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Dear Alice
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Synopsis 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. This remarkable book...
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...
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...
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...
Pitch: Drafts 77-95
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SynopsisPitch: Drafts 77-95 is a skeptical monument built and reassembled by a continuous folding over itself—tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of...
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...
Cuckoo Rock
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SynopsisCuckoo Rock overlooks Magical Valley, the potato caves and Cuckootown. It is the most wondrous, magical place. It is where the Singing Nettles are heard by the Yaffling Tree, where...
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...
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...
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....
The Last Word
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Portico Prize 2012.Gloria, meet Stephen. He’s your dead brother’s best friend. He’s also a liar, and he doesn’t want to hand over your brother’s belongings. He’s got...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Journal with No Subject
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SynopsisThe first collection of the poetry of Juan Calzadilla to be translated into English, Journal with No Subject spans eleven books published from 1962 to the present. This poetry denounces...
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...
Albion
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SynopsisCan the EDL offer hope? Jack is joining upJon Gale was winner of Writing on the Wall’s ‘Pulp Idol competition’ in 2012.Jack Garrity is a disaffected, frustrated and damaged eighteen...
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...
God of the Pigeons
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SynopsisPigeons fly us into the heart of the city to a little private space cut off by darkened gullies, the wing of a pigeon protruding dramatically, seeming to be a...
Astral Bodies
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SynopsisIn this long-awaited debut volume, Jay Merill brings together her poignant stories of everyday life. Merill’s narratives are charged with restless energy, her characters seek to come to terms with...
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
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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
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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...
Shop Girl Diaries
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Synopsis “The new It-Girl, Emily Benet, does for chandeliers what Bridget Jones did for publishing” Shoppers, suitors and chandeliers make up Emily Benet’s comic world. Selling light bulbs in her...
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,...
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...
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
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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...
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”...
The Men from Praga
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize This sharp and unpredictable collection opens in the Cold War. Berkeley’s father was a V-bomber navigator, a conflicted inheritance of pride and guilt...
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...
Gravity
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SynopsisGravity presents the first five books of poems from the sequence Gravity as a consequence of shape, started in 1982 and scheduled for completion in 2005. Gravity includes the books...
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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