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Poetry Books
Burning Eye Books Cherry Pie
Book SynopsisCherry Pie is 2015 collection from Ted Hughes Award and Arts Foundation Award winner Hollie McNish, inspired by her grandparents' advice on newspapers, war, sex and tinned cherries. The poems collected in Cherry Pie hold personal meaning for Hollie and are also those which have been frequently requested by audiences in theatres, pubs, festival tents, schools and youth clubs up and down the UK. The book is illustrated by some of Hollie's favourite artists and illustrators.Cherry Pie includes Hollie's poem Mathematics (1.9 million hits on YouTube) as well as Bungalows and Biscuits which was shortlisted for Best Factual New Media Content About Older People's Issues in the Older People in Media Awards. Her poetry has received over 3.5 million YouTube views; more than most political speeches, less than a cat dancing to 80's pop music.
£9.49
Arc Publications My Countrys Hair Turned White
Book SynopsisDilawar Karadaghi is one of the most important contemporary Kurdish poets and his work is marked by the long years of persecution, marginalization and struggle that are part of the Kurdish experience. The poems in this short selection are full of longing, sadness, loss and, in the final poem, anger, as the poet remembers the devastating chemical attack on Halabja in 1988 in which his 'country's hair turned white'.
£7.60
Smith|Doorstop Books Talking to Stanley on the Telephone
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£8.96
Valley Press Recovery Songs
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£9.49
Valley Press Something Brewing
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£9.89
Valley Press The Swan Wallpaper
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£9.89
Verve Poetry Press The Top Secret Poetry Notebook of Willis The Poet
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£9.49
Verve Poetry Press The Bible II
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£9.89
Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd Fortress Wapping
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£12.00
The Emma Press Vivarium
Book SynopsisVivarium is a collection about connection and alienation, belonging and place. Pärtna explores the uneasy co-existence of the past and the present, on a national and global scale, and looks ahead to the future with anxiety as well as hope. She reflects on the effects of Soviet rule on Estonian society and the national mindset, and on humanity’s treatment of natural habitats. Stories of personal trauma play out against a backdrop of major environmental changes, loss of biodiversity, and global warming. Maarja Pärtna is part of the new generation of young Estonian poets, and this edition has been awarded funding by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
£8.04
Nine Arches Press Neptune's Projects
Book SynopsisWhat do you do when you are a god – but powerless and unable to prevent one of your favourite species from their insatiable, accelerating death wish? Do you try to shout louder and more insistently, or instead reinvent yourself as a troubadour of romantic ruin? Such are the dilemmas posed by Rishi Dastidar in his third poetry collection Neptune’s Projects, a reshaping of mythology for the climate crisis era which gives bold consideration to the stark choices we face.A post-apocalyptic jig and reel, these poems are compelling, deadpan yarns of the sea, full of both fury and fun. In Neptune’s Projects the end of humanity is made wry, thrilling – and alive.
£10.44
Nine Arches Press Velvel's Violin
Book SynopsisVelvel's Violin, a deeply moving and political fifth collection by TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Jacqueline Saphra places us on the shifting ground between past and present. Through its search for missing histories of the Jewish diaspora, the book is a call for empathy and a warning to a world where the legacy of the Holocaust echoes current narratives of prejudice, war, displacement, and migration. Saphra's precisely-tuned writing ranges through tones of dark humour, lyrical beauty and moments of transcendent joy to find assonance between the turbulence of now and a family history of fragmented stories, irreparable loss and miraculous escapes. Between each poem - forgotten songs, weeping forests, buried violins - sound and silence combine to speak of love, absence and survival.
£10.44
Eyewear Publishing Spring In Name Only
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£11.69
Candlestick Press Almanac: Twelve Poems for 2023
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£7.41
Renard Press Ltd Waiting for Music
Book SynopsisWaiting for Music is the fifth collection of poetry from the acclaimed writer Simon Mundy. A great champion of the arts, his relationships with musicians, visual artists and dancers are the main driving force behind his poetry, and this book sets out a playlist that stems from music, visual art and dance – from Brahms’ late piano works to a scene for soprano and dancers, written to be set by Roxanna Panufnik, that was inspired by a 16th century picture in the National Gallery. Published after a year spent waiting for music to appear on our landscape once more, Waiting for Music collects the voices of an array of composers, cultures and forms, set against backdrops ranging from Valparaiso to the Veneto, and celebrates the sounds and stages that have been missing from our lives this silent year.Trade Review'Mundy can be cheeky, he can be rueful, but he is always passionate.' (Daljit Nagra on By Fax to Alice Springs) 'A book I will take with me as my companion everywhere… Beautiful.' (Bettany Hughes on More for Helen of Troy)Table of ContentsWaiting for Music: Notes on the Poems, Brahms Songs, Concerto grosso, Fantasias, Putting in to Valparaiso, Four Italian Reflections, Some Songs, Scrolling…, Final Lover, Winter Treachery, Singel Revisited, Llandian, Angel Match, Match Report, Seven Poems for Blood Orange’s Exhibition in Brussels, Night Train from Ulaanbaatar, Interlude, Venetian Serenade, Epilogue I, Victorian Waltz; Postscript
£9.50
Verve Poetry Press All The People I've Never Been
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£7.12
Salamander Street Limited Outlier
Book Synopsis“The sky was painfully big, but our worlds were small, our lives little. So when we found each other in the muddle of it all, that feeling of belonging was addictive.” Mal, Ama, Lewis and Oskar have grown up together; hedonistically charging through life – and any house party going – in rural Devon. They're railing against the stories that have been written for them as they stand at the precipice of adulthood. But all the space can be suffocating, and it’s tough sometimes – feeling so low in a place so beautiful. The powerful poetics of Malaika Kegode and soaring music of Bristol band Jakabol combine in this autobiographical gig-theatre show directed by Jenny Davies. Genre-defying and emotional, Outlier explores the impact of isolation, addiction and friendship on young people in the often-forgotten places. ★ ★ ★ ★ “the spirit of Kerouac reaches the West Country in superb drama” The Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Stark, touching, witty… it is nothing short of brilliant” Stage Talk “Outlier is raw, tender and funny but perhaps most of all: timely” Wheelie Stagey “A poetic gem perfect to use as stimulus for those aged 16 and above” Drama & Theatre CAST: 6 (3 female, 3 male) plus chorus
£9.89
Rough Trade Books Salena Godden - Pessimism is for Lightweights
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£16.29
Broken Sleep Books Sprung
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£9.36
Broken Sleep Books of work
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£7.50
Valley Press Apocalyptic Landscape
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£11.69
Fly on the Wall Press These are the Things we have Lost
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£10.79
And Other Stories Magadh
Book SynopsisWinner of the Sahitya Akademi AwardMagadh, Shrikant Verma's masterpiece, was first published in Hindi in 1984 and is widely regarded as one of the most important works of modern Indian poetry. A chorus of narrators commoners, statesmen, nameless wanderers pieces together the histories of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, their rise to splendour, their decline and eventual fall. In poems that are stark and urgent yet arch and richly allusive, Verma lays bare their tales of corruption, guilt, ignorance and arrogance. Rahul Soni's landmark translation stays faithful to the spare, haunting, incantatory cadences of the original, revealing how startlingly prescient and relevant Magadh remains today.Forty years after, these poems are more relevant than ever, telling of power's hollow victories, the peculiar burden of joy, how sorrow finds us wherever we may hide.' Jeet Thayil
£13.49
Puncher and Wattmann The Hard Word
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£12.34
CavanKerry Press Mausoleum of Flowers
Book SynopsisA poetry collection that celebrates Black culture, creativity, and memory. From Kendrick to Kanye, to a Sunday in Oakland with Frank Ocean’s falsetto in the foreground, Mausoleum of Flowers is still life set against the backdrop of demise. Daniel Summerhill’s sophomore collection grabs fate by the throat and confronts it. What does it mean to continue living when your friends are dying beside you? This collection melds an exploration of spirituality and rebellion with Black tradition. Summerhill’s poems invite the reader near in order to self-excavate and explore tones of loss, love, and light.Trade Review“A writer, who, indeed, ‘may have God’s attention.’ What a blessing it is to see Daniel B. Summerhill render his memory, in grace, in ugliness, and most importantly, in hue. These poems, though new to us, have simmered in season, and in sun. What an amazing Black writer, unafraid to wrap himself in his own language. Summerhill asks questions in his work that, today, I cannot answer, so I must return.” * Jasmine Mans, author of 'Black Girl, Call Home' *“The assemblage of poems in Daniel Summerhill’s Mausoleum of Flowers creates an umbrella of memory through which language becomes the salve, the armor that allows these words to resurrect into something beautiful by living and reliving history. These poems are aware and cognizant of a social condition where silence is not an option; and yet, the poems are tender and loving—aesthetic beauty on the poet’s terms.” * Randall Horton, author of '#289-128: Poems' *“Summerhill’s name precedes him, in the world of these poems, where Black folks are ‘basking in the sun around lake merritt,’ where the speakers ‘bleed & flowers bloom. . . American fruit.’ This is a voice speaking from, not a voice speaking for. A voice declaring ‘i, too, am perennial.’ It is the poet’s eye that redeems, making lists of what is blooming around him: an old Buick’s exhaust cloud, a collarbone forming ‘in a mother’s round belly,’ a Frank Ocean chord progression. Nothing is left out here, not even fear, and everything that remains flowers. Reading these poems—I remember who we are, I notice redemption more. Summerhill muses on the specter of death called America, but in a place called Oakland his verse is ‘very much alive.’” * Joy Priest, author of 'Horsepower' *Table of Contentsdo not gather flowers for mewading when we say it’s in us, not on ussunday in oaklandamerica is the only living thing that don’t complain when the rain doesn’t comeenoch’s second trip to earth“oh” for ohshoutin’fear (after kendrick lamar)i used to believe there wasn’t anything a Black woman’s prayer couldn’t fixfrank’s opus: poolside convo erasuremamaon deciding to leave my tail outfrank’s opus: nikesthrill is gone//phototaxisnomenclaturefor damioncayendofootnotes for kanye (after jasmine mans)frank’s opus: pink + orangeasking for a friend feat: chris abani & danez smithsitting in a wicker chair against floral wallpaper in oakland heatenlarge my territoryhow the quiet won’t stop moving long enough to be heldfrank’s opus: solo//love is the result of attempting to staybouquetno one told me the world was on firegeography (after tjawangwa dema)frank’s opus: skyline tobaldwin discovers pepsi on salesitting in a wicker chair against floral wallpaper in oakland heathow to spell redemptioninterloping frank’s opus: self-controlchile’ as in yousalvationnobody loves me but my mother & she could be jivin’ too // frank’s opus: nightslanguage for exhaustionbelchingfrank’s opus: solo reprise erasureconsidering the defense production actin defense of survivalsitting in a wicker chair against floral wallpaper in oakland heatfrank’s opus: godspeedmausoleum of flowersnotes
£12.00
Black Ocean Crane
Book SynopsisA book-length poem that experiments with hybrid forms, bringing together elegy and prosaic meditation. Interweaving distilled prose and shardlike verse, Crane reexamines two figures from Greco-Roman myth: Cardea, the little-known goddess of hinges, and Echo, the nymph whose body is transformed into reflective sound. Constellating personal narrative, etymological fragments, critical theory, and meditations on language, the book’s first section unearths a poetics of the hinge. The second section, “Delay Figure,” investigates the relationality of sound, the affective capacities of the nonlinguistic voice, and the dissolution of the desiring body, taking as its guiding figure the aural phenomena of echoes as well as their mythological personification. The book’s final section, “Inlet,” is a striking sequence of lyric poems that revolve around questions of time, detritus, and transformation, tracing ellipses of intimacy and illness, duration and ecological precarity.
£12.34
Grols Verlag Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts: Gebundene
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£13.60
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Snowflakes: A Collection of Poems
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£11.99
Double 9 Booksllp The Ballad Of The White Horse
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£10.46
Double 9 Books LLP Rose of Old Harpeth
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£11.69
Independently Published The Park Bench: A Comedy Play
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£8.99
Andrews McMeel Publishing New Moons
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£13.49
Insight Editions The Flame of Love
Book SynopsisA smoldering collection of 100 love poems by master poet Rumi that will set fire to even the iciest of hearts. Accompanied by illuminating commentary throughout, The Flame of Love explores the depths of passion, longing, and loss through Rumi''s timeless verses.The Flame of Love is an alluring collection of 100 love poems by world-renowned poet Rumi, never before translated for a modern audience. Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Rumi’s words as he explores the depths of love, passion, and longing through his timeless verses. Rumi, a thirteenth-century Persian Sufi mystic, is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in history. The Flame of Love unveils a new facet of Rumi’s brilliance, featuring lesser-known love poems that capture the complexities of love in all its forms, along with insightful commentary on the poems and an introduction about Rumi''s life. TIMELESS AND UNIVERSAL: This carefully curated collection features love poetry that transcends time, showcasing the powerful depths of human emotion. Rumi’s lyrical verses will resonate with readers from all walks of life. 100 NEVER-BEFORE-TRANSLATED POEMS: The Flame of Love brings together 100 never-before-translated poems by Rumi, offering readers a fresh and unique glimpse into the master poet’s work. INSIGHTFUL COMMENTARY: Translator Muhammad Ali Mojaradi offers an introduction about Rumi''s life, as well as commentary on the poems themselves that provides valuable context for readers who want to dive deeper into Rumi''s work. THOUGHTFUL GIFT: With an elegant cover and charming illustrations throughout, this beautifully designed book is a romantic gift that any poetry lover will cherish for years to come.
£17.09
Wave Books The Book of Rain
£20.48
Octopus Publishing Group No Worries If Not
Book SynopsisNo Worries If Not is a funny, relatable coming-of-age story, that explores comedian, Soph Galustian''s, experiences of poverty, queerness, love, grief and community. She recounts her life from childhood, to teens, into adulthood through a mixture of short stories, spoken word, illustrations, and space for the reader to reflect (or draw tits... whatever you prefer).This book is for anyone who was raised struggling, who wrestled with coming out, who accidentally killed their childhood pet fish, who as fallen madly in love or who has lost the person closest to them...Filled with flashbacks to the 2000s/2010s, Cheryl Cole/Girls Aloud fandom and a love story for the ages, No Worries If Not is equally for the straights and the gays, the rich and disadvantaged. In this book Soph offers a space to reminisce and laugh at life''s misfortunes.
£9.89
WW Norton & Co Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes
Book SynopsisFrom the vertiginously talented Atlantic staff writer James Parker, a collection of uproarious prose odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places
£17.99
Theatre Communications Group Yellow Face
£16.10
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mother Courage and her Children
Book SynopsisIn Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece translated by John Willett features an extensive introduction and Brecht's notes and textual variants.Trade Review"One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" The Observer
£999.99
Penned in the Margins Notes on the Sonnets
Book SynopsisWinner of The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021 Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar. Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse. 'Luke Kennard has the uncanny genius of being able to stick a knife in your heart with such originality and verve that you start thinking "aren't knives fascinating... and hearts, my god!" whilst everything slowly goes black.' - Caroline Bird A Poetry Book Society RecommendationTrade Review'Joyously unclassifiable.' -The Guardian, 'Kennard's book, this endless party talk, is as riddling and enjoyable as the old sonnets on which it riffs. Think of it as the ideal cabaret: it never coheres, it never wants to, and it'll never leave you at a loss for fun.' - Five stars, The Telegraph, 'Consistently entertaining ... (Kennard's) most mature and emotionally vulnerable collection yet.'-Tristram Fane Saunders, TLS, 'Luke Kennard has the uncanny genius of being able to stick a knife in your heart with such originality and verve that you start thinking "aren't knives fascinating... and hearts, my god!" whilst everything slowly goes black.'- Caroline Bird, 'Family life, doubt and faith, society, people, writers, social commentary, dark matter and string theory, the world at large, are all covered at some pace, each poem containing laugh-aloud ideas but also deep and considered moments which sneak up and surprise you ... extraordinary and original.'- Rupert Loydell, International Times
£999.99
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd Waymaking: An anthology of women’s adventure
Book SynopsisWinner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat’s Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society and chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn’t about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living and breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure.The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen and Nan’s legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop and engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, and most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body and spirit to a former equanimity.With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more, Waymaking is an inspiring and pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation and gender equality are at the fore.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Melissa Harrison Part 1 VICINITY I Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 1. Lost in the Light by Tara Kramer 2. Iceberg by Deziree Wilson 3. Steinbock by Anja Konig 4. untitled 1 by Krystle Wright 5. Enchantment Larches by Nikki Frumkin 6. Mountains of the Mourne by Penelope Shuttle 7. Fairfield from Wansfell by Paula Dunn 8. Eglwyseg by Jean Atkin 9. Affric by Alison Grant 10. Moses Trod i-vi by Pam Williamson 11. Murmuration by Judy Kendall 12. Brimmerhead Farmhouse by Paula Dunn 13. Last night I dream we walk up to the point by Imogen Cassels 14. To Reach Green Before Dark by Lilace Guignard 15. La Fuente by Kari Nielsen 16. Titcomb Bay by Lizzy Dalton 17. Los Glaciares by Caroline Eustace 18. Mountain guide dog by Tami Knight 19. She Collects Islands in the Wild Wild Sea by Paula Flach II Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Part 2 HEART & SOUL III Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 20. A Child in These Hills by Solana Joy 21. Squamish by Jen Randall 22. Rewilding by Lee Craigie 23. Leaving for the edge of the world by Kathleen Jones 24. This Ocean Sings by Alexandra Lewis 25. To Follow by Claire Carter 26. Cayton Bay by Genevieve Carver 27. Running by the Quay by Evelyn O'Malley 28. Straggle by Allison Williams 29. Falling by Jo Croston 30. Climber by Hazel Barnard and words by Camilla Barnard 31. No-self by Hazel Findlay 32. Memory 10 by Libby Peter 33. By the Way by Sarah Outen 34. There is No Substance But Light by Heather Dawe 35. When I Lived in a Small by Alyson Hallett 36. Ken the Cross-dresser by Tami Knight 37. Oh by Paula Flach IV Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Part 3 WATER V Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 38. Snow by Bernadette McDonald 39. untitled 2 by Krystle Wright 40. Through the Snow by Judith Brown 41. Ski tracks by Tami Knight 42. Counterflow by Jen Benson 43. Ystradfellte Tree Reflections by Nick Davies 44. Aqueous by Mab Jones 45. untitled 3 by Krystle Wright 46. Taking the Plunge by Anna Fleming 47. Waterfall Series No.5 by Nick Davies 48. Diabaig by Jen Randall 49. Thirsty by Tami Knight 50. Turkey Blue by Sandy Bennett-Haber 51. She Collects the Puddles and Lakes She Swims Each Year by Paula Flach 52. Llanerch Wake by Nick Davies 53. Stormy Mount Baker by Claire Giordana VI Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Part 4 UNION VII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake 54. Running on the Roof of the World by Lily Dyu 55. Out There by Ruth Wiggins 56. She Collects the Trees She Climbed in the Month of September by Paula Flach 57. Bouldering by Kathryn Hummel 58. Bouldering at Ardmair Beach by Deziree Wilson 59. Snails by Tami Knight 60. The Grampians by Jen Randall 61. Saying Something by Leslie Hsu Oh 62. untitled 4 by Krystle Wright 63. The Climb by Helen Mort 64. Mad Hatter's Gully in Winter by Deziree Wilson 65. Unmapping by Katie Ives 66. Unshod to Meet the Flints by Polly Atkin 67. She Always Collects Her Starter Number in Stones Along the Trail by Paula Flach 68. The Wilderness by Anna McNuff VIII Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago by Cath Drake Acknowledgements A Note of Thanks
£21.25
Burning Eye Books A Recipe for Sorcery
Book SynopsisVanessa Kisuule's second release is a poetry collection with a difference: it is a cathartic explosion, an unspooling of long harboured fears and resentment and a delving into ugly and uncomfortable truths. It is a recipe for womanhood that changes with the whim of the seasons and the political climate. It is a feverish fistful of musings, a comedy of errors, an instruction manual, a compass, an overheard conversation in the ladies' loo, whispered secrets over a (second) bottle of wine. It is a lamentation, an homage to fellow women, at once a celebration of things to come and a mourning of things lost. It is a redefinition of what it is to be magical and otherwordly. It exposes the complex and contradictory impulses of the human spirit, the ugly tangle of emotions we must deal with in ourselves and also as a wider society. With frankness, humour and a decided fuck-you to fear, Vanessa digs deeper than she ever has to find something resembling sorcery.
£999.99
MOIST Gran Patita
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£11.40
Andrews McMeel Publishing Every Word You Cannot Say
Book Synopsis*May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.***I know you don’t want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you’re just not supposed to talk about what you want to talk about. Sometimes it can be hard to say, “this is beautiful,” when no one else can see what you see. Or, “Here, this is where the pain is.” But some part of you knows, the truth about the words you cannot say is that they only hurt until you say them. They only hurt until the person who needs to hear them, hears them. Because we are human, and the closest we’ve ever come to showing each other who we really are, and how we love, is with words.So I’m going to try to say to you here, what I wish you’d say to me too. Please.Listen. We can change things. Here.
£9.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien
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£67.50
Andrews McMeel Publishing The Way Back Home
Book SynopsisWhen a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things—your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The spirit hands you a key. It is time to find the way back home.Returning with her newest poetry book, beloved poet Courtney Peppernell combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with heartfelt anecdotes and insightful messages, The Way Back Home is a tribute to rebuilding our lives after loss. Divided into sections that draw on themes of courage, resilience, purpose, and hope, the collection has Peppernell once again walking us through a redemptive journey of the heart, mind, and soul. Discover what it means to continue forward in life, despite all the challenges we face, to find the way back home.
£10.79
Andrews McMeel Publishing Stars Around My Scars
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£11.69
Nick Hern Books Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches
Book SynopsisPart One of the two-part Angels in America, Tony Kushner's epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Prior, visited by ghosts of his ancestors and abandoned by his lover after his diagnosis with AIDS, is wondering if he is still sane when the angels select him to be their prophet. Powerbroker Roy Cohn also has the virus - but he believes that only the powerless can have that particular illness, and so kicks back against his diagnosis. In the 'melting pot where nothing melted' of modern America, the nation's reaction to the sickness – and its sufferers – is laid bare. Millennium Approaches was premiered in May 1991 by the Eureka Theatre Company, San Francisco, directed by David Esbjornson. In London it was premiered in January 1992 in a National Theatre production at the Cottesloe Theatre, directed by Declan Donnellan. The play received many awards, including Best Play at the 1992 Evening Standard Awards, Best New Play at the 1992 Critics' Circle Awards, Best Play at the 1993 Tony Awards and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Trade Review'One of the greatest plays of the 20th century' * New York Observer *'The most ambitious American play of our time' * Newsweek *'A vast, miraculous play, a true millennial work of art' * New York Times *'A victory for the theatre, for the transforming power of the imagination to turn devastation into beauty' * The New Yorker *'Something dark, rare and harrowing has erupted upon the London stage' * Evening Standard *
£10.79
Tuttle Publishing Writing Haiku: A Beginner's Guide to Composing
Book SynopsisA world of dewAnd within every dewdropA world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace—and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with fewer words.This practical guide by poet and teacher Bruce Ross shows you how to capture a fleeting moment, like painting a picture with words, and how to give voice to your innermost thoughts, feelings, and observations. You don't have to be a practiced poet or writer to write your own haiku, and this book shows you how.In this book, aspiring poets will find: Accessible, easy-to-replicate examples and writing prompts A foreword that looks at the state of haiku today as the form continues to expand worldwide An introduction to related Japanese haiku forms such as tanka, haiga, renga, haibun, and senryu A listing of international journals and online resources Do you want to tell a story? Give haibun a try. Maybe you want to express a fleeting feeling? A tanka is the perfect vehicle. Are you more visual than verbal? Then a haiga, or illustrated haiku, is the ideal match. Finally, a renga is perfect as a group project or to create with friends, passing a poem around, adding line after line, and seeing what your group effort amounts to.Ross walks readers through the history and form of haiku, before laying out what sets each Japanese poetic form apart. Then it's time to turn to your notebook and start drafting some verse of your own!
£11.69
