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Cyhoeddiadau Barddas O Ffrwyth y Gangen Hon
Book SynopsisPoems about joy - this was the open call to "female poets from every background" about a year ago. The anthology has bore its fruits, with contributions from familiar and brand new voices. From tender poems to noisy and funny ones, you''ll get to taste a range of poetry in this volume - combined with the imaginative artwork of Myths n Tits - to celebrate womanhood in its entirety.
£15.95
Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Chwarter Eiliad
Book SynopsisInsinct is at the root of this sensory volume. This collection of poetry is inspired by the quarter of a second when something strikes and inspires a poem. Here are poems about memories, nature and belonging. They encompass Jo Heyde's life, from her early childhood to the present day, and the colours, textures and tastes emanate with the music... -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
£11.97
Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Holl Lawenydd Gwyllt
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Cyhoeddiadau Barddas Y Caeth yn Rhydd
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The Indigo Press Epic Annette: A Heroine's Tale
Book SynopsisCould you put your beliefs before your family? Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brilliant and fierce, she was a medical student living in a world at war who, at nineteen years old, joined the French Resistance and saved the lives of two Jewish children in Paris on the eve of their deportation to the camps. As a doctor and mother devoted to justice and equality, Annette was later found guilty of treachery for supporting the Algerian FLN in France and sentenced to ten years in prison. The story of her dramatic escape, trial in absentia and decades in exile, separated from her children, resembles that of the great heroes whose love for individuals had to compete with their destiny and love of humanity. Annette will remain with you forever. With this gripping personal tale of heroism and grief, author Anne Weber joins Homer in her ability to conjure a titan in an epic poem.Trade Review‘A reading delight from start to finish.’ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/anne-weber-deutscher-buchpreis-annette-ein-heldinnenepos-rezension-buchkritik-1.4891164 -- Joseph Hanimann * Die Süddeutsche Zeitung *‘A bold and moving exploration of the ethics of heroism.’ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/annette-ein-heldinnenepos-anne-weber-book-review/ - review of the German Edition -- Anna Katharina Schaffner * Times Literary Supplement *Editor’s Choice Preview ‘A riveting and highly original retelling of the life of Annette Beaumanoir.’ https://www.thebookseller.com/previews/epic-annette-a-heroine8217s-tale -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *‘A heroine in a murky world: Anne Beaumanoir and the ethics of resistance’ ‘At the heart of Weber’s book is the instability of our conceptions of heroism, nuanced by hindsight.’ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/annette-ein-heldinnenepos-anne-weber-book-review/ -- Anna Katharina Schaffner * The TLS *Guest review by Anne Sebba: Epic Annette - A Heroine’s Tale by Anne Weber, translated by Tess Lewis ‘Annette Beaumanoir is a rare heroine whose fierce courage almost demands an unusual, and beautiful, account of her life. She stood out in life and this epic will ensure that she is honoured in death. She deserves nothing less.’ http://reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2022/06/guest-review-by-anne-sebba-epic-annette.html -- Anne Sebba * Writer's Review *Epic Annette – Translation and international acclaim ‘An exceptional prose poem’ https://www.new-books-in-german.com/epic-annette/ -- Ruth Martin * New Books in German *Epic Annette: a nuanced, immensely moving testimony to an improbable life ‘While emulating an ancient form, Weber’s poem is charged with a political mission to bring to life stories historically left untold. It’s a bravura move that pays off; Epic Annette is a history lesson unlike any other’ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2022/08/20/epic-annette-nuanced-immensely-moving-testimony-to-an-improbable-life/ -- Roisin Kiberd * The Irish Times *Book Review: “Epic Annette” — What is Heroism? "Historical asides like this one, stunning at least to this reader, provide more than enrichment; they expand the biography of an extraordinary individual into an expressionist portrait of a swath of one European century." https://artsfuse.org/269440/book-review-epic-annette-what-is-heroism/ -- Kai Maristed * The Arts Fuse *Epic Annette – Anne Weber https://www.full-stop.net/2023/03/31/reviews/emily-hershman/epic-annette-anne-weber/ -- Emilt Hershman * Full Stop *This Week in Books: The hair of an It Girl laid on an altar for the dead. https://endoftheworld.substack.com/p/this-week-in-books-the-hair-of-an * The End of the World Review *The Watchlist: May 2023 - Words Without Borders -- Tobias Carroll * Words Without Borders (WWB) *
£10.79
Red Press Ltd Rewriting Stella
Book SynopsisThis is a story about what we stand for, and how that makes us who we are. It’s a coming-of-age tale about a girl, a boy, a dog, a dam, a travel ban, an orange toddler, a political movement and the hip-hop guide to life. It’s a novel that confronts questions of privilege, identity, voice and influence in a post-truth world. But most of all, it’s about the power of the stories we tell ourselves.
£999.99
Smith|Doorstop Books The Laureate's Choice 2018
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Smith|Doorstop Books Kolme Tre: Three Writers from Finland
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Smith|Doorstop Books Schist
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Smith|Doorstop Books Black Mascara (Waterproof)
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£6.00
Smith|Doorstop Books Takeaway
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£6.24
Smith|Doorstop Books From a Borrowed Land
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Smith|Doorstop Books The Laureate's Choice Anthology
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£999.99
Smith|Doorstop Books By Degrees
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£5.52
Knives Forks and Spoons Housework
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Knives Forks and Spoons The Journey
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£10.20
Howgill House Books Shakespeare Tales: Tragedies
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Howgill House Books Shakespeare Tales: Roman Tales
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Valley Press The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry
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£10.44
Valley Press The Ministry of Flowers
Book Synopsis"Between My Country and the Others There is a Sea But Flowers negotiate between us As Ministry." Emily Dickinson As the world grapples with the tragic human cost of the global pandemic and its aftermath, the need for kindness and gratitude has become more important than ever. The Ministry of Flowers is in many ways a book for our times, one that offers hope in a changing world. The poems call into stark relief the brevity of human life, while also emphasizing the urgent need to connect with others and offer acts of kindness as a way of healing and moving forward.Taking its title from an Emily Dickinson poem, the book explores how flowers, both real and metaphorical, are at the heart of a kinder world. With a strong ecological focus, the poems celebrate nature's continual ministry in our lives and highlight the need to respect the ecosystems that sustain us. The Ministry of Flowers speaks eloquently to a post-pandemic society, one in which compassion as well as forgiveness (of both self and others) become the seeds of the gentler, fairer world we seek.
£10.80
Valley Press Unruled Journal
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Valley Press Ampersand
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Shoestring Press Planes Flying Over
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Shoestring Press Service Cancelled
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Shoestring Press The Kentish Rebellion
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Shoestring Press Poems For The Year 2020: Eighty Poets On The
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£9.00
Shoestring Press Thin Air
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£10.00
Scripts to Stage Publishing How Long Is Forever
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£7.46
Salmon Poetry As Moon and Mother Collide
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Salmon Poetry the light we cannot see
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£10.45
Salmon Poetry Days of Clear Light: A Festschrift in Honour of
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£17.10
Verve Poetry Press Bennetts Hill Blues
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£9.49
Verve Poetry Press Besharam
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Verve Poetry Press Typhoon Etiquette
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Verve Poetry Press Rocksong
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Verve Poetry Press The One Girl Gremlin
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Verve Poetry Press I told you everything
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Verve Poetry Press Into Eros
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Story Machine Erebus
Book SynopsisIn 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent.Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father’s journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and artistic journeys, exploring communication across time and space, and experiments in scientific and poetic measure.Erebus transports us to an Antarctic of paradox. A land where perpetual daylight balances months of austral darkness. A land of encounters with the unknown, and with mortality – but where camaraderie and faith are the only defence against catastrophe.At its heart, Erebus is a visit to the frozen underworld, and an exploration of how we find a place for ourselves in this vast and often unforgiving world we call home.
£13.30
Colenso Books Memorials, nightscapes, etcetera: poems of
Book SynopsisCollected poems written between 1963 and 2020, most of them published here for the first time.
£13.75
Colenso Books Reading the signs
Book SynopsisA collection of 111 mainly short poems (many of them haiku) with a focus on man's relation to nature.
£10.23
Colenso Books Ars Poetica: Poetry within Poetry and other poems
Book SynopsisPoems on the craft, the risks and the subversive power of poetry, selected by the translator in conjunction with the author from the the Greek Collected Edition of Andonis Fostieris’ poems published in 2021 (Apanta ta Poiimata 1970–2020). A bilingual edition with the Greek text from that edition and facing English translations by Irene Loulakaki-Moore. In her Introduction the translator writes:- If Fostieris draws the reader’s attention to the alphabet, its sounds and the processes of syllabification, reading and writing, in other words to the “materiality of the text” and the “mechanisms of writing”, it is because, like many poets of his generation, he is suspicious of the ways in which vocabularies create descriptions of the world and ourselves, instead of adequately or inadequately expressing them. The socio-political, economic and intellectual developments in Greece and elsewhere in the 1970s rendered obsolete previous generations’ search for the “lost centre” and the grand narratives that validate it. Unlike the Modernist poet-authority, Fostieris, does not stand in the centre of his creation, like a unique owner of truth and sole creator of meaning… Fostieris’ poetics surpasses Modernism and marks a turn towards the Post-modern, constituting a new approach to the role and function of contemporary poetry, while it also proposes a coherent conceptualization of the role of language and its relation to the truth… One could say that Fostieris and the poets of his Generation attempted what Surrealism (another avant-garde movement which met with a great deal of resistance in Greece) had attempted: the secularization of inspiration… The transformation of inspiration after the Surrealists made available for everyone what had been the privilege of the poet-initiate, in line with Lautréamont’s injunction: “Poetry should be made by everyone. Not just by one.” With his “prolonged hesitation between sound and meaning” (Paul Valéry) Fostieris wants to bring the written word closer to the mental experience, the feeling or the thing in itself. He does not deny the referential function of language, he only exhibits his suspiciousness towards the authority that says, “my language is true”. By doing so he cleverly abstains from imposing on the readers his version of meaning, inviting them instead to join in the game of signification.Table of ContentsIntroduction ix From THE GREAT JOURNEY (1971) Poetry is a noble shroud 3 From DARK EROS (1977) The black 5 Fire poem 7 Who are you 9 And so they go by 11 Metamorphosis 13 The poem 15 Decadence 17 To the critics 19 POETRY WITHIN POETRY (1977): sixteen poems 21 From THE D AND A OF DEATH (1987) The prodigal 53 Impervious to immortality 55 That the poet must if he would be a poet 57 The sound of words 59 The sound of the world 61 Genesis 63 From THOUGHT BELONGS TO MOURNING (1996) Thought belongs to mourning 65 River poem 67 Before an audience 69 Metapoetry 73 From PRECIOUS OBLIVION (2003) Poetry is not made with ideas 77 Purgation 79 You always emerge alive from a poem 81 The spoken words remain 85 From LANDSCAPES OF NOTHINGNESS (2013) Writing 89 I write 91 I’d like to write a poem 93 The tare-weight 95 The cell 97 Poetry 99 The poem 101 The poets 103 Memorial of a birth 105 Notes 107 Bibliography 111
£12.50
Colenso Books Two Years at the Road Side: Reflections, dreams
Book SynopsisAn extremely varied collection of poetry mostly written in the period May 2021 to October 2023. The second part of the title, "at the road side" is, according to the Introduction, “a metaphor for where an ageing man feels himself to be in relation to the deteriorating world situation”. Included are several poems responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and towards the end of the book to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. There are autobiographical sketches from the distant past, humorous and even silly poems, accounts of several dreams and their connection to reality, some anti-Christian poems, and as an appendix a nine-page piece of literary criticism in verse attacking Wordsworth's Ode on "The Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood". Many poems use constrained verse forms such as tanka and haiku and the 23-syllable 4-line stanza that Hirst has been using since the 1990s.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction viii Him and me 3 Lost consonants 3 Where three roads meet 5 Lost butterfly 7 Linked-verse meditations on the13th of May 2021 8 speaking of the dead 10 Diptych (23rd of June 2021) 11 The Narrow Road 14 Water moths 16 Fehim and his villages (remembering Turkey, Autumn 1968) 19 Strange question, inconclusive answer 21 To die of cancer on the 28th of August 1950 (7th of September 2021) 22 Another day 24 A Roman house 24 So it was you (6th of October 2021) 25 Overloading 26 Two-moon Junction (Luton Airport Parkway) 26 Shellfish 27 Autumn Hill Reservation, Princeton, New Jersey 28 “Tonight at Ten . . . the worst drought in years” (3rd of December 2021) 28 Frozen January 30 Ще не вмерла України SOME TANGENTIAL THOUGHTS ON A “SPECIAL MILITARY OCCUPATION” Poem for Zaporizhzhia Day (4th of March 2022) 31 The contents of a room (27th of March 2022) 32 Royal appointees (16th of April 2022) 34 “a host, of golden daffodils” (16th of April 2022) 34 Bird scarers (27th of April 2022) 36 No pathetic bunker suicide for you (2nd of May 2022) 37 ———— o ———— Seeing eye-to-eye 39 The sound of silence 40 “Lived by the It” 41 Glimpses of my father 42 Road sense 44 God in his Gardens 46 This New Testament of ours 48 It’s all just chicken shit (and eight other titles) 50 Gone with the Wind 51 Wasp sting 51 A long unfinished sentence (16th of July 2022) 52 Late pick-up at the station (26th of August 2022) 54 England, England über Alles (10th of September 2022) 54 No mellow fruitfulness 56 A split quatrain in blank verse (26th of January 2023) 56 A Vote of Tanks (26th of January 2023) 57 At sixes and sevens — thoughts on some of this week’s news (27th of January 2023) 58 Youthanasia (4th of February 2023) 60 The grinding of tectonic plates (10th of February 2023) 62 The Owl and her poor Pussycats (poem for a Braver Man than I) (2nd of May 2023) 63 That Owl again (26th of May 2023) 64 “Secret Knowledge — Stradivarius and me” (6th of June 2023) 68 Hellenic Train (12th of June 2023) 70 Prehistoric spacemen 72 Alcohol-free 73 Titanic idiocy (21st of June 2023) 74 Fish tanka (4th of September 2023) 76 Incomplete scenario, August 1971 78 The end of summer (7th of September 2023) 79 Nomenclature (13th of September 2023) 80 3 in 1 81 The bees’ needs (25th of September 2023) 82 Reflections on a funeral from afar (27th of September 2023) 83 Brief exchange with Mr T. S. Eliot OM 85 Alternating currents (29th of September 2023) 86 Direct current (29th of September 2023) 87 Gradual ascent to wisdom 88 Being and having 89 What does AI mean? 89 Reborn, rechristened, 1964 90 Top-heavy international sonnet (30th of September 2023) 92 Oligarchy, or Plutocracy (call it what you will, it’s here, it kills) 92 Too many voices heard in Rama (10th of October 2023) 93 The Judgement of God 94 Policing the World (11th of October 2023) 95 No holds barred (12th of October 2023) 96 You have been warned (13th–16th of October 2023) 97 A PERSONAL EPILOGUE The time will come 101 for the love of trees (an epitaph) 103 APPENDIX Words worth and words not worth so much 107 Index of titles and first lines 118
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Sad Press Delicious All Day
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The Emma Press The Stack of Owls is Getting Higher
Book SynopsisIn a sequence of poems set in the mountainous Deep South of America, Dawn Watson vividly evokes an ominous landscape of gas stations, jackrabbits and drifting hawks, where copperhead snakes fall out of branches and ‘magnolia cones / thum[p] the roofs’ of wooden outhouses. These poems, based on the writer’s time spent in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas, are interwoven with pieces set in the poet’s native Belfast which speak urgently to the raw realities of sexuality, juvenile detention, and the Irish border. Many poems feature speakers driving from place to place, capturing the in-between states in which so much of experience is actually lived. Precise and strange images coalesce into physical and interior landscapes. Alternately surreal and direct, and always joyously inventive, Watson offers a clear and unsettling vision of what is and isn’t there in these anxious, contemporary times.
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The Emma Press Milk Snake
Book SynopsisIn Milk Snake, Toby Buckley invites us to look at the world from a slightly different angle, where small things become unsettling if you look closely enough. The poet explores queerness, displacement and trauma through clear-voiced, deceptively gentle poems about fishermen, maggots and bees. bleary from sleep and warmwater and no glassesi spot an uncertain commaslidinghe drags his tail up myshower wall cumbersomeand not unmaggotesque and ican seehis gutsor maybe it’shis dinner- from 'companion'
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Black Shuck Books Quiet Hauntings
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Banipal Books The Stone Serpent: Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for
Book SynopsisSyrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah brings to life a story that can never again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina, the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at rest beside Hadrian’s Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their unique story. Barates’ elegy to his beloved wife, who died young at 30, is, however, not about mythologising history. With the poet himself an exile in Britain for 40 years from his birthplace of Damascus, the poem forges new connections with today, linking al-Jarrah’s personal journey with that of his ancient forebear Barates, who resisted slavery with love. Barates’ Eastern song also questions whether the young Celtic fighters, the Tattooed Ones, were really barbarians, as they emerged from forest mists to defend their hills and rivers and their way of life from the Romans, and died or lay wounded at the twisting stone serpent that was Hadrian’s Wall.
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