Poetry / poems by individual poets
Enitharmon Press Voodoo Excess
Book SynopsisIn "Voodoo Excess," Jeremy Reed charts in poetry and prose the astonishing career of the Rolling Stones from the band s early days in 1962 to the 50th anniversary tour in 2012 and its extension in 2013. With great originality he examines why the Stones have been a musical and cultural phenomenon, and everything public and mythical, anecdotal and apocryphal about the larger-than-life individual band members, shaping the raw material into memorable lyric poetry. This new volume is introduced by Mick Taylor, the musician who left the band only to rejoin it, to great acclaim, for their recent anniversary tour."Trade Review"A one-off great Stones poem full of velvet poetic truths." MICK TAYLOR, Rolling Stones guitarist
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Enitharmon Press The Orchid Boat
Book SynopsisThe Orchid Boat is a weave of stories: some personal, some historical, some real, some imaginary. Often these stories may co-exist in a poem just as they do in one's everyday mind, as a collage mirroring our own perception of the world. It is a mix that can include Alexandria or China or Brighton or North Wales. These interwoven stories insist on the acceptance of contradictions and complexity in people and in life; a recognition characteristic of Harwood's poetry and shaped by his acknowledged influences: Gide, de Montherlant and Cavafy, John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. In Harwood's poems the richest material and tone is found in 'the ordinary', and in The Orchid Boat this focus is thrown into even greater relief as he explores the power and weight of memories.
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Enitharmon Press Clavics
Book Synopsis'Over 32 poems Geoffrey Hill traces an elegiac sequence for William Lawes and his music, intermingling the historical events around his death with flashes of the everyday. The result is a collection that delights in eccentric incongruities. Ben Jonson will appear a line after a popular instant coffee blend has been mentioned, Dante will be found next to a mime artist, Marcel Marceau, and Lawes himself figures auditioning for Ronnie Scott. Mr Hill actively seeks out such juxtapositions. He will audaciously rhyme "haruspex", an Etruscan soothsayer who saw prophecies in the entrails of victims, with "bad sex", his poetry delighting in "a dissonance to make them wince". Yet, as Mr Hill writes, when speaking of Lawes's tendency to jar different musical themes, "the grace of music is its dissonance." This discordance is part of his wider belief in the public nature of poetry. Refusing to be a "light entertainer" like the hypocrites in Dante's inferno, Mr Hill presents a difficult world as he sees it. His gift lies in making such difficulty momentarily understood.' THE ECONOMISTTrade Review"Clavics is wonderful for its sense of play in language and in time: words collapsing into other words, times collapsing into other times. Such play amounts at its best to what Hill himself calls 'wit let tipple into Grace'." WORLD LITERATURE TODAY "Snippets of Latin and strings of allusion remind us of how much most contemporary readers do not know, or will forget; complexities of pattern and dizzying shifts of tone will keep Hill's considerable, and considerably learned, following alertly delighted." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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Enitharmon Press Some Letters Never Sent
Book SynopsisDeceptively relaxed in tone, these verse letters - sometime serious, sometimes whimsical - are addressed to people who, for various reasons, have been of importance in Neil Curry's life. Ranging from Angela Carter to the Venerable Bede and from Odysseus to Gilbert White's tortoise, they cover topics as diverse as smallpox and the paintings of Vermeer, landscape-gardening, the King James Bible and Eddie Stobart's lorries on the M6. There has not been a collection of verse letters of this nature since the Epistles of the Roman poet Horace and, fittingly, it is to Horace that the final letter is addressed, partly by way of apology.
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Five Leaves Publications Things of Substance: New and Selected Poems
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Penned in the Margins A Body Made of You
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Penned in the Margins Mondeo Man
Book SynopsisA Hornchurch Commuter / The Drunk Train / Thaxted / Get Parochial! / Loughborough / Stansted / Jean-Claude Gendarme / The Ballad of Mr & Mrs P. Cartwright / The Billionaire Princess / The Royal Wedding, 1947 / For Radio / Jeremy, Who Drew Penises on Everything / SCANDAL! / Bloody Hell, It's Barbara! / The Rise and Fall of Dudley Livingstone / Luke's Got a Joke / At 4.48am Sentinel_poet wrote: / Mondeo Man / Another Grotty Holiday / Clean Slate / Weekday Dad / A143 / The Ballad of Raoul Moat / The Meek / About a Minute / The Ballad of Chris & Ann's Fish Bar / It's Splendid Being the Infidel / Houses that Used to Be Boozers / A Shed of One's OwnTrade ReviewIf any contemporary collection is going to convince the unbeliever that poetry can be a riot of cheek, giggles, boobs, tears and Facebook - while keeping its artistic integrity firmly intact - Mondeo Man is it.' A A'A A'A A'A A'A A' HUFFINGTON POST // Although WrightA fs sprightly verse drips with cynical disdain for Tories, outraged tabloidese and the weekend excesses of a feckless working-class, thereA fs a rich strain of empathy coursing through his work. More Crappy Albion than Broken Britain. A A'A A'A A'A A' THE LIST // [Mondeo Man is] not only verbally substantial, skilful and very funny but also complex in its feeling. GEORGE SZIRTES // Luke is a craftsman with a big heart. [Mondeo Man is] an excellent book. IAN MCMILLAN // Rude, rabid and relentlessly rhythmic. CAMBRIDGE STUDENTTable of ContentsA Hornchurch Commuter / The Drunk Train / Thaxted / Get Parochial! / Loughborough / Stansted / Jean-Claude Gendarme / The Ballad of Mr & Mrs P. Cartwright / The Billionaire Princess / The Royal Wedding, 1947 / For Radio / Jeremy, Who Drew Penises on Everything / SCANDAL! / Bloody Hell, It's Barbara! / The Rise and Fall of Dudley Livingstone / Luke's Got a Joke / At 4.48am Sentinel_poet wrote: / Mondeo Man / Another Grotty Holiday / Clean Slate / Weekday Dad / A143 / The Ballad of Raoul Moat / The Meek / About a Minute / The Ballad of Chris & Ann's Fish Bar / It's Splendid Being the Infidel / Houses that Used to Be Boozers / A Shed of One's Own
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Penned in the Margins What I Learned from Johnny Bevan
Book SynopsisWhat I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left.At university the mercurial Johnny Bevan saves Nick, smashing his comfortable middle class bubble and firing him up about politics, music and books. Twenty years later, as their youthful dreams disintegrate alongside the social justice they hoped for, can Nick, now a jaded music journalist, save Johnny from himself?Winner of a prestigious Fringe First Award, What I Learned from Johnny strikes at the heart of a divided Britain with wit, compassion and laser precision.Trade Review'A pulsating, neatly handled piece of poetic storytelling' THE GUARDIAN; 'A play that shocks you upright; that makes your heart beat faster, that punches you right in the chest' BROADWAY BABY; 'An On the Road for the Britpop generation. Like the classic Kerouac novel, it plays out as a bittersweet ode to the necessity and transience of hero worship' FEST MAGAZINE; 'Evocative, poetic monologue about political awakening and platonic male relationships' TIME OUT; 'Haunting' THE LIST
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Penned in the Margins Sunshine
Book SynopsisSunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain.Sunshine combines acute social observation with a dark, surreal humour born of first-hand experience. Abuse, addiction and mental health are all subject to Lee-Houghton's poetic eye. But these are also poems of extravagance, hope and desire, that stake new ground for the Romantic lyric in an age of social media and internet porn. In this new book of poems, Melissa Lee-Houghton shines a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision.Includes 'i am very precious' - Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016.
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Penned in the Margins Trammel
Book SynopsisUrbane yet uncompromising, Trammel is the powerful debut collection from a voice that demands to be heard. Voracious in her critique of modernity, Charlotte Newman ranges across the spectra of social and sexual politics – from Brexit to the Bechdel Test via Renaissance art and vintage computer games.These poems are stylish, muscular and linguistically agile. Always driven by a musical engine, Newman weaves the hard language of politics, technology, finance, science and the law into a new lyric texture. Trammel is a radical book of poetry for an uncertain future.
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Penned in the Margins Sunspots
Book SynopsisThe Sun is our neighbourhood star, igniting the imagination and setting the template for divinity. But in reality, it is crawling with sunspots of differing shapes, sizes, and power. Simon Barraclough (Poet in Residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory) is your guide to the Sun in this ambitious and energetic new collection of poems, fusing science and literature, and channelling Shakespeare, Byron, Nabokov and more. Is the Sun a god, a man, a woman, or simply a giant ball of hydrogen? Why does it tell fibs about its favourite painters? Is the Sun afraid of dying? Does it get depressed? And what does it really think about us, and the solar system it is bound to care for? In Sunspots fact, fiction, horror, humour and joy are condensed into a powerful meditation on the star that gives us life.Trade Review"This is a cosmic long view of a book... [It] weaves between playful, sardonic, grim, romantic and whimsical." MAGMA
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Penned in the Margins Frankie Vah
Book SynopsisWe all want something to believe in. It's 1987 and Frankie Vah gorges on love, radical politics, and skuzzy indie stardom. But can he keep it all down? Following the multi award-winning What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, Luke Wright's second verse play deals with love, loss and belief, against a backdrop of grubby indie venues and 80s politics. Expect frenetic guitars, visceral verse, and a Morrissey-sized measure of heartache. Written and performed in deft verse by Fringe First and Stage Award for Acting Excellence winner Luke Wright. 'Pulsating, poetic story-telling' **** (Lyn Gardner, Guardian).Trade Review“With Frankie Vah, he’s managed to craft a gorgeously-worded powerhouse of a play, in one of the only verse dramas that could claim to get a crowd cheering and stamping their feet throughout. Again.” * Broadway Baby *
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Penned in the Margins The Triumph of Cancer
Book SynopsisA Poetry Book Society recommendation; A book of the year - the Poetry School; The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the `inscape' of the living world. In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on. Elegies for his father, poets and celebrities mingle with still-life portraits of organic and synthetic subjects. These poems move with lyric grace and surgical precision against a backdrop of terror and cancerous global politics, showing McCabe at the height of his powers: dextrous, darklycomic and a true original.Trade Review'At once personal and ecumenical. The language constantly subtracts from the physical world, as you're made acutely aware of a thing transmuting. Beneath the fear, loneliness, bravado, ranking and fame, what McCabe uncovers is a profound human need to connect and be loved at a time of overwhelming crisis.' Anthony Anaxagorou, Poetry Review;'McCabe channels his poetic energy, his humour, intellect and memories into understanding, exposing and therefore facing down a disease which has claimed too many victims. In this, he helps us to do the same.' Maria Apichella, Poetry London; 'It’s a collection that’s as bold and personal as its title suggests, containing elegies for his father and explorations of loss and illness, interweaved with history, modernity and politics. It’s a powerful and emotive read, and is shot through with McCabe’s relish of language and syntactical playfulness. The last line of the collection starts with ‘Flick light, light flicker’, and ultimately this collection is a flicker of light – vulnerable, but also illuminating and hopeful.' John Canfield, Poetry School Books of the Year; 'McCabe’s elegies for his father, and for famous poets struck down by cancer, push poetic language to map and mirror what happens to the body when cancer invades it ... [McCabe] tests the role of art in helping overcome trauma for the sufferer and the bereaved. Varying linguistic registers in the collection face cancer head-on with dark humour.' Molly Moss, The London Magazine; Recommended by book vlogger Jen Campbell
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Penned in the Margins Darling, It's Me
Book SynopsisFiery, feminist and funny, Darling, It’s Me is the first collection by Norwich-based writer and academic Alison Winch. Winch combines refreshing explorations of marriage and motherhood with re-imaginings of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and rebuttals to the 'great' (male) philosophers of the Enlightenment. Fusing philosophical interrogation with humour and pop cultural resonances, Darling, It’s Me plots new ground for confessional poetry.; "One of the cleverest, filthiest, most incendiary debuts I’ve ever read." CLARE POLLARDTrade Review‘One of the cleverest, filthiest, most incendiary debuts I’ve ever read.’ CLARE POLLARD ; 'From the moment you enter the world of this book, where quym, trollop and coquillard share the pages with burpees, the 29 bus and egg tagliatelle, you’ll find yourself being tossed between apparent reality and nightmare hallucination. These precise and musical poems emerge in controlled bursts, reverberating up and down the centuries to create a soundscape of rage and furious imagination moderated by intellectual rigour. Think Anne Sexton coupled with Geoffrey Chaucer going heavy on the gas and air. A visceral, glorious and liberating attack on gender roles and the constraints of patriarchy.' Jacqueline Saphra ; 'Winch's tools are tone, register, lexicon, and knowledge, she uses them powerfully. This is great work. The solidarity of the sisterhood is alive and it spans the centuries.' Katy Evans-Bush, Poetry London ; 'Powerful and clever poems ... an utterly unique voice, witty, outrageous, and subversive.' Chris Cusack, Indierecs ; 'Winch always rips the cosy fluff of literary convention from her material. Linguistic bravura bubbles up like an inexhaustibly subversive underground spring.' Carol Rumens, The Poetry Review
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Vagabond Voices Fault Line
Book Synopsis'Fault line: 1) a line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault. 2) a divisive issue or difference of opinion that is likely to have serious consequences.' Poet Gerry Loose's fifth collection maps the 'fault line' dividing man from his environment, centring in this instance on the Faslane submarine base on the eastern shore of Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, home of the UK's nuclear arsenal. The incongruity of the area's natural beauty coupled with weapons that could reduce it to dust at the push of a button has inspired a book-length poem that probes the delusions of the political and military classes. Loose explores the landscape surrounding Faslane, his hymns to its beauty only throwing into sharper focus its fragility. He describes a land poisoned by the 'deterrent' meant to protect it. In so doing, Loose has reinvented nature poetry for the 21st century, reconnecting with a radical tradition Burns, Byron and Shelley would have recognised and celebrated.
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Vagabond Voices Settle
Book SynopsisA digital native and an actual immigrant, poet Theresa Munoz has considerable personal experience of two subjects that dominate the present day: migration and technology. Born in Canada, she came to Scotland to work and study. Her journey echoed that of her parents, Filipinos who migrated separately from the Philippines in 1970, meeting in Toronto where they worked hard to build new lives. The first of these two sequences of poems, "Settle", reflects her family's experience of emigration over several generations. Although she writes of racism and homesickness, her journey has been a happy one and she has a positive take on uprooting herself and settling in another country. The second sequence, "Digital Life", looks at technology through the eyes of someone who grew up as part of the Facebook generation. Whilst she's an immigrant in the real world, Munoz is very much at home online. She finds humour and melancholy in her interactions with Google, Facebook, mobile phones and email, whether it be the frustration felt waiting for someone to text back, the highly stylised way people present themselves on Facebook, or an oddly empathetic relationship with the unvisited twentieth page of a Google search.Trade Review"Theresa Munoz writes with a questioning clarity, a precise observation of the material world undercut by doubts and feelings of impermanence. A sense of movement - whether of migration or language or light - runs through her poems. She has a fresh and engaging take on living in a constantly shifting world." - James Robertson, poet and novelist
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Vagabond Voices A Barrel of Dried Leaves
Book Synopsis"A barrel not of laughs but of contortions, confusions and the occasional dry chortle - and of metre adorned with irregular, sometimes internal rhymes, assonances, alliterations, awkwardnesses and other such trickery unfashionable to the current academic ear, and not a murmur of the poet's inner angst, failed loves or fortitude." This second collection Cameron's poetry contains a wide variety of subjects, not all of which are commonly associated with poetry: a weak man is interviewed by angelsand devils, an Afghan mystic tell us why he became on e, a riposte to Scott's "Breathes there a man with soul so dead", taking the side of the man with a dead soul, the English language, a lesson on Italian viticulture, and another on Italian anatomy amongst others.Trade Review"Cameron confesses to a weariness with poetry's old forms and concerns, particularly the perennial Romantic subjects of love and exploration of the self. As a corrective, he ... turns his presbyopic gaze outward in a sequence of poems that takes in eco-vandalism, press barons, George W. Bush and death. One admires his determination to reject ... pretension and obscurantism ..." - The Sunday Herald on Presbyopia
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Vagabond Voices I'm a Pretty Circler
Book SynopsisIain Morrison's debut collection I'm a Pretty Circler is experimental without being intimidating; conversational without being casual; and outrageous without shedding tenderness. Within its pages, Emily Dickinson rubs shoulders with drag queens, while nineteenth-century German composers are as likely to be referenced as dating apps. Morrison balances punchy, patterned short poems with longer more conversational or collaged works that explore ways in which sex, class, technology and religion intertwine in contemporary Britain.Trade Review"A vast and vigorous vivisected joie de vivre. Although the poetry always flows forth according to its own autonomous and inimitable sprung algorithms, it is also incisively open to the world's detritus, including voices that are carefully unassimilated into the poet's voice. But no matter who or what it makes present, it is all made out of music: mostly, it erects a lattice of stents within the pre-existing musicality of speech. This is life, writing (noun, verb), ever infectiously brave in its self-probing and self-enabling: shucking off your hackles as it sucks off its shackles. Mobile, shrewd, obstinate, grand, and sexy, singing not only with its mouths but with its wounds." - Jow Walton
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Luath Press Ltd Scunnered: Slices of Scottish Life in Seventeen
Book SynopsisA collection of thoughts and ideas in Haiku on subjects including Science, Ecology, Nature, Family, Scotland, the Arts, Politics, Psychology, Philosophy, Spirituality and Love. Prepare to laugh, cry and wonder at this wonderful wee book of Haiku with a large slice of Scottish life.Trade Review... one of the most effortlessly charming books I've read in a long time. - THE SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS on My Epileptic Lurcher Simultaneously hilarious and touching, morose and vividly energetic. - THE HERALD on Monks The writing is always truthful, immediate and powerful. - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY on Six Black Candles Seamless combination of verbal wit and raw kinetic energy. SCOTSMAN on Singin I'm No a Billy He's a Tim
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Luath Press Ltd Don't Mention This to Anyone: Poems and Prose
Book SynopsisInspired by the rediscovery of an Urdu phrasebook, Ransford takes the reader on a journey to explore the differences between ‘then’ and ‘now’, linking the reader to a world now lost to most. These poems question what it is to be both British and Indian, drawing on the author’s memories and experiences to celebrate and uncover an ‘Indian’ self. This collection of poems reveals the influences that have been formative over four decades of Tessa Ransford’s writings.Trade ReviewRansford is an eclectic and committed poet; eclectic in her willingness to absorb whatever tradition of thought or craft fits her immediate purpose and committed to what have seemed to her inescapable spiritual and aesthetic truths. SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS Ransford takes the reader on a journey to explore the differences between ‘then’ and ‘now’, linking the reader to a world now lost to most. These poems question what it is to be both British and Indian, drawing on the author’s memories and experiences to celebrate and uncover an ‘Indian’ self. SCOTTISH REVIW OF BOOKS
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Luath Press Ltd Ragas and Reels: A Visual and Poetic Look at some
Book SynopsisThe intricate stories told in Rodrigues’ portraits are matched by the rhythms and imagery in Fraser’s poetry. From ‘The Bangladeshi Gentleman’ to ‘Jura Whisky’, this book offers an insight into the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures in today’s Scotland. By peppering her poems with both Scots words and Indian words, Fraser demonstrates the bi-cultural nature of many of today’s Scots.Trade ReviewIn Ragas & Reels, Bashabi Fraser consolidates her reputation as one of the foremost poets of contemporary Scotland dealing with international themes and questions that arise in the full context of any national identity. - PROFESSOR ALAN RIACH An illustrated collection of poems with forms and rhyme schemes as diverse as the people she writes about. - THE HERALD They document the “New Scots”, among whom they number themselves, who have embraced tartan and whisky while bringing their own religious rituals and wedding traditions into our culture. - THE HERALD Anyone who shares the authors’ interest in multicultural Scotland will find much to delight and fascinate them here. - THE HERALD The intricate stories told in Rodrigues’ portraits are matched by the rhythm and imagery in Fraser’s poetry. This book offers an insight into the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures in today’s Scotland. By peppering her poems with both Scots words and Indian words, Fraser demonstrates the bi-cultural nature of many of today’s Scots. - SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS
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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
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Arc Publications Talking Vrouz
Book SynopsisIn her follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Cold Spring in Winter, Valérie Rouzeau presents a language that is a hybrid of liberty and constraint. There are omissions and contractions, colloquialisms and archaisms, alongside wordplay, child-speak, exploded cliché, and a heightened awareness of the poetic tradition.Also available in limited-edition hardback: ISBN 9781908376176 (£12.99)Valérie Rouzeau was born in 1967 in Burgundy. Her most recent collection, Cold Spring in Winter (Arc, 2009; ISBN 9781904614593), was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Prize, the world's largest poetry prize. She lives in Saint-Ouen, near Paris.Susan Wicks also translated Cold Spring in Winter. She is the author of three Faber and three Bloodaxe poetry collections, most recently House of Tongues (Bloodaxe, 2011; ISBN 9781852249069), and has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot and Forward Prizes. She lives in Tunbridge Wells.This title is also available from Amazon as an eBook.Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface /6, PART 1: Poems from 'When I am Too' / 10 Eden, Two, Three and churned-up me/12, The wardrobe's bare/14, Trr/16, Not keeping my nose clean/21, Our friendship in driving rain/24, Tenuous/26, The friend who can't hear Purcell any more /28, Rehearsal/30, 25 December /32, 01 43 15 50 67 /34, Carpe Diem /36, 18 Lines to What /38, Vain Poem /40, The Poem for Jacques /42, Objection: Poeme d'Amour for 2 Voices /45, Thirty-two Teeth /48, Cross my heart /50, Gue Digue Don /54, And I was wondering what bird /58, I must have dreamed it /60, PART II Poems from 'Vrouz' /61, Good for this or nothing /63, And if by chance my hand /63, Airport my green boots /65, I dreamed I lied about my bust-size /67, What time is it I'm happy there's a tree /67, So many swallowed days and so much time /69, Us eaters of potaters /69, To meet your soulmate without paying afterwards /71, Today sixteenth of June two thousand and eleven /71, My artificial memory? I couldn't give a toss /73, The hands of young mothers smell of cod liver oil /73, I measured my length the other day in snow /75, Negative I don't know how to take a photo no /75, She's a stranger here she puts her earring in /77, Swallow anything like nails or wood-screws ink /77, I get the picture now I'm at the age /79, At a certain moment you trip over it /79, MOzart I had to write /81, Nothing's rightful owner /83, The kid limps after his dad who's walking fast /83, Horsewoman found hanged with leading rein /85, Phone ringing in a waste-bin /85, Let's tmae our loneliness without a wire /87, I'll come and visit you my unkown friends /87, When I levae my room a hefty curse rings out /89, I'd like to drive a Coral train right to the sea /89, Down the whole track-length of the railway line /91, Birthday this fine day and look /91, Driving his express logistic truck /93, I must lose fourteen punds at least /93, Sometimes ex-planed un-trained gone bussed we don't arrive /95, To stay in while looking out /95, Another train packed out with soldiers' arses /97, There's a big black empty vase of rainwater which waits /97, A tree a growing tree and not a stone /99, My plane has been diluted /99, Not far from really understanding /101, Another truck with fill up on your phone /101, When my father shuffled off this mortal coil /103, I'm asked to put down my expenses in a note /103, They bring their teacher nuts /105, At the big Bazar de l'Hotel de Ville the BHV /105, His little head reflected in the great big spoon /107, Something joyful in this boy is pedalling /107, So I's the host of who know who or what /109, The boy give back the mango at the till to dear /109, I was running in no hurry as I waited hoping for the tram /111, A great fat budgie-squawk as if on spitting up /111, When I'd fill up the fridge with cans of drink /113, On public transport that transport us most /113, Won't write a word today /115, The twentieth of March the equinox and nothing gives /115, No I'm not back with all of you I've come that's all /117, Asters or asterisks as what shall I recycle /117, Each day these perfect strangers cross my path /119, Before you leave the train make sure /119
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Arc Publications Half-Life
Book SynopsisLucid narratives of family dramas, global warming, and conversations with Death make a riveting new collection from this prize-winning poet. The poems swing between Mexico City, New York, the Peloponnese, a Staffordshire village and home - their engagement with the church, art and natural beauty provide sure-footed travelling companions. In an extended sequence, Death relates stories of her encounters with people and culture. This is not to suggest the poems make for comfortable reading: each poem's subject provides an opportunity to challenge and question its integrity. By turns mischievous and assured, this collection becomes more engrossing the more you read.Table of ContentsSECTION ONE, Freeman, SECTION TWO The Return, The Syrian Bride, A Carcass, In Sant' Antonio di Padua, Saskatoon, Home, Burj Khalifa, Lagerfeld, Wewelsfleth , In the Peloponnese, After the Warming, From the Virtual Jerusalem, Swiss National Day in Lavigny, Rousseau in Staffordshire, To Thine Own Self Be True, Arse over Tip, Quod Scripsi Scripsi, A Virgin in Mexico City, The Half-Life of Jesus, The Swallows, Eh, Tom?, SECTION THREE Foreknowledge Absolute SECTION FOUR The Truth of Fiction (I) The Truth of Fiction (II) Acknowledgements and notes
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Arc Publications Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal
Book SynopsisThe poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating change - the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and the middle-class, the radical redevelopment of the city by Haussmann - and they provide many parallels with the malaise and uncertainties of contemporary capitalist societies. Here we find poems about love (and love-hate), birds and beasts, Paris scenes and street people; about spiritual revolt, wine, death, travel and far-away places. The poet's voice is by turns ironical, angry and compassionate, his words charged with anguish, desire and rapture. Jan Owen's masterly translation captures all of this in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire's best known poems - including those banned from 1857 edition - as well as some less familiar ones, with the volume leading up to his great long poem, 'The Voyage', and finishing with the much-loved sonnet 'Meditation'.
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Arc Publications Selected Poems from 'Les Fleurs du Mal'
Book SynopsisThe poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution andaccelerating change – the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and themiddle-class, the radical redevelopment of the city by Haussmann – and they provide many parallels with the malaise and uncertainties of contemporary capitalist societies.Here we find poems about love (and love-hate), birds and beasts, Paris scenes and street people; about spiritual revolt, wine, death, travel and faraway places. The poet's voice is by turns ironical, angry and compassionate, his words charged with anguish, desire and rapture.
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Arc Publications Lives of the Dead: Collected Poems
Book SynopsisHanoch Levin's poetry stands alone as a single volume in his collected works, which run to fifteen volumes of drama and prose. Levin's poetic voice - mordant, witty, irreverent, erotic and highly satirical, yet also whimsical and delicate - is arresting, distinctive and unusual. When this volume was published in Israel, it proved to be enormously popular and went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted since. This bilingual edition makes his poetry available to an English-lanugage readership for the first time - to date Levin is only known in the UK as a playwright.
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Arc Publications The Play of Waves
Book SynopsisThe Play of Waves is a collection of poems written over the period of five years by Malta’s most distinguished poet, Immanuel Mifsud. It falls into six sections: the first consists of mainly lyrical poems; the second explores mental instability and the fluidity of the Self; the third is a sequence of travel poems; the fourth focuses on the dialectic of body-spirit; the fifth consists of poems about sex and sexuality; and the sixth and final section is a short cycle about Medusa. Throughout all six sections, the theme of ‘waiting’ runs as a leitmotiv – waiting at airports, at the psychiatric clinic, at railway stations, sex-workers waiting for clients, lonely people waiting for imaginary lovers.This is a powerful yet tender collection from a writer whose name may be familiar as winner of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011 but whose unique poetic voice is little-known outside Malta.
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Arc Publications Skald: Sword & Sea-Cloud
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