Poetry from the UK & Ireland

James Sutherland-Smith's first full collection of poetry for almost twenty years draws on his perceptions of Eastern Europe in the years following the collapse of communism. In At the Skin Resort, he registers his own relationship with a world which has emerged not so much from pure nightmare, but from a fitful sleep where fearful dreams were succeeded by moments of clarity or utter blankness. In the cold light of day, memory of those past times is difficult to recapture with any sense of certainty.

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This is Goodby's first full collection of poetry. Rich in literary allusion, laconic wit and political side-swipes in every direction, these poems move through an eclectic range of voices, encounters and cultures and together constitute a book full of music, rhetoric and humour — intriguing, hard-hitting, always entertaining.

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Ken Smith wanted to write a novel, so the story goes, but he couldn't make up his mind which novel, so he decided instead to write a chapter from each novel. But the chapters turned out to be paragraphs, and the paragraphs to be more like poems, and so this beautiful collection of twenty-one poetic fragments in prose came into existence.

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"Maxwell's inexhaustible stock of invention and his commitment to traditional forms gives this enterprise a unique solidity." Vogue

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This is Ian Pople's first collection. His poems illustrate perfectly a mature use of language. An adept use of imagery and form are used as the vehicle to address his, and the readers', conflict between self and the universal diaspora. Pople touches the raw nerve of cultural alienation.

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