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Burning Eye Books MANATOMY
Book SynopsisManatomy is a collection of wry, witty and cheeky poems exploring how nature, nurture, pop culture, prejudice and politics shape the identity of camp gay man James McDermott. Structured in three parts - 'Boy', 'Youth' and 'Man' - Manatomy interrogates how the experiences of growing up gay in a homophobic world and in rural millennial England affect a gay man's relationships with himself, his partners, the LGBTQ+ community and the wider worldTrade Review"McDermott's debut collection delivers us his heart, his terrors and his triumphs. Posh Spice, Hooch, shower room headlocks, and a Daewoo Matiz all feature as he paints his passions on a quotidian backdrop. An honest and direct account of growing up gay on the very edges of England" Luke Wright; 'A work of great intimacy. Utterly contemporary and impressively confessional. A book that was missing from the lives of many youths of my generation. May it reach many.' - David McAlmont; 'This funny, frank and filthy debut begs to be shared with friends, lovers and homophobic relatives.' - Molly Naylor
£9.49
Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Cyfres Tonfedd Heddiw: Rhwng Gwlân a Gwe
Book SynopsisHer first volume of poems for adults by Anni Llŷn is the eighth title in the popular Tonfedd Heddiw series which provides a platform for new poets to publish their work for the first time.
£5.36
Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Traeth o dan y Stryd, Y
Book SynopsisA new volume of poems by chaired and crowned bard Hywel Griffiths. In this collection, the Aberystwyth poet touches upon many themes close to his heart - the climate change crisis, patriotism, fatherhood and the passing of time.
£11.09
Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Mymryn Rhyddid
Book SynopsisThe second volume of poetry by Gruffudd Owen, Chaired Bard of Cardiff National Eisteddfod 2018.
£11.09
Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Mae
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£12.95
Parthian Books the last polar bear on earth
Book Synopsispoems about being sick and being in love. finding out you’ve got a serious illness like multiple sclerosis is a bit like falling in love. you are never quite the same again. when you get your heartbroken, it’s like getting the news that you’re ill. It’s a process of grief and you think your life is over and that you will never move on, but you do. alternatively, when you become ill and when you fall in love, you are just simply fucked.Trade Review`Rhian Elizabeth’s the last polar bear on earth is the literary equivalent of eating £500 gourmet-Tacos in a restaurant that you very much enjoy but which always feels too good for you, no matter how many times you visit. In this collection, the brutal everyday reality of so many British people (living at the bone-edge of poverty, parenting alone, struggling to date while battling a severe disability) is transformed, through humour, glitter, and wit, into exotic magnificence. Tacos originated as the food of the poor. So did paté. They’ve always been delicious. Rhian Elizabeth’s experiences are (unfortunately) shared by many (brutally) forgotten people. Her composition and arrangement of this life are scintillating. Her palate is tuned to the flavours of rose petals, raw flesh, and lingering salt.’ – Bethany W. Pope `From motherhood to Joan Baez, internet dating to the inside of an MRI machine, Rhian Elizabeth’s moving and often witty poems cover a range of subjects. ... While this is a collection about nights out and trips to Madame Tussauds, of tenderness and joy, of being young, at its heart is a group of poems about Multiple Sclerosis – the interactions with doctors, the symptoms, the rubbish benefits system. Brave and unflinchingly honest, these are poems of the greatest importance and achievement.’ – Jonathan Edwards
£7.60
Luath Press Ltd The Whisky Muse Volume II: Scotch Whisky in Poem
Book SynopsisRobin Laing – songwriter, poet, performer – takes the reader on a lyrical tour of the history and lore surrounding Scotland’s national drink. His writing depicts whisky in its many guises; be it a warm comfort on a winter’s night, the perfect accompaniment to beans on toast, or even a perilous substance inciting mayhem and ‘super velocity.’ The Whisky Muse II is an ode to both whisky and the country where its stories began. Laing’s poems are steeped in legend and inspired by a wealth of anecdote; from sea dragons to warring rabbits, culinary finesse to the elusive female haggis. His songs are reminiscent of the foot-stamping and rowdy camaraderie of folk songs performed in a cosy tavern, possibly following a wee dram (or two). So settle down, crack out the Usquebaugh Baul, and join Laing for many a tale of legend, adventure, chaos and love, all in tribute to Scotland’s favourite tipple.Trade Review...necessary reading for anyone interested in whisky and song. It encapsulates Scottish folk culture and the very spirit of Scotland. - CHARLES MCLEAN, Editor at Large, WHISKY MAGAZINE
£9.49
Smith|Doorstop Books A Commonplace
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£999.99
Smith|Doorstop Books In Your Absence
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£5.40
Smith|Doorstop Books Tea with Cardamom
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£6.24
Smith|Doorstop Books A Square of Sunlight
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£9.45
Aurora Metro Publications New Iranian Plays
Book SynopsisIntroduced by Farindokht Zahedi, Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts / Theater / Faculty of Performing Arts and Music, University of Tehran. Editors Aubrey Mellor and Cheryl Robson. A wide-ranging collection of plays from new and established voices from today's Iran and the global Iranian diaspora. Plays cover life in contemporary Iran, the hopes of women finding new ways to assert their individuality in a time of great of upheaval, the lives of those trapped in a migrant camp and the need to challenge stereotypical views. The plays shine a light on a rapidly changing Iran, one that is vastly different from the misconceptions outsiders have of it. Includes: A Moment of Silence by Mohammad Yaghoubi - (Iran) Home by Naghmeh Samini - (Iran) Shame by Sholeh Wolpe -(Iran-USA) Manus by Leila Hekmatnia (Iran), Keyvan Sarreshteh (Iran), Nazanin Sahamizadeh (Australia) Isfahan Blues Torange Yeghiazarian - (Iran-USA) Editors: Aubrey Mellor Aubrey is a leading Australian Theatre Director. Currently Senior Fellow at LASALLE, in Singapore, he was the first Australian to study Asian writing. Formerly Director of the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), he is well-known as an acting teacher to a generation of acclaimed Australian actors. He has directed for all major companies, commissioned and premiered plays by Australia's leading playwrights and is a leading proponent of new Australian writing. Aubrey founded several writing awards for playwrights and is an advisor to arts bodies including the Performing Arts Board of The Australia Council and The Australian National Playwright's Conference. Awards include the OAM in 1992, the Australian Writer's Guild's Dorothy Crawford Award for services to Playwriting and the International Theatre Institute's Uchimura Prize for best production, Tokyo International Festival. Cheryl Robson Cheryl has edited several collections of international drama. After studying drama at Bristol University, she worked for the BBC and as a film lecturer. She founded the Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2009 in the UK. She is an award-winning playwright who has received Arts Council UK commission and option awards and had several plays produced. She ran a theatre company for several years in London, developing and producing international plays by women. She has won numerous awards for her filmmaking and was recently named a finalist in the ITV National Diversity awards - Lifetime Achievement. .Trade Review“I was drawn to the characters. A Moment of Silence made me think about life, art, and freedom of expression.” – Mooney on Theatre; “Isfahan Blues is presented as a memory play…[and] this is a play that knows how to have fun with itself.” – Bay Area Reportero; “Manus, however, for all its pain, hums with vital life – not least the power, good and bad, of storytelling.” – The Guardian; The soggy wetness is a metaphor for the state of mind of detainees at Manus Island, whose real-life stories of oppression are told verbatim in this production by Iranian playwrights Leila Hekmatnia and Keyvan Sarreshteh. It also, however, has a more literal meaning: representing how these “boat people” tried to reach Australia and a new life: by floating on – and sometimes drowning in – water." - The Guardian.
£16.14
Valley Press Riverain
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£9.89
Valley Press Lioness
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£9.49
Valley Press Opposite: Poems, Philosophy and Coffee
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£9.49
Valley Press Wherever We Are When We Come to the End
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£8.54
Valley Press Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency
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£11.69
Valley Press Heart Stones
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£9.49
Eyewear Publishing Valid, Virtual, Vegetable Reality
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£9.89
Eyewear Publishing The Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021
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£13.49
404 Ink Let Me Tell You This
Book SynopsisLet Me Tell You This is a vital exploration of racism, gender-based violence, and the sustaining, restorative bonds between women, told with searing precision and intelligent lyricism. Nadine takes you on a journey exploring heritage, connection, and speaking out. These poems demonstrate the power of heart and voice, and will stay with readers long after the last page.
£8.54
Shoestring Press Whatever It Is That Chimes: New and Selected
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£14.25
Salmon Poetry The Men I Keep Under My Bed
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£10.45
Salmon Poetry Twenty-six Letters of a New Alphabet
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£10.45
Verve Poetry Press Adjusted
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£9.49
Verve Poetry Press Eighty Four: Poems on Male Suicide,
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£10.79
Verve Poetry Press A Fly Girl's Guide To University: Being a Woman
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£14.39
Verve Poetry Press The Man Who Ate 50,000 Weetabix
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£9.49
Graffeg Limited Cuddle and a Cwtch, A
Book SynopsisCwtch is a Welsh word used to describe a whole lot of love. This endearing illustrated poem introduces the term to the English language in order to share its healing, human warmth.
£8.21
Story Machine Strange Shape
Book SynopsisThe debut collection by Cat Woodward is a love letter to Norwich, haunted by the spectral hellhound Black Shuck
£10.80
Parthian Books Modern Bengali Poetry: Desire for Fire
Book SynopsisThe seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern poetry in the language, its span ranging from lyrical love poems to passionate political verse, from expressions of existential anguish to psychological explorations. This volume celebrates over one hundred years of this poetry from the two Bengals—the eastern Indian state and the country of Bangladesh— represented by over fifty different poets and a multitude of forms and styles.
£10.79
Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd Declarations of Love
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£10.20
Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd The Orgreave Stations
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£10.00
Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd Shooting to Kill
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£12.00
Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd The Last Days of Alicante
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£10.80
Colenso Books Ston Kyklopon ti Chora: In the Land of the
Book SynopsisThe third collection of original poetry in Greek by the Cypriot author Iakovos Menelaou. The poems in this volume reflect the conditions of life in Greece and Cyprus during the current period of austerity which started in 2009.
£10.00
Colenso Books Αρχαίου Κόσμου Ανείπωτα (Ancient World Untold):
Book SynopsisIakovos Menelaou's fourth collection of poetry, in Greek only.
£11.06
Colenso Books Ωδή στον Ήλιο Της (Ode to Her Sun)
Book SynopsisPoems in Greek only. The main part of the book is printed on right-hand pages only. Page count 104 includes 48 blank left-hand pages.
£10.02
Colenso Books Eirene - Baris - Peace: Poiemata - Siirler -
Book SynopsisA collection of 25 short poems constituting an appeal for peace and understanding between Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus, with facing translations into Turkish and English. There are biographical notes on the author and the two translators, "In place of a prologue" before the poems, and "In place of an epilogue" and "Plus an essay" at the end; all these items are, like, the poems, in all three languages. The essay develops the theme of the poems in a more direct and explicit manner.Trade ReviewThis is such a beautiful piece of work! As before I was very moved by Iakovos Menelaou's poetry. It is both sincere, and painful -very sad, but not without hope. He is inspired by Cyprus, but his theme extends far beyond that and is so relevant now, with the Ukraine war; if only those who were staging it had an ounce of humanity, it would end. And Menelaou absolutely nails it on the head with his essay at the end - humanity should be at the forefront of everything. (VICTORIA HISLOP, honorary Greek citizen and author of The Sunrise, set in Cyprus at the time of the tragic events of 1974, and also The Island and several other novels set in Greece.)Table of Contents6 Biyografik notlar 8 Biographical notes 10 13 OEnsoez yerine 14 In place of a prologue 15 - Ithaf - Dedication 16 - SIIRLER - POEMS 17 - 69 Sonsoez yerine - Son bir deneme 73 In place of an epilogue - Plus an essay 76
£9.75
Colenso Books The last twelve months or so Oct 2023 . . . Nov
Book SynopsisThe fourth volume of poetry by Anthony Hirst.
£10.23
Honno Welsh Women's Press The Hindu Bard: The Poetry Of Dorothy Bonarjee (
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£10.44
The Emma Press The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic
Book SynopsisThe Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse is haunting, romantic, and full of dark doorways and strange spaces which readers will get thoroughly lost in. It's a hand in a velvet glove, ready to grasp you by the elbow and lead you through an array of ravishing and heart-racing encounters. This anthology engages deeply and playfully with the rich and unsettling tradition of gothic literature from which these poems emerge, and updates it for a 21st century readership. The featured poets twist traditional stories, set the rule books on fire, and know that to truly surprise and unnerve, you may have to traverse some wild, remote places...
£9.50
The Emma Press how the first sparks became visible
Book SynopsisSimone Atangana Bekono's poems are vivid and arresting, with the feeling of letters or diary entries. In nine breath-taking streams of consciousness, the poet explore race, gender and sexuality, addressing the social stigmatization of race and gender and invoking empathy and human connection in a voice that is both confident and innovative.
£6.50
The Emma Press Overlap: Poems: 2022
Book SynopsisValerie Bence’s latest poetry pamphlet is a testament to ordinary lives, and a meditation on grandmothers. Part memoir, part family history, Overlap is a series of vivid vignettes from the poet’s childhood, courtship, motherhood and grandmotherhood, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Bence’s grandmothers Winifred and Harriet are at the heart of this book. She reflects on their hardy, steadfast lives as she too becomes a grandmother, in very different times. Stranded from her family in the Covid-19 pandemic, the poet conjures up their ghosts, walks in their footsteps and – sometimes – feels herself become them.Trade Review‘That Bence had her first successes later in life has perhaps impacted how the writer deals with memory and displays perspicacity. Bence’s writing is always canny, attentive, and imbued with high emotion.’ Alan Parry, The Broken Spine.Table of ContentsFrench cricket at Grandma’s, circa 1960 ; Collusion ; The man with a hook for a hand ; Witch ; The changing nature of friendship ; Not as posh as I thought we were ; Unease ; Choosing a pen ; Observation ; The summer of ’72 ; Default ; Piano ; Overlap ; Eggs ; Before the fall ; On not being a twin ; Cocktails ; I must remind myself that this is a good thing ; A grandmother in isolation ; Red ; Press me in peat
£6.50
The Emma Press The Fox's Wedding
Book SynopsisRebecca Hurst's debut pamphlet is woven through with fairy tales, folklore and landscape. She uses the natural world, family mythology and the theory of fairy tales to unpack, embroider, and explode traditional tales and tropes, exploring themes of voice, concealment, and transformation. Prickling with magic and spells, the poems in The Fox's Wedding lead us down a twisty path to find – what? A prince made of needles? A cursed box? A golden key? Take care and keep your wits about you; if you're lucky you might just find your way home.*** Describe the box. It is square, carved from elm with a brass hinge and lock. I see you hold it in your hands. I hold it against my body, so. It is a burden. It is the size of a tea-caddy. It is an object of beauty. You could call it beautiful. The grain, the glow. The box is very old. The box would prefer we not discuss its age.- from 'Her Unbreakable Box'
£9.50
The Emma Press Ovarium
Book SynopsisTender, loving and visceral, Ovarium is a pamphlet of poems about a giant ovarian cyst. The poet charts her journey with the cyst, from diagnosis to surgery to recovery, via a landscape of scanner rooms and hospital wards. The poems explore the impact of illness, and the body as a site of disgust and shame but also healing and endurance. Ingham’s poems are forensic as she looks at the disorientating and sometimes patriarchal language of anatomy and medicine, and the way illness can change the relationship we have with our own bodies.I tried to think of you as fruit, growingagainst the sun-warm wall of my gut.Melon-headed, you nudged the leafy organs,dug out a place for yourself in the plot.I never guessed. I was only bloody earthto you, a coldframe full of light. - from 'Cyst'
£7.00
Galileo Publishers The Gloucester Notebook
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£21.25
Speculative Books Ltd #GIRLHOOD
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£999.99
