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£12.00 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781787333703 | ISBN 10: 1787333701
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
'One of the most important poets of his generation'
ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical
'Powerful'
DUA LIPA
... 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: 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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£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.
Inspired and influenced by roots, reggae and hip ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780872868700 | ISBN 10: 0872868702
From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander’s status as one of t ... 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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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781780376233 | ISBN 10: 1780376235
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what ... 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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£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787333840 | ISBN 10: 1787333841
How else do we return to ourselves but to fold
The page so it points to the good part
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitt ... 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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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008464479 | ISBN 10: 0008464472
"A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure"(Irenosen Okojie)
Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir's profound coming of age memoir - the story of surviving physical and ... 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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£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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£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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£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784744618 | ISBN 10: 1784744611
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.
'This is more than protest.
It's a promise.'
Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241993880 | ISBN 10: 0241993881
A celebratory 20th anniversary edition of this landmark collection from black writers across the literary spectrum.
This ground-breaking anthology was first published twenty years ago, into a different literary landscape. Showcasing the work ... 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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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784744601 | ISBN 10: 1784744603
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.
On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry ... 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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£9.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781800243002 | ISBN 10: 1800243006
A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak.
In our times of crisis
The mind has its powers
... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471196720 | ISBN 10: 1471196720
From the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry.
rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a refl ... 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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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781419737565 | ISBN 10: 1419737562
A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion to clarity, and bitterness to forgiveness.
Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, ... 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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£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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£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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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784742041 | ISBN 10: 178474204x
*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018*
*A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017*
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Do ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911115496 | ISBN 10: 1911115499
A Stranger’s Pose is an evocative and mesmerising account of travels across different African cities.
With lyrical and absorbing prose, Emmanuel invites the reader to share in his travels, and the encounters he made along the way. Alongsi ... 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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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571347759 | ISBN 10: 0571347754
‘Exquisite’ (New Yorker), ‘breathtaking’ (Los Angeles Times), ‘baroque and moon-lit’ (Boston Globe) House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in ... 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 (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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£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: 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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£11.50 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781524711320 | ISBN 10: 1524711322
Poets on the march: 50 crucial poems written in response to the current political climate, selected and introduced by the Ohio Poet Laureate—and son of immigrants — Amit Majmudar.
In a political atmosphere where language and even meani ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780373829 | ISBN 10: 1780373821
Ten: Poets of the New Generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets fo ... 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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£10.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784741396 | ISBN 10: 1784741396
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 AND RADIO 6 MUSIC*
*FINANCIAL TIMES SUMMER PICK 2017*
*GUARDIAN BEST HOLIDAY READS 2017*
"A brilliant debut – a tender, nostalgic and at times darkly hilarious exploration of black boyhood, masculinity and grief – fr ... 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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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141984179 | ISBN 10: 0141984171
Here, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the 'American Lyric' form which makes her Forward Prize-winning collection Citizen so distinctive: an original combination of poetry, lyric essay, phot ... 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: 9781845233082 | ISBN 10: 1845233085
Recent winner of the Frost medal from the Poetry Society of America, Kamau Brathwaite has discovered a rich new vein of inspiration late in life, writing poems of urgency, wisdom, pain and brave humour. No poet since Hardy and Yeats has written about ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780228686 | ISBN 10: 1780228686
The Rivered Earth contains four libretti written by Vikram Seth to be set to music by Alec Roth - together with an account of the pleasures and pains of working with a composer.
Entitled 'Songs in Time of War', 'Shared Ground', 'The Travelle ... 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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£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 (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
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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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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141981772 | ISBN 10: 0141981776
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then I ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781608463954 | ISBN 10: 1608463958
Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat Poets features 78 poets, born so ... 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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£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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£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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£9.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847772671 | ISBN 10: 1847772676
Winner of the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection
Shortlisted for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize
In his new collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatises what happens when one system of knowledge, one met ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781595589873 | ISBN 10: 1595589872
A dazzling collection of new poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner.
"This tireless activist has freed her mischievous, sensual, and spiritual poetic self to write of nature, love, friendship, courage, and generosity with playful and crooning lyrici ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781845232061 | ISBN 10: 1845232062
Sai Murray follows in the committed political footsteps of Gil Scott-Heron, Adrian Mitchell and Linton Kwesi Johnson, while delighting in the kind of punk wordplay that brought fame to John Cooper Clarke. His dramatic performances have earned him an ... 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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£9.95 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 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry from Her Majesty the Queen. In th ... 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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£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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£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 Neates comment on the BBC Poetry Season website: Passionate about poetry and its power to change peoples lives, hes a lesson to us all. Hes also a damn fine ... 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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£12.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781852249106 | ISBN 10: 1852249102
Jean Binta Breeze is a popular Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller whose performances are so powerful she has been called a one-woman festival. Her poems are Caribbean songs of innocence and experience, of love and conflict. They use personal stori ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781604864175 | ISBN 10: 1604864176
To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift, and sometimes pain. Theres change hidden just below the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collectio ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781604864854 | ISBN 10: 1604864850
Akbar Ahmeds Suspended Somewhere Between is a collection of poetry from the man the BBC calls the worlds leading authority on contemporary Islam." A mosaic of Ahmeds life, which has traversed cultural and religious barriers, this book of verse is ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781845231712 | ISBN 10: 1845231716
"Without losing the joy of play or the play of the rhythms, Dub Wise celebrates the burdens and delights of love, friendships and the responsibility of being at home in the world. Geoffrey Philps new book is witty, playful, gracious and, yes, wise. ... 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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£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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£12.00 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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199561599 | ISBN 10: 0199561591
The Caribbean has produced one of the most vigorous and exciting bodies of poetry of the last one hundred year. The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse is the only contemporary anthology to present the best of the English-language poetry of the region alo ... 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: 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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£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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£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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£13.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781592215935 | ISBN 10: 1592215939
This new collection contains poems written intermittently from the 1980s to the present, celebrating activism and activists, known and unknown, women and men, and the spirit of struggle.Some were assassinated, while some are still alive and some hav ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781592215553 | ISBN 10: 1592215556
"At a time when human existence is threatened by the absurdity of power and greed, Toure advances a poetry that celebrates and castigates, that kisses, curses and sings, reminding us as Blake, Whitman, Bly, Cardenal and Mackey that our soul emerges f ... 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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£12.95 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781857549416 | ISBN 10: 1857549414
The Caribbean is producing some of the most innovative and sophisticated poets in world literature today. This anthology turns the spotlight on eight New Caribbean poets. Between them, they represent the range of Caribbean identities and experi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781590171639 | ISBN 10: 1590171632
A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Jejuri is a site of pilgrimage in author Arun Kolatkar's native state of Maharashtra, and Jejuri the poem is the record of a visit to the town - a ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905778010 | ISBN 10: 1905778015
Hair: A celebration of Afro and Asian hair in poetry and fiction.Hair is surrounded by traditions, legends, folklore, myths and everyday joys and frustrations.Twists, dreads, comb styles, weaves, fluffed, afro'd, dyed, treated: every style has its ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781416511656 | ISBN 10: 1416511652
His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect.His death was tragic - a violent homage to the power of his voice. His legacy is indomitable - remaining vibrant and alive.Here now, are Tupac Shakur's most honest and inti ... 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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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781845230043 | ISBN 10: 1845230043
Slave Song is unquestionably one of the most important collections of Caribbean / Black British poetry to have been published in the last twenty years. On its first publication in 1984 it won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and established Dabydeen as ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781592214228 | ISBN 10: 1592214223
Beautiful. And Ugly Too, the critically-acclaimed, second poetry collection from award-winning author M.K. Asante, Jr, reveals through its delicate rhythm, the plurality of being alive. The poems, sketched from influences and drawn from experiences a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780753819616 | ISBN 10: 0753819619
The collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple.
' I am the woman
offering two flowers
whose roots
are twin.
Justice and Hope
Hope and Justice
Let us begin'
Alice Walker has been writin ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781857548433 | ISBN 10: 1857548434
Chinua Achebe is one of the founding fathers of African literature in English, a writer of world stature whose novel Things Fall Apart
is one of the essential works of the twentieth century. This Collected Poems draws on his three collections ... 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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£16.99 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780393309751 | ISBN 10: 0393309754
"Undersong is a remarkable poetic document. It comprises a thoroughgoing revision of Lorde's early poems, 1950-1979, along with nine hitherto unpublished poems from that period, and an essay describing the revision process. Readers new to Lorde ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1987) - ISBN 13: 9781852421274 | ISBN 10: 1852421274
For over 40 years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. Selected Poems is made up of Hughes' own choice of his poetry, published first in 1959.It includes all of Hughes' best known poe ... more
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