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  • I Find My Strength In Simple Things

    Burning Eye Books I Find My Strength In Simple Things

    Book SynopsisPolitical, funny, heart-breaking, I Find My Strength In Simple Things is an exploration of growth, chaos and relationships. In homage to Desree’s spoken word performances, a majority of the poems are paired with QR codes, which link to fi lms of the performances that made her. Desree invites us to care, explore and to find our strength with her, using thought-provoking one-liners and her incredible stage presence. I Find My Strength In Simple Things, will have you laughing and crying, as you are reminded the human experience is a messy one.Trade Review'The visceral energy of live performance is transmuted to the page in this powerful debut from Desree. I Find Myself in Simple Things writes into a world of renewed racism and white supremacy, where black boys are expected to fail and black girls eroticised and ignored. Desree speaks directly to a younger generation inheriting this collective grief, and works hard to guide them through. It is a book about love.The language is angled and insistent, a metronome of resistance in every piece. And throughout, there a sudden moments of poetry, like rip tides, that threaten much larger questions. 'You will look up to men who don't look up to see the sky'. Stunning.' - Joelle Taylor, Poet, Performer and Author of 'Songs My Enemy Taught me'

    £6.99

  • Bycatch

    Nine Arches Press Bycatch

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisA deep-sea trawler, dementia destroys all life in its path: friendships, the symbiosis of family and ultimately the self. In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted-poet Caroline Smith, these poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They chart the faltering years of a life gradually scraped bare by dementia yet find amongst the isolation and sadness moments of epiphany and joy.

    2 in stock

    £10.79

  • The Sun and Her Flowers

    Simon & Schuster Ltd The Sun and Her Flowers

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Winner of The GoodReads Choice Award for Poetry 2017 From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of Milk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising and blooming. It is a celebration of love in all its forms.  this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plantin the garden each year they will teach youthat people toomust wiltfallrootrisein order to bloom Praise for Rupi Kaur:   ‘Kaur is at the forefront of a poetry renaissance’ Observer   ‘Kaur made her name with poems about love, lif

    20 in stock

    £11.69

  • Penguin Books Ltd The Iliad

    Book SynopsisA story that centres on the critical events in four days of the tenth and final year of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. It describes how the quarrel of Agamemnon and Achilleus sets in motion a tragic sequence of events, which leads to Achilleus' killing of Hektor and determines the ultimate fate of Troy.Trade ReviewMuch the best modern prose translation of the Iliad -- Robin Lane Fox * Financial Times *This new prose translation of the Iliad is outstandingly good . . . to read it is to be gripped by it * Classical Review *Superbly direct and eloquent . . . by its sensitivity, fluency, and flexibility, it will win a permanent place on the shelves of Homer-lovers -- Martin Fagg * Times Educational Supplement *Martin Hammond's new version is the best and most accurate there has ever been, as smooth as cream but as clear as water . . . Hammond's Iliad deserves to become a standard book -- Peter Levi * Independent *Surely the best Iliad in quite a few decades * Greece & Rome Journal *Here is a fine Iliad for our times, to be read with great pleasure -- Philip Howard * The Times *Table of ContentsThe background to "The Iliad"; the theme of "The Iliad"; a critical summary of "The Iliad"; a note on names. "The Iliad": book 1 - the anger of Achilleus; book 2 - the catalogue of ships; book 3 - Paris, Helen, Aphrodite; book 4 - the breaking of the truce; book 5 - Diomedes triumphant; book 6 - Hektor in Troy; book 7 - duel of Hektor and Aias; book 8 - Trojan success; book 9 - the embassy to Achilleus; book 10 - night operations; book 11 - Achaian retreat; book 12 - the assault on the wall; book 13 - the Achains rally; book 14 - the seduction of Zeus; book 15 - fighting at the ships; book 16 - the death of Patroklos; book 17 - the battle over Patroklos; book 18 - Thetis, Achilleus, and new armour; book 19 - Achilleus and Agamemnon reconciled; book 20 - the return of Achilleus; book 21 - the battle of the Gods; book 22 - the death of Hektor; book 23 - funeral games for Patroklos; book 24 - Achilleus and Priam.

    £9.49

  • The Canterbury Tales

    Penguin Books Ltd The Canterbury Tales

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisOffers a collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This book includes tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook.Trade Review

    15 in stock

    £17.09

  • So Far So Good

    Silver Press So Far So Good

    £12.59

  • The Raven and Other Poems

    Union Square & Co. The Raven and Other Poems

    Book SynopsisA classic collection of poetry by Poe, in an elegantly designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging.

    £12.34

  • Macbeth

    Lulu.com Macbeth

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    £13.70

  • Hallucination

    Hardie Grant Books Hallucination

    Book SynopsisThe late Les Murray described Jamie Grant’s work as “poems of scrupulous craftsmanship and unlinking intelligence, poems which pay acute attention to the contours of experience.” This new collection, which is divided into five discrete sections, focuses that attention on the twenty-first century world, its office buildings and hospitals, motorways and wind farms, while also looking back to characters and events from earlier times. There are also observations of Australia’s natural environment, its forests, farms, birds and animals. The last of the five sections is a series of versified thumbnail sketches of historical figures whose achievements helped to shape the present age. And there is even an elegy for Les Murray among the other verses.

    £15.29

  • Paradise Lost: Annotated Edition (Great Poets

    Alma Books Ltd Paradise Lost: Annotated Edition (Great Poets

    7 in stock

    Book Synopsis“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve – the temptation and fall – is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking – seeking, in Milton’s words, to “justify the ways of God to men” – Paradise Lost has been revered since its initial publication, inspiring writers from Mary Shelley to William Wordsworth, and is widely considered to be the greatest poem ever written in the English language.Trade Review“Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free” -- William Wordsworth

    7 in stock

    £7.59

  • The Pillow Book

    Penguin Books Ltd The Pillow Book

    20 in stock

    Book Synopsis''A mistress of wry observation and scalding wit ... The Pillow Book retains its fresh, authentic appeal more than 1,000 years after its inception'' Japan TimesWritten by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon as a journal for her own amusement, The Pillow Book is one of the greatest works of Japanese literature. A fascinating exploration of life amongst the nobility at the height of the idyllic Heian period, it describes the exquisite pleasures of a confined world in which poetry, love, fashion and whim dominated. From brief reflections to longer, lyrical tales, Shonagon moves elegantly across themes including nature, society and her own flirtations and frustrations, to provide a witty, unique insight into a woman''s life at court in classical Japan.Translated with an introduction by Meredith McKinney

    20 in stock

    £11.69

  • Dart

    Faber & Faber Dart

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisOver the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.Trade Review'The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile seductively commands delighted attention. In an age where "nature" poetry and spirituality are unfashionable, it is always exciting when someone does the job with panache and without being boring.' Guardian

    15 in stock

    £11.69

  • Ted Hughes

    Faber & Faber Ted Hughes

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Ted Hughes (1930-98) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957. His last collection, Birthday Letters, was published in 1998 and won the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998.

    20 in stock

    £9.25

  • Flapjack Press How Can I Be Now

    Book SynopsisQueer, vegan poet Dominic Berry presents his favourite poems forperformance from his collections Tomorrow, I Will Go Dancing, Wizard, No Tigersand Yes Life, along with new poetry designed to engage and inspire.

    £9.50

  • With My Back to the World

    Little, Brown Book Group With My Back to the World

    Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2024''Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a collection that engages the eye and mind as much as the ear and heart'' Raymond AntrobusYesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square.WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract modern artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human mind can do. Filled with surprise and insight, wit and profundity, the book explores the nature of the self, of existence, life and death, grief and depression, time and space. Strikingly original, f

    £11.69

  • Red Star Over Hebrides

    Taproot Press Red Star Over Hebrides

    Book SynopsisEven as he grew up on the edge of Lewis, the vastness of Russia never felt too distant for Donald S Murray. Its great literary traditions were often discussed in his home village, while the political unrest and religious fervour that marked its past and present were occassionally reflected in his life on the island. Inspired by the Russian canon, the songs, verse and stories contained within these pages draw upon the experiences of his youth, shifting continually between myth and history, the absurd and moving, the satirical and everyday. Its extraordinary and diverse narratives underline the truth of its opening line: 'I can see these islands mirror Russia.'Trade Review'One of the great lyrical writers of our time.' - Cathy Macdonald

    £13.49

  • Memorial

    Faber & Faber Memorial

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisMatthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its ''nobility'', as has everyone ever since -- but ancient critics praised it for its enargeia, its ''bright unbearable reality'' (the word used when gods come to earth not in disguise but as themselves). To retrieve the poem''s energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story, and her account focuses by turns on Homer''s extended similes and on the brief ''biographies'' of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably - and unforgotten - in the copiousness of Homer''s glance. ''The Iliad is an oral poem. This translation presents it as an attempt - in the aftermath of the Trojan War - to remember people''s names and lives without the use of writing. I hope it will have its own coherence as a series of memories and similes laid side by side: an antiphonal account of man in his world... compatible with the spirit of oral poetry, which was never

    20 in stock

    £11.69

  • Useless Magic

    Penguin Books Ltd Useless Magic

    Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for fans of Florence + the Machine, with additional lyrics, poems and a new chapter of sermons Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic. 'Pop's high priestess bares her soul in this candid collection of poems and lyrics' Observer 'A treasure . . . beautiful. Generous in its honesty, by the end you feel as though you have climbed into the colourful, and sometimes tortured, world of a passionate artist' i 'Makes the reader feel as though they're peeking into a private journal' Refinery29Trade ReviewHer first book of poetry is an elegant collaged scrapbook * Observer *A treasure . . . beautiful. Generous in its honesty, by the end you feel as though you have climbed into the colourful, and sometimes tortured, world of a passionate artist * iNews *Pop's high priestess bares her soul in this candid collection of poems and lyrics . . . offering a chance to appreciate on the bare stage of the blank page the fineness of her words. And like fellow poet-musician Nick Cave, Welch has found a way for the song and the voice of the rabbit-hearted girl to coexist * Observer *A varied, visually arresting tome, it brings together poems, lyrics, sketches and notes from Welch's personal and professional life, making the reader feel as though they're peeking into a private journal * Refinery 29 *An alchemy of memoir and imagination * Waterstones Newsletter *

    £17.09

  • Shahnameh

    Penguin Books Ltd Shahnameh

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran?now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionA Penguin Classic Dick Davis??our pre-eminent translator from the Persian? (The Washington Post)?has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi?s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis?s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. The stories of the Shahnameh are deeply embedded in Persian culture and beyond, as attested by their appearance in such works as The Kite Runner and the love poems of Rumi and Hafez. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.Trade ReviewDick Davis [is] our pre-eminent translator from the Persian...Thanks to Davis's magnificent translation, Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh live again in English -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *Accessible...A poet himself, Davis brings to his translation a nuanced awareness of Ferdowsi's subtle rhythms and cadences. His "Shahnameh" is rendered in an exquisite blend of poetry and prose, with none of the antiquated flourishes that so often mar translations of epic poetry -- Reza Aslan (author of Zealot) * New York Times Books Review *Davis's wonderful translation will show Western readers why Ferdowsi's masterpiece is one of the most revered and most beloved classics in the Persian world. -- Khaled Hosseini

    5 in stock

    £21.25

  • Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

    Penguin Books Ltd Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

    Book Synopsis''Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!''A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics'' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

    £5.63

  • Parthian Books The Undertakers Invoice

    5 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    5 in stock

    £8.54

  • The Odyssey

    Oxford University Press The Odyssey

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus' epic ten year journey home after the end of the Trojan War of the Iliad. Its epic sweep has gripped generations of readers.Trade ReviewVerity offers an excellent, clear, traditionally literal but avowedly non-poetic [translation]. * Colin Burrow, London Review of Books *Undoubtedly a leader in its genre... It is a distinguished addition to the Oxford 'World's Classics' series. * Roger Barnes, Classics for All *Table of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Note on the Translation Select Bibliography Map THE ODYSSEY Explanatory Notes Index of Personal Names

    10 in stock

    £8.54

  • Not What We Were Expecting

    Flapjack Press Not What We Were Expecting

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisA debut collection of poetic snapshots written between 1986 and 2024.

    20 in stock

    £9.50

  • Collected Poems 190962 Faber Paper Covered

    Faber & Faber Collected Poems 190962 Faber Paper Covered

    15 in stock

    Book Synopsis''Each year Eliot''s presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.'' Ted HughesPoet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes his verse from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four Quartets (1943), and includes such literary landmarks as The Waste Land and Old Possum''s Book of Practical Cats.

    15 in stock

    £14.39

  • A Terrible Beauty Is Born

    Penguin Books Ltd A Terrible Beauty Is Born

    20 in stock

    Book Synopsis'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...'By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

    20 in stock

    £5.63

  • High Windows

    Faber & Faber High Windows

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisLarkin''s final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many of the poems in the collection, which includes some of his best-known pieces (''The Old Fools'', ''This Be the Verse'', ''The Explosion'', and the title poem) show the preoccupation with death and transience that is so typical of the poet.Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:The sun-comprehending glass,And beyond it, the deep blue air, that showsNothing, and is nowhere, and is endless. from ''High Windows''

    20 in stock

    £11.69

  • To my father now dead in room 318

    £10.79

  • The 87 Press Return

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    £14.24

  • Burns for Every Day of the Year

    Bonnier Books Ltd Burns for Every Day of the Year

    3 in stock

    3 in stock

    £21.25

  • Two Rivers Press Giant Crabs and Spiders

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    £11.69

  • Loss: Poems to better weather the many waves of

    Bonnier Books Ltd Loss: Poems to better weather the many waves of

    Book Synopsis*Donna Ashworth's new book Wild Hope is out September 2023*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEWFor those cast adrift in the lonely sea of grief, this collection offers solace for when the water gets rough.Donna Ashworth's poetry reminds us that love and grief are intertwined, and life's true treasure lies in those we hold most dear.Intended to rejuvenate weary souls; these poems are a must for anyone who has lost someone.Readers are cherishing Loss- 'Emotional and beautifully written poems that reach out and speak to you.' ***** Amazon- 'I had to take multiple breaks just so I could read through my tears! It was so heartbreakingly beautiful that I just have no words!' ***** NetGalley- 'Simply WOW! Donna Ashworth's words touched my soul.' ***** NetGalley- 'Emotional and beautifully written poems that reach out and speak to you.' ***** NetGalley

    £9.49

  • New Cemetery

    Faber & Faber New Cemetery

    20 in stock

    20 in stock

    £13.49

  • lode

    Bloodaxe Books Ltd lode

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe lode in Gillian Allnutt's title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here related to continuity and relative stability.

    20 in stock

    £10.80

  • The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

    Faber & Faber The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisEdward Lear was the greatest nonsensicalist of all time. He was the inventor of the limerick and created the Jumblies and The Owl and the Pussycat. This complete edition of Lear''s nonsense verse - including the limericks, longer verses, alphabets and his own illustrations - is lovingly restored and beautifully presented, for adults and children to enjoy together.

    7 in stock

    £9.49

  • Life Studies Faber Poetry

    Faber & Faber Life Studies Faber Poetry

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisLife Studies was first published in 1959.''In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background that sets off the desperate knife-edged absurdity of the jailed conscientious objector among gangsters and Jehovah''s witnesses, the private citizen returning to his baby, older now, from the mental hospital. He sees things as being part of history; if you say about his poor detailedly eccentric, trust-fund Lowells: ''but they weren''t,'' he can answer: ''They are now.'''' Randall Jarrell

    20 in stock

    £11.69

  • The Flowers of Evil

    Oxford University Press The Flowers of Evil

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisTrade Review'Jonathan Culler's 24 page introduction is thoughtful and informative; and the editorial apparatus of bibliography, chronology and notes on the text are up to the high standard of the series.' Acumen Magazine'McGowan's fine poetic sense uses the springing monosyllable to good effect; A reader who goes straight to James McGowan's versions will be well rewarded. A scrupulous and sensitive poet has made the whole of Baudelaire's poetry in verse available in English so that the unique quality of the original consistently survives.' Harry Guest, Journal of European Studies, XXIV (1994)'Culler's insistence on Baudelaire's depressing conclusions is welcome at a time when these poems are frequently subjected to evangelical optimism. McGowan urges us to consult other translations. His own generally reliable versions - given his satanic pact with symmetry - are probably now the best place to start.' Graham Robb, French Studies, Vol. 48, Pt.4Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Charles Baudelaire; Translator's Preface; Flowers of Evil; Explanatory Notes; Index of Titles; Index of First Lines.

    20 in stock

    £9.49

  • The Whitsun Weddings

    Faber & Faber The Whitsun Weddings

    Book SynopsisPhilip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England''s best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that ''this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand''. Behind this modest description lies a poet who made greatness look, in Milton''s prescription, ''simple, sensuous and passionate''.This collection, first published in 1967, contains many of his best-loved poems, including The Whitsun Weddings, An Arundel Tomb, Days, Mr Bleaney and MCMXIV.

    £10.44

  • Now and Then

    Flapjack Press Now and Then

    15 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis captivating poetry collection is accompanied by a background of fascinating memories, intriguing stories, and anecdotes. Sometimes very funny, sometimes alarmingly moving,Now and Thenis the extraordinary journey of a life from poverty and abuse to achievement and fulfilment, throughout which poetry has played a major role.

    15 in stock

    £13.60

  • Carcanet Press Ltd Plenitude

    Book SynopsisThomas McCarthy's new book Plenitude is a collection of formal, lyrical poems of family, politics and memory.

    £10.79

  • Parthian Books Moon Base One

    7 in stock

    7 in stock

    £9.50

  • four quartets

    Faber & Faber four quartets

    Book SynopsisFour Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot''s career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, ''Burnt Norton'', ''East Coker'', ''The Dry Salvages'' and ''Little Gidding'', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece.

    £10.44

  • Death of a Naturalist

    Faber & Faber Death of a Naturalist

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisBetween my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from ''Digging''With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century''s finest poets.

    1 in stock

    £13.49

  • The Black Unicorn

    Penguin Books Ltd The Black Unicorn

    Book SynopsisI have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde''s most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power. ''Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity ... which blaze and pulse on the page'' Adrienne Rich

    £8.54

  • Tapsalteerie Once I Carried Three Crows

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    £9.50

  • Poetry Wales Press Tigress With Wings

    10 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    10 in stock

    £10.44

  • Banshee Press Found in a Context of Destruction

    15 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    15 in stock

    £10.44

  • Wild Hope: The inspirational No 1 Sunday Times

    Bonnier Books Ltd Wild Hope: The inspirational No 1 Sunday Times

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisTHE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Beautiful and uplifting' Davina McCall'So inspiring, so heartfelt ... the way Donna writes is beyond beautiful.' Lisa Snowdon'Some people have the Bible by their bed. Others a self help manual. I have Donna Ashworth's new poetry collection.' Susannah ConstantineWild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days is Donna Ashworth's powerful new collection of wisdom to help us find hope, peace, self-acceptance and inspiration on the days we feel worn down, helpless or sad. Written with love and understanding, Donna - who is also the bestselling author of I Wish I Knew - reminds us that amidst our daily struggles and constant outpourings of bad news we have so much to hope for, and that every one of us can play a part, big or small, in making the world a better place. With poems such as 'Surrounded by Treasure', 'That Thing You Do', 'Through the Wringer' and 'Rope Ladder', Donna helps us to remember that most people in this world are good, and that acts of kindness and love within our individual spheres of influence, however small, all contribute to a better future. She also gently guides us, no matter how busy or overburdened we may be, to practice better self-care and self-acceptance.Hope exists when nothing else can. On the darkest of days Wild Hope will help you find more light.Wild Hope was a no 1 Sunday Times bestseller from 21st January 2024-28th January 2024.Trade ReviewBeautiful and uplifting * Davina McCall, praise for 'Wild Hope' *So inspiring, so heartfelt . . . the way Donna writes is beyond beautiful * Lisa Snowdon, praise for 'Wild Hope' *Soul-nurturing permission to relax, connect and be kinder to ourselves. * Fearne Cotton, praise for 'Love' *A little corner of calm within life's storm - wonderful. * Cat Deeley, praise for 'I Wish I Knew' *Like a warm hug. Donna's words are comfort for the soul. * Tamzin Outhwaite, praise for 'Love' *Donna is a true wordsmith. Her writings never fail to move me. * Nadia Sawalha, praise for 'Love' *Donna's much-needed words will no doubt empower and lift our young people today. * Lisa Faulkner, praise for 'I Wish I Knew' *Donna has a rare gift of being able to put into words how we all feel. Her writing is like a hug from a wise friend. * Samia Longchambon, praise for 'I Wish I Knew' *

    10 in stock

    £11.69

  • Collected Poems

    Faber & Faber Collected Poems

    Book SynopsisThis comprehensive volume contains all Sylvia Plath''s mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963. The poems are drawn from the only collection Plath published while alive, The Colossus, as well as from posthumous collections Ariel, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees.The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes and comments on individual poems. There is also an appendix containing fifty poems from Sylvia Plath''s juvenilia.This collection was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.''For me, the most important literary event of 1981 has been the publication, eighteen years after her death, of Sylvia Plath''s Collected Poems, confirming her as one of the most powerful and lavishly gifted poets of our time.'' A. Alvarez in the Observer

    £17.09

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