Poetry / Poems
Guernica Editions,Canada A Blueprint For Survival
Book SynopsisA Blueprint for Survival begins in wildfire season, charting a long-distance relationship against the increasing urgency of climate change in the boreal, then shifts to a long sequence, ?Seeds,? which thinks about forms of resistance, survival, and emergence in the context of the sixth mass extinction. Each seed functions as blueprint, whether simple human-made tool or complex organism driven by its DNA to adapt to and respond to our current existential threat, each showing a different way of being in the world: lentil, snowdrop, chinook salmon, codex, tardigrade, honeybee, ?the beautiful cell.?
£14.41
Talon Books,Canada Tracery
Book SynopsisThe poems in Tracery enact a lyric condensation. Many of them were written in transit: on the bus, on a bicycle, on foot, in the endless to and fro of work life. Their lyric brevity allowed composition directly in the brain, or quick jottings in a pocket notebook, primarily governed by the music of reason ? ?the ear?s judgement? (Joachim du Bellay), the ?natural music? of poetry (Eustache Deschamps), ?music at the heart of thinking? (Fred Wah). A major feature of this work is its incorporation and reworking ? a translation ? of other works of western literature and philosophy across the span of its brief, localized history. These are poems that barge into the arena of classic and modernist literary works with little regard for what is generally regarded as genius, with contempt for the ever-present misogyny and gender segregation of our collective past, with an ever-present critique, but also with a constantly renewable sense of wonder and humility. Written in a time of plagues, through dreams and daily life, these are poems to be enjoyed by anyone who observes events occurring in time, and then wonders at them.
£11.04
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Tanya
Book SynopsisBrenda Shaughnessy is one of America's most audacious and thrilling poets. In Tanya she weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss. Tanya is her sixth collection, her first since Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems.
£11.69
Poetry Wales Press Same Difference
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Cinnamon Press Do Not Enter Alarmed Area
Book SynopsisOpening a conversation with paintings and sculptures from the 16th Century to the present, this second collection by Nigel Hutchinson displays all his hallmark wit and insight. Artists as diverse and Brueghel (elder and younger), Lautrec, Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth and Cezanne find themselves taking a skewed but searching view of the points at which life and art rub together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes with greater friction. Humane, wry, always spirited, Do Not Enter Alarmed Area is a testament to the power of both words and images.
£9.49
Cinnamon Press The Chalk Butterfly
Book SynopsisResponding to the fragile borders between climate change and mental health to evolve into conversations around trauma, change, care and the natural world, The Chalk Butterfly explores images of home and the paradoxes around our simultaneous care and un-care for nature and language. Working backwards through the butterfly's life cycle, each phase examines the tipping points, vanishing or fractured boundaries between our environments (internal and external), reflecting on the damaging ways we step on both the earth and humanity. Yet in these precise, exquisitely realised prose poems there is also celebration of the overwhelming urge to adapt and help life thrive, a turning away from the despair that would accept we might 'just about manage' or even fail in favour of moments of transformation.Trade ReviewJane Monson is a dedicated, gifted practitioner of the prose poem as impressively cinematic montage. The Chalk Butterfly carries us on poignant winds through disruptions of the external as internal, and vice versa-how what lies within us is the key to saving creatures whose lives we're enmeshed with, 'whose lessening measures our story and the ways we refuse to live'; and how we might instead imagine 'what we could be inside the colours of open hands'. - Khairani Barokka; Each of Jane Monson's quietly immersive prose-poems is a light cast on the different facet of a vulnerable, interdependent world. Inanimate things are as charged with sensation and volition as the human minds and bodies that respond, sometimes painfully, to their disorder. This writing leaves us with no choice but to see more clearly; it enables us to care a little more. - Philip Gross; These extraordinarily vivid prose poems take us deep inside the tangle of our relationships and our disturbed yet resilient interior lives, while tracing their narrative out into the failed politics of our time and back again. Images, characters, fragments of stories, recur so that the whole reads together as a kind of gripping thriller. In writing that is sometimes reminiscent of Anna Kavan, The Chalk Butterfly sweeps us irresistibly into those situations and states of mind in which we so often find ourselves damaged and nightmarishly trapped, yet this collection also startles us throughout into realising moments of hope, tenderness and light. Situations which may seem at first to have no connection prove to be intimately and vitally related. It is only by recognition and reconciliation of these connections that we may be able to 'defy boundaries and survive'. - Ian Seed; Jane Monson is a witness poet, looking and having to look, painstakingly counterpointing our wilful blindness. The collection itself keeps pace with chronology, structured around the stages of the lifecycle of the butterfly - only here the predictable sequence we thought we knew is told backwards and eclipsed by new irregularities and uncertainties. In its preoccupation with blindness, windows, touch and breakdown, I'm reminded of Tacita Dean's landscape film of Antigone in the wilderness, leading the blind and bandaged Oedipus between two stories. Likewise, these poems are a narrative of little exposures only revealing the distance they've taken you once the whole is realised. These poems may be about the climate breakdown, but they are invested in the human despite our damaging, destructive ways. - Alice Willitts; Reading Jane Monson’s The Chalk Butterfly is like entering a strange and beautiful world where language takes on alchemical properties and butterflies tattoo human skin with their pollen. These poems are full of walls, but rather than barriers, the walls act as invitations to leverage the ingenuity of Monson’s imagination and the narrative possibilities of the prose poem to transcend them. I found myself enthralled. — Donna Stonecipher
£8.99
Cinnamon Press Light Still Light Turning
Book SynopsisTonally beautiful with a quality that bridges exterior and interior worlds, Light Still, Light Turning is full of exquisite phrases and lucid images. Shifting with ease from lyrical narrative poems to contemplative pieces that never become abstract, Yvonne Baker writes with a light touch, that belies the skill and control at work in every poem. There is not a false note here. Form and content support one another and we are immersed in a world that aches and delights and carries us on its rhythms of loss and love and its bittersweet acknowledgment of change. This is a finely-honed collection, at once elegant and searching.
£9.99
Carcanet Press Ltd EggShell
Book SynopsisThe highly anticipated second collection from the winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2022.
£10.79
Carcanet Press Ltd Not a Moment Too Soon
Book SynopsisFrank Kuppner's new book consists of three hilarious, philosophical, existential sequences: The Liberating Vertigo of a Final Passage of Meaning, Not Quite the Greatest Story Never Told, and Not Quite a False Fresh Start.
£11.69
Olympia Publishers On Northern Shores
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£6.99
Profile Books Ltd Dust If You Must
Book SynopsisA classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly share her poem 'Dust If You Must', but a series of events led her to publish it in The Lady magazine in 1998. Her charming message about what we value in life resonated with audiences, and it has since been read on BBC radio, posted on Instagram, printed on tea towels, read at funerals and put to music. Now appearing as a book for the first time, beautifully illustrated throughout by illustrator Hayley Wells, Dust If You Must is a timeless reminder to focus on the things we can enjoy in the world, rather than the things we think we need to do.Trade ReviewDust if you must/But wouldn't it be better/To paint a picture, write a letter/Bake a cake or plant a seed ?/Ponder the difference between 'want' and 'need' -- Excerpt from Dust If You Must by Rose Milligan
£7.59
Seagull Books London Ltd Delicates
Book SynopsisPoems from a critically acclaimed Cuban writer available in English for the first time. Imbued with a sensuality reminiscent of the work of Anaïs Nin, Wendy Guerra’s Delicates takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the cities of love, where women leave their bodies “in the showers of men,” marking their territory “like animals in heat,” their panties “saturated with sand and a sidereal isolating odor.” Guerra’s shocking metaphors and images invite us to enter her gallery of striking and provoking poems where we witness a flight through the air from a thirty-fourth-story window and a woman’s pilgrimage to the salt flats “to taste the pink in stones” on her lover’s behalf. Guerra’s relationship with her native Cuba—much like her relationships with men—is complex and multilayered. Her work confronts the realities of a political system that doesn’t celebrate artistic freedom. Here we have a new way of looking at a woman, an artist, a country, and the colonizers of that country. In these music-infused poems, Guerra shares with us her hard-won truths. Trade Review“Guerra is a Cuban poet who takes the island’s colonial history as a subject and expands it into other contexts like the dynamics of erotic relationships.” * New York Times *“Guerra boldly rifts and morphs her imagery on her way to dramatic endings in poems ranging from the volcanic sex of 'From Pompeii' to other intimate and political exiles. The result is a restless and provocative interrogation of power.” * LitHub *"What a gift this volume is—the first of Guerra’s collections to appear in English—a labor of love from Carlson and Snyder 13 years in the making. Sensuous and passionate, the poems in Delicates sing the praises of bodily pleasure and push against the constraints imposed on the human spirit, whether by autocratic governments or puritanical social mores." * Washington Independent Review of Books *"Cuban poet and novelist Guerra’s work has not often been translated into English, so this volume is a welcome gift to Anglophone readers. . . The range of emotions and tones in Delicates speak to the comprehensiveness of Guerra’s poetic approach: a compelling book of longing and loss." * The Millions *Table of Contents1.Peninsular Psalm2.Red3.Snow in Havana4.Winter Sports5.Salt6.Traveling in Reverse7.A Face in the Crowd8.Memory and Dust9.News from the Queen10.Closed Season on Manatees11.Inuit Promise12.Vertigo over the Niagara13.Delicates14.Breaking Crystal Dragonflies15.Kaos Is Written with K16.The Actress17.Naughty Girl18.Ideas for Silhouettes19.Last Apocrypha of Ana Mendieta20.Possible Similes21.Metro Map22.Promenade through the Private Museum23.Orgy of The Wind24.Jazz Trio25.The Prince and the Pauper26.The Year It Snows27.Airport28.From Pompeii29.Far Away Like Cuba30.Curatorship31.Vertical Psalm32.On Your Knees33.Excess Baggage 34.Consulted Archives35.Without Salvation36.A Cabala of Castoffs 37.Touché 38.Razor to the Wind39.Living on The Airwaves40.On How the Russians Started Saying Goodbye41.Déclassée42.Sea of Tears43.Bunk Beds44.The Worst Thing about Incest
£13.99
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd A la Carte
Book SynopsisThis is a book of poetry about mental health, love and lost love.
£9.36
Olympia Publishers A Collection of Poetry - Projectiles into Space
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£5.99
Olympia Publishers Ame Soeur
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£5.99
Olympia Publishers The Things I have Never Told You Part 2
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£7.59
Graffeg Limited Otter Accordion Book No 2
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Olympia Publishers Burning Hearts
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£5.99
Olympia Publishers Our Stories
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£9.17
Olympia Publishers Perfect Timing
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£6.99
Olympia Publishers Poems Of 2023
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£8.54
Olympia Publishers Poetry and Jaunts from the Broken Soul
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Olympia Publishers Phoenix
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£10.44
Olympia Publishers Stay Calm and Cheerful
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£5.99
Olympia Publishers The Poetry of Bella Ayub
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Olympia Publishers Poetry to Enjoy
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£6.99
Olympia Publishers The Pink Shoes
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Olympia Publishers To Whom it May Concern Hardback
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Olympia Publishers Thrive Hardback
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£14.39
Olympia Publishers Love Sex and Death
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Olympia Publishers Poems of a Sort
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Olympia Publishers Where Madness Shadows Fall
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Olympia Publishers Found.
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Troubador Publishing Ltd A Lockdown Diary
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Pathetic Fallacy
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Songs From A Broken Heart
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Pie recipes
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Epic Poems
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Battlefields
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Death and Rebirth of Affection
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Oceans of Hope
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Poetry Collection
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Light Shines from the Shadows
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Religious Ten Songs and Thirty Sonnets
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Revelation
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers A Deer in the Fog
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Stains
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Vanguard Press Stains
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