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The World's Wife

The World's Wife

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Author: Carol Ann Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 What did Mrs Midas think? Or Queen Kong? Read all about it in Carol Ann Duffy's hugely successful, tender and...
John Donne - Selected Poems

John Donne - Selected Poems

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Behind Bars: On punishment, prison & release

Behind Bars: On punishment, prison & release

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Author: Lady Unchained Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 ***** 'So deeply gripping and inspiring...It will stay with me, always.' - Annie Macmanus In 2008, 21-year-old Lady Unchained got involved...
The Gift of Everything

The Gift of Everything

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Author: Lang Leav Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 International best-selling author Lang Leav presents The Gift of Everything, a stunning hardcover gift book featuring her finest pieces to date,...
Pillow Thoughts: Deluxe Edition

Pillow Thoughts: Deluxe Edition

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Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A special hardcover gift edition of Courtney Peppernell's bestselling Pillow Thoughts! Originally published in 2017, Pillow Thoughts is a collection of...
Garden Physic

Garden Physic

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Author: Sylvia Legris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 Garden Physic is a radical poetic movement through plant life. With her singular line, she journeys readers through an investigation of...
Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?: Poems for mums

Will I Ever Pee Alone Again?: Poems for mums

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Author: Emma Conway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Please stop staring at me whilst I'm on the loo I simply want a peaceful poo.' In this uplifting, funny and...
Was It for This

Was It for This

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Author: Hannah Sullivan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems won the T.S. Eliot Prize andthe inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for...
Reading the Landscape: A Celebration of Australian Writing: (UQP's 70th Anniversary Anthology)

Reading the Landscape: A Celebration of Australian Writing: (UQP's 70th Anniversary Anthology)

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Wales in His Arms: Dylan Thomas's Choice of Welsh Poetry

Wales in His Arms: Dylan Thomas's Choice of Welsh Poetry

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Couplets: A Love Story

Couplets: A Love Story

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Author: Maggie Millner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a...
Burns for Every Day of the Year

Burns for Every Day of the Year

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Author: Pauline Mackay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Robert 'Rabbie' Burns, Scotland's National Bard, wrote over 700 poems and collected many traditional Scottish folk songs, and you can discover...
Come Down

Come Down

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 Winner of the Naim Frasheri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia...
Paris: A Poem

Paris: A Poem

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Author: Hope Mirrlees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 Centenary edition of 'modernism's lost masterpiece'.
The Arctic

The Arctic

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Author: Don Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds...
A Happy Poem to End Every Day

A Happy Poem to End Every Day

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Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 These days we're all in need of a little nugget of happiness to help soothe our weary souls at the...
Kit

Kit

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Author: Megan Barker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 'In both its open-throated exclamations and its concentrated meditations on myriad forms of pain and joy [...] Kit reaches places other...
Love Looks Pretty on You

Love Looks Pretty on You

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Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Filled with wisdom and encouragement, every single page is a testament to the power of words, and the impact they can...
Was It for This

Was It for This

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Author: Hannah Sullivan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems won the T.S. Eliot Prize andthe inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for...
Kit

Kit

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Author: Megan Barker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 'In both its open-throated exclamations and its concentrated meditations on myriad forms of pain and joy [...] Kit reaches places other...
Dust If You Must

Dust If You Must

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Author: Rose Milligan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An outstanding collection of his best-loved poems

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: An outstanding collection of his best-loved poems

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Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs...
Dust If You Must

Dust If You Must

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Author: Rose Milligan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A classic poem with a timeless message, presented in a small and beautiful gift book. Rose Milligan never intended to publicly...
Wing

Wing

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Author: Matthew Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Matthew Francis's latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned...
Frolic and Detour

Frolic and Detour

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Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Frolic and Detour is a book that is at once engaged and engaging, woven with subtle threads of history and geography...
Randomly Moving Particles

Randomly Moving Particles

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Andrew Motion's expansive new collection is built around two long poems that form its opening and close. The title poem,...
Zonal

Zonal

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Author: Don Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 The new collection of poetry from Don Paterson. Don Paterson's new collection of poetry starts from the premise that the crisis...
Salt

Salt

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Author: David Harsent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Salt is the distinctive new assembly of poems by the multi-award winning David Harsent. Resting somewhere between fragment and exposition, these...
The Noise of a Fly

The Noise of a Fly

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Author: Douglas Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn...
The Noise of a Fly

The Noise of a Fly

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Author: Douglas Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 88 The Noise of a Fly is the first new collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he...
Doves

Doves

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Author: Lachlan Mackinnon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Doves is Lachlan Mackinnon's most candid and affecting volume of poems to date, and follows on from Small Hours, shortlisted for...
Widening Income Inequality

Widening Income Inequality

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Author: Frederick Seidel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'great poet...
The Seasons of Cullen Church

The Seasons of Cullen Church

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Author: Bernard O'Donoghue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Bernard O'Donoghue is the author of six poetry collections, including Gunpowder (1995), winner of the Whitbread/Costa prize, and Farmers Cross, which...
New Selected Poems of Tom Paulin

New Selected Poems of Tom Paulin

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Author: Tom Paulin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since his precise, potent and subtle portraits of Northern Irish life first came to public attention in the 1970s, Tom Paulin...
The Hotel Oneira

The Hotel Oneira

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Author: August Kleinzahler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding...
Muscovy

Muscovy

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Author: Matthew Francis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Like his acclaimed Mandeville (2008), Matthew Francis's fourth Faber collection explores a world of marvels, real and fantastic. A man takes...
Love's Bonfire

Love's Bonfire

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Author: Tom Paulin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Tom Paulin's first collection since The Road to Inver in 2004, Love's Bonfire sets poems about early life and marriage beside...
Of Mutability

Of Mutability

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Author: Jo Shapcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically...
The Holy Land

The Holy Land

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Author: Maurice Riordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 At the heart of Maurice Riordan's third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the...
Brother Poem

Brother Poem

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Author: Will Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 A speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize-winning, T.S. Eliot shortlisted author of RENDANG. At the heart of Brother Poem is a...
Heritage Aesthetics

Heritage Aesthetics

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Author: Anthony Anaxagorou Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Witty and wide-ranging, Heritage Aesthetics draws from Anthony's family'smigratory histories - between Cyprus and the UK - to interrogate patriarchy,xenophobia and...
PLUS ULTRA

PLUS ULTRA

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Author: Sarah Fletcher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 In myth, the Pillars of Hercules near the Straits of Gibraltar mark the edge of what was then the known world,...
Instagram Poetry for Every Day

Instagram Poetry for Every Day

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Author: National Poetry Library Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The first anthology of Instagram poetry, Instagram Poetry for Every Day, collates over 100 poems by some of the top...
Promises of Gold

Promises of Gold

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Author: Jose Olivarez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD '[Promises of Gold] has put Olivarez at the forefront of not only first-generation poetics,...
The Trees Witness Everything

The Trees Witness Everything

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Author: Victoria Chang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her...
Transformatrix

Transformatrix

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Author: Patience Agbabi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'They call me Jax, though my real name's Eva The whole of the Jackson Five rolled into one serious diva No.1...
Frolic and Detour

Frolic and Detour

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Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Frolic and Detour is a book that is at once engaged and engaging, woven with subtle threads of history and geography...
Black Sun

Black Sun

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Author: Toby Martinez de las Rivas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 72 The new collection from Toby Martinez de las Rivas.