Poetry / poems by individual poets
BOA Editions, Limited Holy Moly Carry Me
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Erika Meitner’s fifth collection of poetry plumbs human resilience and grit in the face of disaster, loss, and uncertainty. These narrative poems take readers into the heart of southern Appalachia—its highways and strip malls and gun culture, its fragility and danger—as the speaker wrestles with what it means to be the only Jewish family in an Evangelical neighborhood and the anxieties of raising one white son and one black son amidst racial tensions and school lockdown drills. With a firm hand on the pulse of the uncertainty at the heart of 21st century America and a refusal to settle for easy answers, Meitner’s poems embrace life in an increasingly fractured society and never stop asking what it means to love our neighbor as ourselves.Trade Review“In her graceful fifth collection, Meitner (Copia) displays a sense of urgency informed by parenthood in this strange and particularly turbulent American moment.” —Publishers Weekly “Meitner has created a keen social record of, and commentary on, our persistent human atrocities, but she also admirably transcends the dire in a search for salvation.”—Booklist “This is a book that really is dealing with raising kids in difficult environments and also kind of facing down the epidemic of gun violence in this country — which makes it sound like it might be kind of a depressing book. But what really impressed me about it is how beautiful and tender it is. It's really just a live wire. She's a Jew in Appalachia raising an African-American adopted son. She is and isn't at home. She's kind of meditating on these things but she does so in this very incantatory, almost prayer-like way.” —Tess Taylor, NPR Books "Erika Meitner is the quintessential 21st century storyteller bearing witness from the vantage point of a social critic with heart, humor, and an incomparable voice. Holy Moly Carry Me is an urgent document of our complex ties with the past, and the dangers of letting histories, private and public, repeat themselves. She reminds us that “We are under the care of each other and sometimes we/ fail mightily to contain the damage.” This collection is Meitner at the height of her powers." —Carmen Giménez Smith "Holy Moly Carry Me is a triumph! In these formally dexterous poems Meitner vibrates wildly between the song & the document, exploding the shadowy space between history & memory. The opening poem tells us, “There are holes in all of these stories—open-mouthed gaps in the fence, a singing presence.” The voices in this books fill those gaps with a brilliant & difficult noise. In this necessary unprecedented book Meitner has assembled the materials of our apocalyptic present & past and invites us in to revel & quake with her." —sam sax “In the stunning, exact, and haunting book Holy Moly Carry Me, Meitner’s strong signature voice is on full display, but with a complex empathy for the violent, messed-up world. These are powerful poems that wonder, ache, fear, question, delve into history, and somehow never stop praising the human capacity for survival.” —Ada Limón "Reading one of Meitner’s poems feels like having an intimate talk with a close friend over dinner; revealing the details of romantic encounters, and musing about the value of poetry. She’s often wryly funny, and always tender."—Huffington Post
£12.34
Button Poetry Butcher
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£14.39
Button Poetry Please Come Off-book
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£14.39
Ugly Duckling Presse Notes of the Phantom Woman
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£14.40
Ugly Duckling Presse galáxias
£15.30
Poetry Box The Very Rich Hours
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£11.85
World Poetry Books Ruins and Other Poems
£17.09
World Poetry Books Renaissance
£17.99
World Poetry Books Modern Woman
£16.19
World Poetry Books Song of the Yellow Asters
£17.09
World Poetry Books Between Fish Scales
£16.19
Flapjack Press Fault Lines
Book SynopsisA collection of uncompromising poetry observing the negativity and self-fulfilling futility of division counterpoised with the importance of care and empathy to explore what really matters. Includes a Foreword by Professor Mike Thomas, Vice Chancellor UCLAN. Fault Lines is Laura’s second collection of poetry from Flapjack Press. “One of the country’s finest poets, both on the page and on the stage. A spirit at once empathetic and revolutionary. Real words for heart-breaking times, a call to action!” - Attila the Stockbroker, poet & musician “A poetic battle cry. I’d like my teenage daughter to read these poems because, as women, we shouldn’t have to wait for middle-age to claim the right to be ourselves.” - Alice Nutter, ex-Chumbawamba, screenwriter & playwright “Defiant, furious, vulnerable, bloody-minded and wonderfully joyous, this volume encourages us all to hang on in there. Fill your heart. Read this book.” - Steve Pottinger, poet & performer “This is poetry that does not just describe our world: it challenges you to change it. And it does so with such class.” - Janine Booth, writer, poet & activist “Laura has the key quality to be a true poet: something to say. This book is of and for the times we are living through and ought to be on school curricula.” - Julian Jordon, Director of Write Out Loud “Personal, political, social and relational. Her strength and consistency as a poet is raising sometimes difficult but often comic issues to our attention.” - Professor Mike Thomas, V-C of UCLANTrade Review"I give six stars out of five to Laura Taylor's fantastic new collection. It's even better than her last, which is saying something. Her poems for her father, battling illness, rallying and then suddenly dying, are simultaneously inspiring and heartbreaking. The title poem, about a call centre worker's lot, will make you pause and think next time you are about to angrily or sarcastically dismiss the next one who intrudes into your day. Her poems for her boots and her breasts, the former danced into disintegration, the latter squashed by investigation, are moving and hilarious. 'Not Exactly Miss Jean Brodie' and 'Burn and Rave' are roars of mid-life defiance. But the absolute clincher is 'Revelations', which takes its form from Blake's 'Jerusalem' and its content from the angry, proud and politically divided working-class North West, where some blame the real enemy and some whom they're told to. A real poem for our times and the fact that it had to be written makes me seethe with anger. Buy this book. Please." - Attila the Stockbroker, review in Morning Star
£999.99
Flapjack Press This Phantom Breath
Book SynopsisThis Phantom Breath was written between August 2016 and August 2017. The poems in this collection are concerned with love, death, truth and other inconvenient distractions. "The Alan Bennett of poetry" - The Scotsman "Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit" - The Guardian "Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations" - The Stage "The nerd triumphant" - Manchester Evening News “Distinctly funny" - Time Out
£10.00
Flapjack Press I Meet Myself Returning
Book Synopsis"Whichever way I take I meet myself returning." A poetic journey from the mills and moors of the industrial north to the meals and mosques of the Byzantine middle-east and back again. I Meet Myself Returning is about finding your feet in our convoluted world and letting them take you to a place to call your own. And occasionally stopping off for a pint. "John Darwin's poems are when one pint with an old friend turns into six. When you spend five minutes walking around a city that you've never visited before, but somehow feel at home. His words are visceral, delicate, vulnerable and utterly engrossing." - Matt Abbott, poet, educator & activist "For those of us who struggle with the concept of permanence, who gulp when we're asked where we're from and shiver when we're asked who we are, this is a collection that is sorely needed. It's the antidote to the straight-edge, consumer-driven Grand Designs poison of 21st Century life and it should be prescribed to everybody." - Geneviève L. Walsh, spoken word artist
£999.99
Flapjack Press extrano
Book SynopsisCelebrate the human existence with extraño, a defiantly hopeful collection of adult poetry offering lifelines of creativity and compassion for those of us who’ve taken more than our unfair share of beatings. Includes a Foreword by poet Geneviève L. Walsh. “Like the sting and throb of a new tattoo these are painful and beautiful poems, worn on the sleeve and inked with care and precision. Unwrap their clingfilm, they will speak to the sunshine of rain.” — Tony Walsh AKA Longfella, poet & educator “The love for people observed or well-known in their own complicated existences shines. Women in this collection have inner lives more vast and important than their outer appearance.” — Anna Percy, founder of Stirred Feminist CollectiveTrade Review“Steve O’Connor’s words poetically brim ‘n’ blister with accomplished literary urgency. His scorching abilities to venture within and around his subjects, startling. On page or stage, this is work, living, breathing, a life-lived authenticity. From urban grits of scuffling cityscapes to fully-flown romances of human experience, Steve’s poetry simply/complexly soars.” — Gerry Potter, poet & playwright; “Here are heartfelt poems full of warmth, wit and imaginatively woven words.” — Dominic Berry, Saboteur Awards’ Best Spoken Word Performer; “The gentle rhythms of his poetry only make clearer the fragility, that sense of being on the edge, of many people. I was going to say that he documents our times better than anyone, but what he actually does is to document life, existence and feeling, with intensity, insight, and flashes of panache. Impossible to read this without wanting to hug the man.” — Cathy Thomas-Bryant, Puppywolf; “This collection betrays a controlled, at times resigned sensibility. Sensitive but secure in outlook, these poems reveal a mature yet subtle vibrancy. Their economy of scale disguises their scope and concision.” — Robert Cochrane, The Bad Press
£999.99
Smokestack Books Line Drawing
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£7.99
Smokestack Books The Call of the Clerihew
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£7.99
Smokestack Books Dear Refugee
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£999.99
Smokestack Books Dangerous Pursuit of Yellow
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£7.99
Smokestack Books Truth Street
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£7.99
Smokestack Books Squeak, Budgie!
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£999.99
Henningham Family Press Sixty Lovers To Make And Do
Book SynopsisIn the short poems of 60 Lovers To Make And Do by Sophie Herxheimer, a litany of characters make companions for themselves from everyday objects. Each woman animates her creation with reflected desires and frustrations. Their absurd, often funny stories distill into familiar loves.Herxheimer's glorious collages evoke both the seasons of a year and a lifetime - extraordinary objects of devotion are prised from chandeliers and trees, skirting boards and biscuits. UndertakerShe spirited a suitor from incense,nail clippings, and some ceramic tiles.She kept him in a coffin to start withbut he was so quiet and respectfulthat she invited him home to live with her.Her parents never knew about him,well they do now.
£999.99
Smokestack Books Slow Burner
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£999.99
Hermits United Toward Bravery and Other Poems
Book SynopsisA painter and writer, Mu Xin (1927–2011) received his artistic education in cosmopolitan Shanghai. During the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan; at the war’s conclusion, he returned to the mainland. Having survived persecution at home, for two decades he lived in New York, and resettled in his hometown, Wuzhen, at the end of his life. In old age, a reclusive Mu Xin enjoyed literary renown in the Sinophone sphere. Of his oeuvre, he was most content with his poetry. Toward Bravery, selected and translated by Mingyuan Hu, is the first collection of Mu Xin’s poetry to appear in English. Published in 2017, it is reissued in 2022 in a bilingual format.Table of ContentsSlowness Past J J Tree on a Moor My Fluttering Lust To H. Heine Jackson Heights Nocturnal Letters, New York On Caviar The Bugle After Seeing ‘Van Gogh in Arles’ Still Worth a Mass? A Sweet Hedgehog Some Night, Fourteen Years Ago Eve of Attending Adams Attic Old Notes of Kafka Window in May We Had Youth Small-town Artist Toward Bravery Wrinkles of a Poet
£16.19
Offord Road Books Spoils
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£11.40
Offord Road Books Knowing This Has Changed My Ending
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£7.46
Offord Road Books beaches
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£999.99
Hachette Livre - BNF Poèmes Saturniens (Éd.1866)
£13.00
Gallimard Calligrammes Pomes de la paix et de la guerre
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£11.40
Amalion Publishing The Promise of Hope: Selected and New Writings:
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£14.20
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Nathan der Weise
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£7.10
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Torquato Tasso
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£8.23
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Aquis Submersus
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£7.57
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Poetik
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£8.50
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Werke Entwurfe Briefe
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£999.99
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. Mein Lied Geht Weiter Hundert Gedichte
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£11.00
Suhrkamp Verlag Rilke Rainer Maria
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£18.00
Insel Verlag Anton Kippenberg Worpswede
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£14.33
Books on Demand Bahnsteig 2: Gedichte
£9.71
Books on Demand Recht und Wahrheit. Gegen den Strom, gegen den Wind: Ich sage es durch die Blaue Blume
£12.83
Books on Demand Die Wahrheit liegt im Widerspruch
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£999.99
Hofenberg Gedichte: Die Ausgabe von 1844
£20.80
Hofenberg Heilige Nacht: Eine Weihnachtslegende
£999.99
Hofenberg Quickborn
£29.20
Iudicium Verlag Gesang der Wasserspinnen
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£17.10
Broken Dimanche Press Lather In Heaven
Book SynopsisA collection of English-language poems from Ann Cotton, with beautiful and evocative black-and-white photographs throughout.
£9.49
Steidl Publishers Jim Dine A Beautiful Day
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£18.00
Tomo Poemas de Amor de Neruda
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£999.99
