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Never Never Never Come Back
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Synopsis Don’t go over the hill, or look too long into the well, or go carousing with strangers, or you’ll never never never never come back. With the haunting quality...
Blade Pitch Control Unit
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SynopsisBlade Pitch Control Unit is a gathering of Sean Bonney’s work in poetry over the last five years. It collects together all the work from his previous pamphlets that he...
Where Grown Men Go
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Synopsis Michael Brown’s poems have been widely-published in magazines such as The North, Southword and The Rialto, as well as in two pamphlets. In this debut full-length collection, we find...
Bones & Breath
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Synopsis Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of The Year Award Winner 2014 People want pleasure from poetry, and in Bones & Breath – this masterly collection from Alexander Hutchison –...
The Departure
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards At the centre of Emery’s third collection are a series of narrative poems that reveal an astonishing range of personas, from...
The Zen of La Llorona
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Synopsis The Zen of La Llorona is a second collection of poetry by a Native American woman, and as such, it goes beyond initial concerns with personal racial identity. While...
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...
The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street
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Synopsis Longlisted For The Portico Prize. Potter down to The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street and find a strange landscape opening up before you: the city's dishevelled edge...
Next to Nothing
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Synopsis Next to Nothing records the years following the death of a beloved child in 2001. Though bereft of belief in the poetic outcome compared to the apocalypse of the...
The Private Parts of Girls
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Synopsis The Private Parts of Girls follows Alice down the rabbit hole, Kassandra onto Agamemnon’s boat, and Red Riding Hood into the forest: it conjures the most mysterious landscape of...
The Dumb Messengers
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SynopsisThis book collects shorter and lyrical poems Goodland has written over the last ten years. During this period he started a family, and many of the poems reveal an attitude...
All the Whiskey in Heaven
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Synopsis All the Whiskey in Heaven brings together Charles Bernstein’s best work from the past thirty years, an astonishing assortment of different types of poems. Yet despite the distinctive differences...
Fig
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Synopsis FIG is the second installment of the ongoing series Goan Atom. It is a colllection of 12 poetic pieces written between 1996 and 2004. They have each previously been...
Bird Head Son
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Synopsis Anthony Joseph’s last book was the critically acclaimed ‘The African Origins of UFOs’, this is the first new collection of poetry by Joseph since 1997’s ‘black surrealist manifesto’ Teragaton....
The Wrong Miracle
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SynopsisEverything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar. (Picasso) Philosophical, inquisitive, humorous narratives show Gallagher’s talent for letting...
Scales Dog
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Synopsis The Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award Scales Dog provides a selection of Hutchison’s work from Deep-Tap Tree (1978) to his most recent collection Carbon Atom (2006)....
Pistol Sonnets
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SynopsisThe hartley flyby nucleus is small, a long axis spinning 2 kilometer jets of dust and gas – an impressively active surface. Sunlight on nucleus of rough areas stretching to...
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...
Unexpected Weather
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Synopsis Abi Curtis makes the familiar extraordinary, and the supernatural everyday. In poems about animals and clouds, scientists and circus performers, about love and bean-pods, about bruises and myths and...
The North End of the Possible
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SynopsisHow do isolation, belonging and the land shape us? What difference does this make to how we live? Andrew Philip's second collection delves deep into these and other questions.In the...
Assorted Poems
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SynopsisAssorted Poems is a generous selection from the first four books by one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. In Bag o’ Diamonds (1993), Smokes (1998), Source Codes...
Leaving Eden
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SynopsisThe mind in love is an Eden, and a labyrinth; a return to innocence, and a serpent that seduces itself. Like a walled garden in the modern city, the mind...
Bird Head Son
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SynopsisAnthony Joseph’s last book was the critically acclaimed ‘The African Origins of UFOs’, this is the first new collection of poetry by Joseph since 1997’s ‘black surrealist manifesto’ Teragaton. Written...
Keeping Time
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SynopsisElegant, interesting, fluent, funny and wise, Tim Dooley’s new collection Keeping Time brings together lyrics and fragmentary narratives, the remembered and the imagined, in poems whose every line seems balanced...
Weightless Road
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Synopsis Weightless Road is Vincent De Souza’s much anticipated first collection of poems – several of which have won awards in high profile poetry competitions, including fourth place in the...
Camper Van Blues
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Synopsis Jane Holland’s third collection, Camper Van Blues, is a book of journeys, both real and imaginary. The title sequence is a British road movie told through poems, one woman...
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...
Joyriding!
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SynopsisThe poems in Joyriding! celebrate the emotional and sexual experiences of falling in love. Using a wide variety of poetic forms and structures, rhymed and unrhymed verse, the collection is...
I Con
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SynopsisI Con: New and Selected Poems represents the best examples of poetry from the career of Tim Thorne, a career spanning over forty years and a dozen collections. It contains...
Travelator
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SynopsisOne day, the poet found himself with a dying poem. So, out of sheer frustration, he took a pair of scissors to it and began to cut the poem up...
Speed
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SynopsisWhen action is everything and thoughts little more than waste product, it’s hard to justify time spent revelling in thinking for it’s own sake… The poems in this collection do,...
Finger and Thumb
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SynopsisFinger and Thumb strives to create rhythm on paper. It is a movement of language itself, for the sake of rhythm and numbers. Branching out from the phenomenon of “slam”...
It Comes With a Bit of Song
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SynopsisThis is a book about voices; voices of people and places and how we live our lives. It is also about silences and things we do not say. The voices...
Goblin Market and Other Poems
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SynopsisChristina Rossetti’s poetry was largely ignored in the early part of the twentieth century, during the Modernist movement’s backlash against much Victorian writing. However, by the 1970s Rossetti was rescued...
Speed & Other Liberties
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SynopsisSpace travel likened to a dream, pursued refugees, bikes ‘ridden in a free-form dance with cars’, Olympian exertion, and a crime whose solution involves global flight – these are some...
The Forgetting and Remembering of Air
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SynopsisIn this, her third collection, Sue Hubbard meditates on art and the natural world. By going to the extreme edge of western Ireland, to a Cornish beach, to the rim...
The Good News
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Synopsis“Today you turn up five habits to quit for happiness:criticism, control, complaint, excuses, expectations, without which you’d be happy, bland and unbearable.” (from ‘Thirteen’)Is the attempt to secure happiness worth...
Twenty-four Seven Blossom
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SynopsisNo gardener could ever grow an apple tree that blooms all year round, gifting both the flower arranger and the bee with twenty-four seven blossom. It’s an impossible dream, something...
Letters to the Sky
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SynopsisLetters to the Sky is a collection of poems examining themes of friendship, nostalgia, identity, self-adornment, self-protection, sadness, hope and change. These ethereal, romantic, and feminine poems draw on the...
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...
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,...
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...
Dust Sheet
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SynopsisWhisked away like an illusionist's cape or shaken out in the street, Dust Sheet throws off a cloud in which the world is made strange.Here, the everyday is perpetually on...
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...
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...
The Weeds
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SynopsisThe Weeds is a book of deserts, exiles, friendships, loves, militaristic hallucinations, and weeds. The poems, prose pieces, and collaborations that make up the collection ask questions (“Is this the...
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...
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