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- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family - the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary...
- Picasso, I Want My Face Back
Picasso, I Want My Face Back
- Grace Nichols
- 64
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Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' latest collection, "Picasso, I Want My Face Back". The book opens with a long poem in the voice...
- Beloved
Beloved
Hafez is among the most celebrated of Persian mystic poets, thriving alongside such towering figures as Rumi and Saadi. Ubiquitous in Iran, he has also been hugely influential...
- Modern Women Poets
Modern Women Poets
- 2005
- Deryn Rees-Jones
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"Modern Women Poets" is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, "Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets". While its selections...
- Too Black, Too Strong - B. Zephaniah
Too Black, Too Strong - B. Zephaniah
- 2001
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- 64
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Too Black Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's third collection from Bloodaxe. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. With poems...
- Reservoir Voices
Reservoir Voices
A collection of poems that are inspired by an autumn sojourn in America where the author would sit by the edge of a reservoir, trying to cope with loneliness by contemplating...
- Citizen
Citizen
- 2022
- Fisher, Roy
- 288
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The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the precursor of City, his...
- Crooked love
Crooked love
- 2022
- Paor, Louis de
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Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets. This new selection is drawn from two other books, Cúpla Siamach an Ama / The Siamese Twins of Time and Grá...
- Why I No Longer Write Poems
Why I No Longer Write Poems
- 2022
- Anphimiadi, Diana
- 160
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Diana Anphimiadi is one of the most widely revered Georgian poets of her generation. Her award-winning work reflects an exceptionally curious mind and glides between classical...
- Fairoz
Fairoz
- 2022
- Alvi, Moniza
- 104
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Fairoz is a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented, collaging narrative draws...
- Golden Thread
Golden Thread
- 2022
- Gunasekera, Amali
- 96
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Blending the sacred and the everyday, Amali Gunasekera's second collection The Golden Thread is a search for grace through the deep process of transmuting emotional trauma into...
- Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
- 2022
- 352
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The Heavy Bear Who Goes with Me is the ultimate reader's companion to poetry: a selection of 100 classic poems from five centuries with lively "companion" commentaries to go with...
- Border Zone
Border Zone
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. His ninth Bloodaxe...
- Towards a General Theory of Love
Towards a General Theory of Love
Clare Shaw's fourth collection Towards a General Theory of Love shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are - and especially how we feel - as psychology. They also...
- Outlandish
Outlandish
Jo Clement's first collection confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy ethnicity and lyrically lays them to rest. From Wordsworth to Top Gear, her poems invite us to...
- Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands
Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands
In Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands Sarah Wimbush journeys through myth and memory with poetry rooted in Yorkshire. From fireside tales of Romany Gypsies and...
- Turn Up the Ocean
Turn Up the Ocean
- 2022
- Hoagla, Tony
- 96
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AmericaÂ’s Tony Hoagland (1953-2018) was known for provocative poems which interrogate human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild
- High Desert
High Desert
- 2022
- Naffis-Sahely, Andre
- 80
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High Desert is an ode to the American Southwest, exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coast's wildfire...
- Bone Rosary
Bone Rosary
- 2022
- Lynch, Thomas
- 256
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AmericaÂ’s much celebrated poet-undertaker Thomas Lynch is renowned for his thought-provoking poems on life, faith, doubt and death. This new retrospe
- Whip-Hot & Grippy Phillipson HeatherPaperback
Whip-Hot & Grippy Phillipson HeatherPaperback
- 2019
- Phillipson, Heather
- 128
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Whip-hot & Grippy is a collection of possibilities in a state of emergency. In the first part, a series of long-form and sequenced poems augment various states of being...
- Not Finding Wittgenstein
Not Finding Wittgenstein
- 2012
- Harry, J. S
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J.S. Harry is one of Australia's leading poets. The poems in "Not Finding Wittgenstein" feature Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who searches the world for
- I Won't Let You Go - R. Tagore
I Won't Let You Go - R. Tagore
- 2010
- Rabindranath Tagore
- 384
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Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian...
- So What - T. Ali
So What - T. Ali
- 2007
- Ali, Taha Muhammad
- 224
Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011) was a much celebrated Palestinian poet whose work is driven by a storyteller's vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Poetry...
- To Do Wid Me - B. Zephaniah
To Do Wid Me - B. Zephaniah
- 2013
- Zephaniah, Benjamin
- 64
Book with films on DVD of Benjamin Zephaniah, drawing on both live performances and informal interviews. All the poems featured in the films are included in the book with other...