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Poetry Books
Veneficia Publications Whispers in the Wood: Poetry Inspired by Nature,
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£4.74
Rough Trade Books Rory Gallagher LIVE From the Hotel of the Dead
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£10.68
Polari Press Declan
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£10.44
Polari Press On Railton Road
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£10.00
Polari Press a finger in derek jarman's mouth
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£9.00
Polari Press Christmas on Mars
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£10.99
Helen Cox Stiletto Feminism for Beginners
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£12.88
Glagoslav Publications B.V. Glosy / Voices: Bilingual edition
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£17.99
Parthian Books Feral Monster
Book SynopsisFeral Monster follows Jax and her noisy, opinionated brain as they navigate love, identity, class and family. Mashing up grime, R&B, soul, pop and rap, the soundtrack takes us from the high highs to low lows of the hormonal rollercoaster ofadolescence.
£8.55
Chiltern Publishing King Lear
Book SynopsisChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile embossed layers, fine details and beautiful colours of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf.
£999.99
Smith|Doorstop Books The Underlook
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£10.44
Smith|Doorstop Books Kitchens at Night
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£6.50
Smith|Doorstop Books Queen of Hearts
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£6.24
Smith|Doorstop Books Sensitive to Temperature
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£6.00
SmithDoorstop Books All Appears Ordinary
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£6.00
Two Rivers Press Christina the Astonishing
Book SynopsisSaint Christina the Astonishing was born into a poor Belgian family in 1150. She 'died' aged 22 but at her requiem she rose from her coffin and flew away like a bird, wanting to escape the smell of sinful humanity. This was the first of many mad, disobedient exploits in her long and remarkable life. Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders retell - through their own poems as well as brief extracts from medieval religious writers - Christina's story as a woman's search for selfhood. The book includes artworks from Peter Hay, which he created for the original edition in direct response to the poetry. First published in 1998 and long out of print, this new edition makes Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders' sensual and exhilarating poetic collaboration available once more. 'Ascetic and excessive, exasperating, sometimes absurd, the life of the little-known St Christina provokes fantasies and questions. Was she a wonder worker? Or an anorexic, fuelled by hatred of the flesh? Or a powerful woman whose legendary flights set her free from her time and her place? Rather than offering pieties or diagnoses, Lesley Saunders and Jane Draycott, invite us to a feast of soul food. Their two distinctive voices meet the voices of the Middle Ages in an extraordinary blend of the sacred and the profane, the rapt and the irreverent, playful, sensual and deeply felt.' Philip Gross 'Poetry as exciting as this is rare: fusing an earthy sensuality with the spiritual, it lets us hear Christina's voice ringing clearly from the rafters.' Robyn BolamTrade Review'Christina the Astonishing is strange, wild, exhilarating: as in a piece of medieval polyphony, the authors mingle their voices, making connections between history and fantasy, between inner life and outer witness. I was intrigued, entertained, and - yes - astonished.' Marina Warner
£10.80
Two Rivers Press Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Cord Surgery
Book SynopsisIn the title poem of Katherine Meehan's debut collection, Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Cord Surgery and Other Poems, the poet presents an examination of losses, failures, and griefs, all of them tempered by an unusual humour. Grounded in the particularities of location, these poems wander between urban and rural spaces, from Los Angeles and Appalachia to the English home counties. Glass eels, Grendel's mother and a host of nameless 'losers' are given voice as the collection explores the tension between the futility of the speech act and its necessity.Trade Review'Katherine Meehan is a master at turning the mundane into the transcendent. Her first collection, Dame Julie Andrews' Botched Vocal Cord Surgery is rich with sensual detail and striking imagery, it moves between countryside and city, fog and bright light, grief and joy. The spectre of loss haunts these poems, both in the form of grief and in delicately wrought eco poems that fear for what is yet to be lost. This is a collection of many colours, populated by trees and insects, monsters and complicated humans. There is a whirlwind of biblical floods, "the smell of rotten lamb's blood" and "all the hickories, their limbs encased in silk as if by fog." There is also, incidentally, the most atmospheric poem about a dishwasher ever written. Do not miss this fleet of perfectly made poems, give them the chance to haunt you.' - Phoebe Stuckes; 'It's an impressive trick to pull off: poems which seem both spacious and confidential at the same time, poems like doors opened into new worlds of irony, or else closed to stay - though not cancel - a constant melancholic hum. This is a brilliant, detailed collection, unafraid to address weighty matters, the whole dang thing, with wit and a hard-won understanding of loss' - James Womack
£10.44
Two Rivers Press The Magic Theatre
Book SynopsisA new collection from James Harpur, chronicling his time at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1970s. Compelling, humorous and poignant, The Magic Theatre is an enthralling rite of passage amid the full catastrophe' of university life.
£10.79
Granta Publications Ltd Brother Poem
Book SynopsisA speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG. At the heart of Brother Poem is a sequence addressed to a fictional brother. Through these fragments, Will Harris attempts to reckon with the past while mourning what never existed. The text moves, cloud-like, through states of consciousness, beings and geographies, to create a moving portrait of contemporary anxieties around language and the need to communicate. With pronominal shifts, broken dialogisms, and obsessive feedback loops, it reflects on the fictions we tell ourselves, and in our attempts to live up to the demands of others. From a dimension uncannily like our own, intuited through signs, whispers, and glitches, Brother Poem is shadowed by the loss of what can't be seen. Telling stories of bizarre familial reckonings and difficult relationships, about love and living with others, it is a deeply sensitive coming-of-age poetics.Trade ReviewAfter the triumph of RENDANG, Will Harris takes us in this captivating new collection to a place altogether stranger, where the self is polished to a blur and memory a series of forking paths: 'Each time / you forget & remember the experience / becomes truer.' With uncommon brilliance and linguistic originality, this is a book that unpicks the myths we weave around ourselves as individuals or as nations. Harris is a poet I turn to for the solace of an idea perfectly caught. These are poems to dwell in; they challenge and restore. -- Sarah Howe, author of Loop of JadeIn Brother Poem, Will Harris questions the real in everyday life and words, through crumbs of the past, crumbs of experience, through absence and loss, through media harm, 'cloudless dream,' and 'river mind,' migrating in the lines-what to say and how or to whom to address it? When the spirit moves as they do in these poems to you, carried forth in 'I-not-I' and others, bound by Harris's scopic reach and cortical hum, crackling like lightning in a jar, released into our cells of shared feelings, we jubilate. -- Jeffrey Yang
£10.44
Crumps Barn Studio Letters From Your Neighbour Far Away: a powerful
Book Synopsis"Dear neighbour, What a good idea. People don't talk any more ... From your neighbour a long distance away" A connection is forged between people a world apart. Insightful and full of humour, this is a beautiful portrait of a community built by letters.Trade ReviewPraise for Beverley Gordon: "I wanted to saviour every word and pace my way through, but I couldn’t put it down ... this collection is relevant and thought provoking, I laughed I smiled and I thought it was deep ... what a great little read" ~ 5 stars
£7.59
Partnership Publishing Poetic Life
Book SynopsisH.O.Ward shares his debut poetry collection in: Poetic Life. "Enjoy a poetic gift of life events, Thoughts, memories and drama. Im sure there will be one or two, You will like, dislike, laugh and cry over. Long to forget and choose to remember... Over all I hope you will enjoy them. They range from my early 1990 endeavours, Round the fountain and the silly magician. When I began to write poetry up to most, Recent contributions of 2020 haiku poetry."
£9.49
Waterloo Press The House Where Courage Lives
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£999.99
Written Off Publishing The Dead and I
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£6.00
Written Off Publishing TransCript
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£7.50
Eyewear Publishing An Equal Light
Book SynopsisChristopher Jackson's first full collection is a landmark moment where English poetry regains its spiritual and formal force. As the book begins: Long as I can remember I've been pursued/by a suspicion of yellow at my back' (The Lion'). These are poems which acknowledge that the world is in constant flux (change shall sweep through on the unjust and the just' (March 2020')) while also hoping for transcendent joy (I also aim to outlive the wind' Dandelions'). In Jackson's art it is acknowledged that the darker moments are secondary to those moments which are dominated by what he calls the ingenuity of love'. All these poems are designed to rescue us from despair it is a book which will change the reader, and make the ground firmer beneath your feet.
£10.79
Eyewear Publishing Before the Cameras Leave Ukraine:: An Anthology
Book SynopsisIn February 2022, the world watched in horror as news outlets began reporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then tens of thousands of people have died, been wounded, and millions displaced. Poets worldwide rose tothe occasion, to create anthologies and compose poems to bear witness to this historic outrage. The 45 poems in this collection, ranging from polemic to artfully crafted verse (and sometimes both) have been curated by editor RebeccaGraham to express solidarity with the victims of war. This is a collection of poems about war, atrocity, trauma, survival, and being a refugee and consequently a book also about friendship, humanity, love, and the best of us. It is not a primer on hate, or a propaganda tool. Instead, it showcases how poetry can rise to historical moments, and formally engage chaos with authenticity, compassion and intelligence and above all, creativity. One hundred percent of the sales profits will go to the Sanctuary Foundation, a charity that helps to relocate Ukrainian people to safety and homes in the UK.
£11.69
Eyewear Publishing All These Things Aren't Really Lost
Book SynopsisEge Dundar is a young poet and activist from Turkey, forced to relocate to London and Berlin unable to return home for over seven years. His debut poetry collection, written in English, dives into the pain and longing that loss brings, contrasted by the beauty of all that has been found. Relating his experience with the struggle for human rights and a wider exodus of self-discovery, Dundar holds on to poetry when a titanic darkness descends and lights shine through minuscule cracks.''Space unveiled ahead, a quietude akin to death, a blue cocoon behind, vacuumed, like the shelter that is a breath.'
£10.79
The Conrad Press God in all I see: a collection of poems
Book SynopsisEnjoy the beauty of the changing seasons from a new perspective with this stunning collection of poetry! This poetry collection is, indeed, about seeing God in everything. Throughout this book, the nature of the changing seasons is observed through the eyes of the poet and her relationship with God. Enjoy the tranquility of ‘Waterlilies’, the hustle and bustle of ‘Christmas markets’ and the fleetingness of ‘Time’, amongst other seasonal-based poems. Take the time to see nature from a different perspective, as the author takes time out of her life to comment on the world around her.Table of ContentsAs the seasons change 6 Spring Life! 8 Growth 9 Water 10 Dandelions 11 Easter Sunday 12 Flight 13 Dawn musings 14 Giver of life 15 A snapshot of time 16 Summer Creation 18 Wings 19 Sunbeams 20 A place of safety 21 Water lilies 22 Transformation 23 Stones 24 Time 25 Autumn Autumn 28 Scottish highlands 29 Light 30 Rainclouds 31 Battles at dusk 33 Lighthouse 34 Hope stirring 35 Halloween 36 Winter Advent 38 Mary 39 Joseph 40 Elizabeth 41 The child 42 Snow 43 Winter wonderland 44 Snowscape 45 The donkey’s journey 46 The Light 47 Angels of hope 48 The shepherds 49 Lucia 50 Christmas trees 51 Christmas markets 52 Christmas poem 53 The star 55 Men of wisdom 56 Egypt 57 The innocents 58 Celebration 59 The cornerstone 60 Love at Christmas 61 The visitor 62 Christmas day 63
£999.99
Playdead Press Elizabeth Fry The Angel of Prisons
Book SynopsisThree prisoners have a story to tell. It's the story of Elizabeth Fry and how she changed prisons forever. But this is not a history lesson. You'll hear both contemporary and historical language. You'll see both modern-day and period mashup costumes. Because the question remains the same today as it did in Elizabeth Fry's time: does prison actually work?Elizabeth Fry is forever linked to Newham because she and her husband lived from 1829 to 1845 in Upton Lane House, West Ham. In addition to her prison work, she was a regular visitor at gypsy encampments in Plashet, dispensing food, clothing and medicine to the local Gypsy and Irish communities.Angel of the Prisons is the latest instalment in The Newham Plays, a series of site-specific, localist-focussed plays rooted in Newham's history, culture and people, created and written by James Kenworth. The plays are a unique collaboration between a writer, director, designer and professional actors working alongside students from Newham schools and young actors from local youth groups/theatres.
£9.49
Playdead Press Timeless
Book SynopsisI read somewhere once that your memory is who you are. It's what makes you the person you are. So what if you don't have one anymore? What then Tell me that?Martin has a problem, he can't make new memories. Since he went to the dentist more than a decade ago, every morning when he wakes up it's 2008. He's a London cabbie with The Knowledge, but he can't remember yesterday. Inspired by a true story, Timeless spends a single day in Martin's bewildering world. It's strange and unsettling for him, but his wife has the daily heartbreak of explaining just what's wrong. And the strain is beginning to show.Written by award-winning playwright Brian Coyle, Timeless premiered at The Hen & Chickens in Islington, London, in 2018, performed by John Rayment and directed by Charlotte Peters.
£9.49
Playdead Press The Mad Gay King
Book SynopsisA play by Christopher Adams-Cohen
£9.49
Playdead Press Just An Ordinary Lawyer
Book SynopsisTunji Sowande arrived in London from Nigeria in 1945 to study law and pursue his interest in music. He rose to become a well respected barrister, the first Black Head of Chambers, and finally the first (part-time) Black Judge in Britain.He was an active solo concert performer as a baritone singer, giving concerts for charities and to entertain residents of old people's homes. On top of it all, he was a great lover of sports, particularly cricket, proudly becoming a member of the exclusive Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), known as the home of cricket.Sowande muses on Imperialism, Colonialism and Black people's struggles for freedom, justice and human rights, in Africa and the diaspora, from the point of view of one who would rather just be a good lawyer, watch sports, and spread love and peace through the medium of song.
£9.49
Playdead Press Marshmallow Me
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£10.44
Playdead Press Almost The Birthday Party
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£10.44
Playdead Press Second Summer of Love
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£10.44
Playdead Press Monster
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£10.44
Playdead Press Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
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£10.44
Playdead Press The Highgate Vampire
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£10.44
Shoestring Press Across a Sheet of Paper
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£9.50
Shoestring Press In an Unguarded Moment
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£11.40
Shoestring Press Aesopean
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£7.50
Shoestring Press Look to the Crocus
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£10.00
Shoestring Press Two Ceremonies at the Border
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£13.59
Shoestring Press Bollocks: A Word On Trial
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£9.50
Shoestring Press Sediment of Light
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£13.30
Valley Press The Whole Island
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£8.54
The Emma Press In the Name of Red
Book SynopsisA debut pamphlet of poems from Z.R. Ghani rich with desire, shame, grief, faith, love, and at the forefront of it all: the colour red.
£7.00
Dedalus Press Romance Options: Love Poems for Today
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£11.25
