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Scotland Street Press Restricted Movement
Book SynopsisThis explosive collection of poems documents life as a daughter trying to support her artist father who is overseas struggling with dementia and drug addiction during a pandemic. Interspersed with the frantic cycle of overdoses, escapes from care, disappearances and urgent international phone calls are moments of reflection on her father's artwork and her seaside surroundings.Trade Review‘Traci O’Dea has written verse that complements her old man’s visions like a tugboat pulling a freighter out to deep water’ - Rafael Alvarez, author of Orlo & Leini and writer from The Wire‘Traci O’Dea’s Restricted Movement is timely, stirring, and sharp as a knife. A pandemic book, an addiction story, and a love letter to a troubled father, it defies the odds by also being really fucking funny. If you needed any further proof that form lends force to feeling, here it is.’ - Matthew Buckley Smith, author of Midlife, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award, and host of the poetry podcast Sleerickets. ‘Unflinching in its portrait of filial devotion, Traci O’Dea’s Restricted Movement is beautiful and funny. This collection of poems--both love letter and intimate diary--is so skillfully wrought that the lines often seem effortless--almost casual--and yet O’Dea’s formal and emotional control is impeccable.’ - Joanna Pearson, author of Now You Know It All, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.‘This is a stunning work of art that layers harrowing narratives, acute social observations, and glorious moments of beauty, grit, and redemption-all impastoed until it is the truth itself that rises before us like paint bubbling out of a canvas. Beautiful.’ - Andre Bagoo, author of The Undiscovered Country ‘frank and deeply affecting, a vivid document of time out of joint.’ - Ana Sampson, editor of She Is Fierce
£9.99
Rimal Publications,Cyprus Hat and the Prophet, The
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£6.42
ERIS Confessions
Book SynopsisA unique artistic collaboration between the prize-winning poet Gabriele Tinto and the acclaimed artist Andres Serrano.
£18.00
Luath Press Ltd Parallel Worlds: Poems from Shetland
Book SynopsisWritten in the beautiful Scots of the Shetland Islands - a blend of Old Scots and Norn - the poems in this title evoke a simple and pure way of life. These are poems with a sense of place, sympathy, commitment to language and the urge to celebrate life itself.Trade ReviewThe volume strikes me as sustaining real quality of excitement and as being punctuated by fresh thematic ventures and pulses of energy... A colourful and compelling collection, enriching in the two-way glimpses it gives us into contrasted (and often 'parallel') cultures - and into the human heart. - STEWART CONN
£8.54
Independently Published Coserle las alas a la libélula
£14.06
Cornell University Press The Residue of Dreams: Selected Poems of Jao
Book SynopsisThe Residue of Dreams is the first English-language publication of the classical-style poems of Jao Tsung-i (b. 1917), a prominent artist-calligrapher, scholar-poet, and polymath living in Hong Kong. Jao's poems in various traditional forms reflect the tumultuous history of twentieth-century China, but also demonstrate the enduring resonance of its classical culture. The Residue of Dreams contains a broad-ranging selection of Jao's poems covering topics from the Second World War and his travels in Southeast Asia, to Nietzsche and the scribes of medieval Dunhuang. The poems give a vivid impression of one of the most erudite minds of our time, and show a new side of contemporary Chinese literature that has mostly been overlooked in English-language publications. All poems are presented both in the original Chinese text and in English translation, accompanied by scholarly notes with identification of many of Jao's allusions and cultural references. The introduction places Jao's poetry in the context of modern Chinese literary studies and elucidates its cultural background for general readers.
£39.60
Zone Books Bob Dylan – How the Songs Work
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£19.00
Penguin Books Ltd Orlando Furioso Part One Orlando Furioso 1
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty soon inspires his cousin Rinaldo to challenge him to a duel - but during their battle, Angelica escapes from both knights on horseback and begins a desperate quest for freedom. This dazzling kaleidoscope of fabulous adventures, sorcery and romance has inspired generations of writers - including Spenser and Shakespeare - with its depiction of a fantastical world of magic rings, flying horses, sinister wizardry and barbaric splendour.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and
£17.09
Random House USA Inc The Divine Comedy
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£29.75
Texas Tech Press,U.S. Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring
Book SynopsisThe poet William Waring Cuney (1906-1976) hails from an illustrious Afro-Texan family whose members include the charismatic politician Norris Wright Cuney (1846-1898) and his daughter, Maud Cuney Hare (1874-1936),the concert pianist and writer. Waring Cuney's maternal line, after whom he was named, was equally eminent.Cuney was born and raised in Washington D.C., just a few blocks from Howard University where three generations of his family studied. Despite his privileged upbringing among the city's Black elite, Cuney embraced his family's passionate commitment to racial uplift and civil rights; in exploring the relationship between African Americans and their environment, he was thus able to transmute into two books of poetry a broad cross section of African American life; his poems and songs explore the lives of jazz musicians, athletes, domestic and railway workers, women and children, blues singers, prisoners, sharecroppers, and soldiers. In addition, Cuney published in all the major Harlem Renaissance journals and anthologies alongside the luminaries of the period, many of whom were good friends.Through 100 of his best poems, many never collected or published, and a detailed biographical monograph, Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring Cuney introduces readers to a newly recovered Harlem Renaissance poet, and to the history of a remarkable American family.
£32.21
Arc Publications When the Barbarians Arrive
Book SynopsisThis book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.When the Barbarians Arrive is a selected works from Singaporean poet Alvin Pang's five previous collections, including Testing the Silence (1997) and City of Rain (2003). Wry, sensitive and intelligent throughout, the selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, at once recognisably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edge and energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore.Alvin Pang was born in Singapore in 1972. A Fellow of Iowa University's International Writing program, his poetry has been translated into more than fifteen languages, and he has appeared at major festivals and in anthologies worldwide. He has edited the anthologies No Other City (2000); Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (with John Kinsella, 2008), and Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (2009). Pang was named the 2005 Young Artist of the Year for Literature by Singapore's National Arts Council, and was received the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Initiation, Fly-Fishing Friction, The Scent of the Real, Homecoming , Shades of Light in Holland, Village , What to Write About in Cold Storage, circa 2000 AD , What it Means to be Landless , Absences , Poem for an Engineer , Merlign , The Meaning of Wealth in the New Economy , Other Things , Patience , Salt , Aubade , The Burning Room , Incendium Amoris , Candles , Rain , To Go to S'pore , Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Snowscape , Loaded , Upgrading , Made of Gold , When the Barbarians Arrive , Biographical Note
£8.54
Penguin Publishing Group Tottels Miscellany Songs and Sonnets of Henry
Book SynopsisAn eclectic and seminal collection of poetry from the Tudor period Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England and inspired many major Elizabethan writers, including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy—verses of friendship, war, politics, death, and love—into common readership for the first time. The major poets of King Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt’s intimate poem about lost love that begins, They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, and Surrey's passionate sonnet Complaint of a lover rebuked are joined here by a range of intriguingly anonymous poems from the Tudor era that are both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Wittenwilers Ring and the Anonymous Scots Poem
Book SynopsisHeinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-didactic and religious allegory that documents late medieval views on many aspects of literature, history, law and religion.
£19.76
Cheerio Publishing Ltd Kitchen Hymns
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£11.40
Nick Hern Books More Life
Book SynopsisA sci-fi gothic horror exploring what it means to be human, from Kandinsky Theatre Company. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2025.
£10.44
LSU Press Surprised by Sound
Book SynopsisIn Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and why it remains a vital part of poetry with connections to large questions about poetic freedom, cognitive and psychoanalytic theories, and the accidental aspects of language.
£40.50
Westland Publications Limited Offer Him All Things Charred Burned Cindered
Book SynopsisHe is a god, an ideal, a magnet for the women who flock to him. They are scribes, editors, messengers, scholars. Some are warriors, some run households while others run kingdoms, and they are all involved in varying degrees with him, the god Murugan. They are desperately in love with him. He too is equally, hopelessly, in love with some of them. Between the lover and the beloved is a mutual give-and-take of flirtation, seduction, wooing, meeting, parting, pining and surrender. And always, a straining to get on with writing a central motif in this collection of sharp-edged sutras and mellow poetry.
£19.43
Westland Publications Limited Greetings Valluvar
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£18.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Moors
Book SynopsisThere is great imagination and intrigue here, and it is eminently entertaining. - The GuardianBackdropped by the bleak English moors, two sisters (and their dog) live a dreary existence, as they dream of forbidden love and power. So, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen arrive at their manor house, the two see a chance to claim what they've always wanted... no matter how destructive. A loving pastiche of the gothic genre, Jen Silverman echoes and channels the Brontë sisters in this irreverent celebration, that is equal parts brutal, lusty, and deranged. A macabre, queer thriller, The Moors is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Christine Scarfuto.
£10.44
Copper Canyon You Must Live
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£19.36
Columbia University Press Poems Between Women
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£75.60
