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Selected by Joy Harjo as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets'Taut, ferocious . . . This is a book about survival, and a welcome, confident debut' New York Times Book ReviewEmily Skaja's debut collection is a fiery, hypnotic book that...
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Corsair
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2019-10-03
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'Heather Christle's poems may well be one of the places readers turn when they want to know what it was like to be young and paying attention in the early 21st century . . . Her poems are wide awake' Mark DotyIn The Trees The Trees, each new line is a sharp turn toward...
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Corsair
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2019-10-03
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'A matchless compound of hug, tonic and kiss' Stephen Fry on William Sieghart's bestselling Poetry PharmacyThe Poetry Pharmacy is one of the bestselling (and most giftable) poetry anthologies of recent decades. Now, after huge demand for more prescriptions from readers...
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Penguin
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2019-09-26
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From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild and The Dark Between Stars comes The Truth About Magic, a fresh, awakened journey outwards. An adventure into the great unknown.It's about finding ourselves, our purpose, and the simple joys of life. It's...
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Headline
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2019-09-10
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**WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2019**'Alice Oswald is at the height of her powers in...this electrifying new work' Observer ...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-09-05
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Soul searching poetry for a new generation.Inspired by Diane di Prima, Rene Ricard, Henry Miller and others 'who tell it like it is', The Blues Comes with Good News is a collection of poems by prolific writer, Sonny Hall. The collection ranges from articulating...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2019-09-05
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‘Yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me’ JAMIE LOFTUSIn this powerful, candid collection, Olivia Gatwood explores the trials and triumphs of growing up as a woman.She celebrates the teenage girl and the colour pink while questioning the role that fear and male...
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Transworld Digital
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2019-08-29
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Sometimes it's hard to keep looking up at the stars when the gutter we're in seems so full of sh*t. But isn't that why we need poetry? Oscar Wilde wrote some of his best poetry when he was in prison for 'the love that dare not speak its name'. Nelson Mandela held fast...
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Quercus
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2019-08-22
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Sahir Ludhianvi (1921–1980), a remarkable film lyricist, was also an iconic literary poet. Surinder Deol paints a sensitive portrait that reveals an artist who was aware of the depth of his poetic message as well as of his ability to present it in words that captured...
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OUP India
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2019-08-21
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When your partner spends too much time on their Xbox:Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? from ‘Why So Pale and Wan?’, John Suckling From dating and house-shares to digital detoxing and growing up, Poetry for Millennials is the answer to all your...
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Summersdale
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2019-08-08
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Colour is a problem for poetry, where – unlike in painting, sculpture or film – itis marked by its absence. This absence raises questions that have often beenoverlooked in the study of colour: how do writers navigate the invisibility ofcolour in text? What aesthetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2019-07-29
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'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday'Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most significant and emblematic poem. Consisting of 242 loosely linked 'choruses', it takes in life, death,...
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Penguin
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2019-07-04
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The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poetsTennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's connection to...
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Penguin
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2019-06-27
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**Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed. Dubbed...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-06-20
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The French poet Bernard Vargaftig (1934–2012), first known in 1960s literary circles as a writer mentored by Aragon, published regularly and served on the editorial boards of Action poétique and Europe. His poetry foregrounds identity and alterity, eros and notions of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-06-11
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'A poet of extraordinary range and ambition . . . convincing in both the grand gesture and the reverent contemplation of a humble plate of eggs' The New York TimesUS Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has gathered this selection spanning her entire remarkable career....
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Penguin
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2019-05-30
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These are the stories that made Europe.Journeying from Turkey to Iceland, award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber takes us on a fascinating adventure through our continent's most enduring epic poems to learn how they were shaped by their times, and how they have...
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John Murray
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2019-05-16
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Gathering the best of her first five collections, a 'sexy, cerebral and romantic' introduction to one of the US's most charismatic and original poetsLoose-limbed, freewheeling and conversational yet musically taut, Maureen N. McLane's poetry has been described as having...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2019-04-25
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Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancientGreek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finestGreek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound influence on Latin literature, and it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2019-04-25
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Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancientGreek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finestGreek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound influence on Latin literature, and it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-18
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