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Bauhan (William L.),U.S. DM Me Mother Darling Poems
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize
£11.66
City Lights Books The Delicacy of Embracing Spirals
Book SynopsisTrade Review“the delicacy of embracing spirals treats the page as a cinematic space; lines dance down and across the page with beautiful abandon–the poems transition into each other hypnotically, loose delineations between where each work begins and ends that suits the flow and tone so well."—Summer Farah, The Millions"The anthology catapults audiences head-on into a harrowing yet beautifully vivifying narrative detailing Tempestt’s personal experiences as a Black, queer femme — alongside sociopolitical commentary that is visceral and macrocosmic.”—Allison Yager, The Daily Californian"tempestt is a self-proclaimed 'daughter of California,' and her collection begins by gazing inward, before moving seamlessly into questions of queerness and Blackness that drive a searing social and political critique."—Alta Magazine "This dynamic collection is a vivid exploration of identity, creative expression, heartbreak, sex, and the sociopolitical experience of Black queerness."—Allison Escoto, Booklist *Starred Review "Intelligent, raw and radically honest, tempestt's poetry is above all intimately human."—Laura Moreno, Bay Area Reporter“Artist mimi tempestt delivered a show-stopper of a slam piece, the title poem from the delicacy of embracing spirals (City Lights, Oct), one of PW’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for fall. tempestt performed the piece from memory: ‘It’s in my bones now,’ she said of the poem.”—Nathalie op de Beeck, Publishers Weekly, on the CALIBA fall conference"To encounter the words of mimi tempestt on the page, or in performance, is to witness the rare transcendency of language where the line becomes an exacting blade."—Truong Tran, author of book of the other"mimi has honed her super power as a dynamic writer who is able to swiftly insert oneself into her art in a rhythmically unique and immortal kinda way. A way that makes you see her, yourself and the placement of the universe as we’ve known it to be. the delicacy of embracing spirals is an astonishing creation that will be to the times what Lorraine Hansberry’s Young, Gifted and Black was in the 70’s and beyond. This work of art spirals from the page to the stage. From the personal (innerspace) to the universal (outerspace). mimi tempestt is truly out of this world! "—Leelee Jackson, playwright, author of Comb Your Hair (Or You'll Look Like a Slave)“the delicacy of embracing spirals (re)tracks mimi tempestt making a bloody break north: out the ravenous L.A. grotesquerie Mama Wanda warned us about over and again. And like the late Mz. Coleman, this poet has it down pat that grit teeth sometimes mean to be shivs as much as grimace and that a grimace may as well be a smile under misogynoir’s butchering ogle. Recognize, as tempestt does, that what distinguishes a casting call from a cattle call is how long the gaze fixes on you and whether the credits say your name. For tempestt, whose “body armor is a pound of sweat,” the role has been to be gored again again again again, dying fiercely in scenes of such drylongso vérité you might mistake them for surreal. In this way, she carries Coleman and Kaufman with her to make a poetry I found too livid to be abject and too vivid to forget. Even as the theater’s lights go up: tempestt, tempestt, tempestt.”—Douglas Kearney, author of Sho"the delicacy of embracing spirals is a ritual assemblage of flower-bearing armed spirits beautifully bleeding, brutally hewn self overstandings onto pages that can barely contain the divinity of the dance that tumbles forth between its pages. reading this book will make you better at loving yourself."—Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, First Poet Laureate of Oakland, author of Sorrowland OraclePraise for mimi tempestt's the monumental misrememberings "I love this book, and I think I won't be able to do it justice by speaking about it because it's experimental. . . . The book is a tool for understanding America from an intersection I do not exist at and how living, if unchecked, could contribute to the harms that meet people like Black fem folks, Black queer folks, and Black trans folks at those intersections. It's a book I'm drawn to practically, but also just aesthetically, because it is stunning."—Hanif Abdurraqib, in his "8 Favorite Things He Can't Live Without" in New York Magazine's "The Strategist"
£11.04
University of Iowa Press Worth
Book SynopsisRobyn Schiff's poems enquire about making, buying, selling and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape and the human soul. Schiff moves from Cartier and Tiffany to the Shedd Aquarium, from Marie Antoinette to the Civil War and from Mary Pickford to Marilyn Monroe.
£14.20
Anthroposophic Press Inc In the Light of a Child
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£14.24
Broadway Play Publishing Inc.,U.S. 70 Scenes Of Halloween
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£999.99
Broadway Play Publishing The Great Filter
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£10.40
Carnegie-Mellon University Press Dark Harvest New and Selected Poems 20012020
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£14.00
Nightwood Editions Old Gods
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£10.44
MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PR New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023
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£33.20
Persea Books Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery of Realities Red Dress Code
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£21.53
Persea Books Inc The Last Thing
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£16.49
University Press of the Pacific Teahouse A Play in Three Acts
£17.95
Ambit Books Bar Room Ballads
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£9.45
Viking Society for Northern Research The Bearded Bride
Book SynopsisAn edition, with stanza-by-stanza commentary and translation, of the late-medieval Icelandic rímur cycle þrymlur, which is based on the story of the Eddic poem þrymskviða, in which the god þórr disguises himself as the goddess Freyja to retrieve his stolen hammer from the giants. An extensive introduction examines the relationship between these poems as well as ballad analogues, and gives an account of the poetics of þrymlur and the rímur genre in general. A glossary is provided.
£10.00
Aurora Metro Publications Lovers Dancing
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£8.99
Stenlake Publishing Breaths of Ayr
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£999.99
Wings Press Fractals
Book SynopsisSudeep Sen's Fractals includes a wide swath of his poetry, from 1980 to the present, as well as a representative collection of his translations into English of other poets writing in Bengali, Hindu, Urdu and other languages. Sen's poems are both vivid observations and insightful meditations, often ekphrastic in that they are inspired by other art forms.
£18.95
New Issues Poetry and Prose New Numbers
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£12.89
New Issues Poetry and Prose Mutual Shores
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£13.00
Dordt College Press Illuminated Manuscript
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£8.60
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Therese Raquin Absolute Classics Oberon Classics
Book SynopsisEmile Zola's own stage adaptation of his taut, psychological thriller. An intense story of adultery, murder and revenge, streaked with social satire, in a translation byPip Broughton.Trade ReviewZolas steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution * City Limits *Broughtons fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie * Time Out *Zolas steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution * City Limits *Broughtons fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie * Time Out *Zolas steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution * City Limits *Broughtons fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie * Time Out *Zolas steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retributionBroughtons fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie‘Zola’s steamy story of a sexual passion that plumbs the murky depths of murder, revenge and retribution’ -- City Limits * City Limits *‘Broughton’s fine translation confirms this as a mesmerising drama of obsessive crime and passion committed in stultifying ambience of the Paris petite bourgeoisie’ Time Out * Time Out *
£10.79
Salmon Poetry Now is a Moveable Feast
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£10.76
Banipal Books Shepherd of Solitude Selected Poems Selected
Book Synopsis?Shepherd of Solitude is the first English collection for Jordanian poet Amjad Nasser, translated and introduced by the foremost translator of contemporary Arabic poetry into English Khaled Mattawa, with the poems selected by poet and translator from the poets Arabic volumes over the years 1979 to 2004.
£999.99
Penned in the Margins City State New London Poetry
Book SynopsisCity State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.Featuring poems by: Jay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Ben Borek, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Swithun Cooper, Alex Davies, Trade ReviewWe are offered London as a test case for a new diversity of means and manner, from sassy performance scripts to the solid blocks of densely disjunctive language characterised as innovative or avant-garde. [City State proposes] a central space that is also the meeting place of many edges. - Philip Gross, Poetry London City State is [a] journey across the metropolis in rush hour: a journey that by turns bewilders, delights and throws up unpalatable truths. Though diverse, the poets featured here often seem to riff around several themes that are associated with London itself: dislocation, escapism, breathlessness. - Helen Mort, Pen PusherTable of ContentsJay Bernard Caroline Bird Ben Borek Siddhartha Bose Tom Chivers Swithun Cooper Alex Davies Inua Ellams Laura Forman Christopher Horton Wayne Holloway-Smith Kirsten Irving Annie Katchinska Amy Key Chris McCabe Marianne Munk Holly Pester Heather Phillipson Nick Potamitis Imogen Robertson Jacob Sam La Rose Ashna Sarkar Jon Stone Barnaby Tidman Ahren Warner James Wilkes Steve Willey
£9.49
The Poetry Translation Centre Poems
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£5.63
The Poetry Translation Centre Poems
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£999.99
Lautus Press Strings of Pearls A Collection of Poems
Book SynopsisThese poems are inspired by the seductive sparkle of jewels and jewellery. Every culture since time immemorial has understood the importance of jewellery, and every jewel tells a story, so this book of 'pearls' is not only for poetry lovers but also for anyone who has ever treasured a piece of jewellery.Trade ReviewTatler/Vogue/Oxford Times (already promised)Table of ContentsRobert Graves The Necklace: Helen Dunmore Greek Beads: Kathleen Jamie The Brooch: Menna Elfyn Brooch: Robert Herrick A Ring Presented to Julia : George Crabbe A Marriage Ring: Inscription inside a watch: Eithne Cavanagh The Necklace: Gillian Clarke Amber: Colette Bryce The Wearer: Julie O'Callaghan Opals : Alicia Stubbersfield Jane's Pearls: Moniza Alvi Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan: Simon Armitage from The Book of Matches: Victoria Redel Bedecked : Ted Hughes The Locket : Edna St Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had: Grevel Lindop My Grandmother's Opal: William Strode A Necklace: Carol Ann Duffy Warming her Pearls: Emily Dickinson I held a jewel: Chang Chi The Chaste Wife's Reply: H D The Flowering of the Rod: Robert Louis Stevenson I Will Make You Brooches: Arthur Weir A Mother's Jewels: T S Eliot A Game of Chess: William Shakespeare from A Lover's Complaint: Jane Draycott Pearl: Eithne Cavanagh A Beading of Words: Traditional Nursery Rhymes: Louisa May Alcott Here is the Bracelet: Christina Rossetti Precious Stones: Dorothy Parker The Choice : Traditional Birthstones: C P Cavafy For the Shop: James Fenton Nothing: Sally Evans Whitby Jet: Gillian Clarke Welsh Gold: Fleur Adcock Blue Glass: Robert Graves The Uncut Diamond: Elizabeth Jennings The Diamond Cutter: Alfred Teynnyson from Morte d'Arthur: Geoffrey Chaucer from Romaunt of the Rose: Carol Ann Duffy Rings: Robert Graves A Lost Jewel: Sally Evans Brooch Found at Redcar: John Keats from The Eve of St Agnes: Thomas Moore Rich and Rare Were the Gems She Wore: Ruth Fainlight Nacre: Kit Wright In Memory of a Beautiful Jeweller: Leysa Lowery String of Pearls: Robert Graves A Bracelet: Sarah Maguire The Invisible Mender (My First Mother): Alice Walker We Alone: Harold Monro Overheard on a Saltmarsh: Tess Gallagher from Two Bracelets: Matthew Francis Of Diamonds: Robert Herrick The Bracelet: To Julia: Homer from The Odyssey (trans by Robert Fagles): Robert Melliard Jewellery: Sasha Moorsom Jewels in my hand
£9.50
Smokestack Books If This Were Real
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£7.55
Nine Arches Press Anima
Book SynopsisThe thirty-nine poems of anima bring a distinctive, archetypal potency to the closing stages of Mario Petrucci's larger i tulips project, the 1111-strong sequence in which this sub-sequence crucially sits. Arising organically from prior modernist experiment, Petrucci's style nevertheless remains utterly contemporary. His mastery of the shape and sound of each poem makes for an intense and all-consuming experience, refocusing an array of influences through an acute lyrical sensibility. By yielding so completely to the power of linguistic transformation, these searing, necessary poems capture both the crisis and the beauty of the heart's innermost voyage. Mario Petrucci's anima is a revelation of the underside of a human heart submitting to the contradictions of love, doubt and mortality. This remarkable work reconfigures the soul as well as the mind, through language that shapes the ineffable into a visceral, triumphant poetry. Alexandra Burack, American poet and educatorThe tensile
£8.54
PBSK Partnership Hamlet The Undiscovered Country
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£12.74
The Emma Press The Dead Snail Diaries
Book SynopsisA beguiling collection of observational poems and literary parodies which explore and celebrate snail culture, as told by a prematurely-crushed snail poet. Jamie McGarry of Scarborough and Valley Press writes with infectious verve and his poems are frequently romantic and always very funny. Several poems examine snailkind's unhealthy adoration of slugs the rebels without shells of the kitchen garden and highlights include a thrilling travel account ('A Snail of Two Cities') and a poignant account of moving house ('A Shell of My Former Self'). This book features a number of joyous homages to human poets including Robert Frost, John Betjeman, T.S. Eliot and Gervase Phinn, and was previously published by Valley Press. Jamie McGarry founded small publishing operation Valley Press in 2008, which he continues to run to this day. Uncovering and translating the original 'snail diary' in 2009, Jamie made it his mission in life to honour the author's memory, and spread the word of his literTrade Review"The poems are careful enough in sound and form to repent for the writer’s reckless action. There are real efforts made by McGarry in his reworking of classic poems such as 'Diary of a Church Snail' after John Betjeman and 'The Hollow Snails' after T.S. Eliot." - Charlotte Buckley, Sabotage Reviews
£999.99
The Poetry Translation Centre I Wanted To Ask You
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£999.99
Pushcart Press The Pushcart Prize XLV Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition 45 The Pushcart Prize Anthologies
£23.74
Ara Pacis Publishers Poetry in the Age of Impurity
Book SynopsisFew, if any, modern poets have stood up against the wave of decay and mediocrity that has inculcated modern culture. For Sanfilip, poetry''s lack of importance to modern culture is indicative of a deeper trauma at work. In Poetry in the Age Impurity, he spells out the end game of our culture''s long refusal to face true existence and exposes the false mirror modern society has created for itself. In Sanfilip''s view, the death of poetic consciousness is emblematic of the crisis at hand. At the same time, he points a way both outward and inward to the perilous, metaphysical path necessary to find true being beyond the vacuity he sees swallowing up the West in ennui, cynicism and self-hatred. He challenges the warped values of our time, while at the same time laying out a psychic road map back to authenticity. Not since Shelley''s A Defence of Poetry or the Surrealists manifestoes of the 1920''s has a living poet been willing to stand up against the tide of decay eating away at the heart
£18.06
Fly by Night Press Rag Water
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£10.00
Wave Books Something I Expected to Be Different
Book SynopsisOf Beckman’s follow-up collection to his APR-Honickman award winning first book, Tomaz Salamun writes: There are no similarities with Apollinaire or Ginsberg, except with what they were doing to Time while they were young. The contemplative poems of this collection unfurl in startling and beautiful new ways.
£8.09
HOW TO PRIMERS Twelve Sonnets
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£8.79
Nightboat Books Schizophrene
Book SynopsisSchizophrene traces the intersections of migration and mental illness as they unfold in post-Partition diasporic communities. Bhanu Kapil brings forward the question of a healing narrative and explores trauma and place through a somatic, poetic and cross-cultural psychiatric enquiry. Who was here? Who will never be here? Who has not yet arrived and never will? Towards an arrival without being, this notebook-book returns a body to a site, the shards re-forming in mid-air: for an instant.Trade Review“Poignant, rich, delicious, a book to return to again and again.”—Gail Scott
£11.39
Michelle G. Stradford Im Rising
£10.87
Michelle G. Stradford When Love Rises 1 Rising
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£9.44
Saint Julian Press, Inc. Variations on a Theme of Desire
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£14.25
Sa'id Salaam Presents Bad Cop 3 3
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£12.34
Honey Tree Publishing, LLC Am I next
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£999.99
Second Sands Publications Muscle work Alcohol and Blame
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£11.69
Rack Press Mineral Adventures Rack Press Poetry
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£5.00
Colenso Books Karaghiozis Three Modern Greek Shadowplay
Book SynopsisThe scripts of three shadow-plays translated from recollections of mutliple performances in Greek withnessed by Theodore Stephaides in various places in the years 1920-1940. These playscripts are essentially recreations, complete with stage directions.
£999.99
Propolis New Cemetery
Book SynopsisA new collection from the one of the greatest contemporary English poets, published by Propolis, one of the smallest contemporary English publishers...
£11.69
Out-Spoken Press Heterogeneous
Book SynopsisHeterogeneous is Anthony Anaxagorou new and selected collection of poetry. The book is a distillation of writing which features from several previous collection as well as new writing.
£9.50
