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Elegies & Vacations
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SynopsisA book of intense emotional power, Elegies & Vacations marks Hank Lazer’s taking the resources of innovative poetry in new directions that are at once elegiac, skeptical, and spiritual. Eleven...
Designated Heartbeat
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Synopsis‘In this selection of shorter lyric poems, celebrated Language poet Bruce Andrews offers his charismatic blend of satire, wit and jouissance, creating a dizzying picture of modern America. In these...
Collected Poems
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SynopsisKenneth Allott was born in Glamorgan and educated in Newcastle and Oxford. Widely regarded as one of the most promising poets of the late Thirties, he published just two volumes...
Camper Van Blues
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Synopsis Jane Holland’s third collection, Camper Van Blues, is a book of journeys, both real and imaginary. The title sequence is a British road movie told through poems, one woman...
Braided River
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SynopsisBraided River consists of a major selection from forty years of Anselm Hollo’s published work, as well as a selection from his most recent, uncollected work. It describes a “braided”...
Bird Head Son
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SynopsisAnthony Joseph’s last book was the critically acclaimed ‘The African Origins of UFOs’, this is the first new collection of poetry by Joseph since 1997’s ‘black surrealist manifesto’ Teragaton. Written...
Between the Crackups
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SynopsisBetween the Crackups is a frolicking romp through the abandoned factories, overcrowded highways, and forgotten rural landscapes of America. This provocatively voiced book explores themes of sexuality, gender, class, pop-culture,...
Andraste’s Hair
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SynopsisShort-Listed For The Felix Dennis Best First Collection Prize (Forward Prizes For Poetry 2007) Bridging the divide between experimental, performance and traditional poetries the poems in Andraste’s Hair draw on...
Old Men
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SynopsisPeter Daniels has long demonstrated his skill as a poet who can write about being a gay man, and he now applies this to the experience of becoming older, finding...
Robbergirls
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Synopsis Written during a residency with The Polar Museum in Cambridge, Robbergirls reimagines The Snow Queen as a Sapphic rite of passage. Offered in seven sections that echo the fairy...
Joyriding!
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SynopsisThe poems in Joyriding! celebrate the emotional and sexual experiences of falling in love. Using a wide variety of poetic forms and structures, rhymed and unrhymed verse, the collection is...
Zoo
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SynopsisZoo is Tobias Hill’s third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collection was noted for its ‘grand...
Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair
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Synopsis Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair explores the ‘furious stillness’ of love and art. From Chinese legends to scenes from artists’ studios, these poems open apertures on twilit worlds, where the ‘elastic...
Unexpected Weather
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SynopsisAbi Curtis makes the familiar extraordinary, and the supernatural everyday. In poems about animals and clouds, scientists and circus performers, about love and bean-pods, about bruises and myths and the...
True Thoughts
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SynopsisTrue Thoughts follows the success of Pam Brown’s last major collection Dear Deliria published in late 2002 and awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Poetry in 2004. This new work...
The Word for Sorrow
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SynopsisWorking on Ovid’s extraordinary but often much-neglected exile poetry with an old second-hand Latin dictionary one stormy spring morning, Josephine Balmer noticed a school-boy’s faded name inked on its fly-leaf...
The Tempest Prognosticator
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SynopsisIn The Tempest Prognosticator leeches warn of storms, whales blunder up the Thames, beetles tap out their courtship rituals, and women fall for deft cocktail makers and melancholy apes. With...
The Return
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SynopsisThe Return is Eleanor Cooke's first full length collection since The Secret Files (Jonathan Cape, 1994) a book-length narrative sequence that re-told The Annunciation as part feminist myth, part circus...
The Opposite of Cabbage
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SynopsisThroughout this collection, opposites collide – reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. Messiahs parachute themselves to disused northern fairgrounds, a woman diets until...
The Night Post
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SynopsisPart of the highly-accomplished second generation of postwar Irish writers that have gone on to achieve international prominence, Sweeney has come to signify a very different Irish sensibility. Looking east...
The Long Moment
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SynopsisKate Fagan’s The Long Moment is a gorgeous and brilliant book, a work of complex sensuousness and deep intelligence. Fagan brings to her work the microcosmically precise insights of a...
The Hutton Inquiry
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SynopsisThe political events of Summer 2003 is the setting for the main sequence of poems in “The Hutton Inquiry.” The poems move quickly, as scraps of information, piecing together the...
The Harbour Beyond the Movie
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Forward Poetry Prize 2007. Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant teacher at the University of...
The Good News
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Synopsis“Today you turn up five habits to quit for happiness:criticism, control, complaint, excuses, expectations, without which you’d be happy, bland and unbearable.” (from ‘Thirteen’)Is the attempt to secure happiness worth...
The Fraud of Good Sleep
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SynopsisThe Fraud of Good Sleep is a book of “serious humanist” poems. Theis’s poems combine a stunning, classical rigor with a passionate madness that is utterly contemporary and surprising. Charting...
The Forgetting and Remembering of Air
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SynopsisIn this, her third collection, Sue Hubbard meditates on art and the natural world. By going to the extreme edge of western Ireland, to a Cornish beach, to the rim...
The Brand New Dark
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SynopsisPoetry Bank Choice. Mark Waldron’s debut collection The Brand New Dark is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. It is a book concerned with our loss...
The Ambulance Box
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and The Aldeburgh First Collection Prize The Ambulance Box heralds the arrival of a strong and passionate new voice. Striking a fine balance...
Squandermania
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SynopsisDon Share’s latest collection, Squandermania, is a book of poems that are slightly death-haunted and studded with references to marriage and fatherhood, geology and biology. It also revives a luminous,...
Sins of the Leopard
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial PrizeThis remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires...
Rubber Orchestras
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SynopsisTaking its name from a poem by American surrealist Ted Joans, Rubber Orchestras is an energetic, sensuous and intriguing collection of poems, written over a period of four years with...
Restricted View
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SynopsisLike craning your neck from a seat in a theatre, looking at the glittering night city from a skyscraper, or watching Woody Allen filming across the street, Restricted View, sees...
Restricted View
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SynopsisLike craning your neck from a seat in a theatre, looking at the glittering night city from a skyscraper, or watching Woody Allen filming across the street, Restricted View, sees...
Ossabaw
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SynopsisBelieving in invention as the art of finding things, David Hamilton has been concerned with finding what, in memory, in nature, in his reading, and in daily events, suggests a...
Nowhere’s Far
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Synopsis Nowhere’s Far as its title suggests is both close to the heart, immediately approachable and inhabitable, but also right out there in the world of the imagination where all...
Milk Fever
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SynopsisMilk Fever is a prize-winning first collection from a new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poet’s former career as a television scriptwriter for young adults is evident in the...
Luxe
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SynopsisLuxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets – pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in...
Los Alamos Mon Amour
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2008‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ explodes in the heart of the desert and unleashes a chain reaction of...
Los Alamos Mon Amour
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2008‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ explodes in the heart of the desert and unleashes a chain reaction of...
Like This
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SynopsisLike This ranges over a number of subjects and uses a variety of forms. There are poems about the Australian outback, visual art, London suburban life and the odd –...
Letters to the Sky
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SynopsisLetters to the Sky is a collection of poems examining themes of friendship, nostalgia, identity, self-adornment, self-protection, sadness, hope and change. These ethereal, romantic, and feminine poems draw on the...
It Feels Like Disbelief
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SynopsisIt Feels Like Disbelief is a remarkable book. Its poems are contemporary and engaged, sometimes edgy, yet they exhibit a skilled formal control and a marvellous capacity to make music...
Imagined Rooms
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SynopsisThe poems in Imagined Rooms invite the reader in Philip Gross’s words ‘to take it all in’. Written between the 1970s and the start of the Clinton and Blair era,...
How To Build A City
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SynopsisHow To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the...
Home and Variations
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SynopsisIn one way or another most of the poems in Home and Variations are about displacement. Sometimes this is literal, but more often there is another kind of displacement at...
Glaciation
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SynopsisWinner Glen Dimplex Poetry Award 2008 ‘Sometimes you read collections that in their ambition and concerns alert the mind to the possibility of obtaining a new perspective on what else...
Ghostly Subjects
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Synopsis In Ghostly Subjects, Maria Takolander applies her unique and unflinching gaze to the earth, relationships, the body and art, revealing the exquisite strangeness that marks the world as fair...
Ghost Station
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SynopsisIn this long awaited second collection, Sue Hubbard gathers together five major sequences which combine to form in a journey of love, loss and redemption. The central theme is an...
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