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Leading us into a city stirring with gravediggers and beggars, lovers and dogs, Charles Simic returns with a brilliant collection full of his singular wit, dark humour, and tenderheartedness. In poems that are often as spare as they are monumental, ..
26.25£
Brand: Everyman Chess
Place of refuge, place where we can be ourselves; place we long to escape from, place where we are confronted by absence and loneliness; shabby downtown apartment or idyllic country cottage. Like it or loathe it, home is where we do most of our livi..
16.42£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
'Two Men at Once' is one of Norman MacCaig best known poems. He was indeed two men at once: Edinburgh, the city where he was born and lived as a teacher and poet, was his home, but no other place shaped his poetry more than Assynt in Sutherland. It ..
14.50£
Abrao's work has been described by The Outline as "an existential funhouse of familiar thoughts" that "publicly grapples with pillars of its own existence within the influencer economy." Alongside The Outline, her work has been featured in publicati..
15.91£
Brand: Copper Canyon Press
"Levin's luminous latest reckons with the disorientation of contemporary America. . . . Through the fog of doubt, Levin summons ferocious intellect and musters hard-won clairvoyance."-Publishers Weekly, starred reviewDana Levin's fifth collection is..
17.34£
Brand: Ebury Publishing
RETIRINGOn days I don't want to Doctor muchI worry that I shall lose my touchAll that running down those corridorsThwartings of tyrants and dreadful boresBrave rescues from the Foul Monster's LairAnd firm trouncing all the Demons There.Chaos never e..
14.00£
Brand: Random House
Zeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying - from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals a..
20.48£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream,Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.'Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black ..
6.64£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Los Angeles Times Book PrizePEN Voelcker AwardAnisfield-Wolf Book PrizeNew York Times 100 Notable Books Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books NPR's Best Books National Book Award in Poetry, LonglistNational Book Critics Circle, FinalistGriffin Poetry ..
14.20£
Victor Neuburg is most famous for two things: discovering Dylan Thomas, and being the man that Aleister Crowley once turned into a camel. Obsolete Spells offers another side of Neuburg, through his own poems and the strange books of Vine Press, the ..
25.81£
ISBN: 9781800164017Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersImprint: Vanguard PressPublished date: 30 Jun 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 76gHeight: 130mmWidth: 196mmSpine width: 14mm..
9.97£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Of Masks and Mirrors is a collection of poetry written over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. A year that has struck the entire world deeply but has more than ever taught us the value of art - be it literature, music, visual art, or poetry. This ..
9.93£
A collection of lyric meditations cultivated from a deeply personal experience of the natural world, synthesizing the poet's experiences of the elemental and ephemeral; presence and place. In Of Mineral, Tiff Dressen initiates a chemical reaction, t..
14.77£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
'This book covers the beginning and end of a close friendship. Some of these poems were very hard to write, but I used them as therapy. I hope that other people can relate to these poems as words they found hard to express themselves.' Julie Tsirico..
11.11£
Brand: Faber & Faber
A stunning new gift edition of this much-loved classic, with the celebrated black-and-white illustrations by Edward Gorey.Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad.Some are good, and some are bad . . .The whimsical 1982 Old Possum's illustrations have b..
14.20£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad.Some are good, and some are bad . . .The original Old Possum's illustrations have been lovingly restored and are showcased in this beautiful new hardback edition, perfect for children and Eliot aficionados alike..
18.47£
A rush from New York New Year's Eve parties to the Pacific coast, 'On a Fallen Wave' chronicles the journey into the psyche of the American mind. Visiting over 100 cities, this haiku anthology is worth revisiting every time, promising something new ..
31.57£
A collection of poems centered around the war in Syria: from life in the war zone; to the dangerous flight, sometimes while holding your child in your arms; the journey of integration into a new and foreign place: the humour, the hope, and the possi..
12.73£
Opera Buffa is Tomaz Šalamun's last testament. It is a book rooted in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective memory. "There are hands, inside. Concordance rises ..
16.21£
Brand: Duke University Press Books
In or, on being the other woman, Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal narrative, and critical theory, attesting to the nar..
20.67£
This collection of songs and poetry by the late Coinneach MacLeoid is introduced by his daughter Kate and contains a foreword by Catriona Dunn. It will be of interest to those active in Gaelic songs who wish to increase their knowledge of these humo..
11.75£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers. Expressions of affection and accounts of imprisonment and be..
18.03£
Out of Nowhere, Susan Comninos' debut collection of poetry, uses beautiful imagery and complicated literary forms to explore what it means to be a woman, a daughter, and above all what it means to be human. Comninos is a widely published and award-w..
23.82£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars..
21.94£