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Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 269
Book SynopsisThe January-February 2023 issue Horatio Morpurgo revisits Bertrand Russell and Jurassic Marble Lesley Harrison and the whalers' diaries, how a language and culture survive Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Islands Basil Bunting's Letters from two perspectives: Don Share and August Kleinzahler Craig Raine being and not being Whitman Anthony Huen on the Hong Kong Moment New to PN Review this issue: Kate Hendry, Petra White, Diane Mehta and Philip Armstrong and more...Trade Review'The most informative and entertaining poetry journal in the English-speaking world' - John Ashbery; 'The most engaged, challenging and serious-minded of all the UK's poetry magazines' - Simon Armitage
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Carcanet Press Ltd The Strongbox
Book SynopsisThe Strongbox, a modernist poem, is an extended work that develops elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and the cultures of wars, both ancient and painfully recent.
£11.69
Carcanet Press Ltd PN Review 280
Book SynopsisThe November-December 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we''ve been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe.This issue includes the first translation of Dante''s Inferno by a Jamaican poet (Lorna Goodison); the introduction of the Afghan poet Mahbouba Ibrahimi in translations by Parwana Fayyaz of the Forward Prize; Kirsty Gunn on key New Zealand writers; John McAuliffe on Heaney as translator and letter writer; and a letter from Madrid by Anthony Vahni Capildeo. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Polkadot Wounds
Book SynopsisMulti-award-winning poet Capildeo's new collection brings home the delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of striving to live a connected human life in our fragmenting times.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Sidetracks
Book SynopsisSidetracks, Bei Dao's first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poet's first long poem and his magnum opus-the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language.
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Carcanet Press Ltd The Idea of an Entire Life
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Wild
Book SynopsisPoems of living and loving from Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Ben Okri, explores the beauty contained in each one of us – the freedom of our spirit, the child within. He recalls the death of his father, the sacrifices of his mother, the hidden river of Edinburgh, falling in love. He writes about Virgil and Mozambique, about ringing the bell for freedom, the dreams of Calliope and the full moon. He enters the fifth circle, sings of the roses of spring, and aligns the pyramids to the magic stars. This is a rich, joyful, exciting collection for everyone who loves Ben Okri's vibrant style, and a perfect introduction to new readers of his poetry. 'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' Ali Smith 'A work of beauty, grace and uncommon power' Marlon James on The Freedom ArtistTrade ReviewPRAISE FOR BEN OKRI: 'Ben Okri is that rare thing, a literary and social visionary, a writer for whom all three – literature, culture and vision – are profoundly interwoven' Ali Smith. 'Where fiction's master of enchantments stares down a real horror, and without blinking or flinching, produces a work of beauty, grace and uncommon power' -- Marlon James on The Freedom Artist
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Olympia Publishers Nights on that Distant Shore
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Olympia Publishers A Year.
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Olympia Publishers The L Collection
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Liverpool University Press Hiding to Nothing
Book Synopsis*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023 ** Anita Pati’s debut collection, *Hiding to Nothing, explores the destabilising effects of violence, particularly empire’s aftermath, on a psyche. Threaded with internal dialogue, this multi-layered work witnesses how unbelonging can unsettle perceptions of the brown female body within an unwelcoming, even hostile, environment. From ‘exotic’ dodos punished for not being doves to Greenface, on whom blonde girls birth natterjack toads, marginal presences tell their stories. Hiding to Nothing suggests that complex and damaging legacies in all their forms can create shockwaves that reverberate over a lifetime, stopping lives from reaching their full potential. And the trauma experienced through centuries of colonial history continues to be embodied and enacted. These perceptions of body-image and self-worth are picked up in the central documentary sequence, Bloodfruit, which is based on interviews with women. Bloodfruit gives voice to the less heard narratives of infertility and difficult trajectories towards becoming, or not becoming, a ‘mother’. Here, the often-fraught notions of womanhood and motherhood are also shown to feed into ideas on who is able to mother. Pati uses an original, lyrical approach towards the ambiguities and ambivalences that cloud our decisions. Ultimately, ambient aggressions towards our own and other bodies can only be made good by breaking the cycle. Pati unravels compacted pain but those looking for easy answers or redemption will find no compromise here.Trade Review'Vivid, polyvocal and excoriating, Pati’s poems find an exquisite musicality and a deep sorcery of imagery and momentum. Hiding to Nothing is a humane, fierce, original and uncompromising debut from a major new voice in British poetry.'Fiona Benson'Anita Pati’s work will resonate with anyone who has personal experience of a difficult journey to parenthood. She manages to encapsulate the pain of infertility, loss and prematurity. Pati lays bare the intensity of the emotions involved, the damage to self-esteem and the complexities of the relationship with our bodies. Her poetry is both beautiful and haunting.' Kate Brian, Fertility Network UK and Journalist and Author'Despite the gravity of its subject matter, Hiding to Nothing is a collection of wit, playfulness and a wonderfully slippery syntax which says one thing and suggests much else. With its linguistic density and intertextuality, play and soundplay, I have read nothing like it - a book of beautifully controlled defiance.' Sasha Dugdale'If the body of a woman could speak, this is the poetry it would write. Raw and filled to the brim with grief, anger, beauty, rage, terror, longing, love and blood. Anita Pati’s body of poetry is poetry of the body, and it stinks of the truth.' Jody Day, Psychotherapist, author & founder of Gateway Women'Hiding to Nothing is a hard-hitting, lyrical exploration of attitudes towards women, particularly black women, and how those attitudes shape lives. [...] Anita Pati writes with uncompromising sensitivity and an forensic eye.'Emma Lee, London Grip 'Pati’s excoriating debut collection is one of painful yet necessary release: “my chest frays open, / bivalved wires spitting, bloodish”. These vivid poems explore suppression and silencing – the violence of empire, the toxicity of whiteness, the pressures placed upon the female body. [...] These confronting, polyvocal dialogues ring with the energy of long-held suffering, finally released into a shared language. [...] This visceral, affecting and politically astute collection announces a courageous new voice in British poetry.'Rebecca Tamás, The Guardian'Anita Pati's Hiding to Nothing [from] Pavilion Poetry is unforgettable, giving voice to silences of many kinds, esp[ecially] those persisting around infertility. Her poems are compelling, fierce, playful & her approach always unexpected.' - Fiona Larkin‘Hiding to Nothing is an inventive, highly original collection, fizzing with barely concealed anger at the violence of Empire, of racism, of patriarchy & of how brown women's bodies are treated. This excerpt, from the 'Bloodfruit' sequence, draws on interviews with many women:'I'm unprecious cargo. Not a real woman. My body's betrayed me.Q. Are we only worthy when we've procreated?'Hiding to Nothing is bold & rather brilliant.’Katrina Naomi, Katrina’s Poetry News'Anita Pati’s debut collection utilises form and language to devastating effect. The central section is an elegy for all the “neverborns” and the women who were mothers all too briefly. In other poems, uncompromising in scope and content, women’s bodies take centre stage: are shown as being overly scrutinised, found lacking, raped or put under the knife. Channelling a myriad of voices, Pati speaks commandingly for those who, though suffering, continue to see “only stars”.'Shash Trevett, Poetry Book Society Bulletin 'This lyrical first collection explores ideas around self-worth and unbelonging in dazzling brave and powerful poems using a multitude of innovative and exciting forms.'Mary Mulholland, The Alchemy Spoon'Startling, visceral lines ... with an energy that often eludes British poetry.' April Yee, The Poetry Review‘The humour and wit in Anita Pati’s Hiding to Nothing could cauterise any wound’ Suna Afshan, Wasafiri‘We can't doubt Pati’s strong empathy, including her sense of the sheer longevity of painful experience… Pati is in many ways a relentless writer… detailed context, close analysis and skilful poetic technique enable us to understand the precise nature of a specific form of cruelty.’ Dilys Wood, ARTEMISpoetry‘Hiding to Nothing bangs the door open and enters with a shout. The panic throughout this magnificent debut collection is palpable… This is a brilliant and inventive collection – one I will definitely keep coming back to. The playfulness with form and different degrees of faintness of text all work really well and enhance the poems meaning.’ Julia Webb, Under the Radar
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Penguin Books Ltd All the Flowers Kneeling
Book SynopsisA NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEAR ''Gorgeous ... intense ... shimmering ... [an] unforgettable collection'' Observer''Beautiful, sensuous and plural ... a vital and visceral collection. Breathtaking'' Joelle Taylor, author of C+nto & Othered Poems''Brave ... this striking collection ... articulates the unspeakable from various angles ... often nightmarish and dark, there are moments of shimmering release ... an auspicious debut'' Seán Hewitt, Irish Times''[A] powerful debut ... marshals narrative lyrics and stark beauty'' The New York Times Book Review''Vivid ... searingly honest, beautifully told depictions of survival and self-love'' Publishers Weekly''A testament to queer self-love ... a monument to [what] persists'' them.us''A true masterwork ... an exquisitely crafted labyrinth of a book'' Electric LiteratureThis is a
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Penguin Books Ltd Rangikura
Book SynopsisMaori mythology and endless summers: the sparkling second collection from a daring new poetic voiceI am made in the image of my mother ...I am made in the image of / my mountain / my river / my whenuaIn Rangikura, plastic tiaras melt into boiling rivers, and family memories blur with ancestral mythologies. Satanic stepbrothers play jenga while the deity Mahuika burns - and the temperature is rising. Here, anger and loss, history and pop culture are spun into verses woven with vernacular and Te Reo Maori. At the collection''s centre, our protagonist whirls through a love/hate story for the internet age, facing the sting of unanswered texts and unmet expectations with wit, sensibility and devastating glamour.Rangikura is the captivating second collection from award-winning poet Tayi Tibble. From feminism to colonialism, skuxes to daddies, wild swimming to schoolboy hakas, these poems at once mark the end of the world and t
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Penguin Books Ltd What You Want
Book Synopsis'McLane is a Romantic poet out of time' Ange Mlinko'Passionate, erudite, sensuous . . . McLane probes the minutest currents of human feeling' Sarah Howe'My favourite living poet . . . [her work] bristles with life, feeling, argument' Parul SeghalThe witty, searching new collection by National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane, musing on the sea, ageing, love and the climate crisisIn her first book of poems since What I'm Looking For: Selected Poems 2005-2017, Maureen N. McLane offers a bravura collection of perceptive poetic meditations. What You Want is a book of landscapes, mindscapes, and shifting moods. Here are poems filled with gulls and harbours, blinking red lights and empty lobster traps, beach roses and rumoured sharks, eels and crows, wind turbines and superhighways. Sensitive, lyrical, alert to seasons and pressures on our shared life, McLane registers and gives form to an ambient unease. From Sappho to Constable, from constellations to microplastics, What You Want is a collection as alive to the cosmos as it is to our moment. This is McLane's cloudy-sky book: a voyage through lambent autumns and shining winters, in which an eye looks out on what it longs for, what it loves, and asks: will it survive the coming heat?
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Penguin Books Ltd So To Speak
Book SynopsisA dazzling collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinSince the publication of his first book, Muscular Music, in 1999, Terrance Hayes has been one of America''s most exciting and innovative poets, winning acclaim for his sly, twisting, jazzy poems, and his mastery of emotive, restless wordplay.In So to Speak, his seventh collection, a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds, talking cats tell jokes in the Jim Crow South and a father addresses his daughter. In lyric fables, folk sonnets, quarantine quatrains and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas, Bob Ross paints your portrait, green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne and elegies for the late David Berman and George Floyd unfold amid the pandemic. These poems lyrically capture the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Hayes shapes music into language, and language into music.
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Headline Publishing Group Heroines of Olympus: The Forgotten Women of Greek
Book SynopsisCunning, monstrous, virtuous. Rediscover the overlooked women of Greek myth.Goddesses and mortals, warriors and muses, women are at the heart of ancient Greek folklore, but their stories have long been eclipsed by those of men. Heroines of Olympus tells the tales of fifty of these enthralling women, including majestic Athena, goddess of war; vengeful Nemesis, goddess of retribution; and gladiatorial Hippolyta, queen of the Amazon.With beautifully written retellings of Greek myths and a fascinating dive into their place in history, alongside exquisite illustrations, celebrate the dazzling and diverse heroines of ancient Greece.Table of ContentsIncludes: Aphrodite, Artemis, Circe, Echo, Erinyes, Hebe, Iris, Minthe, Nemesis, Persephone, Thetis, Andromache, Cassandra, Chryseis, Daphne, Hermione, Iphigeneia, Naucissa, Maia, Penthesilea and more.
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Seagull Books Gestuary
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£15.19
Independent Publishing Network VIRGINS
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Luath Press Ltd Collier Laddie
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1984-1985 national UK Miners' Strike the largest industrial action by a UK union in the 20th Century Here We Go, Here We Go, Here We Go! Is comprised of Rab's previous mining poems as well as new poems that relate to current social and economic problems in Scotland and the UK.Once he left school in 1977, Rab Wilson worked in the mining industry along the west coast of Scotland for eight years. On the 12th March 1984 Rab joined the Miners' Strike, where he remained on strike until the 21st March 1985, after nearly a full year on strike.The poetry in this collection chronicles the events and aftermath of the Miners' Strike, through the eyes of a miner who was very much involved in it, a momentous landmark of the working-class struggle. Rab has witnessed the first-hand implications of the demise of Scotland's mining industry. No other Scots poet today is better placed than Rab to record the history and impo
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Luath Press Ltd When the Grass Dances
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Wild Goose Publications A Song Among the Stones
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Olympia Publishers The Moose And The Butterfly
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Olympia Publishers Hidden in Thought
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Olympia Publishers Comfort in Rhyme
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Olympia Publishers You Are Not Alone
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Olympia Publishers Pretty Pretty
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Olympia Publishers Flames of a Dragon
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Olympia Publishers Snowflakes and other poems
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Olympia Publishers Empathy of Love
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Renard Press Ltd Exile and Other Poems: Centenary Edition
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1923, Exile and Other Poems is an important, poignant collection from one of the foremost Imagist war poets. Penned after witnessing the horrors of the frontline during the First World War, Aldington’s brutal, honest verse lays bare unimaginable experiences. The first part of the collection, ‘Exile’, explores the poet’s survivor’s guilt, post-traumatic stress and sense of alienation. The collection continues with a ‘Songs for Puritans’ and ‘Songs for Sensualists’, pastiches of seventeenth and eighteenth-century love poetry, and a series of more personal poems exploring the natural world, from which Aldington drew reassurance. Enriched with a fascinating introduction and explanatory notes by leading Aldington scholars Elizabeth Vandiver and Vivien Whelpton, this centenary edition seeks to place Exile firmly back on the map of war poetry, from which it has been missing for too long.
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Renard Press Ltd The Colour of Extinction
Book SynopsisSplit into four strands, focusing on the climate crisis, birds, Australia and the melting polar caps, The Colour of Extinction forces us to confront the possible futures of the planet that we are destroying yet are so reliant on.
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Troubador Publishing Ltd The Birds Were the Only Ones Singing
Book SynopsisThe Birds Were the Only Ones Singing is a diverse anthology of poems that reflects the world around us.Split into six chapters, the poems are drawn from the poet's personal experiences and explores nature, community, folk, love, loss, and metamorphosis.Dolezal details his own personal sense of escapism into nature and where he finds solace. The poems ask readers to question where they feel most at peace. The chapter reveals how elements in nature can be a metaphor for human greed and deception.Themes of community and how governments and regimes can divide a community are explored in the chapter Community. The final chapter titled Metamorphosis is the surreal exploration from the world we live in and becoming emersed into the forest.All the poems explore different themes, but some echo each other. Some are fun and are written with humour, while others are more serious. The Birds Were the Only Ones Singing is a poignant poetry collection and details how humans experience, love and loss and how we face our own mortality.
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Graffeg Limited Feather Leaf Bark and Stone
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Bedford Square Publishers Things My Children Think Im Wrong About
Book SynopsisPoetry gift book. The ideal gift for all parents!'Nic Aubury's poetry is proper poetry in the Betjeman/Wendy Cope tradition, and it's an utter delight memorable, musical, witty and just brilliant in every way. Nic is hands down the best new poet to emerge in the last 20 years.' Sophie Hannah
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Olympia Publishers Eros
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Olympia Publishers The Summer I Keep Secrets
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Olympia Publishers Poems of Insight
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Olympia Publishers Lifes Pruning
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Olympia Publishers You are dead but I am not... or A Diary of Grief
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Olympia Publishers The Power of a Voice
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Olympia Publishers Citrus Eyes
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Olympia Publishers You are dead but I am not or The Second Year
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Olympia Publishers Falling Upwards
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Olympia Publishers The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Olympia Publishers Heart to Heart
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Olympia Publishers Heartstrings
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Troubador Publishing The Musings of a Misunderstood Man
Book SynopsisMore than just a poetry book, this is a much more diverse collection of poems, pictures, sayings and single stanzas. It combines the wide emotional, philosophical, and comical views of life in both written and visual media.
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Troubador Publishing Pausing With A Poem
Book SynopsisA engaging collection of poetry from the author of Walking with Angels, written to encourage reflection on the fleeting moments of magic within our lives.
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