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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Spam and Other Poems
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Spilling of Innocent Tea
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Horatio Nelson A Heros Life in Rhyme
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers I Confess
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Moon And The Sea
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Forgotten Lyre
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Love me Ugly
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Time does not heal all wounds
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers A Teenage Girls Life in Poetry
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£5.99
Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Out of the Box
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Legacies
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Religion Fake News and other Misdemeanors
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers A Song for All
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Midnight Auroras
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Mauros Hat
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers On Being Alive
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Inspiring Reflections Graciously Watered
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Depths
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Vanguard Press Thoughts From A Teenage Mind
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Vanguard Press Poems from Reading Shakespeare
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Words with Meaning
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Sundry Musings
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Hands of Forgotten Faces
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Winter Season
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers The Bright Soul is an Acquired Taste
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers A Life in Poems It Could be Verse
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Forty Winks Poetic Anthology
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Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Open the Doors of the Silence
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Out-Spoken Press 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to my
Book Synopsis54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father is the second pamphlet by British-born Irish poet Joe Carrick-Varty.“Atmospheric, suffused with the blue light of other people’s televisions, these poems, while often devastating, possess a tremendous warmth. Carrick-Varty takes an object/a loved one/a particular moment in time and carefully turns it over and over in his hands. This pamphlet is open-hearted, thoughtful — painfully, beautifully alive to the world and its strange specifics" — Ella Frears"Joe Carrick-Varty's poems don't need permission from anybody. Their exceptional and beautiful vulnerability is a permission all of its own. Each poem contained here demonstrates a mind completely awake to the sadnesses and risks of intimacy, and awake to finding an original vocabulary for articulating these things. A brilliant short collection. I'm utterly convinced of this poet's talent." —Wayne Holloway-Smith
£7.00
The 87 Press Night of the World: Way Out World
Book SynopsisThe first in a trilogy of genre defying, formally innovative, dystopian poetry by renowned and acclaimed author Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
£13.49
The 87 Press young girls!
Book SynopsisFrom ‘sweet sobs’ to ‘the reservoir of sadness’ a vivacious energy animates this debut collection of poems; young girls! circles back to those fleeting moments ofrebellious girlhood with verve and humour.–Mona Arshi, author of small hands and somebody loves youA debut from Panjabi-British poet and artist Karenjit Sandhu. A lyrical narrative which re-imagines the renowned modernist pioneer Amrita Sher-Gil as a 1990s West London native.For Fans of: Bhanu Kapil, Vahni Capildeo, Sandeep Parmar, Nisha Ramayya.
£11.69
Taproot Press All the Way Home: 30 Years of Rock Trust
Book SynopsisNearly 10,000 young people in Scotland are homeless. Some we see on the streets, thousands more are 'hidden' - sofa surfing, in B&Bs and living in unsafe homes. Every one of them has their own story to tell. For 30 years Rock Trust has been listening to their stories and helping them find a home. In All the Way Home, some of Scotland's leading authors have come together with young people to mark this anniversary of Rock Trust's urgent, ongoing work. Across first-hand accounts, poetry and fiction, this anthology brings to life the visible and invisible realities of home and homelessness, of family and belonging.
£11.69
Taproot Press Relativism
Book SynopsisRelativism, the second poetry collection by Mary Ford Neal, a writer and academic from the West of Scotland, deals with themes of attachment, belonging, certainty, doubt, and our relationships to places, times, people, and ideas. Using different voices, and the lens of intimate relationships, the collection explores various stages of life (from youth to adulthood to older age) and states of self-knowledge (from confusion to enlightenment to doubt).Trade Review'Brave and gentle; both Venutian and urgently animal [...] Mary Ford Neal shows us just what magic and mystery sustains within the residual.' Janette Ayachi; 'Relativism crackles with energy and humour. Emotionally direct, at times risky, these poems reach across generations and place to remind us of our shared humanity.' Miranda Pearson
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Smokestack Books Screaming Olives
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Last Ditch Poetry o delirious God
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PURE LIT Life In Transit
Book SynopsisThis book is for those that have felt pain or sadness in the darkest of times during their life, whether it be with relationships, family, work stress, unaware of life, abuse & those who feel like they can continue with life. Everyone has had some sort of struggle, there is much more to life & you can always follow your dreams.
£11.69
Banshee Press In Her Jaws
Book SynopsisIn her debut collection, Rosamund Taylor dares us across thresholds and invites us to glimpse the world as we've never seen it before. She boldly charts a journey of survival and transformation with poems on history reimagined, astronomy, sorcery, wild landscapes, talismanic creatures, and queer love. Taylor explores what it means to live in a female body that is not defined by lack, or want, or perpetual suffering, but is possessed by a real and defined sense of erotic autonomy. These poems burn from the inside out with possibility, and there is magic, mystery and reclamation at every turn. In Her Jaws is a landmark debut that extends and deepens the Irish tradition of writing the female perspective, while also breaking new ground. Praise for In Her Jaws: "A book of astonishments whose poems gaze towards the night sky and all that stirs in the dark below, swooping the reader through mysteries of desire and discovery. Taylor's voice is by turns tender, sharp, luminous; her poems are wondrous." - Doireann Ni Ghriofa "In these haunting, simmering metamorphoses, Rosamund Taylor's imagination is both intrepid and tender. Spanning the erotic and the traumatic, these poems root through the fibrous dark of our psyche. In Her Jaws is a breath-taking debut." - Sean Hewitt "Taylor's poems possess a talismanic quality. With lyric sorcery, she conjures encounters with a chorus of wild creatures: spectres and lovers, selves and others. Beneath the seductive gleam of her poetry lies an invitation to glimpse the fabulous. In Her Jaws will hold you in thrall." - Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe "Rosamund Taylor's stunning debut reignites the lyric tradition with poems that movingly and daringly explore pain and despair, desire and belonging while evoking the more-than-human world anew. Her voice is ever original and ever beautiful." - Jane Clarke "In Her Jaws is an extraordinary achievement with poems gem-like in their intensity, clarity and precision - but make no mistake, there is wildness here too ... This is a debut that leaves bite marks in the most erotic and intoxicating sense ... In Her Jaws is here, finally, and it was certainly worth the wait." - Victoria Kennefick "Taylor's language, form and imagery exhibit a remarkable freshness, resulting in work that manages to create a space between the uncanny and the familiar. Her sexuality and her feminism are carried candidly and address universals through the specifics of queer love and the experiences of women through history. This is the Irish lyric tradition queered in the manifold and finest meanings of that word. Taylor's is a poetry I do not want to be without. We are all the richer for it." - Paul Maddern "In Her Jaws is by turns delicate and fierce; holding the reader gently in its muzzle, where we thrill to the awareness of teeth against our carotid. Taylor inhabits the natural world like no other writer working today; shapeshifting, questioning, and enthralling us with her curiosity. " - Jessica Traynor "The reader travels wild paths in skilled hands. Taylor's voice is evocative, assured and unforgettable. This is absolutely exquisite." - Deirdre Sullivan
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Banshee Press Let The Dead
Book SynopsisDeeply attuned to those things that make and unmake us, Dylan Brennan's Let The Dead concerns itself with life's alchemical processes. A couple breathe life into a doomed poppet, a photographer immortalises a corpse, Joyce and Breton rub shoulders on the streets of the poet's adopted Mexico, where life is a tapestry of 'delicate anthers' and 'disembodied tongues'. These dark meditations are set against poems which consider love, miscarriage, childbirth and the daily miracle of family life. Beautiful and disturbing by turns, these reflections on Ireland and Mexico's shared colonial past invoke topographies both real and imagined, where 'things in the ground have a tendency to grow.' Let the Dead reminds us of the power of art to shape our perception of history, and of the artist's responsibility in a time of violence.
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Emma Blas Publishing Watery Through the Gaps
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Fourteen Publishing The Last Lesbian Bar in the Midlands
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Fourteen Publishing The Islands of Chile
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ZANI Performers
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Signal Books Ltd The Joy of Bad Verse
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Nicholas T. Parsons' The Joy of Bad Verse is accompanied by a new and expanded Introduction that considers the remarkable literary phenomenon of bad poetry down the ages and the remarkable chutzpah of its practitioners. It brings the theme up to date with the current eruption of "instapoetry" on Instagram, poetry happenings and other whimsical contributions to the tsunami of verse now washing over social media. This book celebrates such remarkable poets as Julia A. Moore, who was known as "The Sweet Singer of Michigan"; or Solyman Brown, the Laureate of American dentistry; or the Rev. E.E. Bradford whose wonderfully innocent raptures on (preferably naked) pubescent boys were praised by the Westminster Review as wholesome and uplifting. Of course the iconic figure of William McGonagall, "the Scottish Homer", is not neglected. To him and several others such as Martin Tupper, a forerunner of "Thought for the Day" and many an Anglican sermon, biographical sketches are dedicated. The chapter on "Limping Laureates" rescues from deserved obscurity several persons such as Alfred Austin who achieved this poorly remunerated, but sought after, status without actually being any good at writing poetry. In this world of wonders, wooden ideological verse (including the brown-nosing of political monsters in verse) jostles with banality, virtue-signalling and unintentional comedy. Not forgetting the contribution of real poets on an off day (Wordsworth's inimitable tribute to a stuffed owl), which, as the author says, lend a distinction to the genre. Auberon Waugh once lambasted modern poetry because it neither rhymed, scanned nor made sense. But here is a treasure trove of stuff to read out loud, stuff which mostly rhymes, if unfortunately, scans if the author was in the mood, and makes the sort of sense that leaves you gasping for more.
£13.49
Smokestack Books The Blockade Swallow
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Flapjack Press Yes Life
Book Synopsis"How can I be now?" This is a book charting one journey from challenging times to friendship and joy. To euphoric excitement and blissful rest, from old He-Man toys, choose-your-own-adventure books, moving music in grin-packed pubs and fantastic festivals, sublime seaside solitude, and many different ways for a person to play. "Love is who we are." Adult poetry / LGBTQ+Trade Review"A homage to youth, to growth, and to growing up. Whether it be the Latin rhythms of the paperback dancefloor or the 8-bit energy of the nineties, Berry comes in full force." Alex Vellis, poet; "These exciting poems leap from the page." Tony Walsh AKA Longfella, poet; "Dominic Berry's words are overflowing with life and energy. Mixing the comic and the heartfelt with craft and creativity." Gecko, singer & storyteller; "Rhythmic, vibrant, and gentle, Yes Life is a love letter to the many ways in which we get to see the world." Desree, spoken word poet & educator
£9.50
Zaffre The Royal Station Master's Daughters: 'A
Book SynopsisA heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas. 'A heartwarming historical novel' Rosie Goodwin'A gripping historical saga' Daisy StylesRoll out the red carpet. The royal train is due in half an hour and there's not a minute to be wasted.It's 1915 and the country is at war. In the small Norfolk village of Wolferton, uncertainty plagues the daily lives of sisters Ada, Jessie and Beatrice Saward, as their men are dispatched to the frontlines of Gallipoli.Harry, their father, is the station master at the local stop for the royal Sandringham Estate. With members of the royal family and their aristocratic guests passing through the station on their way to the palace, the Sawards' unique position gives them unrivalled access to the monarchy.But when the Sawards' estranged and impoverished cousin Maria shows up out of the blue, everything the sisters thought they knew about their family is thrown into doubt.The Royal Station Master's Daughters is the first book in a brand-new World War I saga series, inspired by the Saward family, who ran the station at Wolferton in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through this history-making family we get a glimpse into all walks of life - from glittering royalty to the humblest of servants.Don't miss the second book in the series, The Royal Station Master's Daughters at War, coming in 2022. Pre-order now. 'Anyone who reads romantic fiction in a historical setting should love [The Royal Station Master's Daughters] but for anyone who knows Sandringham it really does evoke something of the place and life on the estate' Neil Storey, WWI historianTrade ReviewA heartwarming historical novel * Rosie Goodwin *A gripping historical saga * Daisy Styles * Anyone who reads romantic fiction in a historical setting should love [The Royal Station Master's Daughters] but for anyone who knows Sandringham it really does evoke something of the place and life on the estate. * Neil Storey, WWI historian *Ellee has brought [these characters] to life * Lynn News *
£8.54
Amber Books Ltd Haiku Illustrated: Classic Japanese Short Poems
Book SynopsisHaiku – seventeen-syllable poems that evoke worlds despite their brevity – have captivated Japanese readers since the seventeenth century. Today the form is practiced worldwide and has become established as part of our common global heritage. This beautiful traditionally hand-bound volume presents new English translations of classic poems by the four great masters of Japanese haiku – Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Masaoka Shiki – accompanied by both the original Japanese and a phonetic transcription, and a photograph or artwork highlighting or echoing the poem's theme. With a timeless design, Haiku Illustrated is an expert introduction and celebration of one of the most beautiful and accessible forms of poetry in the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Bashō The cut end of After darkness falls A crow at rest The crane’s legs Mist and Drizzle Fragrant orchid The oak tree An old pond Water jar cracks Winter sun These fireflies Such stillness In this bleak rain Beneath the tree Of its approaching death Those who see lightning Even loathsome crows Early autumn A whiff of plum blossoms Rainy season A cool wall This road Taken ill while travelling Buson Such joy in crossing The spring sea Camphor roots An old well A spring shower Fuji alone Under the mosquito net A short summer night Late for the ferry Falling into the gloom In the old pond A thunderbolt and A swing of the axe In the quiet lull Spring rains The keen chill Mustard blossoms Such joy in watching All along these ancient roads The one I yearn to meet Falling blossoms Gentle spring rain All that remains Issa Spilling from the sleeves Clinging Diminished with age Three coins Mountain temple Snowfall outside No breeze but from Spring arrives The winter fly I spared Is this, then So composed Sleeping spread-eagled Melting snows Scrawny frogs The hum of mosquitoes Come Passing through Spiders in the corners Gathering chestnuts No one to scold My home village No sleep for me Shiki A pruned branch So desperately Hydrangeas Cooling moon Come back alive Swept up by the wind The train passes After killing a spider At the public bath In the next room, too House-bound in winter A summer insect Settled on The old garden Over the rails Knife by the bed Song of the cicada A coffin on the On every island Snapped in a I untied the wrapping cloth A painting of snow Having painted a peony
£23.99
Amber Books Ltd Rumi Illustrated
Book SynopsisJalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–73) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Iran. This Chinese-bound volume offers a selection of his many poems with a variety of themes, including love, marriage, life and death, passion and mysticism, as well as his religious collection, Rubaiyat, and his long poem, Masnavi, one of the most influential works of Sufism, an Islamic form of mysticism. Rumi's reach transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: his poetry has influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto languages.Table of ContentsIntroductionPoems:A Cry to the Beloved The Prince of the Fair Mortality and Immortality Remember God and Forget Self Thou Art the Soul of the World The Moon-Soul and the Sea Our Desert hath No Bound The Divine Friend When I Die The Journey to the Beloved The World gave thee False Clues At Morning Tide Thou and IFrom the Masnavi:The Prince and the Handmaid The Lion and the Beasts The Sufi’s Beast The Falcon and the Owls The King and his Two Slaves The Man who made a Pet of a Bear The Travellers who ate the Young Elephant The Jackal who Pretended to be a Peacock The Elephant in a Dark Room Mahmud and Ayaz The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass The Three Travellers
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