Poetry / Poems
Caitlin Press Absence of Wings
£14.39
Caitlin Press Hazard Home
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£13.50
Caitlin Press A Brief and Endless Sea
£13.59
Caitlin Press Blood of Stone
£13.59
Caitlin Press Moorings
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£14.25
Caitlin Press Burning Sage
£13.59
Caitlin Press Water Confidential
£16.99
Caitlin Press Permission to Land
£16.99
Caitlin Press Between the Bell Struck and the Silence
£14.39
NeWest Press Rump + Flank
Book SynopsisCarol Harvey Steski''s tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature''s many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies-especially female ones-endure, probing the full range of experiences from pleasure and hope to deep loss and trauma.These poems are piercingly humorous, sexy, and peppered with startling absurdities, but are grounded by an undercurrent of nostalgia (and a soupçon of feminist rage): mercury reproduces like funhouse mirrors, oysters are whole notes dropped into eternal song, cancer is a surly character taking and discarding lovers, a domestic chore turns dark as a mother channels her inner Lady Macbeth. Lush imagery melds with organic rhythms to spawn a visceral experience, a tendon-and-muscle-driven engine that readers can feel racing within their own bodies.
£14.39
NeWest Press All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rain
Book SynopsisA captivating search through one family''s history, All Wrong Horses on Fire that Go Away in the Rain is a stunning examination of intergenerational trauma and its effect on Indigenous voices. Aftershocks and fragmented memories ricochet through this collection, bringing with them strength, intensity and uninhibited beauty. Recalling pivotal work by Billy-Ray Belcourt, jaye simpson, Joshua Whitehead and Emily Riddle, Sarain Frank Soonias makes his poetic debut with a splash that ripples far outside his own work, and marks the entrance of a new, important voice in contemporary poetry.
£15.29
Auckland University Press over under fed
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£20.39
Carcanet Press Ltd Sleepers Awake
Book SynopsisThe third Carcanet collection from award-winning Glasgow-based poet and novelist Oli Hazzard.
£12.34
Carcanet Press Ltd Why Are You Shouting
Book SynopsisThis collection thinks about two main things: the efforts we make as individuals to find some form of connection between ourselves, and the efforts we make as a group to connect to the environment we live in.
£12.34
Tellwell Talent My Sorrow You Can Borrow
£15.99
Vintage Publishing Of Love and Desire
Book SynopsisOf Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Bernières, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms – from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernières’ first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience. This, his second collection, bears the mark of many influences, from the classical Persian poets, to Neruda, to Quintus Smyrnaeus, to Brian Patten.Beautifully illustrated by Donald Sammut, this is an indispensable companion on the lover’s journey.Trade ReviewAn unexpected delight…[de Bernieres] is a gifted poet… There are poems in this collection that certainly bear comparison with the greats… Here (beautifully illustrated by Donald Sammut) is lost love and the sadness of memory transformed into words that glitter – mined like jewels from the heart. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *
£999.99
Carcanet Press Ltd Steep Tea
Book SynopsisSingapore-born poet Jee Leong Koh's first book to be published in Great Britain.
£9.99
Carcanet Press Ltd The Rose of Toulouse
Book SynopsisThe Rose of Toulouse is a book of geographies tracing where the poet has lived and taught, their histories, and his history as he travels away from who he was.
£9.95
Carcanet Press Ltd Cathures
Book SynopsisEdwin Morgan was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow in 1999, and many of these poems reflect the life of the city both now and in the past. But equally the poetry moves to other places and other worlds. A sequence of poems about a demon allows the mind to expatiate on a wide range of subjects.
£9.95
Carcanet Press Ltd First of the Last Chances
Book SynopsisPoet Sophie Hannah returns with a collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life.
£9.95
Carcanet Press Ltd Playing with Fire
Book SynopsisA collection of bold and original poems by Grevel Lindop which navigate the boundary between the sexual and the erotic with imaginative insight and verbal virtuosity.
£9.95
New Millennium Firdaus in Flames
Book SynopsisVG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.
£8.96
Brewin Books Sun Hats Staying Home
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£10.87
University of Huddersfield I You He She it: Experiments in Viewpoint
Book SynopsisThe latest Grist Anthology is an innovative blend of some of the most exciting and freshest voices in prose and poetry today. It features five sections written from five distinct narrative viewpoints.Table of ContentsThe finest cuts; At last; Greyhound; Lego Sword; Nyctophilia; Coping Mechanism; Running Naked On The Motorway; Space Diving; What Is There To Say?; Happy Birthday, Pauly!; The Imperative Mood; Salvage; The consultant; Martins Sperm; The Fear Of Your Own Reflection; A Real Purple Patch; Lucky Dress; Stirring Of The Wind; Michael, 38; Cairo Salutes; She 2; A Greyhound Pass; No Regrets; For My Sins; Mating Week; The Bright Room; It; Concerning That Girl; Elephant; The Man Who Disappeared; The Iolaire; It; Tutorial.
£11.40
Auckland University Press Gleam: Paperback
Book SynopsisIn Gleam, Sarah Broom's powerful poems explore the effect of a life-threatening condition by way of the landscapes of the natural world, charting the hardest things in beautiful language. Broom's forte is encapsulating, expressing and making sense of strong internal feeling and turmoil through metaphor. This impressive collection examines basic human truths with clarity and force - 'we are flesh and blood after all / and we do not like to die' - and will open out painful, rewarding vistas for its readers.
£14.36
Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand May You Always Know
£15.19
Spinifex Press Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue
Book SynopsisLesbians are often told that we have no culture, that we have no history, and yet lesbians are always rediscovering hidden histories, literary traditions, codes and behaviours that have been obscured, obliterated or proclaimed irrelevant. Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue challenges that version of history. Gillian Hanscombe has written an exhilarating and richly textured collection of poems.Trade Review"Gillian Hanscombe is one of the most insightfully ironic, deliciously lyrical voices we have writing amongst us today." --Betsy Warland
£9.45
Spinifex Press Perverse Serenity
Book SynopsisWhat happens when an Australian feminist falls in love with an Irish monk? Robyn Rowland travelled to Ireland hoping to delve into her family's history. She circles the country, driving its roads in search of something more. What she finds is risk, uncertainty, clarity and turbulence. Is this love wasted, dry and juiceless? Or is the tearing what love should be all about? In poems that soar and wreck themselves at the base of cliffs, Robyn Rowland takes us into a raw and exultant world.Trade Review"Here is a picture of woman's divided loves, for a love in Ireland and for one in Australia, drawn with rare honesty and compelling strength of observation which involves the reader. Here is writing not afraid to be vulnerable, not trapped in literary artifice, not reticent about emotion, its hopes, its fears, its withdrawals and assertions, which we all share and which enrich our humanity. A memorable picture emerges of a contemporary woman, intelligent and able to feel deeply, who is not afraid to feel the incompleteness, the unfinished edges of human love." -- Barrett Reid.
£10.40
Spinifex Press Now Millenium / Poems from the Madhouse
Book SynopsisAn award-winning joint volume of poetry, Sandy Jeffs invites the readers into the world of schizophrenia in Poems from the Madhouse, while Deborah Staines presents vivid images that evoke the mythic past and the technological future in Now Millennium. Staines' sequence, Venus Port, explores the destruction of the social fabric set alongside poems of love and loss, images of video worlds as well as words that catch moments on the cusp of millennium. Poems from the Madhouse invites readers into the paradoxical world of insanity: the confusion and clarity, the courage and fear, the bleak despair and the black comedy. You will emerge sadder, wiser, but also exultant in the spirit she shares with us.
£12.30
Spinifex Press Body in Time / Nervous Arcs
Book SynopsisTwo poets known for delving into history and myth turn their attention to inner spaces, to time and the body's arcs. Jordie Albiston voices the unspoken languages of the body unearthing the complexity of memory, of desire and the art of the corporeal. Diane Fahey revisits the travelling body as it inhales memories of architecture and landscape. Scouring the body and the land for mines of trauma and of knowledge hard-won.
£13.46
Spinifex Press Travelling Alone /Ruby Camp
Book SynopsisRuby Camp: A Snowy River Series follows the ridges and valleys of an extraordinary wilderness area, its life affected by humans. From the long habitations of Indigenous peoples, to the white settlers and this solitary woman exploring the depths of land and self. Travelling Alone Together: In the footsteps of Edward John Eyre is a meditation on three journeys across the Nullabor. Landscape and time are interwoven as Miriel Lenore explores our myths.
£11.35
Spinifex Press Body/Landscape Journals
Book SynopsisReading 'Body/Landscape Journals' is like falling through a fault-line, as we respond to poesis, both as poetry and as thought creation. From Pine Gap Women's Peace Camp and interactions with women across Australia, Margaret Somerville conjures up the landscape inhabited by both Indigenous and white women in the places they call home: the mountains, the desert, the tropics. A thoughtful challenge of all that we think, concluding with reflections on the architecture of love.Trade Review"Addressing gender and race, national and personal histories, in culturally specific times and places, is a project of immense importance, and creatively reflecting on the ways in which these can be written is an integral part of that project. Somerville
£13.46
Spinifex Press Wire Dancing
Book SynopsisCircus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and private share the same tightrope. The poems speak of women searching for footholds along the spectrums of politics, power, history, culture and relationships.Theirs are performances of celebration and hope as they wire dance through circumcision and incest, madness and suicide, genocide and war. There is passion and resistance, hot comedy and fire in the belly. Falling is the first victory, balance is the ultimate skill.Trade Review"What could well be the poetry experience of the year." --Bev Roberts
£11.35
Spinifex Press Two Lips Went Shopping
Book SynopsisThis is a book for anyone who has ever shopped – or worked in shops. But whether you find yourself wincing or laughing could depend on which side of the shop counter you’re on at the time. Find out what it’s like to be a young shopgirl, vent your frustrations with today’s supermarket society and the advertising and media industries, take a nostalgic trip back to the days of the corner shop. Using consumerism as a platform, Two Lips Went Shopping follows the thread down laneways where the baby trade and Female Genital Mutilation flourish passing protests of women against war and violence.
£11.35
Spinifex Press Blood Relations
Book SynopsisThe poems in this collection are an evocative documentation of the harrowing experiences of a child living in a hostile and unhappy home. The reader is shown the pain, the bitterness and the mixed emotions that accompany the experiences of growing up in a family torn apart by domestic violence and alcoholism.Trade ReviewSandy Jeffs poems inhabit the darkness at the heart of the dysfunctional family. The ravaged emotionality of these poems will speak to anyone who has felt its pain. Doris Brett"
£10.40
Spinifex Press Poems from the Madhouse
Book SynopsisPoems from the Madhouse invites readers into the paradoxical world of insanity: the confusion and clarity, the courage and fear, the bleak despair and the black comedy. Only a poet could make us hear the thundering whisper of insanity, the endless circling of the revolving door, the sheer practicality of whatever gets you through the night. Here are portraits of other people in wards filled with restless wanderers. In the end, it is humour, a thesaurus of monickers that enable the reader to emerge sadder, wiser, but not hopeless.Trade ReviewThis is disturbing but quite wonderful poetry, because of its clarity, its humour, its imagery, and the insights it gives us into being human, being mad, being sane. I read and read and was profoundly moved." Anne Deveson"
£9.45
Spinifex Press Modewarre: Home Ground
Book SynopsisModewarre is the indigenous Wathaurong word for musk duck. Through this icon of land and water, Patricia Sykes explores various histories - her own, her forebears, the wider histories of identity and place – in poems that are as concentrated as pearls. It sweeps its subjects along in a flow of striking images and strong feelings, these buoyed by an intelligent sense of poetic structure and modulated by a sometimes ironic eye.Trade Review"Fast, precise poetry, Sykes works in the in-between area of named and nameless feelings. [H]er poems ... leap over boundaries, using language as a balletic or gestural medium." Martin Harrison, "Australian Book Review"
£13.46
Spinifex Press The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness
Book SynopsisNot since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Sandy Jeffs' poetry has a stark dignity, capable of conveying "shudders of intense fear". Yet in the midst of her rigours, she can access a voice both wild and funny. Sandy Jeffs' leavening sense of humour peoples her darkness with the sirens of the supermarket, a tinsel paradise and high-tech technicolour Armageddon. After all, God is only a word and angels, although mad, sing the wanderer into paradise.Trade Review"A series of poems with a theatrical quality that is haunting in its exposure of the ritualistic violence perpetrated in the family home... These poems emerge like flowers on top of boiling water." Jeltje, "Five Bells, The Magazine of the Poets Union," on "Blood Relations"
£13.46
Spinifex Press The Butterfly Effect
Book SynopsisThe butterfly effect is a concept from physics in which it is surmised that small actions can have enormous consequences, and that the flutter of a butterfly's wing on one side of the world can cause devastating storms on the other side. Susan Hawthorne explores the impact of the love between lesbians. The butterfly effect is a force that can destroy families and bring down governments, but also a force full of vitality and world changing creativity.Trade Review"A forthright voice and the singular free play of energy and will, memory and perception that holds the reader." -- Judith Rodriguez."She has opened up the mosaic form to all levels of lived experience with new confidence and fragility, moving in all ways to the heart of matter, the edge of experience and the breath of tomorrow." -- Suzanne Bellamy.Table of ContentsSection headings: The Butterfly Effect; Unstopped Mouths; Composition; Dialogues with Death; India Sutra; Fragilities.
£13.46
Spinifex Press Unsettling the Land
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£8.96
Spinifex Press Earth's Breath
Book SynopsisCyclonic storms inform the still eye of Earth's Breath. It's an eye that radiates out from the personal to the communal, tracking its subject matter through the lenses of history and myth. Susan Hawthorne's poetry shifts with seismic intensity, from tranquility to roar, bureaucratic inertia to survival, and the slow recovery from destruction to regeneration.
£13.46
Spinifex Press Cow
Book SynopsisAn intriguing approach to the rewriting of myth, this book takes the reader on a journey through the history of languages and symbolic traditions. Through a main character, Queenie, a cow of many abilities and a history that takes in the creation of the universe, readers come to see the world in new ways. Cow leaps and flies into imaginative realms carrying mythology and language. Cow creates the universe and travels through the sky as a herd of stars.Trade Review"Cow is so monumental in so many ways I'd be shocked if it doesn't win at least one major poetry award for 2011." --Heather Taylor Johnson, "Mascara Literary Review"
£13.46
Spinifex Press Valence: Considering War through Poetry and
Book SynopsisValence. Considering war through poetry and theory is a powerful rage against the brutality and greed of war; against the particular suffering of women in war; against our indifference but more importantly, our sense of powerless in the face of wars most of us neither support nor would ever instigate. Here is a poet of moral conscience in the fine tradition of Adrienne Rich; a poet writing across boundaries; striving with each form to elucidate, illuminate, change.Trade ReviewThis is what a lifetime of feminism is all about finally, going out to the edge and finding your sisters there. Thank you so very much for this profound work. Kathleen Barry, author, "Unmaking War, Remaking Men"
£8.05
Otago University Press The Black Horse and Other Stories
Book SynopsisTwelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets are collected here. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye for detail and for the ironies of life.
£11.16
Otago University Press Soundings: Poems and Drawings
Book SynopsisSoundings is another landmark in the development of an important and widely read New Zealand poet. This collection continues and develops the themes of homeland and loss, colonisation and displacement that have been constantly important to McQueen. She writes as a descendant of both the colonized - on far Scottish Islands - and those who colonise - in exploring Richard Greynvile's handling of the colony at Roanoke in Virginia. Her writing also reflects the history and present reality of the Maori in southern New Zealand.
£11.16
OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS (NZ) A Wind Harp
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£18.34
Otago University Press The Joy of a Ming Vase: Poems by Ruth Dallas
Book SynopsisAs American critic Tom Disch quipped of many vintage poets: 'friends and pets die, the garden takes on a new significance.' There are poems in this collection about Dutch Masters, the remembered voice of a deceased soprano, a waterfall, ancient Chinese artefacts, victims of the World Wars, kites and flowers; but each piece is sensitively imbued not only with the poet's awareness of impending death but also with the incorrigible fragility of life. While Dallas is at home in a number of different modes, her high regard for literary tradition as a form of spiritual realism makes her eminently readable as a disciplined watcher of the seasons.
£11.16
Otago University Press Stunning debut of the repairing of a life
Book SynopsisSIMPLE BROKEN BEAUTIFUL is the title on a notebook of poetry written by Leigh Davis in 2008. This was during radiotherapy treatment following surgery for a brain tumour, which was affecting his ability to express himself in words. The notebook writing was the beginning of a work that developed into a long poem called ''Stunning debut of the repairing of a life''. The resulting manuscript won The Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry 2009, judged by Ian Wedde.
£17.05
