Poetry from the UK & Ireland
Over 150 titles of contemporary poetry from the UK and Ireland.
Sonatas and Dreams
With this collection, Harold Massingham broke a self-imposed silence of more than 20 years.
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The Imbolc Bride
This is John Sewell's first full-length collection, and it contains poems written over a ten-year period. The title, taken from the Celtic festival associated with the rites of prognostication and trial marriage, reflects Sewell's interest in using history and legend to increase understanding of events common to most people in the present.
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The Dream of Intelligence
Sebastian Barker's revolutionary epic poem travels to the heart of human tragedy through the life and work of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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The Grasshopper's Burden
A contemplation of the richness and beauty of the natural world is sometimes the only refuge from the ruthless march of progress where the powerful seize new opportunities to prey upon those least able to defend themselves.
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Graffiti for Hard Hearts
“With Graffiti, Atkinson joins the company of accomplished masters among contemporary poets. His writing is always beautiful; his language rests on its groundbass of syntax with assurance...
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Outcrops
"A poet whose work is an effective fusion of his interest in rock-climbing with keen observation of the natural world and its vulnerability..." Shirley Bell
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Mother of Battles
Written against the background of Operation Desert Storm, this sequence of poems, with author's notes, places the Gulf War in a wider historical and mythological context.
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Skimming the Soul
Childhood in Pakistan, the problems faced by the immigrant community in Britain, and the contrast between the two cultures, particularly in terms of religious influences, are the central themes in this first collection by the Lahore-born poet now living in Manchester.
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Mandelstam Variations
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David Morley has written a novel as multitudinous and as tragic as those of the Russian masters, but it is a novel about a poet in the very worst of modern times, so he has stripped away the prose. Extremis becomes essence.
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Crossing Point
Myra Schneider writes, "The overall theme [of this collection] is women. 'Mother and Daughter', the core sequence... recreates the life of my grandmother and the earlier life of my mother, drawing on information my mother gave me... A shorter sequence looks at the life of my mother-in-law, a refugee, and the circumstances which shaped her life.
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