirroring Goethe's original `Notes and Essays for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan'. A New Divan is a life-enhancing, lyrical conversation at a time when understanding of the Other has never been more important. In celebrating Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, it also celebrates the art of poetry and the art of translation.Trade Reviewhttps://www.ft.com/content/d49e3b78-86df-11e9-b861-54ee436f9768; 'a multilingual delight', Ruth Padel, Financial Times Weekend; https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/a-new-divan-how-german-writer-goethe-is-still-inspiring-writers-through-a-new-project-1.865626
£17.00
Waterside Press Seen & Heard: 100 Poems by Parents & Children
Book SynopsisThe poems and images are all original and from open competitions begun in 2018. They address the thoughts, feelings and beliefs of the authors as they express themselves concerning their emotions and experiences. Over a million children and family members are affected by imprisonment in the UK alone and the poems seek to emphasise the sense of loss, deprivation and isolation involved. They also show resilience—and how enforced separation impacts each and every day of the writer’s life. Backed by prison and prisoner interest groups and children’s organizations. Contains wholly original material and insights. Linked to public events and initiatives. To be used in education and training.Table of ContentsExtract from Mark's `And I Need My Dad' You are not here Like my friend's dad To build rocket-ships And kick a football... You are not here Because you are there: Inside doing time, And I need my dad.
£14.95
Luath Press Ltd Independent Minds: New Poetry by HMP Kilmarnock
Book SynopsisThe political and civil criticism found in the poetry of Robert Burns has influenced readers for over two centuries. The emotional impact reached high levels when the poems were read by people who have lost their liberty, prisoners in HMP Kilmarnock. From the city which gave birth to Burns’ first poetry volume, a workshop within prison led to new inspired creations according to different personal backgrounds. Independence in these new poems is desired not only for Scotland, but also for contemporary slaves, war victims and immigrants. On a personal level, independence from substances and mental illness is also at stake; because the worst enemy often fought against, is our own self. This collection includes the original sources of inspiration, beloved poems by Burns. Among them, To a Mouse, A Man’s A Man for A’ That, and Tree of Liberty. The poems are accompanied by images of Burns’ manuscripts and paintings from the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. A moving and impressive collection from independent minds being nostalgic about the carefree past or wondering whether liberty was ever acquired.
£7.59
Luath Press Ltd Scotia Nova: Poems for the Early Days of a Better
Book Synopsisthere’ll be nae cries omiseryjist the creakin souno openin doorsRead these poems and be inspired.In the wake of the 1979 Devolution Referendum, followed by the impact of Thatcherite policies on Scottish society, many Scottish writers and intellectuals began articulating the distinctiveness of Scottish literary, cultural, social and political traditions and outlooks. Some joined popular political campaigns, from opposing the Poll-Tax and Trident to the Campaign for a Scottish Assembly, which led to a Scottish Parliament. Many now look forward to new possibilities for the future with more confidence in the value and importance of our country’s culture and politics, as these poems reveal.Whatever the outcome of Scotland’s Independence Referendum on 18 September 2014, a better Scotland is possible. Across every aspect of life in Scotland – housing, inequality, life expectancy, health, education, crime, sectarianism, localism and more – we all know that a better Scotland is possible. And then there’s Trident. And the Bedroom Tax. And the Democratic Deficit. And on it goes.Trade ReviewThis is a confident, upbeat collection, drawing on shared history and language... invoking the ghosts of Hugh MacDiarmid, Margo MacDonald, Naomi Mitchison, Burns and Lenin. - ANDY CROFT, Morning Star The majority of the poems are successful. At its strongest moments it is a testament to the richness of Scottish poetry, and serves as a detailed snapshot of the nation. - MICHAEL GRIEVE, The Saint
£7.59
Luath Press Ltd Like Leaves in Autumn: Responses to the war
Book SynopsisPublished to mark the first centenary of Italy’s entry into the Great War, Like Leaves in Autumn features 21 original Italian poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, with new English translations by Heather Scott. These are set alongside 21 new poems by contemporary Scottish poets writing in response to Ungaretti, and are illustrated with striking black-and-white artworks from the ARTIST ROOMS collection, owned by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. One of Europe’s greatest modernist poets, Ungaretti was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Italian family from Tuscany. From 1915, he served in the Italian infantry in the campaign against Austria-Hungary. It was a ferocious conflict fought in the mountains of Northern Italy in trenches dug out of Alpine rock. Thousands died and Ungaretti’s poems, written during pauses in the fighting, channel these horrific experiences. In addition to his grief and loss, these verses are shaped both by Ungaretti’s sense of exile and by his intense life-affirming poetic sensibility. A century on, this anthology offers a creative interplay of recollection, translation and new inspiration. Italian, English, Scots and Gaelic voices mingle on these pages, and the artworks spark a dialogue between words and images, creating an alchemy of further meanings.Trade ReviewUngaretti’s war poetry expresses an intense feeling for life, that sense of the miraculous in which, as Cendrars puts it, ‘only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world. JOHN BURNSIDE Each of the poets was asked to respond to a poem by Ungaretti with one of their own, and to provide a commentary on the new work. Richard Price confesses to being "uneasy" about responding to Ungaretti's Levante, but comes up with a neat solution, creating a poem that celebrates the innovative structure of the original but is simultaneously in defiance of everything Ungaretti would come to stand for.- Roger Cox, Scotland on Sunday
£13.50
Luath Press Ltd 100 Dan As Fhearr Leinn / 100 Favourite Gaelic
Book SynopsisA collection of 100 favourite Gaelic poems and songs - love poems and hymns, sea ditties and war poems, lullabies and elegies - many translated into English for the first time. Selected by Peter Mackay and Jo MacDonald, and including public nominations, these poems give a multi-layered taste of the full richness of Gaelic literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Cruinneachadh de 100 dan agus oran Gaidhlig de dh'iomadh seorsa agus o iomadh linn - nam measg bardachd gaoil agus laoidhean, orain mara agus orain cogaidh, talaidhean agus marbhrainn. Air an taghadh le Padraig MacAoidh agus Jo NicDhomhnaill, le molaidhean an t-sluaigh, tha an cruinneachadh seo a' toirt blasad de shar-bheartas litreachas na Gaidhlig.
£15.29
Tangent Books Maths Poems: Exploring The Interdisciplinary
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£7.16
The Emma Press Homesickness and Exile: Poems about Longing and
Book SynopsisHow does it feel to be a foreigner? Can you choose where you call home? What if you reject your home or your home rejects you? Homesickness and Exile is a fascinating collection of poems about the fundamental human need to belong to a place, as poets from across the world provide profound and moving insights into the emotional pull of countries and cities. Poems about homecoming, departure and both voluntary and involuntary exile provoke reflections on alienation and identity, and a recurring theme is the yearning for a sense of belonging and acceptance by a place. This anthology is inspired by the Tristia, a collection of poems written by the Roman poet Ovid after he was banished from Rome by the Emperor for an unknown misdemeanour. Homesickness and Exile expands on Ovid's themes and considers spiritual as well as physical exile in the modern world, with poets writing about rootlessness and geographical ennui.
£9.50
The Emma Press Best Friends Forever: Poems About Female
Book SynopsisThis anthology reflects the scale of intensity within female friendships and captures the defining characteristics of this frequently-overlooked relationship: the intimate and the casual, the life sustaining and the life changing, as well as the tensions and the joys.Above all, this book celebrates the transformative power of friendship among women, considering the moments where friendships are 'made', the relationship between friendship and romantic love and friendship and rebellion, the role of culture – fashion, cinema, music, art – in forming friendships, and feelings towards friendships lost or regained.
£9.50
The Emma Press Urban Myths and Legends: Poems about
Book SynopsisUrban Myths and Legends is a lively collection of poems by modern poets who have taken inspiration from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poems all tell stories which include a transformation – some inspired directly by the Metamorphoses and some completely new and of our time. Wings sprout, leaves fall and no state is certain, as the poets channel Ovid’s mischief and whisper tales of just and unjust deserts.
£9.50
The Emma Press Emma Press Anthology of Age: Poems About Aging
Book SynopsisWe’re all ageing, all of the time. As a society we’re getting even older, but we seldom seem to stop and think about the huge mental and physical changes that happen to us as we get old, or what it’s like to live as an old person. The Emma Press Anthology of Age is a collection of poems which challenge, celebrate and give age a voice, finding humour amidst the heartbreak and comfort within the pain.
£9.50
The Emma Press The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea: Poems for a
Book SynopsisIn The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea, poets ask how the human mind can fathom the ocean’s depths. The sea emerges as at once strange and familiar, bearing witness to storms, naval history, ocean creatures and the human desire for freedom. As the poets embark on voyages of self-discovery, the sea laps at the boundaries of language, offering both mystery and solace to the reader.Trade Review'The Emma Press Anthology of the Sea is an amphibious little book as much concerned with internal states of mind as physical realities; a stance which frames this heavily anthologized topic in a fresh and modern way. From Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner to The Seafarer, literature is awash with compelling stories and poems about the oceans but so much of our relationship with the sea has been concerned with conquest, of harnessing its power to our own ends, mastering territory, and of over-riding currents and (trade) winds. This little book is not concerned with such matters.'-Sarah Westcott, Poetry School
£9.50
The Emma Press Everything That Can Happen: The Emma Press Book
Book SynopsisEverything That Can Happen contains many kinds of future: an android fills out a passport form; the local cricket pitch is lost underwater; frozen limbs thaw from cryogenic sleep; robotic shoes allow for highspeed parenting. The poems in this anthology explore time, language, changing landscapes, future selves, uncertainty, catastrophe and civilisation. Whether imagining a distant, apocalyptic future or the moment we live in, nudged slightly beyond what we know, the poems ask what we can do to prepare ourselves for a future that edges a little closer every day.
£9.50
The Emma Press The Emma Press Anthology of Illness
Book SynopsisFrom interactions with hot oncologists to life-threatening hospital stays to a really bad case of glandular fever. Whether a diagnosis is life-altering or treatable, a total surprise or painfully invisible, The Emma Press Anthology of Illness explores what we wish people knew about being ill, and whether finding that 'new normal' is ever possible.
£9.50
The Emma Press Second Place Rosette: Poems about Britain
Book SynopsisSecond Place Rosette is a calendar of the customs, rituals and practices that make up life in modern Britain. The poems take in maypole dancing, mehndi painting, and medical prescriptions. Some events, like the Jewish Sabbath, happen every week; some, like the putting away of Christmas decorations, thankfully come only once a year. The subjects range from the universal to the personal: every family might have its own ritual, and each culture its own important figures to remember and commemorate. In the introduction, co-editor Emma Wright notes how, as the daughter of a refugee, she felt ‘deeply disturbed by current discourse about Britishness and how it seems impossible to separate talk of national identity and pride from talk of exclusion and isolation.’ Against that divisive rhetoric, Wright and co-editor Richard O’Brien have assembled a refreshingly inclusive take on national identity. Poets from different cultural backgrounds speak to their sense of what Britain means through their own daily lived experience, through what they care about on a grass-roots level. The nation which emerges from the poems is a patchwork quilt of betting tips and TV dinners, nights out on Bold Street and strolls in the park. While the years pass, the seasons cycle, and the people who make up the country change, these poets reveal how much stays the same. In Britain, there will always be a man running late who really should have been allowed to get the bus, and a warm spot by the fire in a pub in December. Much of the book displays an ambivalence towards the land and its rituals, but there is also love, affection and pride. Mixed feelings: what could be more British than that?Trade Review'The poems here are united by their explorations of British traditions and, in the present climate, they symbolise something very much needed: togetherness. Poems for each month of the year neatly lead the reader through our annual calendar and in so doing, visit traditions old and new along the way. The voices here are startlingly clear celebrating the ordinary routines we find ourselves in.' Michelle Phillips, Literature Works -- Literature Works * Literature Works *'I’m not sure it is a response as much as a reminder of what this country is really about. Not the negative ideology, the have and have nots, the simmering hate or a nostalgia for something that never really existed; but a celebration of the huge melting pot of cultures, traditions and oddities that we all can relate to or recognise as being peculiarly British. Family, festivities, rainy days, cooking food, the seaside, bus rides and the pub. The book is more muddy fields and warming soup than it is ‘this green and pleasant land’, and it’s all the more comforting for it.' -- Contrary Life * Contrary Life *"I think the idea was to create an anthology with an inclusive sense of British identity, perhaps particularly with the feelings of divisiveness with Brexit. The book works its way through the year so you have a few poems for each month of the year and they’re all rituals or ceremonies, [whether] attached to a particular region or cultural group... Somebody described it as a patchwork quilt of Britain so all the differences are there but somehow we're all united." Louise Walker * This Is Scilly News *
£9.00
The Emma Press The Emma Press Anthology of Love
Book SynopsisIn The Emma Press Anthology of Love, that familiar four-letter word takes on a world of meanings. Love is written across the sky for the whole world to see, and whispered to a partner at the bus stop in the rain. Love is transcendent and love is everyday, found equally in steamy texts and shopping lists, and the only reliable thing about it is that it's never where you expected to find it. Building on the success of 2015's Mildly Erotic Verse, this book explores the diversity of modern romance. Often awkward, never perfect, romantic encounters and relationships are rooted in our own contemporary world of Tinder, Twitter and TV dinners. But they are also part of an enduring tradition: the cornerstone of our common humanity. In this book, thirty fresh, diverse and original voices speak to what love means right here, right now, bridging the gap between Hollywood imagery and modern lived experience.Trade ReviewThe Emma Press Anthology of Love is a linguistic treasure trove of love in all its forms – platonic, sexual, intimate, absurd and existential. Each of the 65 poets write of love in a manner which is simultaneously unique and mutual. Such is the strength of this anthology, whose root concept of love makes for a heart-felt read, it is as though the poems are written just for you. As a small publishing press, they can, and have, taken on smaller names in poetry and elevated them, allowing the poems to stand on their own two feet. -- Urussa Malik
£15.65
The Emma Press The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts
Book SynopsisAt one remove from parental authority, aunts play a crucial role in the upbringing of children across the world. This anthology puts these women in the spotlight and explores what it means to be – and feels like to have – an aunt, historically and today. Some aunts are biological, some are chosen, but all have an impact on the way we learn to move through the world. Poets in this volume tell stories of glamorous confidants, akin to older siblings, and of older women, tough and worldly-wise, who offer their nieces and nephews a different perspective on life. Above all, the book restores their centrality to young people’s development and to family life.Trade ReviewThough slim, the anthology ranges around the various territory of aunthood, so there is a lot for anyone who thinks about women’s roles in the family.Laura Cooper, Cuckoo ReviewThis marvellous collection featuring some striking voices and unique perspectives is a thoroughly recommended read for anyone looking to celebrate their aunts today or any other. Aunts, we salute you.Literature Works
£9.50
The Emma Press Some Cannot Be Caught: The Emma Press Book of
Book SynopsisThe Emma Press Book of Beasts rustles and roars with the voices of animals and humans, co-existing on Earth with varying degrees of harmony. A scorpion appears in a shower; a deer jumps in front of a car. A swarm of snowfleas seethes through leaf litter; children bait a gorilla at the zoo. The poems in this anthology examine hierarchy, herds, power, and the price we pay for belonging.
£9.50
The Emma Press In Transit: Poems of Travel
Book SynopsisTravelling from one place to another is never as simple as getting from A to B. Whether you’re sailing in a stately cruise liner or running for a grimy commuter train, your mode of transport affects the way you look at the things around you. Travel can even make us question who we are at home: will we be the same person at the other end of the journey?The poems in this anthology look at the ways in which travelling can change us, whether we enjoy or endure it. They take in not only day-trippers and business travellers, but characters who are forced to voyage against their will, as well as those with no choice but to stay put. Whatever your destination, this book is a companion for the journey, exploring the nuances of the strange state of being in transit.
£9.50
Five Leaves Publications A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by
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£13.49
Five Leaves Publications Something Happens, Sometimes Here
Book SynopsisThis book brings together poems by 11 of Lincolnshire''s finest contemporary poets, all of whom are inspired in different ways by England''s second-largest county. The poems largely eschew the cathedral city of Lincoln, focusing more on the less-populated and mysterious hinterland of small towns and isolated settlements. For every poet the county has an influence which is greater than the sum of the streets, fields, rivers and that great big sky.
£9.49
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd Waymaking: An anthology of women’s adventure
Book SynopsisWinner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat’s Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society and chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn’t about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living and breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure.The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen and Nan’s legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop and engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, and most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body and spirit to a former equanimity.With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more, Waymaking is an inspiring and pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation and gender equality are at the fore.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Melissa Harrison Part 1 VICINITY I Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 1. Lost in the Light by Tara Kramer 2. Iceberg by Deziree Wilson 3. Steinbock by Anja Konig 4. untitled 1 by Krystle Wright 5. Enchantment Larches by Nikki Frumkin 6. Mountains of the Mourne by Penelope Shuttle 7. Fairfield from Wansfell by Paula Dunn 8. Eglwyseg by Jean Atkin 9. Affric by Alison Grant 10. Moses Trod i-vi by Pam Williamson 11. Murmuration by Judy Kendall 12. Brimmerhead Farmhouse by Paula Dunn 13. Last night I dream we walk up to the point by Imogen Cassels 14. To Reach Green Before Dark by Lilace Guignard 15. La Fuente by Kari Nielsen 16. Titcomb Bay by Lizzy Dalton 17. Los Glaciares by Caroline Eustace 18. Mountain guide dog by Tami Knight 19. She Collects Islands in the Wild Wild Sea by Paula Flach II Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Part 2 HEART & SOUL III Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 20. A Child in These Hills by Solana Joy 21. Squamish by Jen Randall 22. Rewilding by Lee Craigie 23. Leaving for the edge of the world by Kathleen Jones 24. This Ocean Sings by Alexandra Lewis 25. To Follow by Claire Carter 26. Cayton Bay by Genevieve Carver 27. Running by the Quay by Evelyn O'Malley 28. Straggle by Allison Williams 29. Falling by Jo Croston 30. Climber by Hazel Barnard and words by Camilla Barnard 31. No-self by Hazel Findlay 32. Memory 10 by Libby Peter 33. By the Way by Sarah Outen 34. There is No Substance But Light by Heather Dawe 35. When I Lived in a Small by Alyson Hallett 36. Ken the Cross-dresser by Tami Knight 37. Oh by Paula Flach IV Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Part 3 WATER V Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 38. Snow by Bernadette McDonald 39. untitled 2 by Krystle Wright 40. Through the Snow by Judith Brown 41. Ski tracks by Tami Knight 42. Counterflow by Jen Benson 43. Ystradfellte Tree Reflections by Nick Davies 44. Aqueous by Mab Jones 45. untitled 3 by Krystle Wright 46. Taking the Plunge by Anna Fleming 47. Waterfall Series No.5 by Nick Davies 48. Diabaig by Jen Randall 49. Thirsty by Tami Knight 50. Turkey Blue by Sandy Bennett-Haber 51. She Collects the Puddles and Lakes She Swims Each Year by Paula Flach 52. Llanerch Wake by Nick Davies 53. Stormy Mount Baker by Claire Giordana VI Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Part 4 UNION VII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 54. Running on the Roof of the World by Lily Dyu 55. Out There by Ruth Wiggins 56. She Collects the Trees She Climbed in the Month of September by Paula Flach 57. Bouldering by Kathryn Hummel 58. Bouldering at Ardmair Beach by Deziree Wilson 59. Snails by Tami Knight 60. The Grampians by Jen Randall 61. Saying Something by Leslie Hsu Oh 62. untitled 4 by Krystle Wright 63. The Climb by Helen Mort 64. Mad Hatter's Gully in Winter by Deziree Wilson 65. Unmapping by Katie Ives 66. Unshod to Meet the Flints by Polly Atkin 67. She Always Collects Her Starter Number in Stones Along the Trail by Paula Flach 68. The Wilderness by Anna McNuff VIII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Acknowledgements A Note of Thanks
£20.00
Dedalus Press 28 Portuguese Poets: Bilingual Anthology
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£11.70
Dedalus Press The Deep Heart's Core
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£11.70
Dedalus Press Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets
Book SynopsisIn Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets, more than 50 poets from all over the world explore the many meanings and connotations of the word ‘home’. Hailing from places as diverse as India and Italy, Poland and Pakistan, Canada and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – as well as the US, the UK and Ireland itself – together they present an updated picture of a changing country while, at the same time, expanding the very definition of ‘writing from Ireland’.The poems gathered here are as various and lively as we might hope for. Some contributors might be said to ‘write home’ in the traditional sense, describing and explaining what they find in the place they now live; for others ‘writing home’ is a determined, creative act of self-definition.For all of them there is the real sense that writing is itself a kind of home-building, not least at a time when so many borders, physical and psychological, are under threat of closure across the world.
£11.66
Dedalus Press Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets
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£18.00
Dedalus Press A Different Eden
Book SynopsisIn dialogue with each other and our environment, some 40 contemporary poets from Ireland and Galicia (among them Paddy Bushe, Olga Novo, Michael Longley, Paula Meehan, Luz Pichel, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Xavier Queipo and Grace Wells) speak from the Atlantic edge of Europe, from the wild some might say, to the very heart of the matter: our damaged and threatened world. Carefully tending to our fragile ecosystem, this timely bilingual anthology of Irish and Galician poems asks how we live in this world, how we celebrate our intimate relationship with all living things. There is a sense of urgency here, of the need for action - and the need to move ''from ego to eco.'' Whether casting the bones or skylarking, these poems range across language and borders tracing every foot print, every paw print and every flight path through our shared world in the belief that A Different Eden is possible.
£10.45
Pimpernel Press Ltd An Anthology of Mine
Book SynopsisA facsimile edition of the ‘little anthology’ of favourite poems compiled and illustrated by Rex Whistler in 1923. This is a personal collection, hand-written and embellished, by a young artist who had recently discovered poetry. Rex Whistler was just eighteen and in his first year at the Slade when he began to compile it, using an ordinary ruled exercise book to keep his handwriting straight. The poems are well known and well loved, the watercolours are enchanting. Every page shows Rex Whistler’s new-found delight in verse of a romantic kind: Keats, Marvell, de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Tennyson, Gray, Edith Sitwell and others. But, though serious about the poems, he could not, being Rex Whistler, deny himself flippancy on a title page, or in a pencilled comment added to Keats’ woebegone knight-at-arms. Whistler made this earliest of all his illustrated books for his own pleasure. It was first published, in an abbreviated edition, in 1981, almost sixty years after Whistler compiled it, and has long been out of print. This splendid new edition, an exact facsimile of the original, is alive with the youthful pleasure that first inspired the brightly coloured fantasies of 1923. A separate booklet includes Laurence Whistler's afterword to the 1981 edition, a new introduction by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, and a note from the publishers describing the process of producing the facsimile.Trade Review“Handsome. Indeed, it is a treasure of contemporary bookmaking.” * Spectator *"An artist whose supreme gift was to delight and entertain, and an attractive and worldly figure whose talent combined sophistication and innocence with a natural humour that defies solemn analysis." -- Michael Ratcliffe
£32.00
Shoestring Press A Festschrift for Barry Cole
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£9.50
Shoestring Press Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
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£9.50
Arc Publications Six Galician Poets
Book SynopsisDistinctive and innovatory, contemporary Galician poetry has a strong presence on the literary scene of Spain, continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literary creation in the language of the region. In the thirteenth anthology in this series, we are presented with work written in the last thirty years by six talented and highly individual Galician poets. Two of them, Xosé María Álvarez Cáccamo and Chus Pato, already have established literary careers, while the four younger writers are rapidly gaining recognition through recently published collections and prize awards. Having chosen six poets who are characterized by their constant examination of literary forms and exploration of new conceptual worlds, the editor, Manuela Palacios, has asked the poets themselves to make a choice from their own work for the anthology. The result is a collection of poems that grow from roots firmly planted in home soil but which reach out and flourish beyond the boundaries of a single literary tradition. Keith Payne's accomplished translation allows English-language readers access to this unfamiliar but infinitely exciting territory.
£10.44
Arc Publications The Lonely Funeral
Book SynopsisEvery year, a large number of people living in our towns and cities - the homeless, suicides, illegal immigrants, junkies, drug 'mules', victims of crime and, above all, old people living alone - are found dead. Sometimes, they are not discovered for weeks or months, and it is often hard to ascertain who they are. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends and acquaintances being present; the only people in attendance are the pall-beares, perhaps someone from the Department of Social Services, the cemetery management and the funeral director. In Amsterdam in 2002, the poet and artist F Starik, deeply moved by the desolation of these solitary funerals, initiated 'The Lonely Funeral' project and seven years later in Antwerp, the Flemish poet Maarten Inghels set up a project of the same name. The idea of the project was to establish a network of poets who would write a personal poem for the deceased person based on research into their life and read it out at their funeral as an affirmation of their existence. To date, well over 300 'lonely funerals' have been attended by poets in both cities and volumes of prose and poetry about some of these forgotten lives have been published in Amsterdam and Antwerp respectively. Arc Publications, together with the Viennese publisher Edition Korrespondezen and the editor Stefan Wieczorek, have made a selection of prose and poems about 31 'forgotten lives' from these two anthologies. What is known of, or can be found out about, each individual's life and manner of death is set out in a moving prose piece which also describes the funeral itself - for the Amsterdam funerals this is written by F. Starik and for the Antwerp funerals by Maarten Inghels - and this is followed by the poem for the deceased, with 20 of the Netherlands' and Flanders' leading poets being represented. This is by turns a moving, shocking and very necessary volume: poets are not social workers but they do have the power to change attitudes to society's outcasts. These last salutations to people the poet has never known and never will, whose lives at the end were invisible, remind us that we are a community and that we have responsibility for each other, even after death. As F. Starik writes in his preface to the book: "We do not know to whom we say goodbye, so we feel no pain. But everyone - and this is the point - every person deserves respect."
£10.79
Red Hand Books Contemporary Turkish Women Poets
£8.99
Smith|Doorstop Books All My Important Nothings
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Smith|Doorstop Books Introduction X: The Poetry Business Book of New
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£9.50
Old Street Publishing The People's Favourite Poems: Out and about with
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£8.54
Stewed Rhubarb Press Re-Creation: A Queer Poetry Anthology
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Modern Poetry in Translation I Wish: MPT No. 2 2015
Book SynopsisMPT's summer 2015 issue 'I WISH' focuses on world poetry for children, with new translations of modern and classic children's poems from Taiwan, Russia, Poland, Eritrea, Mexico and Holland, including Julian Tuwim and Toon Tellegen. Tellegen's work is printed alongside the original artwork by Ingrid Godon. We also feature a selection of four Burmese women poets, curated by Pandora and translated by UK-based poets Kim Moore, Carola Luther, Stephanie Norgate and Olivia McCannon. Other highlights include a tribute to Gunter Grass, D.M. Black's new Dante translation, Syrian poet Nazih Abu Afash's 'diary' of war and Anzhelina Polonskaya - all in this new issue of the ground-breaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation: for the best in world poetry read MPT.
£7.00
Modern Poetry in Translation One Thousand Suns: MPT No. 2: 2016
Book SynopsisMPT's summer issue 'One Thousand Suns' focuses on poetry from African languages, with a selection of new translations of Senegalese poet Mama Seck Mbacke, Beninese Agnes Agboton and an interview with Equatorial Guinean Ricaredo Silebo Boturu. The African focus also includes an essay by poet and playwright Inua Ellams on translation, his Nigerian heritage and reworking The Tempest into Nigerian pidgen. We feature new translations of Hafez by UK poet Mario Petrucci and Jane Draycott's poem 'The Occupant', a response to the classic Dutch modernist text 'Awater'. Read Jan Wagner's new poems in Iain Galbraith's prizewinning translation, Hindi poet Geet Chaturvedi and Romanian Nora Iuga's surreal poetry - all in the groundbreaking magazine dedicated to poetry in translation. For the best in world poetry read MPT.
£7.00
