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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...
Proud Flesh
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SynopsisWilkinson’s searing classic, Proud Flesh, is a blistering journal of love’s intensities and convulsions. Panning across its characters like a camera, this is lyric poetry as film noire, filled with...
Imagination Verses
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Synopsis‘Imagination Verses is a moving and accomplished book of real lyric poetry. Hailed as a modern masterpice it is made available here in a new expanded UK edition. Rarely does...
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...
Elegies & Vacations
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SynopsisA book of intense emotional power, Elegies & Vacations marks Hank Lazer’s taking the resources of innovative poetry in new directions that are at once elegiac, skeptical, and spiritual. Eleven...
The Failure of Certain Charms
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SynopsisThis is a poetically charged work of autobiographical retrospection, speculative memory and an artistic alternative to common constructions of identity. The influences include traditional songs, ceremonial undercurrents, dream vehicles, disparate...
The Blue Rock Collection
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SynopsisThe author’s training as a geologist influences the themes and forms of the poems and the single essay in this book. Often his poetic forms are determined by rock characteristics,...
Reasons for Writing Poetry
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SynopsisReasons for Writing Poetry is the first collection of verse to appear in English from the internationally acclaimed Peruvian poet Eduardo Chirinos (Lima, 1960). This selection of works, spanning nearly...
Rooms
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SynopsisRooms is a collection of new and selected poems by Diane Glancy. The rooms are spaces from previous collections – spaces influenced by memory and the pull of the past...
The Sophist
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SynopsisThe Sophist was first published by Sun & Moon Press in 1987 and has been unavailable for well over a decade. A pivotal book for Bernstein, The Sophist demonstrated his...
Designated Heartbeat
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Synopsis‘In this selection of shorter lyric poems, celebrated Language poet Bruce Andrews offers his charismatic blend of satire, wit and jouissance, creating a dizzying picture of modern America. In these...
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”...
Leans
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SynopsisLeans is the condition experienced by a jet pilot as he leaves the Earth’s gravity. The book brings together four chapter-books and the remaining poetry that completes the poet’s twenty-three-year...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 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...
House with a Dark Sky Roof
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SynopsisHouse with a Dark Sky Roof stands nearly dead-center between the traditional and experimental schools of the 20th century. Unlike so much 21st century poetry by younger Americans that might...
Claytown
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SynopsisJames Goodman’s evocative first collection is warm and inventive, dramatic and ethically-charged, picking its way through the clay country of mid-Cornwall as it tackles the ecological pressures on the natural...
Outside
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SynopsisOutside is the second full-length collection from the prize-winning poet David McCooey. Outside takes the most basic of categories – day and night, inside and outside – and makes them...
Citizen Cain
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SynopsisIn Benjamin Friedlander’s newest poems the lyric I is both abject and plural. A cacophony of rhetorically enfranchised voices, fused in the very crash of discourse that grinds their speech...
London Bridge
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SynopsisLondon Bridge is Simon Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and his third with Salt. New to this accessible book is the way each poem can stand-alone or feature as part...
Nitrate
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SynopsisCellulose nitrate was introduced in 1889, and used until the 1950s as the – frighteningly flammable – basis of film stock. Simon Perril’s new book of poems is a meditation...
The Rain Diaries
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SynopsisThe Rain Diaries is a book you’ll want to hold on to, accessible without being easy. It’s poetry that makes you think and feel. Words without the blinkers. At times,...
Without an Alibi
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SynopsisThis book is divided into two sections: the first is titled “Forest” and deals with environmental issues through a wide range of approaches and forms, including lyrical celebration, satirical and...
Fade Street
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SynopsisThe title poem in Mark Granier’s third collection, Fade Street, is based on a photograph taken in Dublin in 1878. Positioning itself behind the camera, it sets the photographer’s obsession,...
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...
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...
Acts of Defiance
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SynopsisThe title of Dennis Haskell’s Acts of Defiance comes from a poem which proclaims every human attempt to discover meaning “an act / of defiance of death”. Drawn from thirty...
The Method Men
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SynopsisThe Method Men is the much anticipated first collection by Eric Gregory Award winner, David Briggs: a taut, deft and elegant book, featuring poems previously published in magazines such as...
Wings Without Birds
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SynopsisBrian Henry’s Wings Without Birds reconfigures the quotidian, making the everyday a site for innovation and investigation. Although diverse in form, these poems continually return to explorations of family, time,...
Of Whales
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SynopsisOF WHALES is Anthony Caleshu’s second book of poems. Melville and Moby-Dick provide a starting point for Caleshu, who uses the author and his most famous book to push the...
Snow Calling
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SynopsisSnow Calling is Agnieszka Studzinska’s debut collection, examining the fractures, the breaches of things, bringing a narrative meditation on the entity of displacement, whether in a relationship, ancestry or with...
The Motel En Route to Life Out There
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SynopsisThis book is set in landscapes and dramatic situations that reflect the state of the spirit. It argues the necessity of emptying, of going backward before attempting to move forward,...
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...
Sheer Detachment
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SynopsisHoward Barker’s catastophic vision is clearly visible in the sinister twilight of his new collection of poems. His world is filled with violence, conspiracy and transgression. The perpetrators of these...
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...
Folk Tunes
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SynopsisThe title, Folk Tunes, arises from my appointment in 2003 as a ‘Poet-in-residence’ at The National Folk Festival in Canberra. I was struck by the immediacy, the lightness, of appeal...
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...
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...
The Opposite of Cabbage
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SynopsisThroughout this collection, opposites collide – reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. Messiahs parachute themselves to disused northern fairgrounds, a woman diets until...
Horse Whispering in the Military Industrial Complex
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SynopsisHorse Whispering is the introduction to a poetic renaissance – it rocks the boat of poetry and yet rocks the cradle of song like a forgotten lullaby. Its revelatory, musical...
Voyaging Out
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SynopsisVoyaging Out is the tenth volume of Peter Abbs’ poetry.His new book divides into two parts. The first half, Peregrinations, offers an anthology of poems which range from the experience...
The Linguistics of Light
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SynopsisThe Linguistics of Light journeys from the north Norfolk coast of England across a vast emotional landscape to Greece and beyond. America is one of the imaginative and physical locations...
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