Poetry from the UK & Ireland
Over 150 titles of contemporary poetry from the UK and Ireland.
The Autumn Myth
Lane's third collection attempts a reality check on the myths and dreams that permeate our world. It attacks the culture of political and corporate mendacity in Britain today and considers the more ambiguous myths that sustain our personal lives. It also explores the human experience of time, the lessons of grief and the evocative power of music.
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The Secret History
Hulse's first full collection from Arc is a quest for the meaning of home. These are meditations on the parents and childhood God he has lost, the national legacies of England and Germany he was born into, and the discovery of home through love - an eloquent testimony to Hulse's technical virtuosity which shows a poet at the height of his powers.
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Sad Giraffe Café
A second collection of prose poems from the author of the award-winning novel The Colour of the Dog Running Away which together form a shifting progressive narrative revolving round three recurring themes: an imaginary and sinister kingdom, a young wanderer named Alice, and a shape-shifting, time-travelling, first person narrator.
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Carnival Edge: New and Selected Poems
This collection draws work from 5 of Gallagher's previous collections, together with a substantial body of new work. Born in Australia, Gallagher moved to Paris before settling in London. She draws on a rich inheritance from these different worlds in her poetry, which is always rooted in a passionate sense of discovery and attention to place.
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You are Her
Linda France's seventh full-length collection is concerned with the dulaities of our inner and outer worlds - the seeming paradoxes of self and society, language and experiment, ideal and reality. At the heart of the book is a section look at Nature and Cultivation through the life and work of the landscape gardner Capability Brown.
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A Cure for Woodness
This is the third part of the highly acclaimed poet Michael Haslam's trilogy 'Music'. Like the first two parts, The Music Laid her Songs in Language and A Sinner Saved by Grace, A Cure for Woodness is a reaffirmation of the nature, language and music with which the poet finds himself surrounded in his hilltop home in the Pennines.
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Blood / Sugar
James Byrne is editor and co-founder of the poetry magazine The Wolf. Blood / Sugar is his second collection and sparkles with wit and irony.
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A Casual Knack of Living: Collected Poems
Herbert Lomas has long been a highly-regarded poet, translator, and reviewer. Ted Hughes described his poems as marvellous, prismatic, penetrating, visionary talismans
. A Casual Knack of Living gathers together Lomas's nine published collections, together with some previously unpublished poems, and thus brings his poetry back into print.
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The Ark Builders
Mary O'Donnell's fifth poetry collection is thoughtful, sensuous and witty, combining the topical with the timeless. One of its themes is that of the ageing woman which the poet explores with a refreshing candour.
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Yelp!
Liz Almond's impressive second collection of poems about regeneration, recuperation, reclamation and retreat, in which the poet reflects on visits, both literal and virtual, to remote parts of Greece, Andalucia and Southern India. In one group of poems, she even leaves the earth entirely to look down at its 'hotspots' from satellite positions.
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