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  • Poems

    by James Joyce ...
    It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to his comparative neglect as a poet. And yet his poems not only occupy a pivotal position in Joyce's career, they are also magnificently assured achievements in their own right. 'Chamber Music' is an extraordinary début, fusing a broad swathe of styles with characteristically sharp irony and joyful verbal exuberance. 'Pomes ... Read more

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  • Wild

    Poems

    by Ben Okri ...
    A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize–winning author.Freedom is the most precious commodity in the world. In this powerful collection, the celebrated novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet Ben Okri explores the beauty contained in each one of us—the freedom of our spirit, the child within. He recalls the death of his father, the sacrifices of his mother, ... Read more

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  • Joy in Service on Rue Tagore

    Poems

    by Paul Muldoon ...
    “Is there any living poet with as skilled . . . an ear?" (McSweeney's). The answer resounds: Muldoon is a true original.Since his 1973 debut, New Weather, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the highest accolades.Here, from ... Read more

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  • The Letters of Seamus Heaney

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind.Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls, the soul settles for an hour or two.In this astute selection from Seamus Heaney’s vast ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Lessons from the Sky

    by LJ Ireton ...
    LJ Ireton's debut poetry collection, which explores listening to the wild and holding on to it, how we need animals in urban places, a reverence for all creatures, shared experience of longing for the sun and the connection between sowing and growing plants and ideas. ... Read more

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  • Them!

    Them! by Harry Josephine Giles is a challenging and subversive collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology. Witty, candid, furious, and always compelling, Them! negotiates the fraught and fruitful space between the worlds of ‘online’ and the ‘outside’, and how they fuse and diverge in the imagination.Giles’ visual poetics create an ... Read more

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  • The Silence

    A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024.‘ The days have no names.The day they count the dead,the day they closed the doors,turned off the lights.We' re still here in the silence,hearing tree-talk,the wind' s secrets,the company of birds.' (‘ The Year of the Dead' )The poems in Gillian Clarke's The Silence begin during lockdown, to whose silences Clarke listens so attentively that other ... Read more

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  • Near-Life Experience

    The poems in Near-Life Experience are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees, Near-Life Experience offers a world where understanding is subverted by the day' s distractions and the unexpected shapes of the imagination.How do I ... Read more

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  • And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound

    Winner of the 2023 Aryamati Pamphlet Competition. In her second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, Morag Anderson places centre stage an unlikely cast of neglected, exploited, and unsung characters. These poems uncover many of the contradictions of life lived in the female body and bear witness to largely forgotten yet highly-personal stories, woman by woman, girl by girl. Confident ... Read more

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  • Slip

    From the Winner of the Northern Writers’ Award

    by Amelia Loulli ...
    One in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at least, until now.'Painful, brave and steadfastly honest' ANDREW MCMILLAN'Original, essential... An unforgettable collection' FIONA BENSONAmelia Loulli opens this fearless, frank, absorbing debut with the words 'I'm going to tell you what happened', and that ... Read more

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  • Fast Music

    by Hugo Williams ...
    'He's a poet of such intimate charm, such grace and cunning, and such ordinary comic sadness, that he wins your affection and admiration.' Hermione Lee , GuardianFast Music refers as much to the fast dance music that caused Williams to run round the room on the furniture aged three as to the speed of life, thought and to poetry itself, which works harder and faster than ordinary speech. In a poem ... Read more

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  • Crystal

    Through moving and incisive poetry, Crystal traces the arc of one woman's experience after the discovery that her partner is addicted to crystal meth.In a highly original poetic act of reclamation, it plunders the drug itself and makes of it an overarching conceit to articulate the devastating impact of living with a loved one who is utterly changed. Deeply felt, tirelessly inventive, this ... Read more

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  • An Aftermath In Balbriggan

    Back To The Dole Queue

    by Kevin Foy ...
    It’s the night before the funeral. Kevob Fly the drunk has knocked himself out with litres of wine. Comatose within a deep sleep, trapped within a subconscious mind that throughout the night buttresses up all his inner thoughts - one after the another - he gets dragged into meeting everything that he is, will be and was, in these deep sleeps tonight.An Aftermath In Balbriggan - A story that blends ... Read more

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  • Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

    by Michael Korda ...
    The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda’s epic Muse of Fire.Michael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe it best, and indeed to symbolize the war’s tragic arc and lethal ... Read more

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  • LIFE AND SOUL

    A Retrospective Collection by The Manchester Irish Writers to Celebrate Thirty Years of their Creative Word Journey 1994 - 2024

    by Kevin McMahon ...
    To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the group's foundation, The Manchester Irish Writers proudly present a retrospective collection of work. The writing covers a range of genres from inspirational poetry to drama, historical fiction to narrative non-fiction, short stories to extracts from novels. Many of the themes, written with both pathos and humour, have been inspired by the group's ... Read more

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  • On Not Being Observed

    by Dave Morgan ...
    A philosophical and meditative consideration of the complexities of ageing, memory, and the drain of urban life, through the pursuit of wellbeing and the restorative powers of nature.Includes a Foreword by Sarah Maclennan, Head of Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.Features the poem 'A Year on the Hill', showcased at the Bolton International Film Festival 2022 with animation by ... Read more

    $7.22 USD

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  • Self Portrait

    by E.M McConnell ...
    Self PortraitAre we the sum of our partsOr what makes us humanUnderneath?Are we our faceOr our passions?Are we a body? Or a soul?This collection of poetry by E.M. McConnell is designed to be more introspective, looking at nature, how it affects us, our inner worlds, how mirth can lift us, and of course what drives us, inspiration, and love. ... Read more

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  • Pad van verlichting

    Reis naar verlichting

    by Cecilia Smith ...
    Series Book 27 - Poetry page
    "Path of Illumination: Journey Towards Enlightenment" is een diepgaande verkenning van de menselijke zoektocht naar spiritueel ontwaken en zelfrealisatie. Door middel van levendige beelden en lyrische taal neemt het gedicht de lezer mee op een transformatieve reis door valleien van twijfel, pieken van inzicht en de tijdloze wijsheid van oude leringen. Het duikt in de uitdagingen en triomfen die je ... Read more

    $7.88 USD

  • L'abbraccio del focolare

    Un viaggio attraverso il Santuario della Casa

    by CECILIA SMITH ...
    Series Book 17 - Poetry page
    "L'abbraccio del focolare: un viaggio attraverso il santuario della casa" è un'esplorazione toccante del profondo significato della casa nella nostra vita. Attraverso immagini vivide e versi accorati, questa poesia approfondisce il calore, il conforto e l'amore che si trovano tra le mura delle nostre case. Dall'aroma del pane appena sfornato in cucina alle risate condivise nel soggiorno, ogni ... Read more

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  • Songs of Impish Savagery

    by Spinflight ...
    Armed with a Schaeffer fountain pen and an SA80 a TA Private in Afghanistan had a touch of the Kiplings. Both cathartic and remarkably well received by his young colleagues, who were not your typical consumers of verse, he resolved to write more, to tell their story.Fifteen years later this is a collection of poetry from the front lines of the culture wars.Just a dude and the world as he sees it ... Read more

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  • Resilience

    by Mervin Scott ...
    Fortitude, resilience to overthinking, the walls which go beyond my limits, to imagine things that are not.Tomorrow is a new day transcending doubts, pushing forwards, though the body says "rest" and suggests complacency, the enemy to new horizons.I am the reason I have failed.I am the reason I have succeeded.With a simple choice to give in or go beyond. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Flüstern der Schönheit

    Die Inspiration des Alltags annehmen

    by Cecilia Smith ...
    Series Book 22 - Poetry page
    „Whispers of Beauty: Embracing Everyday Inspiration“ ist eine gefühlvolle Gedichtsammlung, die die Magie der gewöhnlichen Momente des Lebens feiert. In lyrischen Versen erforschen die Gedichte die Schönheit, die alltäglichen Erfahrungen innewohnt, vom Lachen der Kinder bis zur Wärme einer Umarmung, von den Farben eines Sonnenaufgangs bis zu den Melodien der Natur. Mit jeder Seite werden die Leser ... Read more

    $7.88 USD

  • Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition

    by Alex Mazey ...
    Alex Mazey's playful text art sequence follows Ghost through a hyperreal metropolis beset with neoliberal temptation and eschatological peril. Woven between the visuals are virtuosic lyric poems: poignant, philosophical and irreverent. Mazey gamifies this astute, genre-defying collection with an intricate plexus of symbolism, mysticism, numerology, reference and ritual. Haunting and haunted, Ghost ... Read more

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  • El abrazo del hogar

    Un viaje por el santuario del hogar

    by Cecilia Smith ...
    Series Book 20 - Poetry page
    "El abrazo del hogar: un viaje a través del santuario del hogar" es una exploración conmovedora del profundo significado del hogar en nuestras vidas. A través de imágenes vívidas y versos sinceros, este poema profundiza en la calidez, el consuelo y el amor que se encuentran dentro de las paredes de nuestros hogares. Desde el aroma del pan recién horneado en la cocina hasta las risas compartidas en ... Read more

    $7.88 USD