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  • Above Ground

    Little, Brown & Company Above Ground

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn accessible and moving second book of poems from Clint Smith, the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word is Passed.

    2 in stock

    £19.80

  • Read M Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems

    Hodder & Stoughton Read M Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis wonderful collection contains the works chosen by Classic FM listeners in the poll to discover their favourite poems. It includes poems by Betjeman, Kipling, Shakespeare, Yeats, Wordsworth and Auden, among many others, as well as biographies of the poets written by Mike Read.

    1 in stock

    £11.69

  • Invisible Mending

    Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Invisible Mending

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe essential poetry of C. K. Williams, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.C. K. Williams (19362015), one of the most treasured American poets of the past century, was also one of the most surprising. From poem to poem, his voice would shift in register and style, yet a certain essence would remain: his conviction, his ethic, and his burning gaze. As William Deresiewicz wrote in The New York Times, Williams's scorching honesty has always been his calling card. His poetry proceeds not from a verbal impulse, not from a lyrical impulse, not even from a prophetic or visionary impulse, but from a moral impulse. Everything, in his work, is held up to the most exacting ethical scrutiny, beginning with the poet himself.Invisible Mending: The Best of C. K. Williams is the essential collection of the great poet's work. Selected by his family and friends and with an introduction by the award-winning poet Alan Shapiro, this book charts

    1 in stock

    £17.84

  • Middle English Lyrics

    WW Norton & Co Middle English Lyrics

    20 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections of Middle English lyrics ever made available to the college student.

    20 in stock

    £17.09

  • When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs

    WW Norton & Co When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology, without which no study of American poetry is complete.Trade Review"When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is nothing less than a landmark anthology of Native Nations Poetry... The poets in this anthology are artists, historians, and keepers of the truths of their heritage, their people, and their lands. These poems are testament to their personal journeys and this collection is transcendent in its authority and eternal power." -- Lew Whittington - New York Journal of Books"...When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry... give[s] a sense of the depth of marginalised voices." -- Paul Perry, The Best Books of 2020: Poetry - The Irish Independent

    1 in stock

    £15.19

  • In Memoriam

    WW Norton & Co In Memoriam

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £13.99

  • John Clare

    Taylor & Francis Ltd John Clare

    1 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    1 in stock

    £280.00

  • Lord Alfred Tennyson The Critical Heritage

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Lord Alfred Tennyson The Critical Heritage

    1 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    1 in stock

    £518.01

  • Arthur Hugh Clough

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Arthur Hugh Clough

    1 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    1 in stock

    £315.06

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Gerard Manley Hopkins The Critical Heritage Critical Heritage S

    1 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    1 in stock

    £300.00

  • The Major Victorian Poets Reconsiderations Routledge Revivals

    Taylor & Francis Ltd The Major Victorian Poets Reconsiderations Routledge Revivals

    1 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    1 in stock

    £166.25

  • Shelley Routledge Revivals The Man and the Poet

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Shelley Routledge Revivals The Man and the Poet

    1 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    1 in stock

    £175.00

  • R S Thomas

    Orion Publishing Co R S Thomas

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisR. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, coloured by personal experience of rural Wales, is stark but passionate.Trade ReviewOne of the best half-dozen poets now writing in English -- Kingsley Amis

    2 in stock

    £9.25

  • From the Valley of Bronze Camels

    The University of Michigan Press From the Valley of Bronze Camels

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisJane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.Table of Contents May I Ask A Question? I Love You, A Sob Story (w/ music) Youthful Amours Figs & Fiddlesticks & Politics Javelina Stink. What I Dare Not Say About Poetry Tie Up Your Dinghy And Help Me Fantasia On Paul Klee In Tunisia

    1 in stock

    £16.95

  • Great Love Poems

    Dover Publications Inc. Great Love Poems

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisOver 150 familiar works by English and American poets: John Donne's "The Ecstasy," William Blake's "The Garden of Love," as well as poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, many more. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

    1 in stock

    £6.23

  • African American Poetry

    Dover Publications Inc. African American Poetry

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisRich selection of 74 poems ranging from the religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 17531784) to 20th-century work of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. Other contributors include James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, many others. Indispensable for students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.

    2 in stock

    £5.02

  • Medea

    University of California Press Medea

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction A Note on This Translation Dramatis Personae Medea Notes Acknowledgments

    7 in stock

    £10.44

  • The Rumi Prescription How an Ancient Mystic Poet

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Rumi Prescription How an Ancient Mystic Poet

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisA powerful personal journey to find meaning and life lessons in the words of a wildly popular 13th century poet.Rumi's inspiring and deceptively simple poems have been called ecstatic, mystical, and devotional. To writer and activist Melody Moezzi, they became a lifeline. In The Rumi Prescription, we follow her path of discovery as she translates Rumi's works for herself - to gain wisdom and insight in the face of a creative and spiritual roadblock. With the help of her father, who is a lifelong fan of Rumi's poetry, she immerses herself in this rich body of work, and discovers a 13th-century prescription for modern life. Addressing isolation, distraction, depression, fear, and other everyday challenges we face, the book offers a roadmap for living with intention and ease, and embracing love at every turn--despite our deeply divided and chaotic times. Most of all, it presents a vivid reminder that we already have the answers we seek, if we can just slow do

    3 in stock

    £16.14

  • The Nations Favourite Love Poems Poetry

    Ebury Publishing The Nations Favourite Love Poems Poetry

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisFrom the first flush of love, through courtship and vows of eternal fidelity, to serving the writs and drowning your sorrows, ''The Nation''s Favourite Love Poems'' will meet all your romantic requirements. In this selection of 100 popular poems, poets of every age consider that most universal of themes: love. As well as traditional lovers'' favourites such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning''s ''How do I love thee?'' and Shakespeare''s ''Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?'' there are contemporary voices such as Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope and John Fuller, whose erudite yet salacious ''Valentine'' would melt the most fridgid heart. There are even poems for those more melancholic moments, Hardy''s haunting ''After a Journey'', for example, and Larkin''s poignant ''Love Songs in Age''. So, wherever you are in the tunnel of love, dip into this book of poetry and you will be reassured to discover that at one time or another a poet has been there before you.

    1 in stock

    £15.19

  • Ashes for Breakfast Selected Poems

    Faber & Faber Ashes for Breakfast Selected Poems

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisBorn in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, a place where, he wrote, ''the best refuge was a closed mouth.'' In unsettling, often funny, sometimes savage lines whose vivid images reflect his deep love for and connection with the visual arts, Grünbein is reinventing German poetry and taking on the most pressing moral concerns of his generation. Brilliantly edited and translated by Michael Hofmann, The Selected Poems of Durs Grünbein introduces Germany''s most highly acclaimed contemporary poet to a British audience.''Grünbein is a truly cosmopolitan poet . . . creating poetry which, however subtly, participates in and facilitates Germany''s sustained attempts to reconfigurating and redefining itself in post-Cold War Europe.'' Michael Eskin, Times Literary Supplement

    2 in stock

    £11.69

  • The Water Stealer

    Faber & Faber The Water Stealer

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThese poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London, Riordan''s poems exist between many states, poised at once in the grip of both activity and stillness, concerned with speaking and listening to what he hauntingly describes as ''the unwonted quiet''. There are tributes to the departed and the living, the befriended and the estranged; there are also conversations with poets, in memory and in translation, from the Spanish and from the Irish. The collection concludes with ''The Pilgrim'' - that hovers eerily ''in patrol of the edges'', wherever they may be located. But just as these poems can be sage, they are also mischievous, fun-loving, gregarious creatures who like nothing better than to sing or to joke at your ear. The Water Stealer is a book full of invention and deligh

    2 in stock

    £11.69

  • The Seasons of Cullen Church

    Faber & Faber The Seasons of Cullen Church

    4 in stock

    Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2016 T. S. Eliot Prize, this new collection of expert lyric poems from Whitbread Poetry Award winner Bernard O''Donoghue movingly animates the scenery and characters of his childhood in County Cork. The mythologies of family are here: the relative who maybe emigrated to America to be ''set upon at his arrival / for the few pounds sewn inside his coat''; the memory of ''Barty, a hopeless speller'', caned so hard he dances; the big top come to the town park; the stolen apples raided from the orchard near the old school. Here too are the collective myths, the groundwater of older texts - Virgil''s Aeneid, the Riddles of the Exeter Book, Dante''s Purgatorio, the lives of the ancients and the gods - all of which in O''Donoghue''s dexterous and discerning care reach forward from their long-ago origins to echo down our own lives.Many of these poems speak in elegy: for Connolly''s Bookshop closed down and mourned or for lost friends; for th

    4 in stock

    £10.44

  • The Fall of a Sparrow Vivien Eliots Life and

    Faber & Faber The Fall of a Sparrow Vivien Eliots Life and

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and deliberate distortions that have circulated around one of Bloomsbury's most gossiped-about, enigmatic couples, while unveiling fascinating new discoveries that give a more balanced understanding of both partners. For the first time, too, immaculate texts of Vivien's own writing are presented, carefully distinguished from Eliot's input, which demonstrate a fresh and wry talent all of her own.

    2 in stock

    £28.00

  • New and Selected Poems 19772022

    Faber & Faber New and Selected Poems 19772022

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThis comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial selection of new and previously uncollected poems.Certain preoccupations unite the book, which from first to last is particularly concerned with the ways in which our lives are shaped by loss by wars, by accidents, by the erosion of time and by grief. Motion is an energetic and protean spirit, a listener and a watcher, and while his poems mostly develop his themes by using intimate and lyric forms, they also sometimes adapt from direct speech and documentary sources. In every case, and especially movingly in the long poem Essex Clay', Motion uses acts of personal witness to reflect the vulnerabilities of the world at large.These are extraordinary poems of and for our times, enlarging our sense of the cost of human experience even as they refine those sensibi

    1 in stock

    £13.49

  • Crisis Actor

    Faber & Faber Crisis Actor

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS FIRST COLLECTION POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE ''Who knew that writing with this degree of care and pain and tact was still possible? For my money it''s the best first volume in decades, I would say since Tom Paulin''s A State of Justice (1977): no dead weight, foot-perfect and engaging.'' Michael Hofmann, Times Literary Supplement, Books of the YearCrisis Actor chronicles various failures and farewells. It is peopled by faded heroes and deferential devotees; a hanged donkey, a bloated rat; solitary bachelors and disillusioned youths these are the watchers, not the players. The poems are awash with rueful self-accusation and laconic scepticism. There are touching elegies, reportage and bruised, wary replayings. A blistering sequence about boxers and their fates weaves through the collection. The overwhelming sense is of life going on elsewher

    3 in stock

    £11.69

  • School of Instructions

    Faber & Faber School of Instructions

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle East war theatre and refracts their struggle against the colonial power they served. The narratives of the soldiers overlap with Godspeed, a young schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the 1990s. This visionary collision, written in a form Ishion Hutchinson calls contrapuntal versets', unsettles time and event. It reshapes grand gestures of heroism into a music of supple, vigilant intensity. Elegiac and odic, epochal and lyrical, the triumph of School of Instructions is how it confronts the legacy of imperial silencing and etches shards of remembrances into a form of survival.

    2 in stock

    £11.69

  • Amazing Peace

    Random House USA Inc Amazing Peace

    1 in stock

    1 in stock

    £15.29

  • Nakiketas and other poems

    Michael Walmer Nakiketas and other poems

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    £17.06

  • I Messaged My Ex

    I Messaged My Ex

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £12.00

  • Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments.

    Harvard University Press Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments.

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.

    1 in stock

    £23.70

  • Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth

    Random House Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis''Making is our defence against the dark...''Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of destruction. An oud, the central instrument of Middle Eastern music , is made and broken. An ancient synagogue survives attacks, a Palestinian boy in a West Bank refugee camp learns capoeira, and a guide shows us Bethlehem''s Church of the Nativity during a siege. At the heart of the book are Christ's last words from the Cross.Uniting this moving collection is the common ground shared by Judaism, Christianity and Islam: a vision of human life as pilgrimage and struggle but also as music and making. With care and empathy, Ruth Padel suggests how rifts in the Holy Land speak to conflict in our own hearts. ''We identify. Some chasm / through the centre must be in and of us all.''Trade ReviewThere are points where one feels Padel is a poetic Daniel Barenboim. It is inlaid poetry... as if Padel were embroidering a tapestry. Each poem turns out to be an instrument and Padel knows how to play. Her command of register is masterly… There is no doubting Padel's accomplishment, her poems stand tall partly because she tends to rise about the personal. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *Padel is one of our most talented writers. She turns her multi-layered poetic attention to the Middle East, seeking peace and harmony through sensitive and moving poems that offer hope even as they reflect upon struggle. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *Lyrical and sensual, albeit with a keen awareness that in war zones, music, love and poetry are sidelined even as they become more vital. Padel skilfully juxtaposes the modern world with the ancient. -- Suzi Feay * Independent on Sunday *Padel's great characteristic is her range. Making an Oud interweaves contemporary Middle Eastern politics, the history and culture of the Abrahamic religions, natural beauty and love poetry. Padel is not writing partisan polemic but attempting something much more difficult, a kind of cultural synthesis. * Independent *Superb collection… Sorrowful and elegiac...though it ends on a note not entirely without hope -- Lesley Mcdowell * Glasgow Sunday Herald *

    1 in stock

    £12.59

  • Syncopated Blue

    Gill Syncopated Blue

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisInfluenced by his father's and grandfather's poetry, Ryan Hennessy started writing poems as a young boy growing up in Co. Kildare. As lead singer of Picture This, Ryan's songwriting reveals the unguarded spirit of a young man unafraid to wear his heart on his leopard-print sleeve.In his first book of poetry, Ryan reveals his natural gifts of self-expression to cover topics such as love, relationships, growing up and identity. At once defiantly romantic and nakedly vulnerable, he deftly chips away at the barriers many young men build in self-defence as he explores the euphoria of young love and its subsequent heartbreak.With striking illustrations by Irish illustrator Megan Luddy, Syncopated Blue features over ninety relatable yet deeply intimate poems, resulting in an extraordinary collection that reflects the free spirit of its creator.

    1 in stock

    £11.39

  • On Cuddling

    Pluto Press On Cuddling

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisWhat can a cuddle tell us about intimacy, violence and racism?Trade Review'A necessary book about holding, being held and the hold(s) of the past. Playful, vulnerable, ever acute - Antwi gets down with the funk of language, history, and bodies to make fugitive sense of modernity as anti-Black grammar and embrace.' -- Nadine Attewell, scholar of intimacy, empire, and diasporic life'Antwi invites us to look more closely at the associations between the cuddle, the choke, the hold and the coffle for Black people. But, beyond the violence of the racial embrace, he also finds a place for fugitive cuddling, the comfort that arcs back and forth between those who flee, those who escape and even those who remain held back. This book will take its place among others by Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman and Hazel Carby that have investigated the violence of intimacy and the intimacy of violence.' -- Jack Halberstam, author of 'Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire''An urgent and elegant text ... excavating the many meanings of cuddling under racial capitalism. Antwi's writing is lyrical and powerful; the way he harnesses epistemology and polysemy to build both dancing prose and crucial political analysis, is revelatory.' -- Sophie K Rosa, author of 'Radical Intimacy'Table of ContentsBe Held A Scroll Scene of Subjection, Choreography of Care Racial Embrace Hold. Womb. Tomb. Spoon. The Dead Can Love Us Too Grammars of the Black Atlantic Bearing Attraction and Abjection Continuous Present State Cuddling Loved to Death Theater, Hustling, Embrace It’s Almost Time Fugitive (Solidarity (Betrayals)) Acknowledgments Notes

    1 in stock

    £16.14

  • Shima

    Penguin Random House Group Shima

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £15.29

  • Walking Occupations

    McClelland & Stewart Inc. Walking Occupations

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £12.79

  • Romances

    Louisiana State University Press Romances

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor knights bemoaning their allegedly cruel beloveds, Romances emphasizes the voices of female troubadours, along with those of historical figures such as Dante's wife, Petrarch's Laura, and Anne Boleyn. Ampleman also incorporates the work of the Italian Renaissance poet Gaspara Stampa, mentioned in Rilke's Duino Elegies, through a series of adaptations of her verse. Elsewhere, a contemporary sonnet sequence dedicated to Courtney Love shows the 1990s grunge rocker as subject, object, performer, and mother. As her poems reflect on popular romantic ideas about the past, the means by which elegies romanticize the dead, or the conventional romance of a happy marriage, Ampleman addresses a range of romantic entanglements: courtly and commonplace, sentimental and prosaic, toxic a

    1 in stock

    £18.95

  • Secret History

    Northwestern University Press Secret History

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn David Barber's third collection of poetry, the past makes its presence felt from first to last. Drawing on a wealth of eclectic sources and crafted in an array of nonce forms, these poems range across vast stretches of cultural and natural history in pursuit of the forsaken, long-gone, and unsung.Trade ReviewBarber approaches the scrap heap of common discourse as a connoisseur ready to celebrate the vitality of lexicons and vocabularies so encased in custom and context that everyone else has mistaken them (and by implication the aspects of our lives that they evoke) for dead." —Langdon Hammer, poetry editor for The American Scholar

    1 in stock

    £12.71

  • 33 Poems

    New Directions Publishing Corporation 33 Poems

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA selection of the greatest poems from one of poetry’s most beloved mysticsTrade Review"To the best of my knowledge, a saint is simply all the things that he is. If you placed him among the Old Testament figures above the south portal of Chartres, he wouldn’t look odd. His poems are sleight-of-hand demonstrations. I don’t know any religious writing that moves me as much or is as persuasive as the prose communication with the unseen, unknown, unanswering but felt fountain-source of his belief." -- William Maxwell"He's good, isn't he!" -- Samuel Beckett"One of the great original voices of our times—a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence." -- Jack Kerouac

    1 in stock

    £14.24

  • Milkweed Smithereens

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Milkweed Smithereens

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA career-spanning bouquet of poems by the peerless and inimitable Bernadette MayerTrade Review"Mayer writes the kind of nonsense that makes sense, and sense that is nonsense: I can’t think of a better catering device in these topsy-turvy times." -- Daniel Wenger - The New Yorker"A poet of extraordinary inventiveness, erotic energy and challenge, and ironic intelligence." -- Michael Palmer"A consummate poet: would that all genius were as generous." -- Robert Creeley"Bernadette Mayer is one of the most original writers of her generation… All her work is full of brilliant observation, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination." -- Michael Lally - The Washington Post"As an offering of selected works removed from all context, Mayer’s newest poetry collection reads like a glimpse into a vivacious mind rankled by incessant stillness and external distractions....Bracing and carnal, Mayer provides an idiosyncratic way to acknowledge changes in contemporary consciousness while framing her work in a new and dynamic light." -- J. Howard Rosier - Vulture"Mayer quotes Vladimir Nabokov, in The Gift: “I seem to remember my future works, although I don’t even know what they will be about.” In its newness, its remembrance, and its diaristic now, Milkweed Smithereens is a doggedly gorgeous expression of that peculiar, clairvoyant temporality." -- Brian Dillon - 4Columns"Mayer’s poems, like O’Hara’s, are something else: as gorgeous, sad, elated, horny, distracted, coy, angry, kinetic, and complex as people." -- Daniel Poppick - The Yale Review

    1 in stock

    £12.34

  • Twice Alive

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Twice Alive

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisAn exciting new book about renewal by the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryTrade Review"In Gander's follow up to his extraordinary book of loss and lamentation, Be With, (for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), this poet of metaphysical abstraction, Eros, and intimate observation — and even adulation — of the natural world finds fresh metaphors for the sudden and uneasy onset of new love." -- NPR"A restlessly experimental writer." -- Robert Hass"Gander’s verses have a shattering, symphonic quality." -- Tess Taylor - The New York Times"Gander’s love for formal, even archaic language and the quiet complexity of his syntax can build striking abstract landscapes in which the material and spiritual worlds seem equally intelligent." -- Tony Hoagland"This is an ecologically aware, tender, and captivating work." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Forrest Gander's new book of poetry, Twice Alive, is a lush, sensual addition to his formidable body of work." -- Meryl Natchez - Los Angeles Review of Books"Twice Alive investigates and celebrates “the wheeling life around us” with pincer-like precision and unfailing lyricism. The poet is at the height of his considerable powers and, in consequence, makes our heedful attention imperative." -- Albert Mobilio - Hyperallergic

    1 in stock

    £12.34

  • Bloom  Other Poems

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Bloom Other Poems

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisA rhapsodic meditation on the dreams and defeats, disparities and excesses, mythologies and absurdities of contemporary life

    7 in stock

    £17.09

  • World

    New Directions Publishing Corporation World

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisPoems of effervescent grace—about nature, magpies, reality, “the unreasons of this world” and spiders—from one of Portugal’s most beloved poets, published in a beautiful bilingual editionTrade Review"This bilingual volume, pairing Costa’s translations with Amaral’s Portuguese originals, relies on humble imagery and plain language to plumb complicated truths." -- The New York Times Book Review"Here is a lucid, forthright poet charmed by the paradoxes of each poem, by the tiny gestures and traces of life faceted within each poem, and by the vocation of poetry itself." -- Rachel Blau DuPlessis

    1 in stock

    £13.29

  • DEED

    Wesleyan University Press DEED

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA lyrically and formally innovative exploration of desire and its cost/>/>DEED, the follow-up to torrin a. greathouse's 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award winning debut, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, is a formally and lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire, and what it can cost. Sprawling across art, eros, survival, myth, etymology, and musical touchstones from Bruce Springsteen to Against Me!, this new book both subverts and pays homage to the poetic canon, examining an artistic lineage that doesn't always love trans or disabled people back. Written in a broad range of received and invented formsfrom caudate sonnets and the sestina, to acrostics and the burning haibunDEED indicts violent systems of carceral, medical, and legal power which disrupt queer and disabled love and solidarity, as well as the potentially vicarious manner in which audiences consume art. This collection is a poetic triptych centered on the question of how, in spite of all these complications, t

    1 in stock

    £12.50

  • How to Dress a Fish

    Wesleyan University Press How to Dress a Fish

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy.

    1 in stock

    £20.85

  • Climbing a Burning Rope

    University of Pittsburgh Press Climbing a Burning Rope

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisNew poetry by John Paul Davis.

    1 in stock

    £15.00

  • Creature

    University of Pittsburgh Press Creature

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisA New Collection of Poetry by Marsha de la O.

    1 in stock

    £15.00

  • Absent Here

    University of Pittsburgh Press Absent Here

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisWinner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry from the 2023 AWP Award Series.

    1 in stock

    £15.00

  • Still City

    University of Pittsburgh Press Still City

    1 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    1 in stock

    £15.00

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