Poetry / poems by individual poets
Eyewear Publishing Union
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Eyewear Publishing Hotel MoonMilk
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£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Death on Rua Augusta
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£12.75
Eyewear Publishing Tree Language
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£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Lost & Found
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£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Hungerpots: New and Selected Poems
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£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Small Nuclear Family
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£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Sleeping with Plato
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£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Idiot Verse
Book SynopsisCombining whimsical illustrations with poems of love, humour and celebration of the ups and downs of being a touring recording artist,Idiot Verseis a delightful book in the tradition of Leonard Cohen and John Lennon. It's a singer-songwriter's notebook to himself, and the world, and sure to impress fans especially, of which Henson has many.
£999.99
Burning Eye Books In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh
Book SynopsisThis book is the result of a person having ideas who finds the world a magical/beautiful/ridiculous/horrific place to live. There is a poem about a grey cat in it, so if you like grey cats you might like that one. There is a short story about going round to Hitler's house at Christmas, so if you did that then this could bring the memories flooding back. Dust, the sky, jury service, a rollerball pen, the devil, a Satsuma, tarmac and David Attenborough also feature.It also includes the acclaimed A Footballer's Life For Me which was filmed by Bang Said The Gun and broadcast as part of Channel 4's Random Acts series.Trade Review"Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch" The Independent; "Surreal and Fantastic." Poejazzi; "A strange and magical experience." BroadwayBaby
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Rogue Teacher
Book SynopsisRogue Teacher is the debut poetry collection from hugely popular Spoken Word artist Mark Grist. It contains his most popular performance pieces including work from his live shows - Dead Poetry and Rogue Teacher, as well as material from his new Spoken Word shows Dead Poets' Deathmatch, and Grave Invaders (both set to tour in 2015 and 2016). The collection contains his hugely popular poem Girl Who Reads, a piece which has been viewed over 3 million times on YouTube. Seen in every country in the world, the film was honoured with two Webby awards for 'best solo performance' and 'best viral video.' Films of three other pieces in this collection, A teacher, eh?
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Burning Books
Book SynopsisThe first collection by poet Jess Green is taken from her spoken word show set in an inner city secondary school suffering the cuts and blows of the Coalition government. Burning Books champions the underdogs; the unnoticed and unheard stories bearing the gritty reality of the UK’s education system.
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Let the Pig Out
Book SynopsisLet the Pig Out is the first collection from Chris Redmond - spoken word poet and front man of Tongue Fu - one of the UK’s leading spoken word shows. It is a fusion of performance writing and page poems, mixing story forms with internal rhymes and rhythms, comic dialogue and sparser, more condensed imagery.Fox racing, fatherhood, rainbows and road kill are some of the topics candidly explored with a playful heart, a political head and a compulsion to explore the friction between cynicism and idealismLet the Pig Out is a note to self and/or a call to arms, to embrace life in all it’s mess and discord with a wild sense of curiosity and wonder.
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Strange Keys
Book SynopsisMama Cass overdoses on pork. A shower gel’s compassionate talk. Revenge best served by time machine or octopus as a hat. Star Wars told in three minutes flat. Misogyny in rap, sexism at the Oscars. The running of the bullfinches. Scottish independence. Heckling Miley Cyrus. Midlife dating/midlife crisis. Syria and political satirists. Life through the lens of a food photographer. New persona after new persona. Tattoos and stalkers. Swindon is the new Disneyland. The last knockings of rock and roll. Video games and gun control. Boxing snow. Kipling and poetry karaoke. Man in the 21st century. The Smiths and electricity wastage. A three day New Year’s Eve. Love, art, death. The ways of a coffee addict. And Britain’s foremost method poet... This can only be a new book from everyone’s favourite comic surrealist Ash Dickinson.
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Viva Loch Lomond
Book SynopsisViva Loch Lomond! collects the greatest hits of stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall in one volume for the first time. Witty, satirical but not afraid to be plain daft, Elvis McGonagall’s work takes aim at our septic isle of zero-hours contracts, food banks and cup-cakery. From Scottish independence to the “war on terror” via turbo-capitalist greed; from Blair and Bush to Dave and Boris via the death of Thatcher; from William Wallace’s taste for cheese to the Queen’s love of gangsta rap VIA BREXIT AND TRUMPERY, Elvis kicks against the injustices of austerity Britain but still finds time to wax lyrical about the joys of whisky, Greek islands and life in a godforsaken rural idyll. Viva Loch Lomond! lays bare the workings of his befuddled mind as he scribbled these poems from the dubious comfort of his revolting armchair at the Graceland Caravan Park.
£999.99
Arachne Press The Don't Touch Garden
Book SynopsisThe Don’t Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions.An absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley’s unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging, and to make peace with the past. Joy Howard, Poet, publisher and former Fostering Services Manager
£9.49
Arachne Press A Gift of Rivers
Book SynopsisKate Foley is a much published and respected poet with many awards to her name. This, her 8th collection is made from meeting, migration and marriage: poems reflecting the journey of one poet and her wife, across linguistic and geographical boundaries - and with Brexit in the offing, it's far from over yet.
£999.99
Arachne Press In Retail
Book SynopsisWhile working in a well-known pharmacy chain, Jeremy Dixon found surprising inspiration. His poems were written on the ends of till rolls and smuggled out in his socks. Anyone who has ever worked in retail will recognise the characters and situations, and the magnificent management absurdities; but Jeremy also bring his perspective as a gay man to bear with witty and wicked results.Trade ReviewThe situations are recognisable, written without judgemental comment and the poems report the shortcomings of petty bureaucracy without ranting or taking sides. In Retail offers insights and knows how to end a story precisely on the punchline. Each page has the title In Retail in grey reversed print at the top. Each even page has the message ‘Thank you for your custom’ in grey reversed print. Each odd page has a different message, e.g. ‘All made in China’, ‘Obey the till’, ‘Hurry they won’t last long’ in grey reversed print. This layout suggests a receipt roll and the poems appear to be printed on the back, a subversively humorous reflection of how they were composed. * London Grip *an incredibly observant collectionConsumer culture is embedded into the very form of the writing itself.That line in the final stanza is incredible. ‘Mother says contactless is Satan’s kiss’. Payment is a glide of the hand, quick, dismissive, a kiss that never touches the glass. Thoughtlessness cushions temptation. -- Lydia Hounat * LitBitch *
£8.54
Arachne Press The Significance of a Dress
Book SynopsisPoems informed by and immersed in politics. Everything has significance beyond the surface. Beautiful, hair-raising words and form. Emma Lee's The Significance of a Dress moves from Refugee camps in northern Iraq via beaches in Greece and Northern France to dark streets in London and elsewhere, and asks questions about where to find hope, and how to overcome adversity. 'A wedding is a party, a welcome, a sign of hope. The dresses sparkle with sun-reflected diamanté but the gravel paths of the camp leave the hems stained.'
£999.99
Bristol Books CIC Ship's Log: Poems For The SS Great Britain
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£8.00
Cherry Red Records Heart On My Sleeve
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£15.30
CB Editions City Works Dept.
Book SynopsisCity Works Dept. has work to to: repairs, maintenance, above all the paying of attention to a stratum of British society whose people and occupations have suffered from long neglect. Philip Hancock's poems do the job with patience, empathy and unshowy skill.
£8.99
CB Editions Drizzle Mizzzle Downpour Deluge
Book SynopsisFirst poetry collection for 8 years from a long-admired poet who has twice been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize
£8.99
CB Editions Spring Journal: after Louis MacNeice
Book SynopsisAn urgent and insightful response to Covid and the public events of 2020, written in instalments between March and August 2020 in the poem-journal form of Autumn Journal, Louis MacNeice's widely-admired personal response to the rise of Fascism in the late 1930s
£8.99
CB Editions Sovetica
Book SynopsisMemories of growing up in Moscow in the 1980s retold by an acclaimed poet, with colour and black-and-white photographs.
£10.00
CB Editions Natural Mechanical
Book SynopsisPrize-winning first collection by the poet JO Morgan, a verse narrative of childhood on the Isle of Skye
£8.99
The Rialto The pair of scissors that could cut anything
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£7.48
The Rialto What I Saw
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£999.99
The Rialto Unmapped
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£8.00
The Rialto The Swan Machine
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£999.99
The Rialto You are mistaken
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£7.48
The Rialto Gall
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£10.00
The Rialto Dodo Provocateur
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£7.82
The Rialto The sea turned thick as honey
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£7.82
Two Rivers Press The Sound Ladder
Book Synopsis`The excitement of reading David Attwooll’s poems lies in the poet’s intense relationship to language and the verbal and textual musicianship with which he treats his subject matter. From the Goths, Transylvanians and teenage samurai, escaped from the pages of books, to email spam or jazz, to memories about childhood and place, these poems capture Attwooll’s delight in the world around him.’ Jenny Lewis
£999.99
Two Rivers Press Amazing Memories of Childhood etc
Book SynopsisMairi MacInnes published her first book of poetry, Splinters: Twenty-Six Poems (1953) as one of a series printed by The School of Art at the University of Reading. More than sixty years later, Two Rivers Press, based in the same town, has brought together a selection from her poetry of seven decades and added to it a gathering of poems written since the appearance of her most recent collection in 2007. Amazing Memories of Childhood etc. makes available once more in its first section a representative range of her poetry, much of it set in the USA, where she lived for nearly thirty years. In the second, it reveals with the new title sequence and other recent poems that her touch is as sure as ever. The vividness of her rhythmically vital work once again reminds us what a fine poet she is and has been for such a long time.Trade Review'A strong sensibility capable of fierce attachments to familiar and natural things, and of indignation at cruelty or mindless change ... her language enjoys itself, catching the precise look and sound of things ... a thoroughly fine book of poems, the real thing'; Richard Wilbur. 'Her poems hint rather than state in order to create a powerful sense of the identity of place' Helen Dunmore. 'A quality of visionary realism, of narrative freedom harkening to things seen and considered' Anne Stevenson.
£999.99
Two Rivers Press Octopus Medicine
Book SynopsisAn Octopus who dreams of stars, a self-important fisherman who gets what's coming to him, and a misunderstood monster, Octopus Medicine is an invitation to adventure for the misfits, the lonely, the outsiders. These three verse stories call us down into another world--the world of the octopus--where days are dark, everything is out to eat you and nothing is really what it seems. Written for young and old alike, this is a collection to be read at bedtime, to be acted out on playgrounds, to be shared with grandparents. In its mysterious way, the octopus has much to teach us.Trade ReviewOctopus Medicine is not a traditional poetry collection: it is three verse-stories about the octopus, interpolated by illustrations, facts, figures and instructions to the reader. It is doing something new. And it is doing it remarkably well. Becci Louise refers to the reader’s approach to the text as `this dive we are about to take’, emphasising that the relationship between poet and reader is as much one of companionship as trust. The collection opens with `A Prophet for The Sea’, an …intense submarine bildungsroman, whose strong narratives are stirring and didactic. This verse-story is distinguished by the existential journey of its cephalopod protagonist as he grows through the bitter experience of war and learns to recognise himself. ;` Devilfish’ is a series of ten cinematic poems that recounts, through multiple perspectives, the transformation of a selfish fisherman into an octopus. Almost every poem ends with an evocative instruction as to how the next should be read; [This part needs to be read by someone who understands regret…] [The next part needs to be read with guts] Each poem explores in an astute way the terrifying scenario of suddenly finding yourself, not as predator but prey; suddenly victim to the whims of unknown creatures in hostile environments you once ruled over. Louise’s pertinent use of the `monstrous’ octopus shows us just how readily we discount the humanity of those we consider different, or a threat, to our way of life. The most haunting and stilling verse-story finishes the collection. There is nothing peaceful about the quiet tour guide or serene about the silences between the poems in `Kraken: A Story Backwards’. Louise gently coaxes the reader through the story, with the use of the second person as compelling as it is reassuring. Confronted with the resignation of the drowned tour guide, the reader feels unable to simply bow out of the narrative, yet Louise is on hand to help the reader articulate their thoughts; `You’d never considered before that a ship might suffer as it sank. ; That it might sputter and scream and fit. But now you’re sure of it.’ These verse-stories may be read alone but they also need to be read aloud, animated, orchestrated, painted, performed, and recorded. They are enthralling, dynamic, and utterly captivating. ; The Interpreter's House.
£999.99
Two Rivers Press Handling
Book SynopsisThe poems in Handling, Jack Thacker’s debut gathering, display an extraordinary gift for describing the sights and sounds of farming life through an exact and tactile evocation of daily work, implements and activities. Childhood memories and seasonal tasks, such as planting vegetables, shearing sheep, and ploughing fields, are handled in a language that is at once strange, familiar, and as rhythmically measured as it is inventive. The descriptive poems in the book’s first part set the scene for the political and artistic perspectives in its second – made up of pieces arising from time spent as poet-in-residence at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading. In these poems, which centre stirringly on the agricultural organiser Joseph Arch, lived experience enters into an exchange with imagined pasts, as the museum’s objects and archives are vividly brought to life with this poet’s feeling for words. `In the title poem of Jack Thacker’s `Handling’, the young speaker struggles to steer large – and stubborn – sheep. Watching his father, he realises that handling animals needs subtlety as well as strength. Both these qualities grace Jack Thacker’s poems not of surface glamour, but of depth and skill. They offer their readers rich rewards’ – Alison Brackenbury. `On a first reading Handling is a convincing and likeable book; it takes a while to appreciate fully the quiet brilliance of this brief masterpiece, but once you do, it stays’ – Bernard O’Donoghue
£999.99
Two Rivers Press Yield
Book SynopsisThree definitions of the word Yield give meaning to the odyssey undergone in Claire Dyer’s third collection: a journey which sees a son become a daughter, and a mother a poet for both of them. Charting these transitions, the poems take us through territories known and familiar – landscapes of childhood, family and home – into further regions where inner lives alter, outer ones are reimagined. Whether evoking clinic visits, throwing away old boyhood clothes, grieving over what’s lost, these honest and unashamed poems build to celebrate that place at the heart of motherhood where gender is no differentiator and love the gain. 'The actual things of the world are everywhere in Claire Dyer’s Yield – thick socks, Glenfiddich, bathrobes, Swarfega, Swedish Meatball Wraps – and in the spaces between move families, friends, lovers, their interrelations astutely picked out as the unsaid is made solid. But such rooted settings don’t prevent flight. Any poet who can end a poem with the lines “the bones in its spine small white discs of” or “Fuck the gob-lin. Rock it” has earned the right to our attention.' ~ Matthew Caley 'There is so much that is uncompromising in Claire Dyer’s poems: the cruel precision of each word, line and image, and the sharply perfect intelligence of every metaphor and conceit. And yet Yield is a warm embrace of a book. A chronicle of love, generosity and ethics, Yield is a restorative piece of writing – a solace.' ~ Kathryn MarisTrade Review'The actual things of the world are everywhere in Claire Dyer’s Yield – thick socks, Glenfiddich, bathrobes, Swarfega, Swedish Meatball Wraps – and in the spaces between move families, friends, lovers, their interrelations astutely picked out as the unsaid is made solid. But such rooted settings don’t prevent flight. Any poet who can end a poem with the lines “the bones in its spine small white discs of” or “Fuck the gob-lin. Rock it” has earned the right to our attention.' ~ Matthew Caley'There is so much that is uncompromising in Claire Dyer’s poems: the cruel precision of each word, line and image, and the sharply perfect intelligence of every metaphor and conceit. And yet Yield is a warm embrace of a book. A chronicle of love, generosity and ethics, Yield is a restorative piece of writing – a solace.' ~ Kathryn Maris
£999.99
Two Rivers Press Change
Book SynopsisThe Change in Gill Learner’s third collection refers to both personal experience and what’s been happening in our third-millennium world. At its core are poems reflecting on the sudden death in July 2018 of her husband. With recognisable images and emotional resonances, she guides us through both internal and external landscapes. Empathy with the threatened and dispossessed is powerfully expressed, but there is plenty to celebrate in her passion for the arts, particularly music. Here we travel from prehistoric southern England to twentieth-century Leningrad via the Spanish Steps and the Vienna of two hundred years ago. Alongside these journeys there are lyrical and sometimes light-hearted evocations expressing love and concern for the natural world.
£999.99
Dark Windows Press Rarely Pretty Reasonable
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£12.00
Dark Windows Press Headworks
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£28.50
Uniformbooks Condensations
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£10.98
Luath Press Ltd Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: The Luath
Book SynopsisPoems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was the first collection of poetry produced by Robert Burns. Published in Kilmarnock in July 1786 it has become known as The Kilmarnock Edition. The contents include 44 of Burns' best known poems including To a Louse, The Cotter's Saturday Night, To a Mouse, The Twa Dogs and To a Mountain Daisy. Released in 2009 to celebrate Burns' 250th birthday, The Luath Kilmarnock Edition brought this classic of Scottish literature back into print, after being unavailable for many years. New material includes an introduction by 'the man who played Burns' – author, actor and Burns expert – John Cairney, exploring Burns' life and work, especially the origins of The Kilmarnock Edition. Looking to the future of Burns in Scotland and the rest of the world, Clark McGinn, world-renowned Burns Supper speaker, provides an afterword that speaks to Burns' continuing legacy. Illustrated throughout with original line drawings by top political satirist Bob Dewar, The Luath Kilmarnock Edition makes a beautiful gift for any Burns enthusiast.Trade ReviewThe author is indeed a striking example of native genius bursting through the obscurity of poverty and the obstructions of laborious life. – THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, contemporary account
£999.99
Tangent Books High on Rust: Selected Poems
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The Emma Press Oils
Book SynopsisOils is a gorgeous, beguiling collection of poems where the poise of the delivery belies the emotional, existential turmoil within.Through his portraits of an atheist, a pickpocket and a spinach-loving sailor (among others), Stephen Sexton evokes a strange kind of melancholy as he strives to reconcile passion with detachment and profound self-doubt with unwavering love.Trade ReviewSuch is the scope of the poems included – from the haunting 'The Death of Horses', to the more satirical 'Credit History', and the innocence of 'Subimago' – that Oils quickly hooks you with its ambition. It brings wit, melancholy and irony to the table, blurring the lines of what we think and know and dream to great effect.-Clare Savage, Culture Northern Ireland"...full of imaginative, lyrical, layered poems"-Stephen Payne, Sabotage Reviews
£999.99
The Emma Press Myrtle
Book SynopsisIn her heady, debut pamphlet Myrtle, Ruth Wiggins celebrates the primal forces of nature and the human heart. Interweaving the ancient with the modern world, she explores fertility and death, in poems that are imbued with a subtle eroticism. There is a serious playfulness at work here too: a carnival stallholder battles with a spider, and a bored vegetarian contemplates life as a fox, while lovers fear death and separation as the gods look on in amusement. This free-wheeling and assured collection is full of dry humour and wisdom, and is by turns poignant, dark and full of zest.
£11.64
The Emma Press The Dragon and The Bomb: An epyllion
Book SynopsisIn an island kingdom, Don Armando dreams of a dragon-slaying adventure like heroes used to perform. And in a laboratory in a gleaming city, scientist Haplo Nous tinkers towards an atom bomb. Past, present and future collide in Andrew Wynn Owen’s rip-roaring tale, full of rhythmical fireworks and joyous anachronism. This is a clash between chivalric heroics and modern scientific enquiry, and a shaggy-dog story taking in farmers, fisherpeople, flying machines and general derring-do.Trade ReviewAndrew Wynn Owen is a very young poet who has won both the Newdigate and the Jon Stallworthy Memorial prizes (open only to students at Oxford University). One of these competition-winners, ‘Calm’, impressed me greatly; it shows a remarkable maturity and a gift for rhyming verse. Now he and the excellent Emma Press have produced a thirty-page pamphlet, a single poem in a style reminiscent of Byron.-Merryn Williams, London Grip
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