- Sale!Catherine Smith's first acclaimed collection 'The Butcher's Hands' was a disturbing and exciting book. 'Lip' moves on from its grotesqueries and grand guignol to a fierce, often frantic eroticism through the language of the human body. - Google Books."A gripping collection of poems - some are moving and some are witty, but all are poems that make you think. The main theme is the relationship of women to the world and the people around them, and there's also a wonderful hint of the erotic about them too. Great stuff." ***** - Amazon"Exciting, surprising poetry - an inspiration." ***** - AmazonSpecial Offer: We are offering the title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!ISBN: 9780571264919Genre: PoetryPublisher: Faber
- Sale!"Rough Music" is an old English custom of public scapegoating. In this book of disturbing musical echoes, brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore violence, loss and belonging.Fiona Sampson is the award-winning author of many books, including A Century of Poetry Review, Common Prayer, which was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2007, and Writing Poetry: The Expert Guide."a very fine poet indeed" – Adam Thorpe in The GuardianSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Described by Anne Stevenson in Poetry Review as " a major contribution to post-war literature"Awards: Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2004"A Brilliantly virtuosic collection of deeply felt poems” - Douglas DunnSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!"Born with the gift of lyricism as natural speech" - Clive James"A virtuoso collection” – J.M. CoetzeeSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!This collection of poems springs from an awareness of how landscape and its history shape the way we live in it. The author's maps and charts release islands and seascapes, fells and fens, ancestors, boatbuilders, fruit growers and the odd saint. Her poems offer a different kind of mapmaking, making a different kind of sense.
- Sale!A Poetry Book Society RecommendationWinner of the T.S. Eliot Prize"A zestful poet of the road... Jen Hadfield conjures poems of great spirit and imaginative daring. She is a remarkably original poet" - Andrew MotionSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!Three full collections from the very best young poets"Between the leaves of this book lies the mad boundless energy of the globe cracking-up under our very noses; it is a world which is harnessed in images of jazz, sex, drugs, aliens, abuse; in effective colloquial language and manic syntax; but the themes are always treated with gravity, unsettling candor and humor." (Text taken from Amazon).Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!Now long out of print and hard to find. Lovely condition, as new.Texas-born, Californian reared, Joan Jobe Smith has a fast-growing reputation for her narratives about her childhood, her marriages and the sisterhood of women who sustain each other through difficult times.
- Sale!ISBN: 0701162511Genre: PoetryPublisher: Chatto and Windus
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Combining poems of historical depth, human fascination, and personal sensitivity with a willingness to explore the possibilities of poetic form and technique, this compilation produces diverse formal arrangements from Arabic, English, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Welsh poetry. As it aims to assimilate aspects of these traditions with the poet’s own voice, this collection pays homage to the lives and works of Primo Levi, Paul Celan, Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, and Edward Thomas. Intimate and personal subjects are also gracefully explored, including a traumatic experience of spinal injury and disability. - Sale!"Witty, realistic and imaginative. Auden, Haydn and Uccello live in his pages as happily as snooker stars, Tesco and Extra Strong Mints" - Peter Porter, The ObserverSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!A Poetry Book Society Special RecommendationA collection that brings together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry... from prize-winning Ice Factory to the Whitbread shortlisted Wasting Game, but takes the reader also into previously unknown reaches of Philip Gross territory. Text taken from the book cover.Special Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!Illustrated by Jonathan GrossPhilip Gross's poems speak to all ages, and sit confidently on the bookshelf next to Philip Gross's prize-winning work for adults" - Salt PublishingSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!"Philip Gross's meditations move with subtle steps between these shifting grounds and those of the man-made world, the ageing body and that ever-present mystery, the self." - BloodaxeSpecial Offer: We are offering this book at 25% off the publisher's RRP.
- Sale!"Sensual and magical with the hard edges of realism” - Milner PlaceSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher's RRP
- Sale!"Groundbreaking""A great first collection with breadth and ambition. A book I return to time and time again.” – Amazon"A collection as strong as the gritstone of it's roots. Best poetry I've read for a long time" - Amazon Special Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
- Sale!Bryce's two previous prize-winning collections were widely admired for their marvellously seductive music and their speed of thought; Self-Portrait in the Dark widens and deepens the poet's scope, and is her most emotionally compelling collection to date. Bryce's new poems are "slant tellings" that reveal strange and true reflections. - Text from Goodreads
- Sale!Winner of the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize (2000)This is the first collection from Colette Bryce, a young poet from Northern Ireland. Subjects range from a woman who feels sick as she prepares a turkey for Christmas dinner, a set of boys who sit on a wall outside the Bolger trial, and lovers' telephone calls. Text from Goodreads
- Sale!ISBN: 9781902382784Genre: Childrens PoetryPublisher: Smith/ Doorstop Books
- Sale!"An authentic adult voice, tender, ironic, relaxed and highly educated... a fine collection." - Al AlvarezSpecial Offer: We are offering this title at 25% off the publisher’s RRP
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