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Poetry Books
Norvik Press A Window Left Open
Book SynopsisPentti Saarikoski was a prolific translator and journalist, and a revered modernist poet central to the Finnish literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s. The inventiveness, warmth and humour of Saarikoski's voice have made him something of a national treasure in Finland. His writing is at once playful and political, drawing on everyday life and current affairs, as well as Greek antiquity. This collection of poems chosen and translated by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah charts Saarikoski's artistic development over the decades from his early Greek period to his politically charged participative poetry, and ultimately his last known poem. This dual-language edition places the original Finnish poems side-by-side with their English translation, inviting readers to explore the elegant craftsmanship of Saarikoski's use of language.
£13.25
Knives Forks and Spoons Press Through the Weather Glass: & What Icarus Found
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£13.94
Knives Forks and Spoons Press Up the Creek
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£999.99
Fortean Words More Star Steeds and other Dreams: The Collected
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£12.00
Sidekick Books Say It Again: A Book of Misquotations
Book Synopsis“Very ready we are to say of a book, ‘How good it is – that’s exactly what I think!’ But the right feeling is, ‘What the hell did I just read?’”— John Ruskin Why a book of misquotations? Because what’s captured in such a book is the jittery, jumbled essence of truth: that wisdom and edict alike are constantly customised, iterated, adjusted. Nothing stays the same. Say It Again gathers the sage words of philosophers, statesmen, artists and authors alongside proverbs, sayings and scripture – all distorted with varying degrees of deliberation. Some are stitched into poems (or something like poems) while others speak to the present in bizarre new ways. Whether or not they retain their former authority, or the power to lower the reader into the deep well of human experience, these refigured fragments are evidence that everything we know may be shaken, like the grains in a kaleidoscope.
£7.60
Sidekick Books Ten Poets Spend the Night at a Vampires Castle
£999.99
John Catt Educational Ltd Hour-Long Shakespeare Volume III (A Midsummer
Book SynopsisAbridged specifically for all those interested in Shakespeare's plays, especially teachers and students of English and drama, these one-hour performance scripts maintain the arcs of Shakespeare's plots without compromising the integrity of his original language. What remains are manageable performance texts and the essential elements needed for an introduction to three of Shakespeare's most popular plays.Trade Review'Matthew Jenkinson's careful alterations of some of Shakespeare's most important history plays may give us less than 50% of each play's lines, but they convey far more than that percentage of each play's theatrical power. Moreover, they belong 100% to the highest traditions of both teaching and performing Shakespeare's plays.'; Professor Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Birmingham
£13.27
Two Rivers Press Precarious Lives
Book Synopsis`Jean Watkins ... illustrates a particular gift for concrete detail with poems so rich in the senses that they seem to lift off the page ... This collection also includes a number of poems which have a sparkly `stand alone' quality' - The North `Watkins works our imaginations through our senses and, as with the best short poems, the story is rich in what Roland Barthes called blind field, the white area around a photograph, the world around a poem' - London Grip `Watkins' sense of detail is sharp, whether describing nature, an urban scene in Reading or family matters. ... Make no mistake, these are poems crafted as carefully as the artefacts and heirlooms they sometimes describe ... and I am left wanting more' - The Interpreter's House
£8.99
Two Rivers Press The Star in the Branches
Book SynopsisThe Star in the Branches, James Peake’s second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the objects and people who come to reside there. At either end of the book are the disappearances of loved ones: a parent succumbing to dementia, and a school friend lost to more voluntary forms of forgetting. Elsewhere are poems of erotic love, big city loneliness, and the boon and burden of family, poems of praise in which the spiritual and the tangible are not remote but intimate. From the ancient quarries of Naxos to the electronica of Aphex Twin, these highly distinctive poems celebrate the unique wherever they find it.
£9.49
Leaky Boot Press Lying like presidents: New and selected poems
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Barbican Press The Feynman Challenge: Poems on Science
Book SynopsisPoems about the universe: from the sub-atomic level to the cosmic, from bacteria to complex life and exoplanets.The physicist Richard Feynman challenged poets to step aside from metaphor and capture the stark magnificence of the universe. Spurred to action, James Thornton opened himself to wonders and dived deep into the intricacies of science.Let his poetry open your eyes.Complete with an essay on Poetry and Science.Trade Review"In this unusual and exceptionally interesting work, James Thornton speaks as both a poet who has colonized science and a scientist who speaks a poetic tongue." - Edward O. Wilson"A brilliant introduction to the endless wonders of our universe, from quantum levels to the cosmos. It opened my eyes to many marvels and oddities." – Eberhard Fetz, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics, University of Washington"Poets sometimes flinch at the idea of footnotes. Poems, they think, should be perfect small worlds of their own. The Feynman Challenge upends this aesthetic. Like the Pompidou Centre, it wears all its workings on the outside. Plunging into the sea of scientific knowledge, it comes up grinning and glittering with droplets of lovely information. This is a generous book, happy to serve the curiosity, the wonder and humility of science, happening here and there in words that simply send a shudder -Two black holes are about to marry, a billion years ago - through our sense of time and space." – Philip Gross, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionCensus of deep lifeEmbodied semanticsOf mice and scorpionsRumination and forest bathing A dozen ways to make a living The future of clouds The jaguar sometimes bites Symbiont real estatePáramosThe apex predator guildYour inner fishTomb blossomsLong ago and under water Traumatic matingsQuartet with parasitesThe dead fish of ChadThe lodgerLike milkshakesHungry daughtersThe rolling of the dungballHead of glassFringed with teethE.O. Wilson’s favourite antEminent BritonsAerial warsPenis EnvyThe news about NeanderthalsConquering EarthA century of gorgingA bulletin from our branchWarm wet and quantumNew equilibriaThe rules of lossSpat 1ChiropteransCount those lostCoelacanths among usQ is for cryptographyRingdownThe end of time Too few to fill the skyNever forget red dwarfs The biggest star Cosmonautika A time will come By grace of the solar wind A map of peculiar velocities
£9.50
Playdead Press Away From Home
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The Emma Press Now You Can Look
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Beginning with her childhood and taking us on a sensory and emotive journey through adolescence and onwards to her role as a wife and mother, Julia’s poems sparkle with wit, intrigue and richly captivating imagery. ' - Caitlin Miller, Irisi Magazine"In such images, Bird’s poetry shows how artwork is not separate to everyday life, but entwined with it – and, moreover, bound up with its transience: in these poems, omelettes, snowmen, marrows are all short-lived moments of artistic beauty. " - Jonathan Taylor, Everybody's Reviewing"This deftly composed poem sequence, paired with Anna Vaivare’s vibrant illustrations, moves through the life of a female artist during the early part of the twentieth century. Beginning from age nine, towards and past the point where the unnamed artist has a child of her own, Now You Can Look has a sharp, immediate quality which pulls you firmly into a life which both did and did not exist – vanished, imagined, or perhaps something else." PBS Bulletin -- Poetry Book Society * PBS Bulletin *
£9.50
Dedalus Press Lies
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£10.45
Pimpernel Press Ltd An Anthology of Mine
Book SynopsisA facsimile edition of the ‘little anthology’ of favourite poems compiled and illustrated by Rex Whistler in 1923. This is a personal collection, hand-written and embellished, by a young artist who had recently discovered poetry. Rex Whistler was just eighteen and in his first year at the Slade when he began to compile it, using an ordinary ruled exercise book to keep his handwriting straight. The poems are well known and well loved, the watercolours are enchanting. Every page shows Rex Whistler’s new-found delight in verse of a romantic kind: Keats, Marvell, de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Tennyson, Gray, Edith Sitwell and others. But, though serious about the poems, he could not, being Rex Whistler, deny himself flippancy on a title page, or in a pencilled comment added to Keats’ woebegone knight-at-arms. Whistler made this earliest of all his illustrated books for his own pleasure. It was first published, in an abbreviated edition, in 1981, almost sixty years after Whistler compiled it, and has long been out of print. This splendid new edition, an exact facsimile of the original, is alive with the youthful pleasure that first inspired the brightly coloured fantasies of 1923. A separate booklet includes Laurence Whistler's afterword to the 1981 edition, a new introduction by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, and a note from the publishers describing the process of producing the facsimile.Trade Review“Handsome. Indeed, it is a treasure of contemporary bookmaking.” * Spectator *"An artist whose supreme gift was to delight and entertain, and an attractive and worldly figure whose talent combined sophistication and innocence with a natural humour that defies solemn analysis." -- Michael Ratcliffe
£999.99
Arc Publications The Arrow Maker
Book SynopsisIn The Arrow Maker, D.M. Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augustine, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan or Jacques Brel, also extends to more public themes of war and climate change. As always, his forms are various, but there is a predominance now of poems spoken in a thinking voice that remembers the iambic pentameter without being subdued by it. In a final section, versions of two Dante cantos, from the Purgatorio and Paradiso, focus in particular on Dante's qualities of thoughtfulness and intellectual precision.Trade ReviewThe Arrow Maker takes us to a place where the ordinary bumps up against the transcendental - sometimes uncomfortably, often as illumination. Many of the poems are deeply serious explorations, having their sights on a wide spiritual horizon, while at the same time treating the small particulars of the world with humanity and a love of 'things being various'. One sometimes feels that the act of writing the poem is an essential part of the process of spiritual inquiry. At other times, linguistic verve produces poems full of playful humour. Carole Satyamurti The idea of the philosophical poem might conjure up the spectre of something daunting or impenetrable. Nothing could be further from the truth in these clear-sighted poems, which survey the outer world and the complexities of the inner world with a gravity and panache that is utterly captivating. Their seriousness is undeniable, but so, too, is their humour, lightness of touch and their generosity towards the reader. D. M. Black has an infallible ear for the music of a line, and at their best they succeed, as Yeats put it, in holding justice and reality together in a single thought. Martha Kapos
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Arc Publications Six Galician Poets
Book SynopsisDistinctive and innovatory, contemporary Galician poetry has a strong presence on the literary scene of Spain, continuing a centuries-old unbroken line of literary creation in the language of the region. In the thirteenth anthology in this series, we are presented with work written in the last thirty years by six talented and highly individual Galician poets. Two of them, Xosé María Álvarez Cáccamo and Chus Pato, already have established literary careers, while the four younger writers are rapidly gaining recognition through recently published collections and prize awards. Having chosen six poets who are characterized by their constant examination of literary forms and exploration of new conceptual worlds, the editor, Manuela Palacios, has asked the poets themselves to make a choice from their own work for the anthology. The result is a collection of poems that grow from roots firmly planted in home soil but which reach out and flourish beyond the boundaries of a single literary tradition. Keith Payne's accomplished translation allows English-language readers access to this unfamiliar but infinitely exciting territory.
£999.99
Arc Publications The Wound
Book SynopsisThe Wound is the latest collection from esteemed Australian poet John Kinsella, whose previous accolades include the Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry, the Age Poetry Book of the Year Award, and three-times winner of the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Poetry. Kinsella describes himself as a 'vegan anarchist pacifist', and The Wound was inspired by his anger towards the destruction being wrought on the West Australian coastal bushland by the controversial proposed construction of the Roe 8 Highway Extension, which environmentalists protested would endanger the area's wildlife, the biodiversity of which is equal to that of the whole of England. In this collection Kinsella mixes mythology with modernity, as this collection includes two books of poems, the first inspired by the character of Mad King Sweeney from Irish epic Buile Shuibhne, and the second comprised of works 'interacting' with poems written by German Romantic Friedrich Hölderlin.
£12.59
P2D Books Limited Fourteen Poems: Issue One
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£999.99
P2D Books Limited Fourteen Poems: Issue Three
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£10.18
Vintage Publishing Cries Of An Irish Caveman
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDCries of an Irish Caveman is Paul Durcan's most inspired and surprising collection of poems. Through four distinct sections, he brings his tender lyricism to bear on the themes of love and loss, life and death. The first section describes an experience in Australia which provides a starting point for reassessing his past relationships and loves. The second returns to Ireland, its people and places, the celebrated and the unknown. The third section is a meditation on his daughter's marriage, placing within an historical and sacramental context a very personal event. And finally, in some of his most daring and original writing, Durcan describes his own twentieth-century romance, replete with ecstacies and inevitable agonies, beauty and hope, but also brutality and self-abasement.Trade ReviewPaul Durcan's Ireland is the one we inhabit. At times he is ready to celebrate the bizarre and the ordinary; at other times he is full of a surreal rage against both order and disorder -- Colm Toibin * Times Literary Supplement *For him poetry is story-telling and his stories are told in a direct fashion that makes them totally accessible... Paul Durcan's poetry sings -- Roger McGough * Sunday Tribune *Durcan's poems contain an essentially empathetic morality. He slips from character to character (a bishop, a milkman, a refugee, a single mother, a roofer), and succeeds in demonstrating how near the foreign can be, and how comic or common the concerns -- Guardian
£999.99
Greenwich Exchange Ltd Selected and New Poems
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Nine Arches Press A Fold in the Map
Book SynopsisA Fold in the Map charts two very different voyages: a tracing of the dislocations of leaving one’s native country, and a searching exploration of grief at a father’s final painful journey. In the first part of the collection, Plenty — “before the fold” — the poems deal with family, and longing for home from a new country, with all the ambiguity and doubleness this perspective entails. In the book’s second half, Meet My Father, the poems recount events more life-changing than merely moving abroad — a father’s illness and death, the loss of some of the plenty of the earlier poems.
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Nine Arches Press Dad, Remember You Are Dead
Book SynopsisJacqueline Saphra will follow her critically acclaimed, T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted All My Mad Mothers (2017) with Dad, Remember You Are Dead, a sister volume to her previous collection, taking on the canon in an examination of fatherhood and daughterhood within a wider context.
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Nine Arches Press Little Kings
Book SynopsisPeter Kahn’s debut collection Little Kings is an astonishing book of astute and deeply humane poetry, one which seeks to find in both teaching and learning a common ground, and between longing and belonging an equilibrium. Intuitive and wise, Kahn’s poems remain compelling even when exploring those places where there is “no vocabulary for what might happen”.Little Kings encompasses stories of the Jewish diaspora and of American life, interweaving narratives of escape and refuge, of yearning and absence. Some of these poems ricochet with the magnitude of loss and violence, with lives interrupted, half-lived, or vanished. Anchoring these poems is their immense grace and lyricism, and Kahn’s great skill in tenderly carrying memory and experience into our shared understanding.
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Fair Acre Press A Spell in The Woods
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Boatwhistle Books Beautiful Nowhere
Book SynopsisLouisa Campbell's vivid, unflinchingly honest poems encompass themes of childhood trauma, madness, dissociation, psychosis and even an exorcism. Yet these are poems of joy as much as despair, always looking towards the furthest we can see; a beautiful nowhere'.
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Templar Poetry Thirty-Seven Theorems of Incompleteness
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Triarchy Press Stone Talks
Book SynopsisStone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to listen again to the world around us - the world of rocks and trees and sky and stars and sea that we participate in and that participates in us. It reawakens a childlike curiosity in us, makes connections that we had forgotten, and gives us permission to experience the world in an embodied and vibrant way that was drummed out of the rest of us long ago. The book starts with an essay on KInship inspired by Donna Haraway's ideas about how we must make relationships of kin with all things, including what she refers to as `critters’. In it, Alyson explores the twin ideas of embodied reading and embodied walking. How, exactly, can we embody the ideas in a book? Here, the author "dives into kinship with the decomposed bodies of plankton, plants and animals whose liquidation created that beautiful, black viscous gold we call oil". In the title essay, Stone Talks, Alyson revisits the keynote lecture she gave at the `In Other Tongues’ symposium at Dartington. In it she explores her lived experience of being talked to and guided in her life by stones. She examines the ideas of obedience and yielding, the body as a wilderness, and unfolds a walked artwork with stones that she undertook soon after her father died. In Haunted Landscapes, Alyson explores the marks and traces of our own and others' lives that inhabit our bodies and experience. Wandering into quantum physics, she asks questions that "set me afloat on a fathomless sea". Finally, in The Stone Monologues, Alyson embarks on a quest to "understand myself not as a single thing, a single point, but rather a constellation, a layered interruption in time comprising everyone and everything I encounter". Alyson Hallett has received Arts Council awards for her work. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, works part-time for the Royal Literary Fund and loves collaborating with other artists and scientists. She has a doctorate in poetry with research into geographical intimacy. In Stone Talks, she shares some of what she is learning from stones. She talks “from the mud. From the earth. From the place we haunt and are haunted by.” The talking is exquisite.Trade ReviewI will be an avid reader of Stone Talks, and I’ll tell my friends to keep an eye out for it. I love the way you travel. Donna Haraway, author, ecofeminist & Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Dept. and Feminist Studies Dept. at the University of California, Santa Cruz; I am SO moved and filled with joy reading your work. I feel as if you’re restoring me to my faith, by which I mean faith in listening to feelings, hearing the instinctual voice. You write so simply and beautifully and authentically about your experiences and I admire your trueness of spirit. Paul Harris, Professor of English, LMU, Los Angeles; Oh I love this little book. I love it from beginning to end. It’s told with clarity and generosity and it’s full of treasures. It moves across my mind like an erratic. From the land of you to the land of me. Lynn Davidson, PoetTable of ContentsOn Kinship Stone Talks Introduction Chapter 1 - Pebble No Bigger Than My Thumbnail Chapter 2 - In The Beginning Was The Boulder Chapter 3 - The Body As A Site Of Intelligence: The Body As A Site of Ignorance Chapter 4 - A Field, A Stone, A Grief Chapter 5 - Entering The Vastness Conclusion Bibliography Notes from the Deleted Pile Acknowledgements Haunted Landscapes Bibliography The Stone Monologues
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Vintage Publishing playtime
Book Synopsis**WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2019**‘Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so’ Alan Bennett, London Review of BooksIn these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult identities. Examining our teenage rites of passage: those dilemmas and traumas that shape us – eating disorders, masturbation, loss of virginity – the poet examines how we use bodies, both our own and other people’s, to chart our progress towards selfhood.McMillan’s award-winning debut collection, physical, was praised for a poetry that was tight and powerful, raw and tender, and playtime expands that narrative frame and widens the gaze. Alongside poems in praise of the naivety of youth, there are those that explore the troubling intersections of violence, masculinity, class and sexuality, always taking the reader with them towards a better understanding of our own physicality. ‘isn’t this what human kind was made for’, McMillan asks in one poem, ‘telling stories learning where the skin/is most in need of touch’. These humane and vital poems are confessions, both in the spiritual and personal sense; they tell us stories that some of us, perhaps, have never found the courage to read before.Trade Review[An] equally page-turning second collection… McMillan is 30, but writes with the melancholy understatement for an older writer… McMillan’s pared-back style puts great weight on each word, often with magnetic results… McMillan wears his influences on his sleeve – Thom Gunn, Sharon Olds’s explicit Odes, a flicker of Book of Matches-era Simon Armitage – yet brings them together in a voice that is confident, captivating and distinctly his own… Any fans of physical worrying how McMillan could top one of the most widely praised debuts of recent years should breathe a sigh of relief: playtime may be a quieter collection, but it’s a deeper, richer one too. -- Tristram Fane Saunders * Telegraph **Poetry Book of the Month** *Andrew McMillan’s second collection, playtime, is every bit as impressive as his first, physical… He seems attuned to the world around him and he has a sly sense of humour at his command. He is more than promising now. -- Paul Bailey * Literary Review *[In playtime] McMillan makes it clear that the poetics of physical wasn’t a one-off. As with all the best second outings, this collection firmly establishes his patent… [a] fully realised, deeply humane collection. -- Sarah Crown * Guardian *McMillan scrutinises the violent idealism of masculinity in monologues that are both tender and steely… told with courage, invention and charm. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Sunday Times, **Books of the Year** *Andrew McMillan's award-winning debut collection, physical, a raw and tender exploration of gay love and desire, heralded him as a new force in contemporary poetry. This, his second book, only cements that reputation... these poems are insightful, revealing, honest and brutally tender. * attitude *playtime is admirably devoted to intimacies and it has a tenderness to it even in its most private of moments... This is a triumphant collection of poems. -- Elaine Cosgrove * Totally Dublin *By returning to familiar ground and deepening his engagement with it, McMillan makes clear that the poetics of physical wasn’t a one-off. As with all the best second outings, this collection firmly establishes his patent… [a] fully realised, deeply humane collection. -- Sarah Crown * Guardian *Vivid, accessible and honest, sometimes uncomfortably so. -- Alan Bennett * London Review of Books *An unobstructed exploration of an important subject. McMillan is writing not only see-through but see-beyond poetry. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *
£11.40
Ganapati Press Poetry IV, tome 3: Seventy-seven thousand
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£30.00
The Waywiser Press Collected Poems
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Arc Publications Evening Hour
Book SynopsisKarl Marx was born in Germany but spent most of his life as a stateless exile in Paris, Brussels and London, where he died in 1883. As a student, he had dreamed of following a literary career and worked on poems, a novel and a play, before realising that his future lay elsewhere. Some 120 of his poems from 1836-7 survive and this chapbook contains a selection of poems in the tradition of German Romanticism, love poems to his future wife Jenny and satirical verse.
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Arc Publications Drapa: A Murder Mystery
Book SynopsisCelebrated Icelandic writer Gerdur Kristny's Drapa is a novel-poem which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime. But the poem is no fiction: it is about a real woman's murder in the city of Reykjavik, and, through this lens, about all women's deaths. This is Viking poetry at its most contemporary.
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Arc Publications A Friable Earth
Book SynopsisJackie Wills brings a multitude of characters to these poems including a young man sleeping in his car, an amateur entomologist, bird catchers, her jilted aunt, Ray Dorset, the three Robins, the office cleaner, family, friends and several gardeners. Her poems move from the GP surgery to eye clinic, dance studio to allotment, back and forward in time and from Brighton's streets to the landscapes of South Africa. In this collection, a woman caught unawares by a changing body and attitudes as she ages strains to see the funny side of her last smear. But there are also many elegies and tributes to old friends in A Friable Earth, Wills' sixth collection of poems. Her work has been described as irreverent, bewitching, compassionate and surreal. She's written extensively about women's lives. She's also worked an allotment for 20 years.
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Cinnamon Press Ice
Book SynopsisAmbitious and prophetic, this new edition of John Barnie's verse novel, Ice, is increasingly urgent as scientist's debate the possible catastrophe that global warming and human intransigence threaten to unleash. Ice asks what it means to be human and how or whether we can retain humanity in the most extreme of circumstances.
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Burning Eye Books We Need to Talk
Book SynopsisWe Need To Talk is a poetry collection on sexual violence, survivorship and solidarity. We Need To Talk instead looks at gender-based violence structurally, taking Agnes's own experiences as a starting point to discuss the normalization of sexual violence in contemporary society. Agnes pulls no punches in this frank and honest collection, and she is right. We do need to talk about this.Trade Review'A book of rage and hope, revolutionary and sanguine. Anger has never been more beautiful. Agnes Torok has given us an essential guide to surviving sexual terrorism and gender based violence, and a map to navigating the darkest and loneliest places within our culture.This book is the sound silence makes when it breaks. This book has come to reclaim our stories.’ - JOELLE TAYLOR
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Burning Eye Books Very Friendly Weapon
Book SynopsisThe poems in Very Friendly Weapon run the course of an impossible year, the accumulation of several years' explorations and discoveries: poet James M'Kay travels as far as Turkey and Tennessee while still struggling to leave Tyneside, developing interests in death, flying, and regular metre.
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Burning Eye Books A Self Help Guide to Being In Love with Jeremy
Book SynopsisWhen Jess Green joined the Labour Party at university she doubled the number of members who met weekly in the Liverpool Philarmonic pub. Since then she's stuck by them through the downfall of Tony Blair, the disappointment of Gordon Brown and the monolith of Ed Miliband. After a decade of keeping her membership card firmly at the back of her wallet she's suddenly, like most frustrated lefty activists, fallen head over heels in love with Jeremy Corbyn and is raw Communist sex appeal.
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Burning Eye Books The Celox and the Clot
Book SynopsisHafsah Aneela Bashir's debut poetry collection is by turns tender, poignant and fierce. With searingly sharp detail, this is an exploration of the private and the public, teasing out the relationship between the two; compelling readers to stop and look again and again at what they had imagined was the familiar. Between the uncertainty and doubt of relationships under strain, to the tragedy of war and its fundamental injustices, this is a collection that unapologetically examines the human condition and the conflicts that arise within us. What does it take to be who we are? What are we prepared to ignore or accept? Her work asks uncomfortable questions, searching after uncomfortable truths. Never complacent, always conscious of many journeys each of us must make, this is a collection that travels with us.Trade Review`There is a strength, humanity and vitality in her writing that I find glorious, hopeful and outstanding. A powerful debut collection, heartfelt and original, Hafsah has a voice that rips your heart out.' SALENA GODDEN; `This epic and moving collection from Hafsah Aneela Bashir arrives in UK literature when it is needed most - a humorous, heartbreaking and elegant examination of modern motherhood and modern warfare, politics and personal disappointments, familial negotiation and the cultural negation that post-colonialism still exerts in so many places. A beautiful book.' SABRINA MAHFOUZ; `This is a startling, bold debut from a voice that needs to be heard in contemporary poetry. Hafsah Aneela Bashir's work simmers with questing, searching intelligence, brims with compassion, anger and love. These poems never settle for the ordinary, reaching for images that ruffle the surface of our everyday lives: the `serrated edge' of a phone call, a house like a corpse, the `aubergine eye' of a paint stain. Above all else, this is poetry which humanises its every subject - Bashir eloquently challenges complacency, calls-out hatred and fear, honours people by their names.'HELEN MORT
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Burning Eye Books The Other Woman
Book SynopsisIn her third collection, acclaimed performance poet Sophia Blackwell explores connections, relationships and journeys, and celebrates their importance in a divided world. From Brighton, Paris and the Edinburgh Fringe to Amsterdam, Australia and outer space, The Other Woman maps women’s journeys through time and geography, exploring identities, bloodlines, buried pasts and alternative futures, ending up somewhere new and different – the country of marriage.Trade Review`Some of Sophia Blackwell’s poems read like Nico should be singing them to John Cale’s viola, some as if Shakespeare’s slut sister taught him all he knew, others are as new as the next dawn. Dirty, juicy, knowing, open – works for me.’ Stella Duffy; `As soon as I fi nished this raw, addictive, affectionate poetry collection, I went back to the start and read it all again.’ Kirsty Logan on The Fire Eater’s Lover
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Burning Eye Books Our Man
Book SynopsisThis full collection of poems by underdog polemical poet Jamie Thrasivoulou is a no-holds-barred exploration of anthemic working-class narratives. Our Man spans themes of politics, drug addiction, gritty social observation, class-divide and identity.
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Burning Eye Books Happiness FM
Book SynopsisHappiness FM will take you on a joyful journey that explores the complexities and contradictions of 21st century life. Meet uninhibited Russian grandmothers along with creepy fans of Professor Brian Cox and learn how to achieve your bucket list without leaving your sofa. With wry humour, tenderness and a social conscience Mary Dickins invites us to recognise our own lives in her subject matter and themes and to celebrate with her all that is sublime and ridiculous about being human.Trade Review'Happiness FM' will take you on an exhilarating ride, travelling at breakneck speed from the everyday to the transcendental and back again. But as you read between the layers of laughs, jaunty rhythms and irresistible rhymes, you'll discover an understated pathos and a highly politicised mind at work. These poems will sing in your mind long after you've closed the pages of this determined, honest and uplifting collection.' - Jacqueline Saphra; 'Mary Dickins debut collection Happiness FM hugs you like a warm cup of cocoa. Full of wit and charm her poetry will make you chuckle and joyfully reflect on how beautifully odd this world can be.' - Peter Hayhoe (Muddy Feet Poetry)
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Burning Eye Books Tales from the Other Box
Book SynopsisRick once said he could write a series of books in answer to the all-too-familiar question 'Where are you from?' This isn't that book, but it is an attempt, by Rick, to come to terms with the question itself. Tales from the Other Box looks to blend the traditions of minstrel, bard and griot, to paint itself all at once the voice of old soul elder, trickster motif, and the teller of the tale. Concerned with the liminal regions of ethnicity and identity, this collection dances defiantly along the borders existing within individuals, families and wider society, in order to navigate the spaces between received notions of belonging and what it means to be truly at home.
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Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Cyfres Tonfedd Heddiw: Eiliad ac Einioes
Book SynopsisHer first volume of poetry for adults by Casia Wiliam, comprising sensitive poems responding to the brittleness of life and the passage of time - from the first sweet kiss that disappears in a second to the mystical feelings that stay with us forever.Trade ReviewMae popeth am gyfrol farddoniaeth gyntaf Casia Wiliam yn gryno, o faint y llyfr a hyd mwyafrif y cerddi i deitlau’r cerddi hynny. Ond crynoder llawn sylwedd yw ei hanfod. Eiliad ac Einioes yw’r ddiweddaraf i’w chyhoeddi yn y gyfres Tonfedd Heddiw Barddas sydd, dros y blynyddoedd, wedi rhoi llwyfan i leisiau beirdd ifanc â rhywbeth i’w ddweud a’r ddawn i’w ddweud yn gofiadwy. Ond dywed Casia yn ei chyflwyniad i’r cerddi hyn – 35 ohonynt – ei bod wedi cymryd cryn amser iddi hi fagu’r plwc i gyhoeddi ei chasgliad cyntaf, er bod ganddi sylfeini i ymfalchïo ynddynt. Bu’n aelod cynhyrchiol o dîm Y Ffoaduriaid ar Y Talwrn am rai blynyddoedd a hi oedd Bardd Plant Cymru 2017–19. Yn ystod y cyfnod hwnnw dangosodd fod ganddi’r ddawn ddiamheuol i ysbrydoli plant yn ogystal ag i gyffwrdd calonnau o bob oed drwy ei hawen. Clywn awgrym o feirniadaeth nawddoglyd weithiau wrth i ambell un ddefnyddio’r ansoddair ‘domestig’ i ddisgrifio darn o lenyddiaeth. Ond onid wrth ein traed, yn y manion bob dydd, y gwelwn ni fywyd a’i holl gymhlethdodau yn eglurach nag yn unman arall? Mae mwyafrif y cerddi yn y gyfrol hon â’u gwreiddiau yn y tir ffrwythlon hwnnw, fel y gerdd i ‘Nain Fron Olau’ lle mae gwylio dillad yn sychu ar y lein yn dwyn i gof hanes brwydr nain y bardd â dementia, ac yn cynrychioli cyfle i’w hwyres bellach weld patrymau gwreiddiol y dillad fu’n ‘poetsio’i gilydd’ yn ystod y salwch creulon: ‘Blows, yn gwmni ac yn gapel i gyd,/ a choban efo ogla straeon nos da/ yn dal i swatio ynddi.’ Ciplun cynnes o sgwrs rhwng ei gŵr a’u mab hynaf, yn ei ail iaith, a gawn ni yn ‘Pupur Coch’: ‘Mae wedi creu stori sy’n pefrio yn y llygaid teirblwydd’. Nid fod y profiad o fagu plant yn fêl i gyd. Mae'n hen thema, ond mae delweddau Casia yn y gerdd ‘Dileu’ yn ffres ac yn cyfleu’r ymdeimlad o golli hunaniaeth oherwydd gofynion babi ifanc i’r dim: ‘Pan fydda i’n estyn bron yn lle beiro,/ yn gwthio coetsh yn lle reidio beic,/ yn trafod Calpol yn lle straeon nos Sadwrn.’ Ar y llaw arall mae ei hymateb cadarnhaol, er gwaethaf ei blinder, i’r cwestiwn ‘Tisio chwarae efo fi, Mam?’ yn chwerw felys oherwydd ei hymwybod o dreigl amser, tra bod teimlo ei hail blentyn yn cicio yn y groth drannoeth Etholiad Cyffredinol 2019 yn ysbrydoliaeth iddi hithau gicio yn erbyn y tresi gwleidyddol. Portread cynnil o’r hen ddywediad ‘Drwy gicio a brathu mae cariad yn magu’ a gawn yn ‘Brwnt’ lle mae tynerwch yn llenwi’r bylchau rhwng llinellau ‘Llonydd’, toc wedi ffrae rhwng dau, a’i defnydd crefftus o ddelweddau: ‘Rwyt ti’n dangos ffawydden i mi,/ ei mes, ei dail main,/ dy lais yn dawel/ fel yr egwyl rhwng penillion emyn.’ Mae mwy nag un gerdd yn sôn am effaith llesol ymwneud â byd natur, fel ‘Nofio milltir’ a ‘Cae Pawb’, er enghraifft. Yn yr olaf mae’r bardd yn croesawu’r cyfle i ‘drafod y diwrnod/ efo ’nwylo’. Dotiais at y disgrifiad o sŵn y beic wrth iddi deithio i’r rhandir: ‘Y tsiaen yn udo, a’r sŵn newid-gêr-dolur-gwddw/yn rhygnu’. A hithau wedi gweithio i elusennau fel Oxfam yn y gorffennol ac yn gweithio bellach i’r Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) daw cydymdeimlad y bardd â’r rhai sy’n dioddef amgylchiadau byw dirdynnol mewn sawl rhan o’r byd i’r golwg mewn nifer o’r cerddi eraill. Dyna ‘Daeargryn’, er enghraifft, sy’n cyferbynnu lluniau o drychineb Nepal a wêl ar sgrin deledu mewn ystafell aros ysbyty â’r darlun sgan o’i phlentyn yn y groth yn fuan wedyn: ‘Mae dagrau’n cosi fy nghlustiau/ wrth i’r ddaear grynu.’ Trawiadol hefyd yw’r cyferbyniad rhwng llawnder y Gorllewin a thlodi llwglyd y Trydydd Byd yn ‘Cacen’. Cerdd gomisiwn ar ffurf rhigwm ac yn llais plentyn yw’r ‘Ti’ teimladwy sy’n dathlu pen-blwydd y GIG yn 70 oed. Ac mor addas, o ystyried naws gyffredinol y gyfrol hon, mai ‘Darnau bach, darlun mawr’ yw teitl cerdd gomisiwn arall sy’n dathlu canmlwyddiant sefydlu elusen Achub y Plant. Os bu ‘neuadd fawr rhwng cyfyng furiau’ erioed, yn sicr mae i’w chael yn helaeth rhwng cloriau cryno Eiliad ac Einioes. -- Annes Glynn @ www.gwales.com
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Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Anwyddoldeb
Book SynopsisCyfrol gyntaf o gerddi gan Elinor Wyn Reynolds. Os mai taith yw bywyd, yna cyfrol yw Anwyddoldeb sy'n cerdded llwybr bywyd gan sylwi ar y profiadau a'r dewisiadau ddaw i'n rhan, ac aros weithiau ar hyd y ffordd.
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Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Curiadau: Blodeugerdd LHDTC+
Book SynopsisCuriadau is a pioneering and exciting LHDTQ+ anthology, the first of its type in the Welsh language. Skilful editor Gareth Evans-Jones brings together striking and diverse LHDTQ+ talents. This special collection comprises works by poets, writers and playwrights.
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Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Rhwng Dau Feddwl
Book SynopsisA companion volume to rhwng y llinellau (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2013) which was Christine James's first volume of poetry. Once again, artwork portraying one woman radiates as the cover image, but this time, it's the woman from Diwrnod Marchnad', being Hywel Harries's cubic version of Curnow Vosper's famous work Salem'. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
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