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The Ophelia Letters
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SynopsisThe poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with...
natural histories
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SynopsisNature is not so much the subject as an unavoidable force in these poems, providing space and fodder for meditations on our knowledge of self and other. Here, the small...
The Burning
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Synopsis‘The lyric poem works both to slow down our world, teasing out the many disparate elements of our experience, and to reorient it, by exposing an entire universe of instincts,...
Some Bright Elegance
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SynopsisSome Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning...
Then Spree
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SynopsisThe poems in Then spree take language for a ride bare-backed through fringe-worlds: through the backwoods of forgotten histories to the watery edges of landmasses, from the sunken, frayed psyche...
Low-Tide Lottery
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SynopsisLow-Tide Lottery is an introduction to the work of upcoming poet Claire Trévien. This is an exuberant collection that rummages in the rust of the everyday in search of beauty....
Erec & Enide
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SynopsisErec & Enide is a bold and unashamedly intimate work that delights in the theatrical, communicative powers of language, and by turns gives way to a quiet sadness. Writing out...
Appearances in the Bentinck Hotel
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SynopsisShortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book AwardsReading these poems there is a sense that, through ‘the sneakiness of words’, their tantalising truths are continuing partly to elude us –...
Depth Charge
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The Norfolk coast, seals and bitterns, out of season hotels all inform Emery’s world with a mix of deep history and a sense of exile Depth Charges provides a glimpse...
The Snowboy
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SynopsisMark Burnhope's poems present a generous but moral quizzing of the world. Peering out over disability, faith and the host of prejudices that spring from such ground, they negotiate a...
The Graft
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SynopsisThese quiet and lyrical poems take on the difficult task of maintaining a living connection with literary tradition. ‘The Graft’ turns upon moments of uncertain feeling wherein the clarity of...
Fleck and the Bank
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SynopsisFleck works for a bank but is uninterested in wealth. He mixes whisky with theology, politics with pizza, original lines with stolen ones. This pamphlet charts a litany of friendship,...
Swarming
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SynopsisSwarming is a waspish debut of strange voices and unsettling moments which jostle at the border of individual and collective experience: a holy fool lurks uneasily in an abattoir; a...
Refugee
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SynopsisFor several years, Nicholls worked as a volunteer writing mentor for members of the Write to Life group at Freedom from Torture. She tried to help people to find meaning...
The Bridle
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SynopsisThe Bridle is concerned with the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the human condition. Childhood, family, memory, myth – even the arguments and silences between lovers –...
I Sing of Bricks
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SynopsisAngela Topping’s poems are full of joy, tempered by sadness and always unflinchingly honest. She writes in a range of voices, always concentrating on the human experience, sometimes through unusual...
Last Farmer
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SynopsisThe division between country and city is fading fast and these poems document the ragged edge of our contemporary ideas of the rural and the sublime. Ever since the initial...
Apocapulco
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Synopsis“Apocapulco shimmers with the white-hot intensity of a world with minutes to go, with a diction that lances and cauterizes the bloated lyric ego with a single, slick incision. In...
Away from the City
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SynopsisAway from the City is an evocative collection of poems and photographs that observe the inhabitants of two cities on opposite sides of the world.Set in Melbourne and Cambridge, these...
Orchids
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SynopsisThe poems of Orchids spring from the margins of contemporary masculinity. A rich undercurrent of melancholy and desire seethes beneath the cool rhetorical playfulness of these lyrical monologues, as anguished...
Playing Solitaire for Money
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Synopsis “Playing Solitaire for Money” is a collection of lyric poems, which are contemporary in form and subject. It’s roughly split into three types of poems. The first third are...
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