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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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£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
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£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781524880859 | ISBN 10: 152488085x
Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and bestselling author amanda lovelace presents the you are your own fairy tale series bound collection— a beautiful and empowering trilogy that proves the only thing needed for a happily ever after is yourself.
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£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784742683 | ISBN 10: 1784742686
Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winning poet Liz Berry.
'A profound act of witness to a long injustice, and a beautifully crafted conjuring of a life lived as truly as possible' Gu ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913111366 | ISBN 10: 1913111369
‘One of literature’s most fiery and unclassifiable polemicists.’ —The Guardian
The Book Of Desire is the award-winning (Women’s Prize-shortlisted) writer Meena Kandasamy’s luminous translation of the Kāmattu-p-pāl, a 2000-year- ... more
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£13.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914236228 | ISBN 10: 191423622x
One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, Pessimism is for Lightweights began life as thirteen pieces of courage and resistance from the pen of the one and only Salena Godden. These are poems written for the women’ ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526649980 | ISBN 10: 1526649985
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu.
In these reflections on being and blackness, informed by empathy and intellectual curiosity, Nwulu melds the golden ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529083903 | ISBN 10: 1529083907
In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street.
In each one is a gift. You may find yourself back-straight watching a ballerina, poised to begin, or catch your lips movi ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914240317 | ISBN 10: 1914240316
"So deeply gripping and inspiring...It will stay with me, always."(Annie Macmanus)
In 2008, 21-year-old Lady Unchained got involved in a fight in a club while trying to protect her sister. Serving 11 months of her prison sentence, her life changed ... 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: 9780571370337 | ISBN 10: 0571370330
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
‘In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly evocative, scrupulously integr ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913175252 | ISBN 10: 1913175251
Featuring the work of Black women poets from Botswana to Brazil, in this collection, we encounter ancestors who made love, just for the sake of love, and women who die with each orgasm while attempting to mark the extent of their own humanities. This ... 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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£13.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781541600386 | ISBN 10: 154160038x
From a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry “rich with political and human resonance” (Ursula K. LeGuin)
Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver, as a new college graduate ... more
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£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
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£7.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913211356 | ISBN 10: 1913211355
Tina Tamsho-Thomas is a published writer, poet, spoken word artist, playwright and human rights activist with an international reputation.
Sample Poem:
Takin’ the Position Purple – Thank you Alice Walker
I ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781908906489 | ISBN 10: 1908906480
Rejected by our fathers, feared by our mothers, C+NTO tells the story of subversive butch counterculture that has been missing from contemporary LGBT narrative. Focusing on the private lives of characters from the gay scene, C+NTO speaks of the femal ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916356122 | ISBN 10: 1916356125
"There is strong correlation between childhood trauma and mental health issues. I suffer with PTSD and depression, and use poetry to write honestly about the multitude of issues I have experienced in my 39 years. I have found writing to be hugely the ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529003154 | ISBN 10: 1529003156
A stunning gift book containing 150 bold, brave and beautiful poems by women – from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices. From suffragettes to school girls, from spoken word superstars to civil rights activists, from arist ... more
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£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
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241396865 | ISBN 10: 0241396867
I have been woman
for a long time
beware my smile
I am treacherous with old magic
Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal a ... 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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£12.00 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780374710 | ISBN 10: 1780374712
2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
2018 NAACP Image Award
Finalist 2018 Pulitzer Prize
Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Incendiary Art confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of the mothers of mu ... 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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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781423650980 | ISBN 10: 1423650980
Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women — to encourage, challenge, and inspire.
One of American’s most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day i ... more
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£21.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780393652369 | ISBN 10: 039365236x
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.
The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilli ... 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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£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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£12.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780372181 | ISBN 10: 1780372183
Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2014
Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781474607261 | ISBN 10: 1474607268
Mindful poems about tolerance, justice and hope for the Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic, The Color Purple, returns with a poetry collection th ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780999079645 | ISBN 10: 0999079646
Sudden Denouement Publishing is honored to publish Rachel Finch’s book of poetry A Sparrow Stirs Its Wings. Finch is the powerhouse behind the Bruised But Not Broken community on Facebook, which provides support and healing for trauma survivors. Sh ... 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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£9.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780374208 | ISBN 10: 1780374208
The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home.
The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the country submerged, including her home town. Fl ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846149825 | ISBN 10: 1846149827
"A major literary talent... speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way... you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest."(Stylist)
'You ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780525576013 | ISBN 10: 0525576010
Noor Unnahar is a young female voice with power and depth. The Pakistani poet’s moving, personal work collects and makes sense of the phases of collapsing and rebuilding one’s self on the treacherous modern path from teenager to adult. Tinged wit ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911048299 | ISBN 10: 1911048295
#MeToo – rallying against sexual assault and harassment: A women’s poetry anthology – edited by poet Deborah Alma.
"This collection is quite the rollercoaster: it made me cry with sadness – and with joy. I salute the courage of the women w ... 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.
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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£13.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781608468560 | ISBN 10: 1608468569
Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.
... more
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£12.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780373980 | ISBN 10: 1780373988
Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. She is a master of t ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509852666 | ISBN 10: 1509852662
This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.
Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.
The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509852789 | ISBN 10: 1509852786
Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection is a book-length love poem, and a moving act of personal testimony, but what sets these poems apart is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions and transformations of love - infatuation, longing, passion, co ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571330102 | ISBN 10: 057133010x
The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath’s life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. They reveal the poet at the height of her creative powers, exhibiting the startling imagery an ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911570103 | ISBN 10: 1911570102
How do you feel empowered when depression leaves you powerless?
How do you promote self-esteem when your internal critic always shouts the loudest?
How do you change the world when you can't get out of bed?
In the second collection by t ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509863174 | ISBN 10: 1509863176
Jackie Kay’s first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit – one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus – Kay’s own, her father’s, and his own father’s ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995716223 | ISBN 10: 0995716226
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471165825 | ISBN 10: 1471165825
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller
From Rupi Kaur, the bestselling author of TEXTMilk and Honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry.
Illustrated by Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooti ... 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: 9781911570141 | ISBN 10: 1911570145
‘But there’s just not many women doing poetry...’ – some men have said.
Back in 2013, when London was in need, poet and feminist Carmina Masoliver founded a monthly event that catered for self-identifying women and non binary folks, brin ... 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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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784103606 | ISBN 10: 1784103608
Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award
Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017
Set against a backdrop of ecological and economic instability, Sinéad Morrissey’s sixth collection, On Balance, revisits some ... 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 (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349134512 | ISBN 10: 0349134510
A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish�
There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780373393 | ISBN 10: 1780373392
In her latest collection, The Insomnia Poems, Grace Nichols explores those nocturnal hours when Sleep (the thief who nightly steals your brain) is hard to come by, and the politics of the day hard to shut out, never mind the lavender-scented pillow. ... 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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£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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£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
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£4.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780956307194 | ISBN 10: 0956307191
Sylvia Hikins is a poet, painter, author and music maker who has appeared widely on the poetry circuits, including the Edinburgh Fringe and has broadcast on radio and television. For seven years presenter of First Friday on BBC Radio Merseyside, she ... 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 corde 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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£9.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9789949385522 | ISBN 10: 9949385520
Diana Aitai was born in Estonia in 1988. She wrote poetry and prose under the name "Andeora Astraea". She learned many languages, won prizes in linguistics and philosophy, and studied psychology at university. She participated in eco-communities and ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780393351835 | ISBN 10: 0393351831
The final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive voice.
Adrienne Richs Later Poems Selected and New displays the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most distinguished artists of American letters. After ... 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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£9.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780372785 | ISBN 10: 1780372787
Choman Hardi's Considering the Women explores the equivocal relationship between immigrants and their homeland - the constant push and pull - as well as the breakdown of an intermarriage, and the plight of women in an aggressive patriarchal society a ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848613928 | ISBN 10: 184861392x
Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America.
An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a devi ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629631059 | ISBN 10: 1629631051
In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784533618 | ISBN 10: 1784533610
Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780991146598 | ISBN 10: 099114659x
"This remarkable anthology, gathered in tribute to Lilly Ledbetter with a toast to Carolyn Kizer, gathers the lyric art of working women, writing from the depths of at least sixty-two occupations. These are the poems of the heavy-lifters, night-shift ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781381809 | ISBN 10: 1781381801
In her third full-length collection Blood Child, Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change fleeting, elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780371559 | ISBN 10: 1780371551
Raving Beauties womens theatre company was born out of a deep sense of frustration with domesticity, naivete and a burning need for a creative outlet. It led to an enormous personal, political and professional learning curve. Hallelujah for 50ft Wom ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349006215 | ISBN 10: 0349006210
As the world celebrates and reflects on the beautiful life of Maya Angelou, Virago presents an updated collection of her works of poetry, collected together for the first time.
From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Ju ... more
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£6.50 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780957404816 | ISBN 10: 0957404816
Sea Witch consists of 21 poems, loosely based on each scene of the film Jaws.
The shark is now female. The writing combines attention to verbal texture with use of space on the page to present a verbal-visual whole.
"Crewe's writing is sparse, p ... more
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£4.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907598265 | ISBN 10: 190759826x
This year, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomass birth, Candlestick Press are privileged to publish Gillian Clarkes story The Christmas Wren, written in response to Dylan Thomass A Childs Christmas in Wales.
Commissioned by the Dylan Th ... 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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£12.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780371023 | ISBN 10: 1780371020
Kim Hyesoon is one of South Koreas most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature and Intellect), one of two key journals which champ ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571290444 | ISBN 10: 0571290442
Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of twentieth-century poetry, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. Though she published just one collection in her lifetime, The Colossus, and a novel ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781721728 | ISBN 10: 1781721726
Poet Deryn Rees-Jones and artist Charlote Hodes have created a unique approach to the life of Helen Thomas, and through her to the women, and children, left behind by the fatalities of war. Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband the war poet Edwar ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780701186845 | ISBN 10: 0701186844
SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2013
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013
The much-anticipated debut collection from award-winning poet and rising star, Helen Mort.
A stone is lobbed in '84,
hangs like a star over Orgre ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907587269 | ISBN 10: 1907587268
U.A. Fanthorpe was that rarest of literary beings, a poet who was hugely popular with the general public and at the same time very seriously regarded by fellow poets and literary critics for her originality, wit and humanity.
Since her death, muc ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847772046 | ISBN 10: 1847772048
Winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry
Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection
In Parallax Sinad Morrissey documents what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs (the diffe ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781608681884 | ISBN 10: 1608681882
"Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one."(from the preface)
I was born to grow, / alongside ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846972072 | ISBN 10: 1846972078
Liz Lochhead was appointed Scotlands Poet Laureate (Makar) in January 2011.
A stunning new collection of selected works from one of Scotlands most loved writers. During her career Liz Lochhead has been described variously as a poet, f ... 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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£4.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907598036 | ISBN 10: 1907598030
Ten Poems about Mothers is a tribute to mothers everywhere; in the centenary year of International Women�s Day, it seems an appropriate (and schmaltz-free) alternative to a Mother�s Day card or a birthday card � or just a thank you - for mother ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571259311 | ISBN 10: 0571259316
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.
"If the poem ... 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.
Its 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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£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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£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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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844086153 | ISBN 10: 1844086151
Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelous poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, energized our minds, and healed our hearts.
Celebrations is a collection of timely and timeless poems: the inspir ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844715664 | ISBN 10: 1844715663
Eleanor Reess first collection, Andrastes 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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844084951 | ISBN 10: 1844084957
The Door is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 Morning in the Burned House. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781920196196 | ISBN 10: 1920196196
Survivors of violence are often forced to flee emotionally and geographically from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. This year, POWA called for entries ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781857549881 | ISBN 10: 1857549880
"Walking by water through the gates
of castle, mountains, sky, I think of him,
great-great-grandfather, gorhendaid,
working the stone-boats on the Menai Straits
to the salt psalm of the sea and the wind's hymn
in the tug and thrust of the tide. ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781770100787 | ISBN 10: 1770100784
Footprints and fingerprints includes a wide selection of Mabuza's poems from a period of over thirty years. In this collection she explores the nature of South Africa's journey to democracy and her own personal role in the struggle. Mabuza firmly sta ... more
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£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
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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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£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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£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566424 | ISBN 10: 0863566421
Mai Ghoussoub was a woman who lived with one foot in the East and one in the West, who embodied cosmopolitanism, and who was deeply committed to freedom of expression. Drawing on her own extraordinary experiences as well as political and histori ... 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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£12.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781852247775 | ISBN 10: 1852247770
Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kays part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems ... 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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£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571228294 | ISBN 10: 0571228291
In Lines of Life: 101 Poems by 101 Women, Germaine Greer brings together poems 'written from the point of view of a woman and most of them about being female'. This wonderful collection explores a range of female poets from the sixteenth centur ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781573242714 | ISBN 10: 1573242713
Wild Women and Books is a celebration of perhaps the most revered and radical women writers of history. Beginning with the first recorded writer of either gender to date, Enheduanna of Sumeria, and ending with acclaimed authors of today, including To ... more
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£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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£9.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781852246785 | ISBN 10: 1852246782
Modern Women Poets is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Joness pioneering critical study, Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets. While its selections illuminate and illustrate her essays, Deryn Rees-Joness superb anthology works ... 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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£10.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781852243920 | ISBN 10: 1852243929
Until recently, womens poetry has been at best sidelined and at worst forgotten. In this pioneering study, Deryn Rees-Jones argues that the poetic traditions of the past hundred years must be radically rethought in the light of the formal and themat ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780954407520 | ISBN 10: 0954407520
The Colour of Black and White is Liz Lochheads first collection of poems for more than a dozen years, and, for her, the most important since the award-winning Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems in 1984.
The poems within this remarkab ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781900564137 | ISBN 10: 1900564130
UA Fanthorpe's Christmas Poems gathers together the poems she wrote and sent to friends as Christmas cards from 1974 to 2002.
Now readers can enjoy Fanthorpe's yearly output in its entirety. Her subject matter covers a broad range of season ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781844080816 | ISBN 10: 1844080811
The complete extant work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630BC. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyric ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780871130693 | ISBN 10: 0871130696
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver's American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for the finest book of poetry published in 1983 by an American poet. The depth and diversity ... more
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£9.95 paperback (1984) - ISBN 13: 9781852242015 | ISBN 10: 1852242019
The Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greates ... more
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