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The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom

The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom
Edited by Roy Sellars and Graham Allen

  • Includes important essays on The Book of J, The Western Canon, and a host of new perspectives on Bloom’s influence on poetry, the novel, canon-formation, institutional politics and political correctness, Biblical interpretation, post-colonialism, criticism and evaluation, literary theory and philosophy, and many other subjects.

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Don’t Start Me Talking
Edited by Tim Allen and Andrew Duncan

  • Discover the British avant-garde
  • Sensational interviews with Kelvin Corcoran, Simon Smith, Michael Haslam, David Chaloner, Elisabeth Bletsoe, David Greenslade, Alexander Hutchison, Peter Manson, Harry Gilonis, Andrew Crozier, Tim Allen, Out to Lunch, Tony Lopez, Sean Bonney, David Miller, R.F. Langley, John Hall, Nick Johnson, Robert Sheppard, and Eric Mottram.

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The Salt Companion to Carter Revard

The Salt of Companion to Carter Revard
Edited by Ellen L. Arnold

  • The Salt Companion to Carter Revard is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays on the poetry and scholarship of one of Native America’s most loved and respected poets.

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Background Radiation

Baclground Radiation
by Henry Hart

  • “I’ve been reading Henry Hart’s poems with admiration for many years, always impressed by his concreteness of language and by the hauntingly personal music in his work: the poetry of a true artist and spiritual seeker.” —Jay Parini

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Feral

Feral
by Janet McAdams

  • “This is the work of a writer who knows how to cross time in the present, to descend beneath the surface layers and see what lies beneath. The poems are riddles of human being and seem chained together, one to another, in ways that carry a reader back to the source, to origins, to a sensuous love of earth and to compassion.” —Linda Hogan

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My Thieves

My Thieves
by Ethan Paquin

  • “My Thieves both confronts and attests beyond the wreckage of lyric expression to renewed, revived musics that abide by their own ruins.” —Dean Young

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Home and Variations
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The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite
by Anthony Caleshu

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Evolution of the Bridge
by Maxine Chernoff

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by Maxine Chernoff

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by Catherine Daly

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Order of the Ordinary
by Joe Francis Doerr

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Drafts
by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

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by Annie Finch

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Periplum and other poems
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by John Matthias

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by Aaron McCollough

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by Jennifer Moxley

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by Jennifer Moxley

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Recollections of Being
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by Susan Wheeler

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A Leaf About to Fall

A Leaf About to Fall
by İlhan Berk

  • A Leaf About To Fall — an indispensable introduction to the work of Turkey’s greatest living poet.

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Lake Oenga and Other Poems

Lake Onega and Other Poems
by Leevi Lehto

  • Lake Onega is a captivating document of inter-lingual poetics mapping a future that will increasingly be where poetry happens.

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Letters from Aldenderry

Letters from Aldenderry
by Philip Nikolayev

  • Poetry has no precedent for the voice in Letters from Aldenderry

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Before Starting Over

“Capacious, funny and provocative”
—Andrea Brady

Brian Kim Stefans: Before Starting Over
Before Starting Over is an informal chronicle of several important developments in English-language poetry during the nineties and the turn of the century, most importantly Asian American poetry, digital poetics, and the changing face of poetry’s “experimental” wing. Read more …

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Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow

Bestselling new poetry from Tobias Hill

“What Hill reveals to us in this vital, luminous collection is that 200 years later, collision is still the city's essential state. In a book-length love song to the fabulousness and ragged beauty of his native London, he considers the city through the lattice of physical and metaphorical dialectics — nature and manufacture, wealth and poverty, glamour and grime — that bring it to life. [...] It is rare to come across a collection of poetry that you know with certainty you will still be reading years from now, but for me, this is such a book.” Sarah Crown The Guardian Read more …

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Daze

“Cooperman’s poems tell us that all may not be lost, there may in fact be a home, even if we never get to open its door.”
—John Yau

Matthew Cooperman: Daze
The poems of Daze form a prospect on time—the passing of literal days, the ephemerality of the body, frangible memory, American speed, the crisis of late modernity. Daze charts out the periods of our belief, blending personally-lived experiences with wildly assimilative narratives which make up our blurred identities. Written as a series of series, Daze works out the demands of the diurnal by interlocking poems both discretely within sections and across sections. Challenging the moral entropy of the 21st century, Daze is as much a view of bewilderment and outrage as it is the beautiful or true expression of poetry. Read more …

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New US releases

Designated Heartbeat

Designated Heartbeat
by Bruce Andrews

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Ossabaw

Ossabaw
by David Hamilton

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Designated Heartbeat

Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains
by Jerry Harp

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EarthworksEarthworks, reflecting the range and diversity of contemporary Native American writing, the Earthworks authors come from all over the U.S., from the Pacific Northwest to Oklahoma to the Midwest, and they write from a variety of tribal backgrounds – Cherokee, Osage, Choctaw, Ojibwe, and Chumash/Esselen.

Blood Run

“These poems bear witness to a difficult age, an age built on a spiral of earthliness. They make an honoring song for the earth. This honoring song carries joy, sadness, fury and grief. We need this gift, these poems.”
—Joy Harjo

This volume testifies to the need to protect the remarkable ruins of the Indigenous North American city of Blood Run and the sacred remains she guards there in mounded tombs. The persona poems herein emanate its character embraced in architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the sun and moon and multitudes of stars above. Read more …

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The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store

“Phil Morgan is one who reveres his heritage and his literary ancestors, and that reverence is found throughout this first, glorious collection.”
—Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

NATIVE WRITERS CIRCLE OF THE AMERICAS FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store is the award-winning collection of Choctaw/Chickasaw poet, Phillip Carroll Morgan. The poems range across physical and spiritual geographies of the indidgenous Americas, translating ancient mythos into contemporary poetics. They touch upon the mysteries of creation and upon the creation of mysteries. Read more …

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Mother/Land

“This may be one of the best literary depictions of New England to date, certainly the finest one to challenge whatever is new and English about the place.”
—Craig S. Womack

Cheryl Savageau : Mother/Land
In Mother/Land, Savageau weaves traditional, personal and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance, revealing a landscape of trees, ponds, rivers and mountains rich in meaning for Abenaki people. Mother/Land is beaded with gems from her mother’s jewel box—poems that tell stories of her mother’s life and death, and the complexities of love and survival. Read more …

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Almost Ashore

“Tricksters and Shadows. Bears and Crows. Tribal memories and modern cities. Gerald Vizenor calls upon a wondrous repertoire in Almost Ashore.”
—A. Robert Lee

Gerald Vizenor : Almost Ashore
Almost Ashore is a selection of new imagistic poems, crucial scenes and nurtured sentiments of survivance, and a section of original haiku poems. Many of the selected poems are situated in woodland landscapes, treelines and shorelines, a natural sense of presence, and concentrate by chance, image and irony on the experiences of Native American Indians. The haiku scenes are similar to the images and tease of nature in Anishinaabe dreams songs. Once, worlds apart in time and place, these imagistic practices are the mythic connections of natural reason and aesthetic survivance in Almost Ashore. Read more …

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Hot Native American titles

Apprenticed to Justice

Apprenticed to Justice
by Kimberley Blaeser

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Red Earth

Red Earth
by Philip H. Red Eagle

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A Bridge Dead in the Water

A Bridge Dead in the Water
by James Thomas Stevens

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New essays on poetry and poetics


Uncertain Poetries

Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics
by Michael Heller

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Uncertain Poetries

Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry
by Tony Lopez

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Uncertain Poetries

Read it Again
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe

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Boudicca & Co.

“‘—the grip/ of the wheel, a licence to roam.’ Jane Holland’s poetry smoulders and blazes. Take your deepest breath, and go with her.” —Alison Brackenbury

Sensual and politically engaged, Boudicca & Co.. drives narrative poetry in new feminist directions. It creates a cast of strong provocative female characters with complex agendas, centred around a controversial sequence of poems in the voice of Boudicca. A collection with a powerful sense of place and purpose. Read more …

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Poetry Wars

“Vanity, paranoia, booze and petty corruption: they are all here. As a warning to future poets.” —Iain Sinclair

Poetry Wars describes the battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s between radicals and conservatives, which had lasting effects on British poetry. Myths and anecdotes about these events have long been circulated, but this is the first detailed account of what happened, based on archival sources, and told by a writer who knew many of those involved. Read more …

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Latest UK releases

Fall of the Rebel Angels

Fall of the Rebel Angels
by Andy Brown

  • New selected poems from one of the UK’s best-loved poets

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Galatea

Galatea
by Melanie Challenger

  • By the author of Stolen Voices

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Incognegro

Capital
by Giles Goodland

  • By the author of A Spy in the House of Years

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New British poetry and short stories

Sawn-Off Tales

Sawn-Off Tales
by Dave Gaffney

Fanstastic volume of utra short stories

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Incognegro

Incognegro
by D.S. Marriott

By the author of On Black Men

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Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive
by John Wilkinson

Notre Dame Poet in Residence

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Call Centre Love Song

Short listed for Best First Collection in the UK’s Forward Prizes 2006

Ian Gregson teaches at the University of Bangor, and has published poems and reviews in the London Review of Books, the TLS and Poetry Review, amongst others. His critical books have been concerned with contemporary poetry, postmodernism, and representations of masculinity. He is currently researching postcolonial issues in contemporary poetry in Wales for a book called The New Poetry In Wales, for the University Of Wales Press. Read more …

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Urban Myths

Magnificent selected poems from John Tranter

“This new and selected poems reminds us, if we needed reminding, just how powerful John Tranter’s cumulated work is. There is a density, an intensity, and a many-sided explorativeness that probably cannot be matched in Australian poetry.” Martin Duwell Australian Book Review.

“Tranter has produced a body of work remarkable for its intellectual vitality, formal versatility, and powers of renewal over a long and formidable career.” Peter Pierce The Melbourne Age. Read more …

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New Australasian poetry

All the Time in the World

Milk & Honey
by Michele Leggott

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blue grass

blue grass
by Peter Minter

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Along the Line

Along the Line
by Vivian Smith

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Eyes in Times of War

“Ali Alizadeh's fast-moving poetry holds us to today’s issues of identity and culture, its dilemmas of allegiance and responsibility.”
—Judith Rodriguez

Ali Alizadeh: Eyes in Times of War
This collection of poems speaks to an individual’s place and emotions during war. The wars depicted in this volume – the ‘history wars’, the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, ‘the war against terror’, ‘the clash of civilisations’, etc – form the background against which the speaker’s language seethes and writhes. These fractured lyrics – or ‘antiheroic couplets’ – take place in a volatile space in the aftermath of ancient conquests and prior to future atrocities. Read more …

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