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£16.99 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781035033164 | ISBN 10: 103503316x
'Nothing short of dazzling' – Alex Turner
'A big-hearted poet of boundless humour and unmistakable style' – Kit Fan, Guardian
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Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence o ... more
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£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
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£12.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781805301134 | ISBN 10: 1805301136
An uplifting poetry collection from the number one bestselling author of My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay OBE.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Li ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838855338 | ISBN 10: 1838855335
This seminal collection of Black British poets ignited a movement when it was first published in 1998. It celebrated the rising stars of the time, many of whom have since become established names.Â
Inspired and influenced by roots, reggae and hip ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838855321 | ISBN 10: 1838855327
A scorching anthology of Black British poetry, edited by the award-winning acclaimed poet Kayo Chingonyi and following in the footsteps of the 1998 seminal collection The Fire People.
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR
In t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739772291 | ISBN 10: 1739772296
Michael Rosen was dangerously ill from COVID at the beginning of 2020 and as doctors told him, if he hadn’t received treatment, he would have ‘gone’. While he was in hospital, 42% of the patients on his intensive care ward died. He spent ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241994115 | ISBN 10: 024199411x
Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary Younge.
Pioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739909901 | ISBN 10: 1739909909
"It takes a brave person to write about Everton and Liverpool football clubs with such passion in the same book. To mix it with Poems and Images of Street Art in areas of such tribal passion is bordering on the insane - but that is precisely the poin ... more
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£12.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913749231 | ISBN 10: 1913749231
A collection of posthuman lyric poems which emerge from writing in situ in an urban parkland in Liverpool, as well as on the shores of the river Mersey, the Wirral peninsula and Ynys Mon (Isle of Anglesey). The poems expand into the otherworld beyond ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181557 | ISBN 10: 1800181558
Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a glorio ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571347117 | ISBN 10: 0571347118
Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry – now in paperback.
Lavinia Greenlaw’s last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on ‘the achievement of the provisional’. The Built Moment explores what we build out of t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349726366 | ISBN 10: 0349726361
"An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight"(Scotsman)
"She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love"(Kae Tempest)
The new collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529109467 | ISBN 10: 1529109469
A national treasure's journey to the brink and back. Â
'Will I wake up?'
'There's a 50:50 chance.'Â
Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as th ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787333192 | ISBN 10: 1787333191
*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE*
After two prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body, McMillan's third book marks a shift: both inward, int ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529059502 | ISBN 10: 152905950x
From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019
Raymond Antrobus’s astonishing debut collection, The Perseverance, won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, amongst many other accolades; the poet’s much anticipated ... more
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£0.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913508135 | ISBN 10: 1913508137
Reflections: A Poet-Theologian in Lockdown Leeds features a collection of stories, observations and poetry by Leeds based author, Hannah Stone.
The project began in Spring 2020 as England entered the first lockdown. Hannah was appointed Poet ... more
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£7.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913508142 | ISBN 10: 1913508145
A sequence based on a life’s work in radio and a fascinating insight into British broadcasting.
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Seán Street is a poet, radio practitioner, teacher, and a writer of many prose
works that explore the philosophical nature of sound. He spent his ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141992150 | ISBN 10: 0141992158
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you fit the description of a man' - and where it ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916015913 | ISBN 10: 1916015913
Nothing in the place meant nothing.
The poems in Country Music are observant, curious, finding everywhere they look detail worthy of notice, determined in that ‘The falsehood is that there is little / left for us to know’. This same ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571361441 | ISBN 10: 0571361447
Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those ‘private, moonstruck observations’ and the clockwork comings and go ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912436217 | ISBN 10: 1912436213
What happens when poetry and philosophy converge? Over coffee at Leeds’ Opposite Cafe, award-winning poet Helen Mort and Professor of Philosophical Aesthetics Aaron Meskin set out to explore that very question.
Their caffeine-fuelled discu ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781908058652 | ISBN 10: 190805865x
A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused on the day of the Brexit referendum. A father bathes his son in ice water.
A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world. Â The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxago ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784742614 | ISBN 10: 1784742619
*Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2019*
*Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry*
Jay Bernard’s extraordinary debut is a fearlessly original exploration of the black British archive: an enquiry into ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911027706 | ISBN 10: 1911027700
In Zebra, a boy steps tentatively from the shadows onto a strobe-lit dancefloor. Ian Humphreys’ much-anticipated debut shimmers with music, wit and humour while exploring mixed identities, otherness, and coming-of-age as a gay man in 1980s Manchest ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784874407 | ISBN 10: 178487440x
When Wilfred Owen was killed in the days before the Armistice in 1918, he left behind a shattering, truthful and indelible record of a soldier's experience of the First World War. His greatest war poetry has been collected, edited and introduced here ... more
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£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
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£20.00 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781447231752 | ISBN 10: 1447231759
Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781999674243 | ISBN 10: 1999674243
On 15 April 1989, during the opening minutes of the FA Cup semi-final between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool, 96 men, women and children died in what remains the most serious tragedy in UK sporting history – the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. Thou ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781903110607 | ISBN 10: 1903110602
"Toria’s words are silk javelins. Frank explorations of self, outpourings of a joyfully pained mind. She means it. Cos she’s lived it. I love that girl"(Mike Garry)
"rendered unemployed by Arkwright’s spinning Jenny at twelve years old. ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787330924 | ISBN 10: 1787330923
Jean Sprackland is celebrated for her tactile, transformative poetry which makes the miraculous seem familiar and the domestic other-worldly. Her new collection is tuned to new and deeper frequencies. ‘Green noise’ is the mid-frequency component ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911214373 | ISBN 10: 1911214373
In these intimate, sometimes painfully frank poems, Andrew McMillan takes us back to childhood and early adolescence to explore the different ways we grow into our sexual selves and our adult identities. Examining our teenage rites of passage: those ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787330818 | ISBN 10: 1787330818
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE*
Violence hangs over this book like an electric storm. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a long sequence of graphic, stunning pieces abo ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571333851 | ISBN 10: 0571333850
After more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama, translation, travel writing and prose poetry, Simon Armitage’s eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism. The pieces in this multi ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509896059 | ISBN 10: 1509896058
The Luckiest Guy Alive is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades – and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers. From the ‘Attack of the F ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780992896270 | ISBN 10: 0992896274
The long poem in this collection concerns the snooker player, Alex Higgins, the footballer George Best and the boxer Johnny Caldwell. All died of drink, all died in poverty, whether relative or acute, all came from a city in one country and all found ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571338610 | ISBN 10: 0571338615
In her first collection of new poetry since 2011’s acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates ‘the half-forgotten stories of our lives’ with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the most generous of authors, sharing her experien ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780374222 | ISBN 10: 1780374224
Moniza Alvi's new book is unified by birds. Her creations 'Motherbird' and 'Fatherbird' are inspired by her parents, and by the loss of her father and by his emigration from Pakistan. Among the many bird-related poems are versions of the French poets ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509852925 | ISBN 10: 1509852921
The new collection from the Poet Laureate.
The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of new poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509852932 | ISBN 10: 150985293x
An early collection from the Poet Laureate, published for the first time by Picador.Â
As with her later collections, The Other Country takes its readers on a journey that is both familiar yet surreal. Escorting us to 'the other country' - that is ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781908058492 | ISBN 10: 1908058498
Plunge into mountain lakes and drift along meandering rivers in Swims, the debut poetry collection by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.
A long poem taking many forms, Swims begins and ends in Devon, moving across the waterways of England and Wales: fr ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785942716 | ISBN 10: 1785942719
With illustrations by Russell T Davies, original showrunner of the new-era Doctor Who, the first ever Doctor Who poetry collection — a charming, funny and whimsical illustrated collection of verse that celebrates the joys and pitfalls of getting ol ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995767522 | ISBN 10: 0995767521
'Poetry can stick up for the weak' according to Michael Rosen, or it can 'mock the mighty'; it can 'glorify our rulers or it can dissect them. You choose.'
In these powerful new poems Rosen is clear about his own choices. Listening to a Pog ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571338580 | ISBN 10: 0571338585
For more than thirty years Wendy Cope has been one of the nation’s most popular and respected poets. Christmas Poems collects together her best festive poems, including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life', together with new and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782119456 | ISBN 10: 1782119450
Lemn Sissay's first poetry collection was written aged eighteen and hand-sold to miners on the picket lines of Warrington. Since then his poems have been sculpted in iron and built from concrete, declaimed in over twenty countries. He has performed t ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509815760 | ISBN 10: 1509815767
"She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love. She points out the absurdities we've grown too used to and lets us see the world with fresh eyes."(Kate Tempest)
Hollie McNish, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for Poetry, has thrilled and entr ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571302970 | ISBN 10: 0571302971
Pearl is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem though ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995563506 | ISBN 10: 0995563500
Taking its title from the brown envelopes that strike fear into benefit-claimants and the biblical ‘Rapture’, Alan Morrison’s eighth collection imagines these letters as passports to a twisted Tory notion of salvation through benefit sanction. ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780373430 | ISBN 10: 1780373430
There are two acts of recovery in this book – one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice.
In its title-sequence she uses Alice in Wonderland and Through t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993513107 | ISBN 10: 0993513107
Elephant is the debut collection of poetry by writer, blogger, and poet Siana Bangura (@sianaarrgh).
Never afraid to address the elephant in the room – the very spirit with which this collection was put together – Bangura’s work has a ... more
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£9.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993237096 | ISBN 10: 0993237096
"The Vacant Chair echoes throughout my life. They're vibrant, mystical, time-travelling things, telling tales of the end of lives, of invisible families, of no-longer friends, half-written legendary lovers. Story chairs indeed."
In his sixt ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784102364 | ISBN 10: 1784102369
Selected Poems gathers writing from four decades of Nancy Cunard's life, some published here for the first time.
The selection illuminates Cunard's transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges ... more
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£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
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781509824960 | ISBN 10: 1509824960
Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains range from the delicately poignant to the fierc ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781530539062 | ISBN 10: 1530539064
An anthology of work collected from the writing and performances of poetry by Ian D. Hall.
Liverpool has always nurtured distinctive voices in its poetry, music and art. In this collection, Ian Hall - poet, performer, reviewer of film, theat ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784102043 | ISBN 10: 1784102040
In The Alexandra Sequence John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the ‘mummers play’, a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book’s title takes its name from an area of Liv ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911335177 | ISBN 10: 1911335170
In January of 2015, school teacher Tony Chan gave up his job and embarked on a 78-day, 1,400-mile solo-trek across the four extreme points of mainland Britain, writing a sonnet on each day of the journey from Dunnet Head to Ardnamurchan Point and fro ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905082742 | ISBN 10: 1905082746
Birtill covers his favourite themes of death, relationships and mental illness with his usual brand of dark humour and deep-veined irony - definitely not for the faint-hearted.
"Packed with short, sharp, witty and irreverant observations."(John He ... more
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£8.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993237058 | ISBN 10: 0993237053
Laura Taylor was born into a working-class family in the North of England in 1968. She has challenged arbitrary forms of authority all her life. Obsessed with words and language since her early childhood, she believes in the power of poetry as a mean ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784740641 | ISBN 10: 1784740640
* A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016*
'When we climb alone
en cordée feminine,
we are magicians of the Alps –
we make the routes we follow
disappear'
The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable pers ... more
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£10.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571328741 | ISBN 10: 0571328741
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an ... more
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£10.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571328789 | ISBN 10: 0571328784
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784101886 | ISBN 10: 1784101885
April is the Cruellest Month
might seem like a strange name for a dog,
and sometimes I think it is
when I’m shouting her name
on the high moors
in the driving wind...
~ from ‘My Dog’
Ian McMillan is among Britain’s most treasur ... more
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£15.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910974261 | ISBN 10: 1910974269
Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic, wry social commentator or masterfully understated sho ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781904851653 | ISBN 10: 1904851657
In Camera Obscura, the ‘dark chamber’ of the title is pierced by memory, real and imagined voices from the ancient and recent past and attempted communication across millennia and between species. Here a Schubert mass is remade as a poem, a sound rec ... more
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£7.50 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993365607 | ISBN 10: 0993365604
The book of the poem by Tom Hirons, with illustrations by Rima Staines. Second printing.
Lithograph-printed for high quality on 100% recycled paper (140gsm internal, 280gsm Kraft cover) in England, by Calverts, a workers' co-op, this is the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908058218 | ISBN 10: 1908058218
A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells.
Written from the edges of the city, Wells’ tightly honed poems satirise the sl ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782111573 | ISBN 10: 1782111573
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015
Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnotch;
I won't stop all the clocks with ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781253618 | ISBN 10: 1781253617
Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet. In Unicorn, the critic and historian Rosemary Hill collects together her published verse from 1963-1971, a per ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784630300 | ISBN 10: 1784630306
“Your indispensable guide to the poetry of these islands, now in its fifth year”
The Best British Poetry presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represent ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780993149023 | ISBN 10: 0993149022
Michael Rosen is one of our best-loved and writers for children. He has written and edited over 140 books, including contemporary primary-school classics like Mind Your Own Business, Wouldn’t You Like to Know, Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Grav ... more
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£0.80 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141397863 | ISBN 10: 0141397861
'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair - with fatal consequences.
Introducing ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701188771 | ISBN 10: 0701188774
A new collection of poems from bestselling poet, novelist and memoirist, Blake Morrison
‘A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track,
A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet,
A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap,
A wrecking ground, that’s Shingle Street.’
&nbs ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780371108 | ISBN 10: 1780371101
Ten: The New Wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. These ten poets were selected for The Complete Works 2 mentoring project, a groundbreaking initiative to promote diversity and quality in British poetry, ini ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992740955 | ISBN 10: 0992740959
Novelist, draughtsman, film-maker, essayist and critic – John Berger is one of the major European intellectuals of our time. For sixty years he has been challenging the way we see the world and how we think about it, in books like Ways of Seeing, Per ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782111559 | ISBN 10: 1782111557
Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,
Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,
Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix
From below-the-belt base to the topnotch;
I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch
when the tales overrun, run offensiv ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447241218 | ISBN 10: 1447241215
Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; thr ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241971420 | ISBN 10: 024197142x
I care about the environment. And try to do what is right. So I cycle to work every morning. And recycle home every night.
'Recycling' is one of the many new poems in this expanded and revised edition of The State of Poetry, Roger McGough's ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844717859 | ISBN 10: 1844717852
Eleanor Rees's first collection, Andraste's Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection she continues to play the role of mythologiser an ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780701186845 | ISBN 10: 0701186844
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2013
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013
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The much-anticipated debut collection from award-winning poet and rising star, Helen Mort.
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A stone is lobbed in '84,
hangs like a star over Orgre ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781852249786 | ISBN 10: 1852249781
Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in theatres and festivals, at gigs at the Edinburgh Festival, and with numerous appearances on radio and television. T ... more
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£15.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907587306 | ISBN 10: 1907587306
The newly drawn Stanza Stones Trail runs through forty-seven miles of the Pennine region, some of the most strikingly varied landscape in the world. The terrain bears the deep scars of industrial exploitation, as well as those less obvious: the signs ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241962275 | ISBN 10: 0241962277
As Far As I Know is a wonderful new book of poems by Roger McGough, the nation's favourite poet.
Take comfort from this
You have a book in your hand
not a loaded gun or a parking fine
or an invitation card to the wedding
of the ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781852249915 | ISBN 10: 1852249919
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 35 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. And he has just received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry from Her Majesty the Queen. In th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241964842 | ISBN 10: 0241964849
A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems.
This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v. ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847772381 | ISBN 10: 1847772382
Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection
In 2007 Rebecca Goss’s newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein’s Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. Her Birth is a book-length se ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907773556 | ISBN 10: 190777355x
The Best British Poetry has rapidly become one of the UK’s most noted collections. Now in its third edition, Salt Publishing is proud to present this thoroughly inspirational selection from this year’s best poets.
Offering a completely compr ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780224093590 | ISBN 10: 0224093592
A new poetry collection from the award-winning writer of Corpus and Edgelands.
Michael Symmons Roberts’ sixth – and most ambitious collection to date – takes its name from the ancient trade in powders, chemicals, salts and dyes, paints and c ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571273836 | ISBN 10: 0571273831
Yellow Tulips is a gathering from four decades of work by a writer described by the Observer as 'the most talented poet of his generation'.
Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given read ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781852249434 | ISBN 10: 1852249439
To Do Wid Me is a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, drawing on both live performances and informal interviews. It shows him performing his poetry for different audiences and talking about his work, life, beliefs an ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099583769 | ISBN 10: 0099583763
‘Yes, it was be there or be square as, clad in the slum chic of the hipster, he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle, the words walk in the grooves hacking th ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781852249489 | ISBN 10: 185224948x
Across one day in London, twelve elderly men and women sit in flats, walk, or wait, and speak about their histories, their hopes, their loves, their disappointments and griefs – and above all seek to express who they are and what their life has been. ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781852249465 | ISBN 10: 1852249463
Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to Tell Me Lies (2008).
His poetry’s simplicity, clarity, passion and humour show his allegiance to a vital, p ... more
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£5.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781447212027 | ISBN 10: 1447212029
Beginning with the King’s Cook, who is preparing a sumptuous Christmas Pie, Wenceslas takes us to a medieval feast. The lords and ladies are at their places, the wine is in full flow, the musicians are playing in the gallery and the entertainment has ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781904590293 | ISBN 10: 1904590292
Black Roses is a poetic sequence written in the voice of Sophie Lancaster.
Twenty-year-old Sophie was attacked in a Lancashire park in 2007 and died several days later. The ferocity of the assault caused distress and outrage when reported by ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781852249298 | ISBN 10: 1852249293
From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571280629 | ISBN 10: 0571280625
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging chi ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571249480 | ISBN 10: 0571249485
The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Mo ... more
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£8.50 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780957014107 | ISBN 10: 0957014104
"Is there a time somewhere I don't know
Where The Man stood alone
Atop his ivory tower and declared to the world
That his voice
Would be the only voice obeyed?
In that same time-space I don't know,
Did all the other men agree?"(Fro ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781852249151 | ISBN 10: 1852249153
Jacob Sam-La Rose has been described as ‘a one-man literary industry’. This was Patrick Neate’s comment on the BBC Poetry Season website: ‘Passionate about poetry and its power to change people’s lives, he’s a lesson to us all. He’s also a damn fine ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781901677751 | ISBN 10: 1901677753
In May of 1895, the most dazzling man of letters of the nineteenth century was sentenced to two years with hard labour for ‘acts of gross indecency with another male person.’ On his release he moved to France, where he wrote the Ballad: an anguished ... more
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£12.50 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907356223 | ISBN 10: 1907356223
The widely-admired poet, Matt Simpson, was born in Bootle in 1936. After studying English at Cambridge University, he returned to his native city with his German-born wife, and apart from one brief break in 1995, when he was Writer-in-Residence to Ar ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780330513395 | ISBN 10: 0330513397
Rachael Boast’s first collection is dominated by astral influence and divine chance, by unseen or remote causes; but despite its celestial title, Sidereal is full of terrestrial concerns, the traffic and chaos of the human and natural worlds. Ultimat ... more
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£8.00 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571274307 | ISBN 10: 0571274307
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory -
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art g ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571264902 | ISBN 10: 0571264905
Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571249947 | ISBN 10: 0571249949
Simon Armitage’s new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.
Here comes everybody: Snoobie and Carla, Lippincott, Wittmann, Yoshioka, Bambuck, Dr Amste ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571277940 | ISBN 10: 0571277942
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR.
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her ... more
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£7.50 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780955509285 | ISBN 10: 0955509289
Poet and performer, theatre-maker and activist, Ben Mellor was the BBC Radio4 Poetry Slam champion 2009. Bristling with the wit and wisdom and the energy he brings to the stage, Light Made Solid is his debut collection for the page and features many ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330523936 | ISBN 10: 0330523937
A classic Christmas tale re-told for modern times by the Poet Laureate, with illustrations by Rob Ryan.
It’s the night before Christmas and a young girl creeps like a mouse down the stairs, determined to find out for certain whether Santa is ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781900322874 | ISBN 10: 1900322870
A collection of Matt’s latest poems – horticultural, whimsical, ecological, political and just plain funny. Where Earwigs Dare contains a rich biodiversity of verse, some recycled from Matt’s appearances on Radio 4’s Saturday Live and his stint writi ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781852248796 | ISBN 10: 1852248793
This groundbreaking anthology of ten new poets truly reflects the multicultural make-up of contemporary Britain. At a time when less than 1% of all poetry books published in the UK are by black or Asian poets, the work of these writers testifies to t ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956307149 | ISBN 10: 0956307140
Sylvia Hikins has been making poems since she was twelve. That, and other things. Having produced three children, she then went back to school to read her degree. This led to a career in lecturing and management in further and higher education and va ... more
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£7.50 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780955509278 | ISBN 10: 0955509270
Picking up from where his previous collection Planet Young leaves off, Gerry's second instalment of autobiographical poetry intimately explores his own love, grief, friendships, family and journey into Planet Middle Age.
It's a journey with jo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330512725 | ISBN 10: 0330512722
A selection of dazzling love poems from the Poet Laureate.
Whether writing of longing or adultery, seduction or simple homely acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy brings to her readers the truth of each experience. Her poetry speaks of tangled, heated p ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844084142 | ISBN 10: 1844084140
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel once more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of You... So wrote twenty-two-year-old Vera Brittain, mouring the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton on t ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780955455360 | ISBN 10: 0955455367
Winner of the Costa Prize 2009
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T S Eliot Prize
Lucinda Gane, Christopher Reid’s wife, died in October 2005. A Scattering is his tribute to her and consists of four poetic sequences, ... more
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£8.50 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780955509230 | ISBN 10: 0955509238
"Light years shine heavy in maverick landscapes
Of lazy days and jewelled summers.
They Doctor Who and Rock Folly.
Meandering travellers lurk languidly in time.
Philandering rhymes chock-a-block and scissor-kiss
A cock-eyed melancholy.
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780954848262 | ISBN 10: 0954848268
Bernard Kops is one of Britain's most celebrated and prolific authors. His new collection, This Room in the Sunlight includes over forty recent unpulished poems, together with most of his best poetry from his long writing years.
His poems are witt ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141442471 | ISBN 10: 0141442476
John Keats died aged just twenty-five. He left behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne.
Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844715664 | ISBN 10: 1844715663
Eleanor Rees’s first collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection she continues to play the role of mythologiser and ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099529651 | ISBN 10: 0099529653
John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only 26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781852248239 | ISBN 10: 1852248238
John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 30 years with his mischievous, satirical fables which overturn all our expectations. Alternative Anthem is a live album of poems from books published over three decades, with a ... more
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£7.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781902096636 | ISBN 10: 1902096630
This is an awaited first full collection by Pauline Rowe. Her poems offer a series of elegies for lost love, for lost innocence, for the mad and the sad and those displaced by the cruelties of contemporary life. The confessional edge to these poems c ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571244805 | ISBN 10: 0571244807
Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career. This new edition includes a remarkable interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in Cornwall during the Second World ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847770431 | ISBN 10: 1847770436
"Demerara whose east coast raised me
From a mere stalk to stand straight
To stand tall no matter what current
Help me find your grain your flow
And Demerara sweeten me
So my art keeps your river's cave at
Your sense of cane fie ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571223282 | ISBN 10: 0571223281
Preserved on a single surviving manuscript dating from about 1400, composed by an anonymous master, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was rediscovered only 200 years ago, and published for the first time in 1839. One of the earliest great stories of En ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780330448246 | ISBN 10: 0330448242
Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works they have inspired - Paul Muldoon, Vicki Feaver and U. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781841958958 | ISBN 10: 1841958956
Are you sitting comfortably?
Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city odes and journeys through history, mystery and culture.
Every page sings with Lemn Sissay's unique voice: visionary, good-humoured and bursting with love.
... more
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£3.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955916700 | ISBN 10: 0955916704
This volume of thirty or so poems, Tall Ships Returning, celbrates Liverpool's achievement in being recognised as European Capital of Culture; it is written in a positive spirit, paying tribute to the city's people, its history and culture.
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847671530 | ISBN 10: 1847671535
Bloodshot Monochrome is a glorious, poetic take on all things black, white and read. Reinventing the sonnet, Patience Agbabi shines her euphoric, musical lines on everything from growing up to growing old, from Northern Soul to contract killers, ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781904634584 | ISBN 10: 1904634583
The poems in this volume were written in response to three anniversaries relating to three separate conflicts. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out of the Blue ... more
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£6.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905778034 | ISBN 10: 1905778031
The Suitcase Book of Love Poems holds a mirror up to the soul of the UK nation, Bringing together the best of black and Asian poets of the UK and beyond, contributors include Lemn Sissay, Shamshad Khan, Mahogany L Browne, Basir Kazmi, SuAndi and Kei ... more
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£18.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781857548761 | ISBN 10: 1857548760
Valentine Ackland is best known as the lover of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, with whom she collaborated on Whether a Dove or a Seagull (1934). She was a distinguished poet in her own right, however, and enjoyed popular success during the 1930s. Consi ... more
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£25.00 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781857549478 | ISBN 10: 1857549473
The first Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most moving and personal poems she ever wrote. Claire Harman, the original editor ... more
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£6.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780954281694 | ISBN 10: 0954281691
"There are angels in the northwest
They swear and fight
Knock seven kinds of shite
Out of clouds and fairy dust.
Whisper sweet nothings to
Shooting stars
Prop open clubs and bars
Don't make noises when they
Cry."(from 'Manchester')
... more
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£12.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780224080866 | ISBN 10: 0224080865
Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces ... more
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£7.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781873226872 | ISBN 10: 187322687x
In her tenth collection, Gladys Mary Coles brings together her poems about war and its effects – major themes throughout her work. She ranges across the centuries, from the Roman invasion of Britain to the 2005 terrorist bombings in London, with a sp ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905192274 | ISBN 10: 1905192274
Our mothers and fathers
fought the thugs who came totorment them on thestreets.They organised in their places ofwork against magnateswho were pouring milk down mines, shooting minerskilling Afghans and hobnobbing withHitler... (from Fighters for ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141189260 | ISBN 10: 0141189266
First published in 1967, The Mersey Sound is a landmark in British poetry, being one of the bestselling poetry anthologies of all time. Innovative in both form and style, Henri, McGough and Patten revolutionized the traditional boundaries of poetry, ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007246496 | ISBN 10: 0007246498
Acknowledged as one of Britain's foremost poets, Brian Pattern's love poems have earned him recognition far and wide. Truthful and tender, profoundly aware of the possibility of magic and the miraculous, these poems capture both the joys and the sadn ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099478751 | ISBN 10: 0099478757
Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, whose humour, distinctive voice, and sharp eye for the idiosyncrasies of everyday life, have made him a household name both as a poet and a broadcaster. 1967 saw not only the publication of The Mer ... more
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£7.95 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781852247508 | ISBN 10: 1852247509
Straight Ahead is Clare Shaw's first collection. Firmly located in the social and physical landscape of Northern England, the poems capture intimacy, loss, fragmentation and delight - being alive in all its colours. The book follows the trajectory of ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780955233906 | ISBN 10: 0955233909
From the day the cell door closed on Nelson Mandela 40 years ago, poets took up the fight for freedom - not just his freedom, but that of an entire people. This book brings together almost 100 poems from 25 countries that show how a generation of poe ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413775702 | ISBN 10: 0413775704
New poems, prose and pictures, a mixture of moods, jolly, melancholy, reflective, detective, tales from home and abroad, an uttering of fluttering delight. The title Uncut Confetti has suggested a few images. One is a confetti which has n ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141025018 | ISBN 10: 0141025018
Pioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson revolutionized literary English with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican Creole, radical politics and dub rhythms. This major selection covers over three decades and includes classic early poems like I ... more
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£7.50 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781902096971 | ISBN 10: 1902096975
Levi Tafari's new collection follows the success of his previous book, Rhyme Don't Pay. There is an engaging humour, variety and vitality in his poetry, whether writing of love of various kinds or his concern for society and the environment. Levi is ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141023229 | ISBN 10: 0141023228
This is an updated selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. The complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millennium, is represented here. "McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781904614128 | ISBN 10: 1904614124
A little over a year since the appearance of her first book of poetry, Sudden Collapses in Public Places (which was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Julia Darling completed her second collection.
Her first book grew from her e ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571207251 | ISBN 10: 0571207251
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780953983322 | ISBN 10: 0953983323
A third volume of poems from R.N. Taber certainly lives up to expectations. Whether a serious read or leisurely dip 'n' dive on bus, train or plane, here are poems that fire the imagination and to which we can easily relate, sometimes less than comfo ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141014555 | ISBN 10: 0141014555
Collected Poems brings together forty years of poetry from Britain's favourite wordsmith in one volume for the first time. From the quintessential 1960s poems 'Let Me Die a Youngman's Death' and 'Summer with Monika' to the recent tender poems of fat ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780140424386 | ISBN 10: 0140424385
‘Now as I’ve drunk a draught of corn-ripe ale,
By God it stands to reason I can strike
On some good story that you will all like’
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collec ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780862418380 | ISBN 10: 0862418380
This is a twist of Lemn. There is no smokescreen, no flim-flam or slim-slam. Morning Breaks in the Elevator is Lemn's first book in eight years. In the intervening time, besides being a featured artist on the multi-million selling album Leftism ... more
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£10.95 paperback (0000) - ISBN 13: 9781852248437 | ISBN 10: 1852248432
Tell Me Lies is a rampaging last collection by the late and much lamented Shadow Poet Laureate. The title-poem is a 21st-century remix of his celebrated anti-war poem, ‘To Whom It May Concern (Tell me lies about Vietnam)’, first performed at the anti ... more
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