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There are 18 books in this booklist
£5.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781916571020 | ISBN 10: 1916571026
From the Ashes is an intricate tapestry of human experience told through stories, poetry, and scripts from WoW’s acclaimed Write to Work course.
Within these pages, the complexities of trauma, revolution, monsters and heroes are explored, ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781739909901 | ISBN 10: 1739909909
"It takes a brave person to write about Everton and Liverpool football clubs with such passion in the same book. To mix it with Poems and Images of Street Art in areas of such tribal passion is bordering on the insane - but that is precisely the poin ... more
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£10.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781905082742 | ISBN 10: 1905082746
Birtill covers his favourite themes of death, relationships and mental illness with his usual brand of dark humour and deep-veined irony - definitely not for the faint-hearted.
"Packed with short, sharp, witty and irreverant observations."(John He ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780956307194 | ISBN 10: 0956307191
Sylvia Hikins is a poet, painter, author and music maker who has appeared widely on the poetry circuits, including the Edinburgh Fringe and has broadcast on radio and television. For seven years presenter of First Friday on BBC Radio Merseyside, she ... more
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£8.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993237058 | ISBN 10: 0993237053
Laura Taylor was born into a working-class family in the North of England in 1968. She has challenged arbitrary forms of authority all her life. Obsessed with words and language since her early childhood, she believes in the power of poetry as a mean ... more
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£15.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910974261 | ISBN 10: 1910974269
Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic, wry social commentator or masterfully understated sho ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781381809 | ISBN 10: 1781381801
In her third full-length collection Blood Child, Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change – fleeting, elusive or moored in a negotiation of the material world as she roams through th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844717859 | ISBN 10: 1844717852
Eleanor Rees's first collection, Andraste's Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection she continues to play the role of mythologiser an ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141042022 | ISBN 10: 0141042028
'From laundrettes to contact lenses, Paul McCartney's trousers to plane crashes, McGough guides us through the pitfalls and idiosyncrasies of our illogical and unexciting lives, and finds the humour and drama hidden within. This new collection has a ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780956307149 | ISBN 10: 0956307140
Sylvia Hikins has been making poems since she was twelve. That, and other things. Having produced three children, she then went back to school to read her degree. This led to a career in lecturing and management in further and higher education and va ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099530428 | ISBN 10: 0099530422
A riotous collection of John Lennon’s poems, stories and drawings.
With an introduction by Sir Paul McCartney.
First published in 1964 and 1965, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works are a brilliantly inventive and offbeat co ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846311253 | ISBN 10: 184631125x
In the summer of 1967, Tony Richardson of Penguin Books took a chance. Then its Poetry Editor, he devoted number ten of the highly prestigious Penguin Modern Poets series to three unknown and relatively unpublished young writers from Liverpool. The b ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780224080866 | ISBN 10: 0224080865
Jean Sprackland's third collection describes a world in free-fall. Chaos and calamity are at our shoulder, in the shape of fire and flood, ice-storm and hurricane; trains stand still, zoos are abandoned, migrating birds lose their way - all surfaces ... more
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£7.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781873226872 | ISBN 10: 187322687x
In her tenth collection, Gladys Mary Coles brings together her poems about war and its effects – major themes throughout her work. She ranges across the centuries, from the Roman invasion of Britain to the 2005 terrorist bombings in London, with a sp ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141189260 | ISBN 10: 0141189266
First published in 1967, The Mersey Sound is a landmark in British poetry, being one of the bestselling poetry anthologies of all time. Innovative in both form and style, Henri, McGough and Patten revolutionized the traditional boundaries of poetry, ... more
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£7.50 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781902096971 | ISBN 10: 1902096975
Levi Tafari's new collection follows the success of his previous book, Rhyme Don't Pay. There is an engaging humour, variety and vitality in his poetry, whether writing of love of various kinds or his concern for society and the environment. Levi is ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141014555 | ISBN 10: 0141014555
Collected Poems brings together forty years of poetry from Britain's favourite wordsmith in one volume for the first time. From the quintessential 1960s poems 'Let Me Die a Youngman's Death' and 'Summer with Monika' to the recent tender poems of fat ... more
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