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The Harbour Beyond the Movie
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Synopsis Shortlisted for The Forward Poetry Prize 2007 Next Generation Poet 2014 Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant...
Never Never Never Come Back
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Synopsis Don’t go over the hill, or look too long into the well, or go carousing with strangers, or you’ll never never never never come back. With the haunting quality...
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...
Scenes from Life on Earth
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SynopsisAddressing the loss of the poet’s mother – as well as themes of motherhood, birth, death, and the natural world – Scenes from Life on Earth explores how we grieve...
Birdhouse
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SynopsisFrom diamonds hidden in a grandmother’s pantry to a peahen’s shout of ecstasy, from the voice of a deranged bridesmaid to that of a nun teaching a sex education lesson,...
Ghost & Other Sonnets
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SynopsisGhost & Other Sonnets will disturb and delight. Divided into three sections the sequence begins with the Ghost Sonnets. Using traditional ghost narratives Monk condenses them into the tightly controlled...
Sing Me Down from the Dark
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Synopsis‘Sing Me Down From the Dark explores the highs and lows of a ten-year sojourn in Japan, two international marriages, a homecoming, and the struggles of cross-cultural relationships. It is...
The Solex Brothers (Redux)
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SynopsisLike 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,...
Hawthorn City
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Synopsis Gardens, grotesqueries, historical landscapes, destruction and darkness, all collide in Tony Williams’ explosive new collection Tony Williams is roaming the earth. The poems in Hawthorn City record the tales...
The Missing
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Synopsis Winner Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2009 Poetry Bank Choice Poetry Book Society Recommendation In...
If You Could See Laughter
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SynopsisIf You Could See Laughter is Mandy Coe’s first collection of poetry for children. An award-winning poet, Mandy Coe is an educational specialist in poetry in schools and has been...
Antler
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SynopsisEric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors...
The Departure
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards At the centre of Emery’s third collection are a series of narrative poems that reveal an astonishing range of personas, from...
Cracked Skull Cinema
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Synopsis Poetry Wales: Poetry Books of 2019 Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections...
All the Frogs
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SynopsisAll the Frogs collects together the poems John Mole has written for children since the publication of This is the Blackbird which was shortlisted for the CLPE Award. As in...
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...
Me and the Dead
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Synopsis In one of the best debut collections for ages, Katy Evans-Bush rises to the challenge of finding words for our times, meeting them in the nurseries of children or...
Tomorrow, We Will Live Here
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SynopsisThis is a terse, tough début by an award-winning American poet with punch in the language. What you find here is the grist of life – death, love, sex, departure...
The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street
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Synopsis Longlisted For The Portico Prize. Potter down to The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street and find a strange landscape opening up before you: the city's dishevelled edge...
The Land of the Flibbertigibbets
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SynopsisIn the Land of the Flibbertigibbets is a collection of playful poems and versatile verses bound to entertain and capture the imagination of the young reader. From poems about a...
The Itchy Sea
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SynopsisThe Itchy Sea is an extraordinarily vivid collection of poems which are, above all, entertaining. The poems each have a kind of freshness and cut-through that will hold the reader’s...
The Private Parts of Girls
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Synopsis The Private Parts of Girls follows Alice down the rabbit hole, Kassandra onto Agamemnon’s boat, and Red Riding Hood into the forest: it conjures the most mysterious landscape of...
More Shadow Than Bird
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SynopsisThe poems in More Shadow Than Bird are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived. The...
The Alien Guide from Inner Space
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SynopsisThese poems were inspired by the Alien Guide himself, while The Fire Poet was innocently scribbling in his scruffy book of thoughts and ideas.The Alien Guide from Inner Space (who...
Down to Earth
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SynopsisJohn Wilkinson’s Down to Earth is his darkest work to date: a disturbing road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration, an examination of now-ubiquitous borders, and a...
Don’t Wear It On Your Head, Don’t Stick It Down Your Pants
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SynopsisShortlisted for the CLPE Poetry AwardsThis book is a celebration of who we are; the good stuff, our amazing senses, language, love, gossip and cheese. John Siddique's poems blast off...
Bookside Down
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SynopsisThe poems in Bookside Down are written about and for 21st Century children, who are into their friends, the TV, Wiis, DS’s, computers, collectibles and things that make them laugh....
The Dumb Messengers
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SynopsisThis book collects shorter and lyrical poems Goodland has written over the last ten years. During this period he started a family, and many of the poems reveal an attitude...
The Wrong Miracle
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SynopsisEverything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar. (Picasso) Philosophical, inquisitive, humorous narratives show Gallagher’s talent for letting...
Flatlands
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and the East Anglian Book Awards. Steeped in the imagery of windswept fenland and the smoke of the roundhouse, Flatlands unearths a living...
High Tide
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SynopsisHigh Tide is a collection of the best of my poems for children written since 2002. This is a book of very accessible, crafted poetry for children of seven years...
Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits
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SynopsisCalling upon the personal memories and ancestral antecedents of her Anishinaabe family heritage, Molly McGlennen writes poems for Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits that render the continuance and celebration of...
Love Me Do
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Synopsis ‘Love Me Do’ offers a fresh and distinctive look at how we live our lives. Lydia Macpherson’s poems are closely observed, tender, witty and often intensely personal, with subjects...
Recital
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SynopsisJohn Siddique is a poet who wants you to read his work, his writing isn’t a puzzle you have to figure out. Gathered in these pages is the work of...
Here Comes the Poetry Man
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SynopsisShortlisted for the 2012 CLPE Poetry AwardsHere Comes the Poetry Man shows a passion for playing with words: how many rhymes are there for the last part of Eloise’s name?...
Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow
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SynopsisIn this latest collection of poems, Hill invokes people and place, mythologizing and demythologizing city lives as they are led. From poignant vignettes and celebrations to urban-pastoral and elegy, these...
Reveilles
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SynopsisReveilles, Nathan Hoks’ first collection of poems, re-imagines a tempered surrealism for the twenty-first century. Hoks combines dream-like sequences with flashes of reality—in fact, rather than escaping the world for...
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...
Book Made of Forest
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SynopsisComprised of lyrics, mock journal entries, prose portraits and odes, Book Made of Forest answers the "summons and challenge" of being both human and animal, urban and rural, cultured and...
Unexpected Weather
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Synopsis Abi 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...
Echo Train
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SynopsisEcho Train begins "Once upon a time / Books began this / Way" and asks us not “to be shocked to find / We must return and / Stand for...
Keeping Time
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SynopsisElegant, interesting, fluent, funny and wise, Tim Dooley’s new collection Keeping Time brings together lyrics and fragmentary narratives, the remembered and the imagined, in poems whose every line seems balanced...
Weightless Road
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Synopsis Weightless Road is Vincent De Souza’s much anticipated first collection of poems – several of which have won awards in high profile poetry competitions, including fourth place in the...
Midnight in the City of Clocks
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SynopsisThis lively second collection from a young, much-travelled writer, falls into two parts. ‘Transit’ includes poems of abroad, especially Japan, where Tobias Hill lived for two years. ‘Back to the...
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...
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,...
Room of Thieves
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SynopsisA six toed cat skeleton, a lesson in boxing technique and a poem in the shape of a phallus. These are just some of the things you can expect from...
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...
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