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The Night Jar
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SynopsisDynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind – presenting them for our...
The Book of Revelation
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SynopsisThe Book of Revelation serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time. With a nod to Mark E. Smith – late lead singer of The Fall and...
my name is abilene
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SynopsisShortlisted for Best Collection in the 2023 Forward Prizes for PoetrySennitt Clough’s twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. Imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived...
Shapeshifting for Beginners
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Synopsis Emma Simon’s wide-ranging work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems – mysterious,...
Woof! Woof! Woof!
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SynopsisIn a radical departure in style and tone, Rob A. Mackenzie’s new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary. From the murk of political engagement in...
Gogol in Rome
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Katia Kapovich’s poems embody a personal kind of lyricism. Often focused on specifics of locality and displacement, alienation and marginality, they remodel...
Rubber Orchestras
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Synopsis Taking 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...
Drawing in Ash
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SynopsisDrawing in Ash, is prize-winning poet Will Stone’s second collection from Salt. These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the...
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...
Early Autumn
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SynopsisEarly Autumn – the title derives from a plaintive jazz ballad with lyrics by Johnny Mercer – is framed by two long poems dealing with different aspects of loss. “Elegy...
Supermodernprayerbook
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SynopsisThis collection is what everyone needs for modern life, a contemporary prayer book. Buy it and use it as a footprint for walking through each day, safe in the rhythms...
Apocryphal Road Code
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SynopsisWayfarers and their songs, hobos and tramps and the codes they either espouse or deny – all figure prominently in this debut book of poetry by Jared Randall. With both...
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...
All the Time in the World
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SynopsisSwinging between the “hysterically quiet’ of Australian towns and China’s commercialisation of Mao, between allegorical voyages and densities of affection, Dennis Haskell’s All the Time in the World provides explorations...
Incognegro
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SynopsisIncognegro gathers together poems and prose drawn from journals and the author's fugitive chapbooks, along with previously unpublished pieces, around a central context of Black European and American literary-historical experience.Incognegro...
Blister Pack
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SynopsisThe calendar discreetly points out that our days are numbered.David McCooey is an elegist of the everyday. His poems combine minimalism and intensity, elegance and emotion. Finely crafted and edged...
The Imaginary in Geometry
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SynopsisThe instruction for this new volume was to write poems with no autobiographical content – going straight to personal myth. The Imaginary in Geometry is named for a book by...
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...
Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm
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Synopsis Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm playfully experiments at the edges where languages meet. These poems probe the technologies of language and the languages of technology. This is “technology”, with an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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