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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£10.99 paperback (2025) - ISBN 13: 9780349726656 | ISBN 10: 0349726655
A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug ‘Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest‘ SARAH MILLICAN ‘Hollie McNish’s words always sweep me away‘ GIOVANNA FLETCHER ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781509864836 | ISBN 10: 1509864830
May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow ... more
View book details£8.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571389513 | ISBN 10: 0571389511
The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain’s wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. A glorious selection of Wendy Cope’s most be ... more
View book details£9.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529083934 | ISBN 10: 1529083931
The enchanting festive poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and adorned with sumptuous illustrations by artist Margaux Carpentier, Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water is the perfect festive gift for the poetry love ... more
View book details£12.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784743703 | ISBN 10: 1784743704
** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4** "Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken"(Bernardine Evaristo) Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winnin ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509893454 | ISBN 10: 1509893458
The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet.  Sincerity is Duffy’s final collection of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated s ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784631840 | ISBN 10: 1784631841
These are the voices of those who are silent: in the graveyards, holy wells, the river, the changing tides. A ghostly choir of lost children, hermits, lovers and rough sleepers, serving maids and sailor boys, saints and hermaphrodites resounding thro ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509830008 | ISBN 10: 1509830006
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784101688 | ISBN 10: 1784101680
‘Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch... a ‘Trinidad’ being created that did not take my Trinidad awa ... more
View book details£5.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907598265 | ISBN 10: 190759826x
This year, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, Candlestick Press are privileged to publish Gillian Clarke’s story The Christmas Wren, written in response to Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Commissioned by the Dylan Th ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780701186845 | ISBN 10: 0701186844
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2013 Â SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013 Â The much-anticipated debut collection from award-winning poet and rising star, Helen Mort. Â A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgre ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955507977 | ISBN 10: 0955507979
"Sorrows of exile, so powerfully engraved in Testimonies of Exile, linger still in some of these poems, but it is the joys of homecoming, joys contstantly interrupted by long shadows of death, that define this new collection. It is a treasury of prec ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844081509 | ISBN 10: 1844081508
'"Curious" describes both my habitual state of mind - a less kind word would be "nosy" - as well as the subject matter of some of these writings. Though perhaps "curious" as a word carries too light a weight: my curiosities are (I hope) not idle ones ... more
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