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A critical look at female queerness through the lens of first-generation culture. In Tanto Tanto, a queer daughter of immigrants highlights the struggles she faces in romantic relationships amidst a culture of oppressive, culturally sanctioned het..
20.73£
New pamphlet from Somali poet Warsan Shire who is a Kenyan-born Somali poet and writer who is based in London. Born in 1988, she is an artist and activist who uses her work to document narratives of journey and trauma. Warsan has read her work inter..
8.82£
Brand: Canongate Books
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch;I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatchwhen..
12.95£
Temet Nosce, which translates to 'know thyself' in Latin, is a collection of poems that came about during a deep ponderation of life and its meaning. The sole purpose of Temet Nosce is an exploration to understand life while taking the reader along ..
10.10£
Brand: Random House
'Yes, it was be there or be square as, clad in the slum chic of the hipster, he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle, the words walk in the grooves hacking t..
12.47£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes.'Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can affor..
17.60£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Robert Fagles's latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him t..
21.25£
"...a trans-mystical work of love and change..."-Ali Blythe, author of HymnswitchThe mystics who coined the phrase 'the way of affirmation' understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Movi..
16.52£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The first critical edition of a poem that named an eraWhen it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety-W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem-immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the cult..
24.03£
Brand: Indiana University Press
"The appearance of the first volume . . . is an occasion for celebration. Among the most ambitious and valuable collaborative scholarly enterprises at the end of the twentieth century . . . " -Claude J. Summers, Early Modern Literary Studies" . . . ..
81.88£
Brand: Faber & Faber
'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet's musician father; tales of the lov..
18.13£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
This book is for all the damaged souls out there. Those who have felt lost, alone, afraid, abandoned, scared. Those who felt they do not belong. Those who have felt such anger towards those who have left the many scars they have now collected. For t..
14.53£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
This is a book of poems and short stories, these poems and short stories are fiction; some of these short stories and poems conflict on human values and life itself, these words can conflict on humanity and ways of humanity. What you will get from t..
15.97£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
The 2021 edition of the leading collection of contemporary American poetry is guest edited by the former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, providing renewed proof that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).S..
20.73£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry pu..
36.22£
Brand: Charles Scribner's Sons
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune).Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been "one of the mainstays of the poetry publ..
14.94£
Born Lee Wonrok, Lee Yuk Sa (1904-1944) took his pen name from his prison cell number 264.A first-generation modern Korean poet, he wrote vernacular free verse accessible to everyone, and his poems illustrate the resilience of the human spirit in th..
26.22£
Olga Berggolts (1910-1975) was a Soviet poet, playwright and journalist, whose daily broadcasts on Leningrad radio during the Nazi blockade of the city (1941-44) became a symbol of the city's refusal to surrender. One and a half million people starv..
12.59£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout. In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader theme..
13.96£
Brand: Watkins Media Limited
This is an inspiring, magical and beautifully packaged collection of Celtic poetry compiled by a leading authority on Celtic tradition. Arranged into five thematic chapters, this anthology reflects the uniquely Celtic love of nature, history, love, ..
17.93£
A collection of fascinating stories of unpredictable people, the lives they lead, and their need to be rid of the baggage they carry. It's overviews, under-views, moments in time, with twists and turns, depicted in rhyme. THE BOOK OF STORY RHYMES is..
23.73£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poetsTennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his ..
15.43£
Brand: Faber & Faber
Lavinia Greenlaw's last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on 'the achievement of the provisional'. The Built Moment explores what we build out of the provisional: beginnings and endings, arrivals and departures, and the moments we fix a..
14.21£
Brand: Milkweed Editions
Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich imagination and a singular incisiveness, "asserting feminist viewpoints and mortal terror in lush musical lines" (New Y..
16.93£