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Poetry Books
Nick Hern Books The Normal Heart
Book SynopsisLarry Kramer's passionate, polemical drama, set during the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The Normal Heart traces the story of one man who, while his friends are dying around him, strives to break through a conspiracy of silence, indifference and hostility from public officials and the gay community, and gain recognition for a virus that threatens to change everything. The play received its British premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1986. Thirty-five years after that premiere, the play's prescience and its searing emotional power are beyond doubt. It was revived on Broadway in 2011 (winning the Tony Award for Best Revival) and adapted for television in 2014 (receiving the Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie). This new edition of the play is published alongside a major revival at the National Theatre, London, in 2021, directed by Dominic Cooke. It features the definitive text of the play, extensive supplementary material including a new introduction by critic and broadcaster David Benedict, and tributes to Larry Kramer by Russell T Davies, Tony Kushner and Matthew López, all of whom have also contributed to the canon of dramatic work about HIV/AIDS – with, respectively, It's A Sin, Angels in America and The Inheritance.Trade Review'Burning, argumentative, witty and contentious play about the political and emotional consequences of the AIDS crisis' * Observer *'Informative, heart-rending, witty, revelatory, poleaxing, a work of utter topicality and transcendent power' * The Listener *'An epic piece of reportage' * The Times *'[A] shattering evening of theatre' * Whatsonstage *'A glorious, wrenching watch... It's a talky play from an era when things weren't talked about, with a rock-solid emotional core and a leavening seam of dark humour. It's terribly, terribly moving' * Evening Standard *'Other plays about the period would follow... But they stood on the shoulders of this one. It demands our consideration' * Telegraph *'Captures the terror, fear, shame and fury of the moment... Kramer's play is living history, written without the benefit of hindsight, and it remains undimmed by time' * The Stage *
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Nick Hern Books Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan
Book Synopsis'Today in Afghanistan there are many important issues that we are facing in our country, and I want us to look at some of these issues. So I am asking you, the audience, to help answer a very important question. Britney or Shakira?' Afghanistan. It's 2004. Farook and Samia broadcast live every day to the whole of Kabul, delivering ninety minutes of musical bliss: Britney, Backstreet Boys and Enrique Iglesias. But when their show starts to make waves, the two young friends must take on repressive forces to build a new Afghanistan. Inspired by the true story of Afghanistan's first youth music programme, Waleed Akhtar's play Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan explores a world following the US invasion that is complex, contradictory and shocking – all to a soundtrack of early noughties' pop. The play premiered at Brixton House, London, in 2022, directed by Anna Himali Howard, before touring the UK. It was presented with HighTide, in association with Mercury Theatre Colchester. Waleed Akhtar was later named Most Promising New Playwright at the 2023 OffWestEnd Awards, for Kabul Goes Pop and The P Word.Trade Review'A fizzing tribute to bubblegum songs of hope' * Guardian *'A cracker... pulses with energy... powerful and compelling... heartbreaking' * The Stage *'An elegantly written, often very funny, piece that works precisely because it takes a moral position on Afghanistan… underlying every word, there is a raw and admirable fury' * New European *
£10.44
Nick Hern Books Samuel Takes a Break
Book SynopsisIt is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It''s his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle''s dark history, and to do it all with a smile. Thank you, Samuel!The tourists are Samuel''s guests, and they''re on a journey of self-discovery. But they''re here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie. They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him.Rhianna Ilube''sSamuel Takes a Break? in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Toursis a genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past. It was shortlisted for the Women''s Prize for Playwriting and the Verity Bargate Award, and was a finalist for the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It premiered at The Yard Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike.
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to
Book SynopsisSelected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England’s links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly enclosure, and colonial figures, such as plantation-owners and East India Company nabobs. Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain’s cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses and stately homes. This is a shared history: Britons’ ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. Green Unpleasant Land argues that, in response to recent advances in British imperial history, contemporary authors have reshaped the pastoral writing to break the powerful association between the countryside and Englishness.
£999.99
Carcanet Press Ltd Windmills in Flames: Old and New Poems
Book SynopsisTom Raworth's Collected Poems (2003) was acclaimed by the Times Literary Supplement as a milestone: thirty years' work by a major poet of English modernism gathered for the first time. Raworth moves on, radical, inventive and politically engaged. Windmills on Fire takes a vertiginous ride through the language landscape we inhabit. Poems fragment and distort, veer in unexpected directions, reconfigure. Playful, often funny, Windmills on Fire is fuelled by anger at the use of language as an instrument of political deceit and military aggression.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Hat-Stand Union
Book SynopsisPlayful in earnest, Caroline Bird in her fourth book of poems turns familiar stories on their heads. Adrift in a surreal world of the everyday, Bird's protagonists declaim Chekhov in supermarkets, purchase mail-order tears, sing love-songs to hat-stands. At the centre of the collection Bird evokes the sinister side of Camelot, haunted by the experiments of its crazed tyrant-king. Bird's characters and voices are at once savvy and vulnerable; underlying the exuberance is empathy with those who have lost themselves somewhere along the way. The everyday world of The Hat-Stand Union is beautiful, ominous and full of surprise.Trade Review'Bird is irrepressible; she simply explodes with poetry. The work erupts, spring-loaded, funny, sad, deadly - you don't know if a bullet will come out of the barrel or a flag with the word BANG on it.' --Simon Armitage 'Caroline Bird has always written wise, bitterly funny and intellectually bracing poems. What has developed over the course of four collections is a voice heartbreaking in vision while simultaneously consoling in its constant and inspired invention.' --Luke Kennard 'A carnival of characters spills out of these poems, chased by paparazzi, doing somersaults and cartwheels with language... Caroline Bird puts us on the inside looking deeper in, under the glittering skin to the place where laughter begins, where mothers are children, where people feel pain and speak in tongues, where tongues are knives and "Someone still has to stay here and die".' --Imtiaz DharkerTable of Contents1 MYSTERY TEARS Sealing Wax Username: specialgirl2345 Mothers Snow Hotel Unacceptable Language Mystery Tears Method Acting The Dry Well A Dialogue between Artist and Muse Hey Las Vegas Genesis 9 Possible Reasons for Throwing a Cat into a Wheelie Bin Day Room Faith Dolores There Once Was a Boy Named Bosh Thoughts inside a Head inside a Kennel inside a Church The Only People in Paradise Fantasy Role-Play Empty Nest Spat How the Wild Horse Stopped Me The Island Woman of Coma Dawn 2 THE TRUTH ABOUT CAMELOT Prologue I. A Confident Local Youth II. Some Last Words III. Urchin Who Is Stalking Guinevere's Scullery Maid IV. Camelot Estate Agent V. Exiled Journalist Disguised as Shrub VI. Arthur's Crab-Boy Vision Faces Scalpel Practicalities VII. Crab Quotes VIII. You IX. Raving King Speech X. Lancelot's Poetry Reading in Smoky Bar XI. Arthur, Arthur, Arthur... XII. A Disgruntled Knight 3 SEA BED Damage This Was All About Me 2:19 to Whitstable Break-up Party Two Cents Run Sea Bed Public Detectives Facts To Whom It May Concern Screening The Promises Say When Kissing What Shall We Do With Your Subconscious? Limerence Medicine Izzy Conqueror Atheism I'm Sorry This Poem Is So Painful The Stock Exchange The Last House The Fun Palace Marriage of Equals Corine
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd Propa Propaganda
Book SynopsisPropa Propaganda was Benjamin Zephaniah’s second collection from Bloodaxe. First published in 1996, it includes some of his classic poems, such as ‘I Have a Scheme’, ‘The Death of Joy Gardner’, ‘White Comedy’ and ‘The Angry Black Poet’. Best known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults – and his poetry with attitude for children – he was the first person to record with the Wailers after the death of Bob Marley, in a musical tribute to Nelson Mandela, which Mandela heard while in prison on Robben Island. He has published three other poetry books with Bloodaxe, City Psalms, Too Black Too Strong and To Do Wid Me (a DVD-book including a film portrait by Pamela Robertson-Pearce). His autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah, was published by Scribner in 2018.Table of Contents9 I Have a Scheme 11 The Death of Joy Gardner 13 Terrible World 14 White Comedy 15 Belly of de Beast 17 De Rong Song 18 Save Our Sons (SOS) 19 Reggae Head 21 Dry 22 Meditate and Communicate 24 More Animal Writes 26 Who Dun It? 29 The Angry Black Poet 31 Poor Millionaires 32 Silence in Our Screams 34 Back to What 35 To Be Seen, To Be Done 36 One Day in Babylon 37 City Lights 38 No Problem 39 Family Values 40 Dancing the Tradition 42 Neighbours 43 Another World 45 The War Process 46 Want To Be a Soldier 48 Sit Con 50 City River Blues 51 Tricky 51 Altered Ego 52 Homeward Bound 54 Parents Today 55 The Curse of Count Empire 57 Art 57 Words 57 Hope 58 Mad Human Disease 59 Master, Master 60 Cybersex 63 Ageism 64 Acts of Parliament: motion 1 65 Acts of Parliament: motion 2 66 Acts of Parliament: motion 3 67 The President Is Dead Again 71 Independence 73 De Queen an I 75 Walking Black Home 76 Self Defence 77 Tax Relief 78 Heckling Miss Lou 79 Childless
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Poetry Wales Press Precious Asses
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Carcanet Press Ltd Eyes to See Otherwise
Book Synopsis"Eyes To See Otherwise" is the first extensive selection of poems by leading Mexican poet Homero Aridjis to appear in English. The range and quality of the translations, by some of America's finest poets, mark the centrality of his work on the map of modern poetry. W.S. Merwin writes, "In his early books, it was immediately clear that Homero Aridjis was a poet of great vitality and originality ...[his] range grew with astonishing vigour in one book after another ...Poems of his have been published in English translation for decades but it is more than time to have a large, widely representative selection of his poems available in English". Charles Tomlinson recalls, "When I first met Homero Aridjis, he was a youthful poet. He has carried that sense of youth with him throughout his life and it has left a mark on all his work. Born in a Mexican village, near which the monarch butterflies swarm yearly after their flight from Canada, he experienced early life in a profound relationship with the cycles of nature. This lies at the root of his two principal concerns, poetry and ecology. He not only writes of the whale, but has long fought for the protection of its breeding places in Baja California". Kenneth Rexroth calls him "a visionary poet of lyrical bliss, crystalline concentrations and infinite spaces". He adds, "These are words for a new "Magic Flute"".Trade Review'Homero Aridjis's poems open a door into the light.' - Seamus Heaney
£16.10
Carcanet Press Ltd Looking Through Letterboxes
Book SynopsisCaroline Bird at first appears to be a traditional story-teller. But the stories she tells are suspended, charged with metaphor, and built upon foundations strangely familiar: fairy tale, fantasy and the sweet-bitter world of romance. The further one reads in her haunted tales, the more remarkable becomes the variety of forms, metres and rhythms she uses, and the clearer their appropriateness. Things are not ever as they seem, and the poems bring us closer to how the world 'really' is for this talented teenager. They work metaphorically through our expectations and prejudices, which she rearranges and reanimates ('with a step/in your dance, a forecast for lightning'), or those that relate to the world of childhood ('I came to see if you were okay') where language itself has never quite got a grip. In the poems of Caroline Bird gender politics are starkly redefined, as are the languages with which generations communicate and fail to agree.
£9.95
Carcanet Press Ltd The Boning Hall
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection by Mary O'Malley to be published by Carcanet Press. From the child colonised, to the adult journey, from Ireland to America to Southern Europe, this is a poetic exploration of love and place and the poet's only true home - the language in which he or she writes.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Where Shall I Wander
Book SynopsisJohn Ashbery's new collection of fifty-one poems ends with the substantial piece that gives the book its title. Composed in stanzaic prose, it is a fine specimen of his distinctive courtship mode, wooing the language with language, teasing it and teasing out of it a Protean lover that loves Protean him back: a you, an I, in a wild variety of registers and postures. Throughout "Where Shall I Wander" the effable and ineffable are in dialogue; time ('then' and 'now') and the stable moments of the poem are within earshot of one another, but cannot ever quite touch hands. There are ghosts and presences, some unexpected like Ali Baba, Arabia Deserta (down to the turning spit and braised goat) and Mrs Hanratty's apron; others like Holderlin are more insistently entertained, in a poetry that fractures and reinvents syntax, cadence and our sense of beauty, this tribute informed by the terror of Holderlin's later world in which it is impossible not to share.Trade Review'Among the poets of the New York School, Ashbery has been the most influential in opening up new possibilities for the American lyric.' Helen Vendler, New Republic, 25th February 2005. '...vintage Ashbery. The ease and the seeming casualness of the voice works in direct opposition to the complexity of the message.' - The Economist, March 2005.Table of ContentsIgnorance of the Law Is No Excuse O Fortuna Affordable Variety Days of Reckoning Wastrel Coma Berenices The New Higher In Those Days A Visit to the House of Fools Dryness of Mouth Involuntary Description Holderlin Marginalia Told Her to Get On with It The Weather, for Example And Counting You Spoke as a Child Interesting People of Newfoundland Broken Tulips Retro Capital Annuals and Perennials Wolf Ridge When I Saw the Invidious Flare Heavy Home The Situation Upstairs Well-Lit Places Meaningful Love More Feedback Lost Footage The Red Ease Novelty Love Trot The Template From China to Peru Idea of the Forest The Injured Party A Darning Egg Wild City The Bled Wease A Below-Par Star The Snow Stained Petals Aren't Pretty Any More Tension in the Rocks Counterpane Two Million Violators Sonnet: More of Same The Love Interest Composition
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Carcanet Press Ltd New Poems: Neue Gedichte
Book SynopsisRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the greatest German language poet since Goethe, worked for a time as Rodin's secretary at Meudon. This title is a paperback edition of Stephen Cohn's celebrated translations and includes the complete German language text parallel with the English.Trade Review"Snow may be the best translator that Rilke has ever had." --Brian Phillips, "The New Republic"Table of ContentsIntroduction by John Bayley; Neue Gedichte I; Neue Gedichte II; Notes; Index of English Titles; Index of German Titles
£14.20
Carcanet Press Ltd Walking the Animals
Book SynopsisWalking the Animals is a sort of travel book: it brings together inner and outer landscapes, the wet skies of the Pennines and the drought of the South African lowveld; landscapes of loss, landscapes of longing. Carola Luther tracks journeys between disparate worlds, between north and south, earth and air, fantasy and fact, the future, the present. Her poems explore dislocation and search, and the importance of relationship in establishing a sense of place. In her first collection, Carola Luther makes a new kind of space in poetry, both impassioned and level-headed.Trade Review'Walking the Animals marks the arrival of a wonderful new poet. Carola Luther's poems are startlingly original, sensual and true, with imagery as tangible as the world it makes new for us. Her sense of place, and of the unbreakable connections between our inner and outer worlds, is remarkable, and the rich language of the poems is sourced not only in integrity, but in a sense of love. Read her' Carol Ann Duffy
£9.95
Carcanet Press Ltd Poems Song and the Orchard
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Spinifex Press Poems from the Madhouse
Book SynopsisPoems from the Madhouse invites readers into the paradoxical world of insanity: the confusion and clarity, the courage and fear, the bleak despair and the black comedy. Only a poet could make us hear the thundering whisper of insanity, the endless circling of the revolving door, the sheer practicality of whatever gets you through the night. Here are portraits of other people in wards filled with restless wanderers. In the end, it is humour, a thesaurus of monickers that enable the reader to emerge sadder, wiser, but not hopeless.Trade ReviewThis is disturbing but quite wonderful poetry, because of its clarity, its humour, its imagery, and the insights it gives us into being human, being mad, being sane. I read and read and was profoundly moved." Anne Deveson"
£9.45
Spinifex Press Cow
Book SynopsisAn intriguing approach to the rewriting of myth, this book takes the reader on a journey through the history of languages and symbolic traditions. Through a main character, Queenie, a cow of many abilities and a history that takes in the creation of the universe, readers come to see the world in new ways. Cow leaps and flies into imaginative realms carrying mythology and language. Cow creates the universe and travels through the sky as a herd of stars.Trade Review"Cow is so monumental in so many ways I'd be shocked if it doesn't win at least one major poetry award for 2011." --Heather Taylor Johnson, "Mascara Literary Review"
£13.46
Carcanet Press Ltd Over
Book Synopsis"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces, Draycott creates a world of echoing voices and reflections. She evokes the mirrors and doorways, dreams and night-time journeys that transform the familiar: entrances into a different reality. "Over" explores liminal places where ocean meets land, land drops to ravine, lives intersect in piazzas. The poems cross thresholds between what is finished and what is 'not over yet', between present and past and, in an extract from her new translation of the medieval dream-vision Pearl, between a sunlit garden and the mysterious landscape of the world to come.Trade ReviewFrom reviews of Jane Draycott's The Night Tree Jane Draycott's quiet, meticulous poems inhabit the vague, evanescent world between waking and sleeping. Her vision is of an England half in dream, a Samuel Palmer twilight in which things begin to move into an unexpected focus. Times Literary Supplement I've waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. In fact The Night Tree is the finest collection I've read for ages. Guardian
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Carcanet Press Ltd Night Tree
Book SynopsisThis collection travels many paths and by-ways, beside some of which lie burning cars, or a young man speechless on a forest floor, or girls lost far from home. And there is a lighthouse...Travellers pass along these ways, in the darkness, in transit, hoping for safe passage through unknown territory. All are imagined with what Sean O'Brien describes as Draycott's 'quizzical, exultant, exact music'. The Night Tree is Jane Draycott's second book of poems, following Prince Rupert's Drop, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation short listed for the Forward Prize in 1999, and two smaller collections, Tideway (Two Rivers Press, 2002, illustrated by Peter Hay) and No Theatre (Smith/Doorstop) short listed for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 1997.
£11.39
Playdead Press Vermin
Book SynopsisBesotted couple Billy and Rachel have a rat problem. But lurking below the floorboards of their first home together is a much darker, deep-rooted horror the couple must confront - no matter how damaging or deadly. VERMIN is an unsettling, unrelenting and heart-breaking dark comedy that peels back the layers of unchecked grief.
£9.49
Playdead Press 30 and Out
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Suluk Press, Omega Publications Ecstasy Beyond Knowing: A Manual of Meditation
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£25.49
Laertes Giovanni Pascoli: O Little One and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisPascoli stands in the doorway. He is both a last romantic and Italys first modern poet. Beloved for his poems of family and the nest, he is also one of the first voices of modern depth psychology. Steeped in the Italian landscape and drawn into the spell of little creatures, he catches the natural world with scientific accuracy, becoming one of our earliest ecological poets. A revolutionary who writes with emotion about the rural poor, he also reports on the first wave of Italian immigrants to the new world. This collection assembles Giovanni Pascolis central and prophetic study of the imagination, O Little One, an extensive selection of poems delineating his long career, and a late and previously untranslated essay on the poetry of dead languages. The translators introduction examines Pascolis place as a liminal figure, situated at the conjunction of multiple worlds, casting a visionary light on whatever he beholds.
£17.99
Metatron Press The Snakes Came Back
Book SynopsisLora Mathis's The Snakes Came Back invokes mythology, dreams, and the natural world as realms of solace and wells of knowledge in the healing of trauma. In Lora Mathis's poems, the body is a temporary resting place for the infinite, resilient soul. The Snakes Came Back follows a speaker contending with trauma in the slipstream of earthly time. Mathis's poems are peopled with friends and loversboth named and anonymous, current and pastand invested in necessary interdependence as a means of healing the self. But the self is not fractured. The self is composed of memory, navigating impulses of woundedness with awareness and compassion. Mouths and tongues figure prominently throughout this reflective and forthcoming collection, evocative of the insatiable desire of our hungry ghosts. The mouth is, however, as much a space of hunger and desire as it is an erogenous zone of self-expression and agency. Mapping affective geographies of memory, The Snakes Came Back cracks open everyday tasks and familiar landscapes to reveal their haunting depths. Saturated with heat and wind, Mathis's poems vibrate with the will to face life's temporality, its impossible contradictions, its beauty and its pain: There is loss, but there is renewal too.
£12.00
Wartelsteiner GmbH The Merry Wives of Windsor
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£17.99
Faber & Faber This Rare Spirit
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.
£23.75
Samuel French Ltd Miss Littlewood
Book SynopsisJoan Littlewood was the anarchic revolutionary of 20th century theatre. Her unique Theatre Workshop was responsible for a raft of successes including Oh, What A Lovely War!, and breathed new life into the Theatre Royal Stratford East.Anti-establishment, visionary, rude and glorious, Joan Littlewood red the imagination of a generation. Based on her life story, this musical charts the emotional highs and lows of Joan’s journey from the East End to the West End.Told with her own uncompromising honesty, this new musical reveals a mighty love story at its heart.
£11.39
Penguin Random House India Kaifiyat
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£11.24
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd Every Time I Wake Up Poems
Book SynopsisThe poems in this collection by V.P. Singh explore attachment, love, power, and personal struggles with illness. They offer honest reflections and striking imagery, revealing surprising facets of the tough Indian politician.
£999.99
Running Press,U.S. Gentle Chaos
Book SynopsisFrom the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium of poems, images, personal stories, and vignettes that explore magic, queerness, Tyler’s unique story, and the enchantment and comfort to be found in the weird, the dark, and the different. In this raw yet enchanting collection of poems, essays, photographs, and artworks, Tyler Gaca dreamily navigates themes of magic and queerness, offering readers an intimate look inside his mind and his worlds, real and imagined. The writings in Gentle Chaos reflect on growing up queer and in love with magic, discovering yourself and your place in the world, and daring to seek out love and hope. The artworks are dedicated to salvaged antique photographs, haircuts, dead moths, the creatures we dream up, and much more. The result is a whimsical, vulnerable, and transporting journey into the gentle chaos within us all.
£17.99
University of Pittsburgh Press Americans The
Book SynopsisThe Americans is an attempt, in poetry, to document American life by juxtaposing past and present, history and imagination. Winner of the 2014 Juile Suk Award
£16.58
UWA Publishing Atext
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£7.22
Carcanet Press Ltd Selected Poems Fyfield Books
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£12.27
Carcanet Press Ltd Selected poems Kenneth Koch
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Carcanet Press Ltd Selected Poems Edna St Vincent Millay
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£14.24
Carcanet Press Ltd Hotel Lautreamont
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Carcanet Press Ltd Collected Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of poems that includes "Bus Stop", "Men at Forty", and "Dance Lessons of the Thirties".Trade Review'Donald Justice's poems are made of beautifully plain language and a quiet virtuosity. His sense of time, and of the phases of the daylight, is so exquisite that even present things, in his poems, are touched with memory. There's no one like him - a wonderful poet.'Richard Wilbur
£19.00
Carcanet Press Ltd Reality Check
Book SynopsisFrom the mixture of shorter poems, this collection branches out with 'Skywriting', a visually dramatic and rhythmically vibrant sequence which paints a map of light in its varied moods and modulations.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Material
Book SynopsisIntends to form a meditation on human loss.Trade Review'Barber's special distinction is that she has succeeded in writing a collection which grants as much to the general reader as it does to the devotee of contemporary poetry.' - Kate Keogan, in PN REVIEW on 'How Things Are on Thursday'
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Carcanet Press Ltd Selected Poems Guillaume Apollinaire 20 Poetica
Book SynopsisApollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his 'calligrammes'.Trade Review'Oliver Bernard's translations from Apollinaire are immediately engaging in their vividness and humour.'Christopher Ricks, New Statesman
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Carcanet Press Ltd Night Watch
Book SynopsisExplores meeting points and intersections between 'is' and 'was', or 'is' and 'might be'.Trade Review'If a born poet is someone who continually builds and reworks his life's experience as metaphor, Peter Scupham is surely such a poet' - Anne Stevenson, Poetry Review'Peter Scupham is one of the most unjustly underrated poets in England today. This book [Selected Poems] is easily the most accomplished I've read for some time' - Peter Forbes, The Listener
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Goose Lane Editions Gophers and Swans suffer the little children
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Goose Lane Editions Traditions Fiddlehead Poetry Books
Book SynopsisTraditions is a collection of poems that combine humour and sensitivity from a feminist perspective.
£7.46
Goose Lane Editions Hidden River Poems
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Goose Lane Editions Brush and Trunks 312 Fiddlehead Poetry Books
Book SynopsisWelch''s book reveals a deep understanding of the Maritime countryside and man''s relationship with nature.
£7.46
Goose Lane Editions Seventeen Odes
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Goose Lane Editions Octaves of Narcissus
Book SynopsisInspired in part by classical literature and Scripture, Elizabeth Harper''s poems are literate, charged, and demanding in their emotional and intellectual range. Octaves of Narcissus is her first collection of poetry since Games Like Passacaglia.
£7.46
Goose Lane Editions Is That You This is Me
Book SynopsisThis is not a book of illustrated poetry, but an artist and a poet comparing notes -- communicating by their own method and enjoying the coincidences.
£7.46
