Poetry / poems by individual poets
Verve Poetry Press Playful Poignant Pottymouth
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£11.39
Verve Poetry Press Hero
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£999.99
Verve Poetry Press Unrequited Love Collection
£999.99
Verve Poetry Press Uniform Factory 2025 Edition
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Nigrescence
Book Synopsis'Adekola's voice refuses to settle in a simple picture of identity that is palatable or transferable. The multiplicity of selves that speak in his poems reflect but also create a myriad of ways to be Muslim, to be Black, to just be. There is a powerful undercurrent of hope throughout this that leaves you with the sense that despite it all, people have always and will continue to persevere' Suhaiymah Manzoor-KhanNigrescence is the breakthrough debut collection of poems by northern poet Abdullah Adekola. The word 'nigrescence' means to develop a racial identity which Adekola unpicks through language that tugs and pulls through his own blackness, searching for ways to heal in a increasingly fractured world. Trade Review'Adekola's voice refuses to settle in a simple picture of identity that is palatable or transferable. The multiplicity of selves that speak in his poems reflect but also create a myriad of ways to be Muslim, to be Black, to just be. There is a powerful undercurrent of hope throughout this that leaves you with the sense that despite it all, people have always and will continue, to persevere.' - Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, author of Postcolonial Banter
£999.99
Burning Eye Books My Body is a Resource I Am Willing to Expend
Book SynopsisMy Body Is A Resource I Am Willing To Expend is a story of becoming: of learning what it means to care and be cared for, to love and be loved. In 2016, Katie (Tom) Walters caught fresher's flu and never quite recovered and developed a severely disabling, incurable disease. This debut collection exposes the process of acceptance, reconfiguring their relationships and finding their place in an increasingly inaccessible world. From their bed, they rebel in a world of sprawling plants and transcendental tenderness, where righteous crip pride collides with rage, grief, and mourning.Trade Review"My Body Is A Resource I'm Willing To Expend takes you into a surreal world that mirrors the mental discombobulation that can occur with long term illness. There is nearly scientific attention paid to symptomatic details involved in illness, but they manage to make the traumatic bloom into the poetic by it dual focus of the body's machinations and the mind's adaptation to survive. A truly difficult feat superbly articulated by this young writer of note." - Roger Robinson; "A timely collection exploring the dark and the light of disability, chronic illness and the deepest broadest fibre of human experience in powerful and appropriately contrary language." - Penny Pepper
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Instructions for Outlaws
Book SynopsisBirds emerge from nests of tables/ a fox is lured from buddleia with a fishing line/ an Amazon warehouse proves no match for the written word/ infidelity/ beard envy/ country music/ a boy grows up a bear/ an audience of crows/ gravy boats for hairdos/ ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ attend a writing workshop/ while criminals are set free/ elephants born without ivory succumb to professional darts players/ and a man falls through the moon. All this and more/ will astound and provoke thought/ amuse and transport/ in this, Ash Dickinson’s third main collection/ Instructions For Outlaws.Trade Review“Surreal, hilarious social commentary…a master of stand-up poetry” – Apples And Snakes
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Reframing the Archive
Book Synopsis(Re)framing the Archive delves into Panya Banjoko's personal engagement with museums over two decades, and as the founder of Nottingham Black Archive. They are an attempt to give space to those voices that are otherwise submerged and highlight the disparity in underrepresentation of Black people as curators of their own history. They can be seen as an intentional social and political act of activism providing a space for political thought, discussion, and action.
£999.99
Burning Eye Books Dressed as Love
Book SynopsisPower walks in dressed like your best friend, offers to pay the bills and buy the drinks. Tells you to get some sleep because they’ve got this, they’ll keep watch, stop anyone getting in. Then Power leaves in the night and clears out your house. This is where this book begins. When Power’s taken everything. How do you get it back?"I finished Dressed As Love with tears rolling down my cheeks. There is such tenderness and fury in this extraordinary collection, that spans decades and topics- from the power of art to the love of place, from the outrage of Partygate to the joy of Eurovision. And throughout, Jess Green's clear, precise voice doing what good poetry does best- giving voice to our heartaches and yearnings and thwarted dreams, against a backdrop of what we all know, but often struggle to voice so articulately: what it is to be a girl and a woman in a world made by and for men. A beautifully expressed call to arms that will stay with me for a very long time." Julie Hesmondhalgh"This is Jess Green’s best work to date. Tough, tender and insightful; I found myself in these pages, along with so much more." Molly NaylorTrade Review‘Jess Green’s writing never fails to stir hope, humour and righteous anger, often all at the same time’ – Grace Petrie
£999.99
Polari Press Hot Tears Through Velvet Rage
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£999.99
Polari Press Rising of the Black Sheep
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£10.44
Polari Press Walking Contagions
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£11.77
Polari Press Isle of Sin
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£10.18
Smith|Doorstop Books Ways of Healing
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£999.99
Skein Press The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad
£10.45
Salmon Poetry Unsafe
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£999.99
Salmon Poetry about:blank
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£10.45
Salmon Poetry If You Tolerate This
Book SynopsisFrank Golden's If You Tolerate This is a wide ranging work in six parts which nails its geo-political colours to the mast, and casts a misanthropic eye over the whole morass. The book opens in the company of Nick and his girlfriend Inga as they travel up the Tapajós River to the failed capitalist venture of Fordlandia. Failure and the blighted realities of both entitled and marginalised lives suffuse various sections of the book. Poems concerned with political and eco dynamics not only dominate section 5 but inform the book as a whole. If You Tolerate This ends with a group of ghazals that Golden wrote having back-packed through Iran in 2019. This is a book with a large cast of characters, both familiar and new, who are as riven and corruptive as the age we live in. Praise for Golden's last book of poems Gotta Get A Message To You Golden is a poet to get excited about This is a startling and exciting collection. Afric McGlinchey, Southward Journal I have rarely been so moved by a book of poems. Grace Wells, Fur A fantastic new collection by Irish poet Frank Golden. It has floored me like no book of poetry has in a long time. Golden has an uncanny ability to touch on the things that move us most deeply. Phil Hanrahan, Bookish Review/USA
£999.99
Two Rivers Press Tideway
Book SynopsisA long-awaited re-issue, beautifully redesigned, of Jane Draycott's 'Tideway', a mesmeric sequence of poems about London's working river in a time of transition, with paintings by Peter Hay specifically created for the first edition as companion pieces to the poems. The River Thames can be a dangerous place to work: powerful tides, strong winds, difficult bridges and paralysingly cold water. At the turn of the millennium, Jane Draycott spent several weeks with the London watermen on the city's tugs, barges, and salvage vessels - a community of highly skilled men and women watching their working landscape and their futures change around them week by week: docklands transformed, slipways built over, warehouses converted to luxury apartments. 'Tideway' brings the poems written during that time together with Hay's light-filled paintings and the transcribed words of the watermen themselves. "What Draycott manages in two sentences contains a world. It isn't just the concise audacity of the imagery created here that is persuasive... [her] confidence secures the registers and makes a fine, clear lyric. Moreover, she makes significance out of insignificance. Say it out loud; you'll want to sing it in time. Time's the theme." David MorleyTrade Review"In Tideway, with the Thames and its watermen, Draycott may have found a perfect subject, where the elements of water and air meet and blend, where history is an active presence, and where the trove of objects lost and found invites the contemplation of mysteries which are, satisfyingly, not to be fathomed entirely. All this with her quizzical, exultant, exact music. A mesmeric and thrilling body of work. Tideway deserves a wide readership." Sean O'Brien
£9.49
Eyewear Publishing Inventing Joy
Book SynopsisThis short collection of poems considers that necessity and the obstacles in its way: exile, distance, haunting, identity, despair, killing... the list goes on.
£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Tea in the Nuns' Library
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£999.99
Eyewear Publishing The Signalman
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£15.81
Black Spring Press True
Book SynopsisPaul Jeffcutt has won thirty-three awards for poetry in competitions in Ireland, the UK and the USA. He has two previous collections:The Skylark's Call, Dempsey & Windle (2020) andLatch, Lagan Press (2010). He is widely published in literary journals and anthologies.www.pauljeffcutt.net
£999.99
Eyewear Publishing Ink and Ink and Flesh and Length
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£999.99
Five Leaves Publications She Will Allow Her Wings
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£8.50
Five Leaves Publications Beyond Caring
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£8.50
Five Leaves Publications Keep All the Parts
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£8.50
Five Leaves Publications Relief Map
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£8.50
Five Leaves Publications Remembering
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£8.50
Five Leaves Publications Just Breathe
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£8.50
Five Leaves Publications The Postcolonial Flâneuse
£8.50
Five Leaves Publications Balancing Act
£8.50
Five Leaves Publications Familiar Phantoms
£999.99
Five Leaves Publications Poems of a Nottingham LaceRunner
£7.14
Shoestring Press Summer / Break
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£999.99
Shoestring Press Country of Arrival
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£10.00
Shoestring Press Double Binary
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£10.00
Shoestring Press A Word With Bede
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£10.42
Shoestring Press An Anxious Spring
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£12.00
Shoestring Press Beautiful Monsters
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£10.00
Shoestring Press Edgar
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£9.31
Shoestring Press Hello Dear
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£10.00
Shoestring Press After Hastings
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£9.31
Shoestring Press Slippery Slope: A
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£10.00
Shoestring Press Mindful
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£7.46
Shoestring Press A Movement of Mind
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£13.76
Shoestring Press Undisclosed
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£10.00
Shoestring Press The LeftHanded Sniper
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£10.00
