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Rooms
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SynopsisRooms is a collection of new and selected poems by Diane Glancy. The rooms are spaces from previous collections – spaces influenced by memory and the pull of the past...
Devil On Your Back
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SynopsisTracey, a teenage single parent in London’s East End, pregnant for a second time, is desperate not to end up like her mother: overworked and defeated.Denny Brown was first prize...
The Sophist
£11.99
SynopsisThe Sophist was first published by Sun & Moon Press in 1987 and has been unavailable for well over a decade. A pivotal book for Bernstein, The Sophist demonstrated his...
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...
Braided River
£12.99
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”...
Leans
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SynopsisLeans is the condition experienced by a jet pilot as he leaves the Earth’s gravity. The book brings together four chapter-books and the remaining poetry that completes the poet’s twenty-three-year...
Background Radiation
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Synopsis Many of the poems in Background Radiation deal with mystery and history. The characters in the poems often possess a “double vision,” as if one eye were focused on...
Dr. Mephisto
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Synopsis Dr. Mephisto is in the form of a long sequence of poems. It traces Mephistopheles as he ranges freely through time and space, at times a laconic observer, at...
Deception Island
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SynopsisWilliam Logan’s poetry has been called elegant, difficult, cranky, formidable, dazzling, intoxicating, and ominous. For almost forty years, he has published poems that do not fit comfortably with the work...
The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein
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SynopsisThe Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one of the U.S.’s best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by...
Carrion Men
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SynopsisCarrion Men tells the dual tale of dog fighting in the city and a young woman’s fight against mental illness over the space of a year in the heart 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...
The Art of Keeping Quiet
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Synopsis The Art of Keeping Quiet is the first anthology in English translation by Rodolfo Alonso, one of today’s most renowned Argentine poets. As early as 1956, Raúl Gustavo Aguirre...
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...
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...
Songs of the Maniacs
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SynopsisFrom her office at a mental health institute on the outskirts of modern day Miami, a troubled young woman counsels deeply disturbed clients while coping with her own heightening concerns....
Friday in Jerusalem and Other Poems
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SynopsisMarco Antonio Campos’s work can be considered a response to the dialogic poetry that arose in Latin America beginning in the 1950s. The latter is characterized by radical disregard for...
Evidence of Red
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SynopsisWinner Of The 2006 Oklahoma Book Awards Evidence of Red: Prose and Poems rails against lost lands and lovers, heralds death and mad warriors, and celebrates a doomed love affair...
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...
Riot
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SynopsisRiot is a raw, visceral rant by 18 year-old Mark Jones, a college student in a depressed area of Cardiff, South Wales. He’s hemmed in by apathy, sex and violence...
Marg
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SynopsisMarg is the story of a 24 year-old Polish immigrant sex worker in London. The story is told from Marg’s point of view. She is initially a masseuse who provides...
Creature
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SynopsisThese poems function as experiments in epistemology. Attentive to the ways that sensory experiences coalesce into cognition and the ways cognition remains always thoroughly sensory, these poems experiment with the...
Boudicca & Co.
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SynopsisJane Holland’s second collection, Boudicca & Co., is a provocative and vibrant exploration of women and their roles in society. The perennial themes of motherhood, love and sex jostle for...
The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy
£19.99
SynopsisDiane Glancy is one of the outstanding Native American authors of modern times. Working in multiple genres – poetry, novel, theatre and nonfiction – she has created a vast, ceaselessly...
The Trees
£11.99
SynopsisWinner 2004 International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry. Featuring “La Tierra Giró para Acercarnos” (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation...
The Salt Companion to Carter Revard
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SynopsisThe 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. Carter Revard,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
How the Songs Come Down
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SynopsisRevard’s poems are more like those of Seamus Heaney than those of Paul Muldoon – more like Robert Frost than Wallace Stevens, more like Mark Twain than Henry James. They...
Before Starting Over
£24.99
SynopsisBefore 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,...
Brother No One
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SynopsisWritten during the George W. Bush era, the poems in Brother No One take their bearings from our surveillance society, where no action or transaction goes unnoticed. Everything, from vacation...
Double Venus
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SynopsisStructured as a series of poetic arguments, essays, and visions, Double Venus seeks a suitable language for reconciling various styles of commitment. The collection is especially concerned with facing the...
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