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New poetry
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Los
Alamos Mon Amour
by Simon Barraclough
Trade Hardback
- ‘Los Alamos
Mon Amour’ explodes in the heart of
the desert and unleashes a chain reaction
of intense, moving, erotic and often darkly
comical poems.
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The
Golden Boat: Selected Poems of Srečko
Kosovel
Translated by Bert Pribac & David Brooks
Trade Hardback
- Srecko Kosovel, often
called the Slovene Rimbaud (he died at twenty-two,
leaving almost 1,000 poems), the full range
and significance of his poetry has been revealed
only slowly even to Slovenians themselves,
and yet he is a major voice of Central European
modernism.
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Selected
Poems
by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Trade Hardback
- “The Christina
Rossetti of blow-jobs and Brewer’s
droop.”
—Boyd Tonkin, The Observer
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The
Land of Green Ginger
by Antony Rowland
Trade Hardback
- “Significant
and powerful”
—Jeffrey Wainwright
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New poetry
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Year
of the Dog
by Tobias Hill
Trade Hardback
- Tobias Hill’s
first full-length collection, Year of the
Dog, won an Eric Gregory award in 1995. Dominated
by images and narratives from Hill’s
stay in Japan, as well as other tavel poems,
the book contains Hill’s celebrated
sequence ‘A Year in Japan’, with
its sweeping filmic narratives of the poets
encounters in a distant and strange land.
Hill’s skills in depicting urban pastoral
landscapes and human tableux are much in
evidence. Now made availabe in a new edition,
this hard to obtain work will delight fans
and collectors.
Price: £12.99
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Cossacks
and Bandits
by Katia Kapovich
Trade Hardback
- “Katia Kapovich’s
work combines the delight and wisdom of Russian
form with the wild soliloquy of American
freedom, and the consequence is wonderful.”
—Glyn Maxwell
- “Poems that
chatter and sing at the same time. Melodic
stories. Lyrical gossip. Writing which makes
itself heard.”
—Simon Armitage
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Dear
Alice: Narratvies of Madness
by Tom Pow
Trade Hardback
- Tom Pow’s powerful
new collection of poetry explores the imaginative
legacy of a nineteenth-century lunatic asylum,
the Crichton, drawing on the richly-documented
history of the site.
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Speede
& Other Liberties
by Andrew Sant
Trade Hardback
- Space travel likened
to a dream, pursued refugees, bikes ‘ridden
in a free-form dance with cars’, Olympian
exertion, and a crime whose solution involves
global flight — these are some of the
many forms of motion in Andrew Sant’s
tenth collection of poems.
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New releases
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Speaking
the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George
Oppen
by Michael Heller
Paperback
- “Not just a
great book of literary criticism, Michael
Heller’s
Speaking the Estranged is an exhilarating
examination of those 20th century literary,
political, and philosophical currents that
have carried us into our tumultuous present.”
—Forrest Gander
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The
Freedom of Paper and Ink: An anthology
of poems by young writers from the 2007
Write Lines project
Edited by Sundra Lawrence
Paperback
- The fruits of our
young writers’ efforts lie in this
book. Between these pages you will find rich,
thoughtful and funny poems that demand to
be read and talked about. These poems are
not for display purposes only. Read them
aloud, share them with a friend, or have
one with your breakfast each morning.
Price: £5.99
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’68:
New Stories from Children of the Revolution
Edited by Nicholas Royle
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- “A book for
everyone interested in the world now. Some
pairings can be relied on — literature
and life, Steptoe and
Son, Lennon and McCartney,
Nicholas Royle and a good anthology. 1968
is the year that made so much of what we
are. Readers who wish to follow the traces
of idealism and war, freedom and sex, should
put down their newspapers and read these
stories instead.”
—Andrew O'Hagan
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The
Most Serene Republic
by John Saul
Trade Hardback
- “I loved these
stories.”
—Kate Pullinger
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New fiction
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Body
Parts: The Anatomy of Love
by Richard Bardsley
Trade Hardback
- Human anatomy and
affairs of the heart take on a whole new
dimension in this book. Body Parts: The Anatomy
of Love is a collection of stories, each
one dedicated to a part of the human body
and all on the theme of love. From head to
feet via freckles and fingers, every aspect
of the body is explored through stories that
are humorous, at times disturbing and never
predictable. By the end of Richard Bardsley's
unforgettable journey, the agony and enchantment
of love in all its guises has been expertly
dissected.
Price: £14.99
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The
Searching Glance
by Linda Cracknell
Trade Hardback
- “Linda Cracknell’s
attention to detail is impressive: she writes
as a painter in oils might paint, using a
palette rich in both colour and texture,
and the people she brings to life seem at
once both part of and alienated from the
landscapes in which they move. These are
quiet yet passionate stories, subtle and
striking in their effect.”
—James Robertson
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Words
from a Glass Bubble
by Vanessa Gebbie
Trade Hardback
- “Original, compassionate
and illuminated by humour, these stories
by a prodigiously gifted new writer dare
to mine the faultline between rage and love.”
—Maggie Gee
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The
I Love You Book
by William Guy
Trade Hardback
- William Guy’s
life-affirming and uplifting collection of
lovers’ monologues gathers together
a hundred different men and women, speaking
about the people, places, life and things
they love. Alongside stories of cross-dressers,
gamblers, pathologists and voyeurs, we learn
of affairs of the heart confided by a stand-up
comic working his audience, a gangsta defying
the world for his girl and the ‘other
woman’ coping with her guilt. Through
these brilliant tales, packed with passion
and wit, Guy opens our hearts and minds on
to love in all its glorious diversity.
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Recent releases
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Weightless
Road
by Vincent De Souza
Hardback
- Explosive set of
poems infused with the spirit of the motorcycle
journeyman and world of rock and roll music.
Price: £12.99
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Scales
Dog
by Alexander Hutchison
Hardback
- “Charms, incantations,
classic satire, contemplation, bawdiness — rumbustious
here, elegiac there — Hutchison is
a poet of depth, range and magic.” —Richard
Price
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Strip
by Angela Readman
Hardback
- “This is a
coming of age collection of a poet truly
blossoming: elegant, witty, provocative and
subversive on ‘this short forever’ of
sex and its appeal.” —S.J.
Litherland
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Glaciation
by Will Stone
Hardback
- “Will Stone
is the lycanthrope of contemporary poetry,
a haunter of the haunted, at loose in the
European necropolis.” —Stephen
Romer
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New releases
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Balancing
on the Edge of the World
by Elizabeth Baines
Paperback
- These are stories
about power: children without it and adults
vying to get or keep it. A small boy is struggles
with his parents’ divorce, a doctor
fails to understand the limits of his medical
power, a wronged wife finds a uniquely powerful
way to wreak revenge.
Price: £8.99
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Another
Place
by Mike Barlow
Paperback
- What have Captain
Cook, Dr Who, the Inuit word for happiness
and an abandoned suitcase in common? They
are all end up in ‘Another Place’,
poems from a wandering mind. Winner
of the National Poetry Competition 2006
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Bloomsbury
and British Theatre
by Tim Cribb
Paperback
- Everyone knows about
the Cambridge Spies. This book tells the
back-story of the Cambridge Theatre Mafia:
Sir Peter Hall, Sir Trevor Nunn, Sir Ian
McKellen, Sir Derek Jacobi, and the powers
behind their thrones, Dadie Rylands and John
Barton.
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New releases
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Some
New Ambush
by Carys Davies
Paperback
- Some New Ambush is
the first collection of short stories from
award-winning writer Carys Davies. Love,
loss, birth, death, betrayal, madness – they
all lie in wait for Davies’s characters in
their startlingly different worlds: a dry
cleaner’s shop in contemporary Chicago, a
mining town in South Wales in the sixties,
a lunatic asylum in nineteenth century northern
England.
Price: £8.99
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A
Fold in the Map
by Isobel Dixon
Hardback
- A Fold in the
Map charts two very different voyages:
a tracing of the dislocations of leaving
one’s native country, and a searching exploration
of grief at a father’s final painful journey.
These poems of accessible contemporary
lyricism will speak memorably to travellers,
lovers, and all those who mourn.
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Aromabingo
by David Gaffney
Hardback
- Aromabingo is
the much aniticipated sequel to Gaffney’s
highly-acclaimed ‘Sawn-off Tales’,
offering yet more weird, edgy, ultra-short
stories, together with several longer ones — the
perfect opportunity to spend more time inside
the baffling, hilarious and sometimes moving
world David Gaffney paints for us.
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“‘A
marvellous, inventive, playful but affecting
collection.” —John
Burnside
A book about
voices, about silences, about things we do
not say. Voices to and from the living and
the dead, the poor, those on the edge, dream
voices and stolen narratives. Nuns ice skate,
Monty Python meets his mother, J.G. Ballard
enters Heaven, lions and tigers and pigs prowl
the pages, you can travel to places that no
longer exist and listen to maverick minds and
wake up with a boy who has been asleep for
400 years. Surprise yourself. Read
more …
Hardback
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New releases
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Prop
by Peter Jaeger
Hardback
- Peter Jaeger’s
beautiful new work was written while travelling
in Japan, India, Canada, Italy and England,
but these intense lyrics are more than “travel
poems”, they explore body awareness
and consciousness within language itself — an
interplay that becomes more evident through
Jaeger’s unfamiliar surroundings and
his exploration of meditation and yoga.
Price: £12.99
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The
Solex Brothers
by Luke Kennard
Hardback
- Like a toboggan of
wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex
Brothers rushes blindly through the forest,
drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk
tales, parables, political manifestos, philosophical
tracts and grammar.
Price: £12.99
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Covers
by Tony Lopez
Hardback
- Covers is
a deeply derivative book in which the poet,
without even any pretence of originality,
takes other well known literary works and
makes his own versions or mashups, splicing
them together with unlikely partners to create
something unexpected, even monstrous.
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Latest UK releases
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Elsewhere
by John Mateer
Paperback
- Born in Johannesburg,
John Mateer has often lived elsewhere. His
writing recounts the life of a deracine,
recording the experience of being foreign
and familiar.
Price: £9.99
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The
End of Limbo
by Valeria Melchioretto
Paperback
- This book transports
the reader through the vehicle of vivid images
and rich metaphors through uncanny regions
of both heaven and hell, stopping at numerous
stations in between and ultimately celebrating
the power of change. The poems are fusions
of the personal and the archetypal while
being rooted in alternative realism.
Price: £8.99
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Broken
Things
by Padrika Tarrant
Hardback
- Broken Things encompasses
a world of fractured realities and urban
magic. Here are voices lost inside themselves,
where the world is lopsided and nothing may
be trusted. A kitchen knife crawls after
a little girl to keep her safe and an old
lady hears her mother calling from a cupboard.
Price: £12.99
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