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Toxicon & Arachne

Toxicon & Arachne

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Author: Joyelle McSweeney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The power of McSweeney's work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is...
Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon & Henry Kendall

Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon & Henry Kendall

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Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations

Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations

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William Blake: The very best poems from one of the most important figures of the Romantic Age

William Blake: The very best poems from one of the most important figures of the Romantic Age

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the...
Robert Burns: A superb collection from Scotland's finest lyrical poet

Robert Burns: A superb collection from Scotland's finest lyrical poet

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Author: Robert Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An inspiring collection from the great Romantic and Lakeland poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An inspiring collection from the great Romantic and Lakeland poet

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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the...
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets

Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the First World War poets

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Author: Rupert Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever...
We Play Here

We Play Here

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Author: Dawn Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 We Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the...
Enter the Water: An Observer Best Poetry Book of the Year

Enter the Water: An Observer Best Poetry Book of the Year

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AN OBSERVER BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it...
Gub

Gub

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Author: Scott McKendry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry...
Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic

Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic

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Author: Tyler GacaFormat: Hardback, 142mm x 200mm, 520g, 240 pagesPublished: Running Press,U.S., United States, 2023From the wild imagination of Tyler Gaca, also known as TikTok's Ghosthoney, comes a beautiful compendium...
Comic Timing

Comic Timing

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Author: Holly PesterFormat: Paperback, 131mm x 197mm, 130g, 96 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2021Comic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working...
W. B. Yeats: An inspiring collection from one of Ireland's greatest literary figures

W. B. Yeats: An inspiring collection from one of Ireland's greatest literary figures

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Author: W.B. Yeats Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' is one of the most well-known and repeated lines of poetry ever written....
Jane Austen: Poems both inspiring and witty from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'

Jane Austen: Poems both inspiring and witty from the author of 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Emma'

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Author: n/a Jane Austen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'Another world must be unfurled, Another language known' Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including...
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

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Author: Christopher Nolan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, American Prometheus, by Kai Bird amd MartinSherwin, the film stars Cillian Murphy stars as the...
The The Complete Apparition

The The Complete Apparition

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Author: K. F. Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Complete Apparition is an existential comedy. The Apparition is only there when perceived. Many who may evoke him, mostly...
The Book of Tree Poems

The Book of Tree Poems

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Author: Ana Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by...
Notes on Heartbreak: The Must-Read Book by Vogue's Dating Columnist

Notes on Heartbreak: The Must-Read Book by Vogue's Dating Columnist

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Author: Annie Lord Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality' DOLLY ALDERTON, author of EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE 'Annie Lord tells...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much-loved poems from one of the greatest Romantic poets

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Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and...
View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

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The Fat Black Woman's Poems: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

The Fat Black Woman's Poems: Virago 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Grace Nichols Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Beneath the folk rhythms and the lyrical simplicities, Nichols's poems preach disquiet' OBSERVER 'Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but...
The Magic Border

The Magic Border

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Author: Arlo Parks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 'An embrace of a book' Florence Welch 'Poetry was my place, my little clearing in the forest, where I could quietly...
Birds

Birds

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Author: Judith Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 88 Judith Wright (1915-2000) was one of Australia's most celebrated poets and one of only two to be considered for the Nobel...
The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

The Divine Comedy (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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Author: Dante Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 712 Abandon all hope, you who enter here. A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through...
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)

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Author: Edgar Allan Poe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1040 Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror.The...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 7

A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 7

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Author: SparkNotes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation...
The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 10

The Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 10

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Author: SparkNotes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation...
Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 8

Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 8

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Author: SparkNotes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Twelfth Night on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the...
Hojoki: A Buddhist Reflection on Solitude: Imperfection and Transcendence - Bilingual English and Japanese Texts with Free Online Audio Recordings

Hojoki: A Buddhist Reflection on Solitude: Imperfection and Transcendence - Bilingual English and Japanese Texts with Free Online Audio Recordings

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Author: Kamo no Chomei Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Discover the tranquil wisdom of Chomei's 13th-century masterpiece, Hojoki, as it unveils the beauty of imperfection and the serenity of...
A Sleeping Clergyman and Other Plays

A Sleeping Clergyman and Other Plays

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Words and Music

Words and Music

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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem

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She Just Wants to Forget

She Just Wants to Forget

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Author: r.h. Sin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 She Just Wants to Forget is the follow up to the New York Times bestselling poetry collection She Felt Like Feeling...
the princess saves herself in this one

the princess saves herself in this one

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections...
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems

Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems

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The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist voice in this rich and beautiful collection of verse and image-a multi-part retrospective that traverses time, space,...
100 Happy Poems: To raise your spirits every day: Volume 1

100 Happy Poems: To raise your spirits every day: Volume 1

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Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 We can all benefit from a little nugget of happiness to soothe our weary souls in moments of stress, sadness...
Changing with the Tides

Changing with the Tides

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Author: Shelby Leigh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 TikTok poet Shelby Leigh presents a moving and inspirational collection of poetry about growing up and embracing all the beauty life...
I Hope This Finds You Well

I Hope This Finds You Well

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Author: Kate Baer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of found poems created...
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A deluxe edition of Whitman's crowning achievement, with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And...
Granta 164: Last Notes

Granta 164: Last Notes

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adele Rosenfeld (tr....
You Could Make This Place Beautiful

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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Author: Maggie Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices' In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning...
Squatter's Luck and Other Poems

Squatter's Luck and Other Poems

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The Gleam and the Dark

The Gleam and the Dark

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In Memoriam: Letters and Poems

In Memoriam: Letters and Poems

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Poetry and Ireland

Poetry and Ireland

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Vak: An Anthology of Poems & Translations

Vak: An Anthology of Poems & Translations

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Odes and Days

Odes and Days

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Beyond the Subdivisions

Beyond the Subdivisions

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