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Selected Poems
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SynopsisNuttall grew up in a remote valley of Herefordshire, where his father became the village schoolmaster. Nuttall formed his standards of assessment in this valley and they have not altered...
Riff on Six
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SynopsisThis book contains poems from Reiss’s first four books, as well as rollicking new work in his fifth volume, Slap Me Five and his sixth collection of darkly humorous and...
Accumulus
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SynopsisAccumulus is a collection of Ethan Paquin’s first two books of poems, The Makeshift and Dead July. The former was released in the UK in 2002, to widespread critical notice...
Arrondissements
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Synopsis“A poet of modern Paris has to write about more than the river mists …,” Douglas Oliver states in his preface. “More than mid-way through my life I have begun...
Terminus and Other Plays
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SynopsisThis major selection of works for the theatre offers a unique insight into the chaotic, violent, compassionate and unpredictable world created by Daniel Keene. Written as much for the page...
DaDaDa
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SynopsisAn information-age critique of information and process, this poetry trilogy treats such interrelated themes as identity and authority and strategies beyond Dadaist appropriation and postmodern ventriloquism. Catherine Daly’s constructed a...
All Day, All Night
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Synopsis‘All Day All Night is Cath Kenneally’s third collection of poems. It ranges across the territory of home and relationships, children, politics, gender, popular culture, travel, nationality and identity, with...
the blue pearl
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SynopsisThe poem works with patterns of phrase and space. Orders of words and deaths. Dispersed, with the precision and craft of stone inscriptions, the verses transform the page into sites...
The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry
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SynopsisHow modern is modern? How does the new come to be the surface which makes the personality visible? How does an offset become a peak? One of the key differences...
Marsh Fear / Fen Tiger
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Synopsis ‘Retro modernist meets postmodern lyricist. They shred the university library listening to city music. Encounters with dream language redesign a landscape, part fen, part bedroom. Poetry that seeks to...
Green 532
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Synopsis ‘If poetry can sometimes be the right thing for the right reason, then Green 532 has all les mots justes – just notes – to shake the tale loose...
Empires and Holy Lands
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Synopsis ‘Michael Hulse, born 1955, is one of the most distinguished poets of his generation, and an acclaimed translator and editor. This selection of a quarter century’s work draws on...
ode ode
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Synopsis A book that ‘does’ the subject: including pop fantasies of hares, fluteplayers, nudes, whores and Proust; (Marianne) Moore-style constructions of a gamut from Gosse to Guns ’n Roses; sequences...
Dispositions
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Synopsis In an age where displacement and dislocation are a common place, McKenzie Wark sets out to make the best of it. In Dispositions, he creates a way of writing...
Versary
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Synopsis ‘Soap opera, Country & Western and popular culture in all respects are combined with Renaissance wit, heartbreak and a wicked sense of humour – Lilley’s poems abound in warmth...
Working Progress, Working Title
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Synopsis Working Progress, Working Title combines two of John Matthias’s most experimental poems. Critics have for some time written of Matthias as a poet of place, but what will be...
Screens Jets Heaven
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Synopsis Screens jets Heaven contains a selection of poems from Jill Jones's previously published books, followed by a solid selection of new and uncollected poems. The work is intellectually sharp,...
A View of Buildings and Water
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Synopsis In A View of Buildings and Water Geoffrey O’Brien collects poetry from the last half-decade, among them poems that first appeared in such magazines as Talisman, The Germ, The...
The President of Earth
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Synopsis The President of Earth gathers the best and most exciting of David Kennedy’s poetry from the mid-1980s onwards. Ranging from graceful, evocative lyrics and mysterious dream-like narratives through alert...
Bestiary
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Synopsis Reviews of this Book ‘These poems are both imaginative and polemical – and are impossible to deflect …’ —Dorothy Porter ‘Coral Hull has found a unique and idiosyncratic voice...
American Incident
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Synopsis ‘Composed of a scattered novella (“Patricide in C Minor”), a performance text (“Resistance”), lyric poems, anti-lyrics, verse essays, prose poems and their de-formed counterparts, short fictions, hybrids, parodies, dramatic...
A Belonging Field
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Synopsis ‘Andrew Grace leads us back into the heartland, where things still grow, where locusts tear at the edges, where “the corn outgrew us, clogging our horizon / until all...
Attempts at Being
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Synopsis Often shifting and allusive, Croggon’s poems can convey the ‘strangeness of dream’.… The ‘stubborn voice’ is restless, impatient, exploratory – attuned to bedrock reality. Her poems are often carried...
The Garden
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Synopsis “Cool, postmodern,” in the words of Kevin Hart. Armand’s first published volume of prose explores – by means of a rigorous experimentation – the relations between “psycho-geography” and “geo-psychology”;...
Effigies Against the Light
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Synopsis ‘The poems in Effigies Against the Light have the qualities of improvising with materials at hand and of formal complexity which also might distinguish cultures dispersing and re-resolving through...
Source Codes
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Synopsis Source Codes is a collection about how we represent the world to ourselves and to each other in an era when the images and words we receive are often...
Griefbox and Other Plays
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Synopsis Griefbox is a cutting-edge collection of six contemporary Australian plays written with wit, precision, and great humour by poet, playwright, and theatre historian, Susan Bradley Smith. The plays roam...
Unsung
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Synopsis “Sculpture is a part of the space around it.” This statement by Katarzyna Kobro reflects Mengham’s sense of how he wants the poetic text to relate to the languages...
Rehearsal in Black
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Synopsis In a review of Paul Hoover’s work, poet and critic Gillian Conoley refers to its “appetitive inclusionary impulse,” Writing on Viridian, Mary Jo Bang commented: “There is a cool...
World
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Synopsis “World”, Maxine Chernoff’s first full-length collection of poetry in ten years, explores the borders of personal and group experience, public and private language. From brief riffs on jazz to...
Heart Print
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Synopsis A fresh collection of energetic and engaging writing. These poems focus sharply on the contemporary world, from the political to the religious, from the public arena to the deeply...
The Damage
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Synopsis The Damage: New and Selected Poems offers an up-beat selection from Milne’s emerging oeuvre. Along with excerpts from the earlier works Sheet Mettle and Bench Marks, this edition offers...
The Inland Sea
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Synopsis Reviews of this Book ‘Hill’s moving love poem is also a work of spiritual convergence, the mystic marriage of two desert traditions, the Song of Solomon and an even...
Anxiety Before Entering a Room
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Synopsis It’s the tail end of the Seventies, the severity of hypothetical Marxism has given way to the anti-humanism of punk. In a province, someone anglophobe and technophile is attempting...
Vacation of a Lifetime
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Synopsis ‘This volume gathers poems from Brady’s sequence, Liberties, with many singular works published in journals or previously uncollected. It presents the first opportunity to survey the territory of her...
Chekhov’s Mongoose
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Synopsis ‘Chekhov’s Mongoose is Tom Shapcott’s 15th collection, here are poems rich, mannered and varied, full of energy that comes from being conscious of the hourglass, and loving the pressure...
Aleatory Allegories
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Synopsis The poems gathered in Aleatory Allegories confront a world marked both by chance and by meaning – or, meaning in the chance events that play themselves out in language....
Fragmenting Body etc
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Synopsis This is a selection of poetry sequences by well-known poet and critic Douglas Barbour. Many of the sequences in Fragmenting Body etc were written in response to particular events...
Salt: volume 17
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Synopsis Volume 17.1 of Salt, the international journal of poetry and poetics edited by John Kinsella. This issue “Against War”, contains contributions from Hilda Raz, Reginald Shepherd and Susan Wheeler.
Divinations
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Synopsis Divinations – four modern morality plays by poet John Kinsella, each quite different but with threads that connect them – an anarchic sensibility, a poet’s voice, and an adventurous...
Conspiracies
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Synopsis ‘Family, marriage, violent sexuality and social dysfunction, these short stories are filled with lives of limit and the small corruptions of the soul. John Kinsella’s and Tracy Ryan’s narratives...
Auto
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Synopsis ‘Auto offers childhood joy or play, a contemporary view of the writer writing the text, a self-quotation now contextualised as a moment of the writer’s past writing life, or...
Odalisque
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Synopsis Odalisque employs the lyric poem to achieve a complicated and layered narrative. It is, on the surface, the story of an L.A.P.D. bomb squad detective who falls for a...
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...
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