Poetry / Poems
Dover Publications Inc. Copper Sun
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Conamara Blues
Book SynopsisConamara in the West of Ireland has a strange and beautiful landscape - a landscape of intense contrasts uniquely dependent on light and shade. In daylight, a subtle radiance of gentle colours envelops the place. Yet on the threshold of darkness, the fading light reveals an almost haunted vista of mysterious beauty.In this exquisitely crafted collection of poetry, John O''Donohue evokes the vital energy and rhythm of the Conamara landscape, engaging with earth, sky and sea, and the majestic mountains that silently preside over this glorious region. Here too, as he draws upon the ancient memory and history of this sacred place, he focuses upon the power of language and the vagaries of human need and passion, tenderly revealing the fragile vulnerability of love and friendship.Written with penetrating insight and a deftness of touch, Conamara Blues offers a unique, imaginative vision of a landscape steeped in mystery and legend - a landscape of hope and possibility that is at once both familiar and unknown.Trade Review'With this exquisitely crafted collection of poetry, John O'Donohue evokes the vital energy and pulse of the landscape of this glorious regoin, engaging with the elements and the majestic, rugged landscape. Focusing on the power of language and the vagaries of human need, O'Donohue ultimately reveals the tender vulnerability of love and friendship' Cara
£8.54
Faber & Faber John Clare
Book SynopsisJohn Clare (1793-1864), the ''peasant poet'', worked as an agricultural labourer in Northamptonshire until a deterioration in his mental health saw him committed to an insane asylum. He published four volumes of verse, including Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820), and The Shepherd''s Calendar (1827).In 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 of our literature.Trade Review"'Faber has a poetry list worth bragging about. What other publisher could conjure up a series like this?' The Times"
£8.54
Faber & Faber Dancing in Odessa
Book SynopsisDescribed as a rich, reverberative dance with memories of a haunted city' (LA Times), the poems of the prize-winning debut Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic, draw on archetype, myth and Russian literary figures. Tightly realised domestic settings are invigorated with a contemporary relevance, humour and torment, and a distinctive, transcendent music. With his magical style in English, Kaminsky's poems in Dancing in Odessa seem like a literary counterpart to Chagall in which laws of gravity have been suspended and colors reassigned, but only to make everyday reality that much more indelible. His imagination is so transformative that we respond with equal measures of grief and exhilaration.' The American Academy of Arts and LettersDancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky tops the list because he is one of those rarest of finds in this or any century, a writer who establishes what poetry can be.' The N
£11.69
Faber & Faber Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
Book SynopsisSince his debut, New Weather (1973), Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half-century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the the highest accolades. Here, from artichokes to zinc, he navigates an alphabet of image and history, through barleymen and Irish slavers to the last running wolf in Ulster. The search involves the accumulated bric-a-brac of a life, and a reckoning along the way of gains against loss. In the poet''s skilful hands, ancient maps are unfurled and brought into focus the aggregation of Imperial Rome and the dismantling of Standard Oil, the pogroms of a Ukrainian ravine and of a Belfast shipyard. Through modern medicine and warfare, disaster and repair, these poems are electric in their energy, while profoundly humane in their line of enquiry.
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Faber & Faber So What
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Harvard University Press The Sea of Separation
Book SynopsisThe Sea of Separation, a new free verse translation of Tulsidas’s beloved Rāmcaritmānas, presents renowned episodes from the Ramayana epic, including Ram’s battles with demons, the kidnapping of his wife Sita, and the god Hanuman’s heroic journey to Lanka to find her.Trade ReviewThis perceptive and accessible edition brings Tulsidas’s version [of the Ramayana], the most widely read across Northern India, to English-speaking audiences, giving readers a fresh glimpse into the tale’s impressive energy. * Publishers Weekly *Philip Lutgendorf’s excellent translation of the Rāmcaritmānas is a treat for all readers. We are fortunate to have a rendering of this hugely important text that captures the rhythms and excitement of the original work from the pen of a scholar who has dedicated decades to the study of Tulsidas and his works. -- Daisy Rockwell, International Booker Prize–winning translator of Tomb of SandMyriad versions of the story of Rama have influenced many civilizations across South and Southeast Asia. Lutgendorf’s elegant translation of Tulsidas’s telling is an important step, expanding our appreciation of the great epic in all its forms. -- Tiffany Tsao, winner of the 2023 PEN Translation Prize
£16.10
The Swedenborg Society Hereafter
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£11.66
Books on Creating Understanding Once Upon A Pretty Pencil
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£9.36
Austin Macauley Publishers O.N.E Opportunities Never End
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Austin Macauley Publishers Beside a Stranger
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£5.99
Austin Macauley Publishers D.A.N.s Little Book of Everyday Poetry Stories
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£7.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Painting with Words
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Austin Macauley Publishers Compendium of Poetry
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£6.99
Les Fugitives Ltd The Step of Isis
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£10.00
leere Seven Sisters Of Eldonian Space
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£4.04
Stemple Sike Press Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines
Book SynopsisAn informal, informative introduction to lead mining in the Northern Pennines.
£15.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sonnets for Albert: Winner of the T S Eliot Prize
Book Synopsis**WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022** **LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023** With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father, Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, they are always masterfully poised as the stylish man they depict.Trade ReviewAfter much silence and absence in life, the poet’s father is painstakingly restored in death in a book-length “calypso sonnet” sequence ... Sonnets for Albert movingly makes peace with his shade * Guardian *A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new life into this enduring form -- T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2023 judgesPraise for Anthony Joseph: "Possessing or possessed by requisite bearings, language and lore, Anthony Joseph is fully and beautifully up to the task -- Nathaniel MackeyAn exceptional talent -- Blake Morrison
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC I cannot be good until you say it
Book SynopsisThe much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize: a tender meditation on queerness and Islam''Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds a way to let it all be holy'' Victoria Adukwei-Bulley''When I speak of the word sacred, Sanah Ahsan''s I cannot be good until you say it will forever instantly spring to mind ... A masterpiece - an honour to have read this book, I am forever changed after reading its beauty'' Nikita Gill''Innovative and deeply compassionate ... multilingual verse suffused with a vital musicality and a palpable tenderness, Ahsan calls poetry into prayer and evokes a faith safe enough to be mothered by'' Mary Jean Chan''Dexterous, varied, erotic, filled with rage, worships and wonder ... I am electrified'' Pádraig Ó Tuama''Tensions of psychological drama, together with an induced sense of yearning.. what
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Brandeis University Press The Lamb Cycle – What the Great English Poets
Book SynopsisThe rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” told in the style—and substance—of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith. In The Lamb Cycle, David R. Ewbank achieves the unthinkable—he writes so convincingly in the style of the great English poets that one could be lulled into thinking that Shakespeare himself was inspired to muse upon the subject of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Ewbank captures not only the style of each of the poets he chooses, but also their preoccupations and subject matter. So D.H. Lawrence’s Mary longs for her lamb as any woman longing for her lover, whilst T.S. Eliot’s Mary is recollected by an old man looking back on his life. Alexander Pope writes an “An Essay on Lambs,” and Tennyson’s lotus eaters become “The Clover Eater.” Brilliantly written, sophisticated, and laugh-out-loud funny, these poems, enhanced by Kate Feiffer’s charming illustrations, will enchant anyone who has ever read an English poem. Trade Review“What former English major wouldn’t get a kick out of The Lamb Cycle?” * Washington Post *“Truly remarkable. . . . Not only is Ewbank deeply knowledgeable about each of his thirty-two targets and their poetry, but he has an uncanny ability to ventriloquize their voices without any disrespect or mockery. . . . Endlessly delightful.” * Poetry Corner *“A tour de force for our times. The Lamb Cycle gives us a new take on Mary and her lamb. Whether evoking the Renaissance, the Victorian Age, or modern life in language and art, Ewbank and Feiffer perform with panache.” * Martha's Vineyard Times *“A silly and high-minded book, an absolute barrel of laughs for those deeply into English lit and, I suspect, a bit of fun for any sort of reader.” * Third Coast Review *“David Ewbank’s versatility in the art of literary imitation is nothing short of shapeshifting. Here are 32 high-wire acts of poetic impersonation, which ironically elevate Mary and her famous little lamb, while honoring the great English poets—all to the delight of every reader’s inner English major. Mother Goose herself rises to applaud, somehow. And Kate Feiffer’s drawings are a charming bonus.” -- Billy Collins“The Lamb Cycle made me laugh with delight even as it delivered a masterclass on poetic form. David R. Ewbank captures each of the great poets’ stylistic tics and thematic preoccupations, and imbues them with a visionary verve all his own. The poems are perfectly paired with Kate Feiffer’s elegant illustrations, brimming with wit and wonderment.” -- Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and author of MarchTable of ContentsForeword by James EngellIntroductionMary Had a Little Lamb / Mother GooseThe Silly Lambe / Edmund SpenserSonnet No. 155 / William ShakespeareTemper Rising / John DonneAcademia Lost / John MiltonThe School Steps / George HerbertTo Mary, To Get Out On Time / Robert HerrickAnnus Horribilis / John DrydenAn Essay on Lambs / Alexander PopeThe Vanity of Ovine Hubris / Samuel JohnsonThe Book of Hell / William BlakeExpulsion and Result / William WordsworthThe Crime of the Urchin Mary / Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWhy do I hate this horrid place / Emily BrontëThe Revolt of a Lamb / Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to Cologne / John KeatsMy Man, Fred / George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Clover Eater / Alfred, Lord TennysonFriedrich Schlafbewirken’s Excogitation / Robert BrowningThe Deserted Lamb / Matthew ArnoldMistress Mary / Dante Gabriel RossettiHymn to the Lamb / Algernon Charles SwinburneA Shropshire Lamb / A. E. HousmanThe Lambkin: To Lady Mary / Gerard Manley HopkinsLamby / Rudyard KiplingAt School / Thomas HardyLoco Lamb and the Schoolman / William Butler YeatsLamb / D. H. LawrenceLittle Gaffer / T. S. EliotA Refusal to Bleat and Moan About Being Expelled from School / Dylan ThomasThe Anxiety of Age / W. H. AudenSchool Going / Philip LarkinSecond Thoughts About Mary / Stevie SmithAcknowledgementsDedication
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Central Avenue Publishing Lovers Exes Soulmates
Book SynopsisOur entire lives are dictated by love. Love creates our brightest joys and our deepest aches. Love cures and love scars. It brings out both the best and the worst in us. Through the highs and lows, we learn and grow, preparing ourselves to find enduring love. Lovers/Exes/Soulmate is a testament to those who take our hearts, break them, and make them whole again. From the intensity of our first loves, through the despair of heartbreak, and to finding 'the one' and beyond, this collection of poetry and prose captures the essence of humanity: to love, to lose, and to love again.
£11.69
Central Avenue Publishing Southern Bred
Book SynopsisSouthern Bred is a haunting, powerful collection of gothic poems that captivate and transport the reader into the heart and soul of the Deep South.Each poem offers a glimpse into its mystery and enchantment, drawing you in with a blend of beauty and darkness. In the style of a memoir in verse, it showcases Ghigna's southern soul and his tender, yet piercing language, and affirms his place as one of the finest poets of our time.
£12.34
Guernica Editions,Canada Downtown Flirt
Book SynopsisIn October 2016 Peter Jickling left the Yukon to write in Toronto. His resulting poems document subjects ranging from subletting to subways ? illuminating quiet moments amidst noise. Sometimes sad, often funny, and always humane, Downtown Flirt is an outsider?s account of urban life.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Crystal
Book SynopsisCrystal traces the arc of one woman's experience after the discovery that her partner is addicted to crystal meth. In a highly original poetic act of reclamation, it plunders the drug itself and makes of it an overarching conceit to articulate the devastating impact of living with a loved one who is utterly changed.
£10.80
Cinnamon Press Shadowmouth
Book SynopsisPoems inspired by the life of Vitalie Rimbaud, mother of the radical poet Arthur Rimbaud.
£7.26
Y Lolfa Cerddi David William Lewis the Poems of David
Book SynopsisA collection of poems embodying the thoughts and views of David Lewis, native of Pontypridd and a contemplative man who lived at the end of the 19th century and turn of the 20th century. The poems comprise keen comments and personal experience of social history which, with humour and solemnity, provide the reader with a lively and colourful portrayal of life at the time.
£7.99
Luath Press Ltd Diverted to Split
Book SynopsisDiverted to Split is Hugh McMillan's new poetry book, his sixth from Luath. As before, his poetry ranges widely in subject matter, from his friends and family to his travels and his politics, and deals with life's great issues, love and mortality.Andrew Greig has noted that McMillan's poetry finds the universal in the microscopically personal, a platform, a verge, a wake, a train ride. As ever, humour plays a large part, sometimes bleak, sometimes wholehearted, but you're never laughing so much you lose sight of the human story, its triumphs, its ultimate failures.This poetry collection will not only be a hit with fans of Hugh McMillan's work, but any poetry lover that is seeking for warmth and the wit of humans during these turbulent times.
£9.49
Fitzcarraldo Editions Joy Is My Middle Name
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Olympia Publishers A Female Voyage of Temporal Transitions
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£16.20
Troubador Publishing The Greatest Story
Book SynopsisA short story, encased in 6 poems, which gives a highly personal but also universal take on the Christian story.
£8.54
Out-Spoken Press Somewhere Something is Burning
Book SynopsisAn examination of solitude and absence, the poems within this collection grapple with the reality and taboo of loneliness pitted against an anxiety of connecting. Exploring human relationships, breakdown in communication, and silence – self-inflicted or otherwise – the poems give voice to the fears and experiences that shape us, and interrogate the ways in which we process and avoid. Frecknall’s leaps of surreality, extreme empathy and vivid imagery make Somewhere Something is Burning a compelling joyride of a read.
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Out-Spoken Press Caviar
Book SynopsisAssociative, sensuous, and unstable, Caviar explores the line between decadence and depravity. In Fletcher’s third pamphlet, investigations of power and violence are no longer limited to the domestic and romantic. She interrogates all dark spheres of influence: ‘A word. A woman hit. A nuclear bomb.’ Language is ‘consumed and mated’, a ‘divine bistro’ that shows her mastery over form. With winking intelligence and playful sleaze, this pamphlet is a circus of swans, slapped faces, and the snottiest, most expensive delicacy in the world.
£8.55
Alma Books Ltd The Complete Collected Poems
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Istros Books AxonasAxis
Book SynopsisIn Axonas/Axis, Curtis gives voice to the experience of trauma and recovery through the poetic language of imagery rather than graphic detail, attempting to convey the fundamental twist in the narrative - perhaps even a breakage - that needs to be mended through a synthesis of mind, heart and body working towards the integration of the whole. The whole self. Using Ancient Greek words/concepts and mythology as a springboard to launch into her own personal etymology - the origin and intimate meaning of words dear to her - juxtaposed against what we commonly expect from that word. Ultimately, these poems attempt to tread on Holy ground, the territory where symbol is created from suffering and metaphor from the muscle of language, the territory of healing and wholeness.
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FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS Atlantis
Book SynopsisAtlantis is a majestic, epic poem and a lasting jewel of Catalan literary tradition. With a colossal architecture and a descriptive power that creates memorable passages of prodigious beauty - the vision of the garden of the Hesperides and the dream of Queen Isabel are just some examples - this poem was the winner of the Jocs Florals in 1877, the forging work of the modern Catalan literary language, and earned Verdaguer literary recognition in and outside of Catalonia.
£999.99
Smith|Doorstop Books The North 69
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£10.80
Granta Publications Ltd The Lights
Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. These are poems at once alive to the forces that shape human society and to the rhythms of the natural world, to the power of new technologies and the wonder of our timeless planet. Sometimes the scale is intimate and quiet and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the "collectivization of feeling": "I want everybody out there to sing along, even the stones." Written over a span of fifteen years, The Lights records the pleasures, risks, and absurdities of making art and family and meaning against a backdrop of interlocking, accelerating crises. And, even while alert to the darkness, it is the light in the book that remains, in dusk, in images from space, in old poems, in power cuts, in the flickering connections between people. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, the poems in this collection come to us as beacons, illuminating new possibilities of thought and feeling.Trade ReviewBen Lerner's poems are remarkable for their graceful, trenchant exploration of aesthetics, politics, voice, address, music, and structure -- Maggie NelsonAt long last we have the deep pleasure of reading a new book of poems by Ben Lerner. The Lights continues his boundless innovative vocal range: the lyrical, the fictive, the confessional, and the apostrophe, are seamlessly braided in this exhilarating collection. The Lights is Lerner's most personal and important book to date -- Peter GizziI look forward to Ben Lerner's poetry the way I used to anticipate a new record by my favourite band. He can be painfully funny and urgently serious in the same poem, self-excoriating and intellectually generous -- Luke KennardBen Lerner's poems are brilliant. Again and again they decode and recode the daily mysteries. The questing intelligence and ironist's wink are underpinned by a real moral force -- Nick LairdSteeped in a tradition stretching back to the origins of the poetic tradition in English, Lerner's speakers wander a perpetually twilit cityscape, contemplating the poets' complicity in the prosodies of political entropy, American empire, death-drive capitalism - these poems are haunting, gloaming, blue. -- Stephanie Sy-QuiaI was deeply moved by The Lights. Reading the poems felt like an encounter with an archive of a beloved, where fragments can affect a startling power, and within the more seemingly ordinary texts - 'glimmers of empathy', 'exuberance and flatness', a new 'experience of language' - I found exactly what I needed. -- Amy Key
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Granta Publications Ltd Three Births
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love.
£11.69
Broken Sleep Books Temporary Stasis
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Galileo Publishers Nan Shepherd: Selected Prose and Poetry
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£15.29
The Poetry Translation Centre My Mother's Language
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£7.00
Blair All These Ghosts
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£18.90
Black Ocean From Being to Being
Book SynopsisCharacterized by genius wordplay, Oh Eun’s poems play with homophones and homonyms while keeping the wit, criticalness, and beauty we associate with Korean poetryIn their sonic play, Oh Eun''s poems bounce dangerously on a tightrope of language. These are poems that in their content and form simultaneously expand the boundaries of language and delight, and in their subject matter engage with both a desire for a shared humanity while offering a biting criticism of Korean society. A controversial poet, he has received a number of the Korean literary world''s biggest prizes, including the Daesan Literary Award, but also has faced criticism for his daring individuality. Brilliantly translated into a limber and tactile English by Shyun Ahn, co-translator of Kim Hyun''s Glory Hole, English readers will finally have the opportunity to see why Oh Eun''s style and tone set him in a school of his own.
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Twisted Spoon Press the folded clock
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Pan India 100 Poems are Not Enough
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£16.51
BookLeaf Publishing The Hierophant and the Star
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Andrews McMeel Publishing Deep in My Feels
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Haymarket Books Mermaid Theory
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