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The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

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Author: Mark Haddon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book of poetry will...
Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances

Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances

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Author: Kwame Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In an intimate and non-traditional (or "new-fashioned") memoir, Kwame Alexander shares snapshots of a man learning how to love. He takes...
The Cat Prince: & Other Poems

The Cat Prince: & Other Poems

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Author: Michael Pedersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 WINNER of the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry Collection 'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's...
One Lark, One Horse

One Lark, One Horse

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Author: Michael Hofmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 104 First new collection of poems since Approximately Nowhere (1999).
Serious Concerns

Serious Concerns

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Author: Wendy Cope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor,...
shine your icy crown

shine your icy crown

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 "make them rue the day they underestimated you." amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind...
Clarity & Connection

Clarity & Connection

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Author: yung pueblo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From the celebrated author of Inward comes a new collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and...
The Poetry of Birds

The Poetry of Birds

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Author: Samuel Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A sublime collection of beautiful poems written about birds to read again and again as a source of comfort and joy....
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems

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Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced...
Love & Misadventure 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition

Love & Misadventure 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition

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Author: Lang Leav Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An elegant hardcover collector's edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of the bestselling Love & Misadventure. This gorgeous gift book features a...
Risible Rhymes

Risible Rhymes

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Author: Muhammad ibn Mahfuz al-Sanhuri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Written in mid-seventeenth-century Egypt, Risible Rhymes is in part a short, comic disquisition on "rural" verse, mocking the pretensions...
Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love

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Author: 'Abdallah ibn Sbayyil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Love poems from late nineteenth-century Arabia Arabian Romantic captures what it was like to live in central Arabia before the...
Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd

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Author: Hmedan al-Shwe'ir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Satirical verse on society and its hypocrisies A master of satire known for his ribald humor, self-deprecation, and invective verse (hija'),...
break your glass slippers

break your glass slippers

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the "women are some kind of magic" poetry series, presents a new companion...
Goblin Market: An Illustrated Poem

Goblin Market: An Illustrated Poem

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Author: Christina Rossetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 The first in a new illustrated poetry series. The classic poem, Goblin Market (1862) by Christina Rossetti, tells the story of...
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

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Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like...
The Words Left Unspoken

The Words Left Unspoken

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Author: Allie Michelle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 "An open heart can never be broken." This collection of poetry is dedicated to those who have ever felt broken by...
She Fits Inside These Words

She Fits Inside These Words

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This is the time to look into the mirror and see everything you've been fighting for. Yourself, a peace of mind,...
I Hope This Reaches Her in Time Revised Edition

I Hope This Reaches Her in Time Revised Edition

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 New York Times bestselling author, r.h. Sin, presents a revised and expanded edition of his bestseller I Hope This Reaches Her...
Howdie-Skelp

Howdie-Skelp

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Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A 'howdie-skelp' is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action....
Haruko/Love Poems

Haruko/Love Poems

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Author: June Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan's poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders both emotional...
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures

A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures

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Author: Simon Armitage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 376 '[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or...
Forever Words: The Unknown Poems

Forever Words: The Unknown Poems

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Author: Johnny Cash Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In his newly discovered poems...
RENDANG

RENDANG

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Author: Will Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 In RENDANG, Will Harris complicates and experiments with the lyric in a way that urges it forward. With an unflinching yet...
Home Body

Home Body

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Beowulf: A New Translation

Beowulf: A New Translation

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Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot

Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot

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Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In her new standalone poetry collection, Flower Crowns & Fearsome Things, bestselling & award-winning poetess Amanda Lovelace explores the...
Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins

Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins

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Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers

Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers

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Author: Annette Dauphin Simon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging...
find her. keep her.

find her. keep her.

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Author: Renaada Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Renaada Williams beckons readers into her deepest thoughts and most intimate experiences as a queer black woman living in...
Every Good Boy Does Fine: Poetry and Prose

Every Good Boy Does Fine: Poetry and Prose

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Author: Calvin Arsenia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Both a journey of individual healing and a call for action, these poems show that, with a little love...
Necessary Evil

Necessary Evil

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W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats

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Author: W.B. Yeats Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by...
You Kiss by th' Book: New Poems from Shakespeare's Line

You Kiss by th' Book: New Poems from Shakespeare's Line

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Author: Gary Soto Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 108 In his engaging new collection, National Book Award finalist Gary Soto creates poems that each begin with a line...
Serenity: Poems

Serenity: Poems

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Author: F.S. Yousaf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Soft spoken yet powerful, Serenity perfectly captures the constant battle of fear and courage that lives within us. The seeds of...
Homing

Homing

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The Looking House

The Looking House

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Author: Fred Marchant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 63 "To my mind, what distinguishes Marchant's work is his willingness to take a hard look at human suffering while maintaining his...
Station Zed: Poems

Station Zed: Poems

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Author: Tom Sleigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 118 Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this...
The Best Australian Poems 2011

The Best Australian Poems 2011

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Beowulf

Beowulf

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Author: Seamus Heaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who...
Collected Verse

Collected Verse

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Neglected Poems

Neglected Poems

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Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet

Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet

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Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean

Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean

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Author: Peekash Press Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Featuring poems from Danielle Boodoo-Fortune, Danielle Jennings, Ruel Johnson, Monica Minott, Debra Providence, Shivanee Ramlochan, Colin Robinson, and Sassy...
November

November

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Author: Sean O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize winning poet November is Sean O'Brien's first collection...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

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Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...