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Poetry from the UK & Ireland

Over 150 titles of contemporary poetry from the UK and Ireland.

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The Nameless Places

Richard Lambert

The Nameless Places

Structured around a movement from city to sea and always alert to the emotional resonance of landscape, The Nameless Places dwells on those spaces that lie at the edge of our lives and vision, and that seem somewhere between reality and dream.

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Twist

Pippa Little

Twist

Twist is a slant look at the connections binding us together - familial, social, political - in poems which range from the curious and disturbing to memories and evocations of the ordinary magic at work in our lives.

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The Arrow Maker

D. M. Black

The Arrow Maker

D.M. Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others, also extends to more public themes of war and climate change. As always, his forms are various, but there is a predominance now of poems spoken in a thinking voice that remembers the iambic pentameter without being subdued by it.

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Acres of Light

Katherine Gallagher

Acres of Light

Katherine Gallagher's new collection is bejewelled throughout with haiku-like moments of vivid observation.

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Subterranea

Jos Smith

Subterranea

Jos Smith's debut collection is shaped by an intense sense of the interrelationship between the human and the natural, and has a strong and particular ecological ethic. It is complex without sacrificing fluency and lucidity: there's pleasure in the music of these poems and a sense of the body speaking them.

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The Workshop Handbook for Writers

Jackie Wills

The Workshop Handbook for Writers

How to run writing workshops in business, the community and education

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Fifty-six

George Szirtes and Carol Watts

Fifty-six

56 is a collaboration between two poets from very different literary traditions whose ears are tuned to a mutual music, voice, lyric, association, and language.

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Reading the Flowers

Linda France

Reading the Flowers

Nature and culture meet in poems looking at flowers cultivated and wild, trees in the garden and the rainforest, plants and creatures that live alongside them under the microscope of memory and imagination.

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Approximately in the Key of C

Tony Curtis

Approximately in the Key of C

"...humour and charm, and the ability to turn a poem with the seemingly simplest of images, and that understanding of how words will play over the listener's ear..."

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Indelible, Miraculous

Julia Darling

Indelible, Miraculous

This collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling's death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: The poems are funny, irreverent, moving and never sentimental. You can recognise yourself in them, recognise your family. They are warm, full of compassion; [...] a shining bright light.

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