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Death Magazine
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SynopsisLonglisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2020Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to...
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 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...
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...
Implacable Art
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Synopsis‘In this first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn continues her explorations of power, persecution and loss. Mendelssohn’s work shows the intense relationship between agency and structure in the modern world. Her...
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 Harbour Beyond the Movie
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Synopsis Shortlisted for The Forward Poetry Prize 2007 Next Generation Poet 2014 Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and short-fiction writer. He works as a research student and assistant...
Luxe
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SynopsisLuxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets – pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in...
A Lost Expression
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SynopsisThis is Luke Kennard’s fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse...
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...
The Mystic and The Pig Thief
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SynopsisThe Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the...
The Frost Fairs
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SynopsisWinner of the 2012 Polari PrizeA Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry SchoolHoliday Read in The ObserverThe Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global...
Heat Wave
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SynopsisHeat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,‘What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!’ If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can...
School of Forgery
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Synopsis PBS Recommendation. The school of forgery is a singular institution, whose principal teachings concern the volatile relationship between fakery and invention. Both you and I are its alumni, and...
A Brief History of Time
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SynopsisA Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social...
Collected Poems
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Synopsis‘John James is one of the most highly respected poets of his generation. In this volume all his major works are gathered together from Mmm … Ah Yes (1967) to...
No Traveller Returns
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SynopsisThis poetry collection includes prose. Some pieces tell stories. Others half-express, half-explain, a certain pressure of situation. Poems in a book do not sound, or signify, as do poems extracted,...
Birdhouse
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SynopsisFrom diamonds hidden in a grandmother’s pantry to a peahen’s shout of ecstasy, from the voice of a deranged bridesmaid to that of a nun teaching a sex education lesson,...
Ghost & Other Sonnets
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SynopsisGhost & Other Sonnets will disturb and delight. Divided into three sections the sequence begins with the Ghost Sonnets. Using traditional ghost narratives Monk condenses them into the tightly controlled...
Walking with Ghosts
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SynopsisWritten from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer, and mixed-race experience, Walking with Ghosts: Poems confronts the legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal of Cherokees from their homelands while simultaneously resisting...
Folklore
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SynopsisStretching from Anglo-Saxon fragments, through the Shakespeare of Midsummer Night’s Dream, the ecstatic lyrics of John Clare, elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, and contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill Folklore is...
The Children’s War
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SynopsisIn the first half of The Children’s War, Shaindel Beers looks at artwork done by and about child survivors of war, embodying the voices of the children, their families, and...
Eliza and the Bear
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SynopsisEleanor Rees’s first collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection...
The Solex Brothers (Redux)
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SynopsisLike a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos,...
The Missing
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Synopsis Winner Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry Shortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2009 Poetry Bank Choice Poetry Book Society Recommendation In...
Antler
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SynopsisEric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors...
Feral
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SynopsisIn richly detailed poems of wolf girls and feral boys, green children, and polar explorers, mermaids, orphans, and moth collectors, Janet McAdams explores the vexed relationship between human and non-human...
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,...
White Noise Machine
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SynopsisWhere Richard Skinner’s previous pamphlets, Invisible Sun and Dream into Play, were primarily concerned with the play of light and playfulness respectively, White Noise Machine is mainly concerned with sound....
Apprenticed to Justice
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SynopsisApprenticed to Justice is a collection of vividly rendered lyrical and narrative poems that trace the complex inheritances of Indigenous America, this “strange map drawn of blood and history.” It...
Melt and Solve
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Synopsis In 2013 the poet Roddy Lumsden suffered a serious concussion. The head injury left him devoid of creativity, impersonating himself in an effort to rediscover his own identity. Four...
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...
Milk Fever
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SynopsisMilk Fever is a prize-winning first collection from a new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poet’s former career as a television scriptwriter for young adults is evident in the...
How To Build A City
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SynopsisHow To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the...
Megalomaniac
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Synopsis“I was blown away by the quality…”- Aftab Hussain, Peshkar theatre“Megalomaniac is a beautifully written and performed piece of work. Shamshad Khan intelligently and humorously plays with ideas of fame...
The Migraine Hotel
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SynopsisA combination of verse and prose poetry, ‘The Migraine Hotel’ is Luke Kennard’s third collection and very much a sequel to ‘The Harbour Beyond the Movie’. The voices continue to...
Sins of the Leopard
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial PrizeThis remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires...
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....
Sweet Shop
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Synopsis Ranging over place, memory and history, Amit Chaudhuri’s new collection of poems makes a fresh, spiritual accommodation with the world. The poems often take their themes from sweets named...
Me and the Dead
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Synopsis In one of the best debut collections for ages, Katy Evans-Bush rises to the challenge of finding words for our times, meeting them in the nurseries of children or...
Tomorrow, We Will Live Here
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SynopsisThis is a terse, tough début by an award-winning American poet with punch in the language. What you find here is the grist of life – death, love, sex, departure...
Habeas Corpus
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SynopsisSacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, and Aileen Wuornos. A witch, a pirate, a slave who poisoned her master. A serial killer, a Quaker, a case of mistaken identity. The earliest...
Along the Line
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SynopsisFilled with precise observation of the interior and exterior world, as well as lashings of wit, Smith’s wide-ranging, often poignant lyrics take us on tour through history, ideas, people and...
The Brand New Dark
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Synopsis Next Generation Poet 2014 Mark Waldron’s debut collection The Brand New Dark is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. It is a book concerned with...
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...
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...
Drafts
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SynopsisThis book brings Drafts, the long poem by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, to its mid-point. A polyphonic work, both monumental and provisional, Drafts asks how to represent our sense of direness...
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