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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book From the Ashes: New Writing Exploring Fantasy, Adventure & Revolution by Various authors
    From the Ashes: New Writing Exploring Fantasy, Adventure & Revolution - by Various authors

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Cosmopolitan City by Paddy Wailey-Hammett
    The Cosmopolitan City - by Paddy Wailey-Hammett

    £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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  • Cover image of book Lands by Jemima Khalli
    Lands - by Jemima Khalli

    £6.00      (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781533099006 | ISBN 10: 1533099006

    The debut poetry collection from Jemima Khalli, a writer from Liverpool whose work explores blackness, femininity and cultural identity. ... more

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  • Cover image of book New and Selected Poems by Paul Birtill
    New and Selected Poems - by Paul Birtill

    £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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  • Cover image of book Distant Voices: Iceland, Norway, Viking Merseyside by Sylvia Hikins
    Distant Voices: Iceland, Norway, Viking Merseyside - by Sylvia Hikins

    £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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  • Cover image of book Kaleidoscope by Laura Taylor
    Kaleidoscope - by Laura Taylor

    £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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  • Cover image of book Scent: The Complete Works of Dinesh Allirajah by Dinesh Allirajah
    Scent: The Complete Works of Dinesh Allirajah - by Dinesh Allirajah

    £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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  • Cover image of book Blood Child by Eleanor Rees
    Blood Child - by Eleanor Rees

    £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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  • Cover image of book Eliza and the Bear by Eleanor Rees
    Eliza and the Bear - by Eleanor Rees

    £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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  • Cover image of book That Awkward Age by Roger McGough
    That Awkward Age - by Roger McGough

    £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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  • Cover image of book Journeys by Sylvia Hikins
    Journeys - by Sylvia Hikins

    £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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  • Cover image of book In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon
    In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works - by John Lennon

    £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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  • Cover image of book A Gallery To Play To: The Story of the Mersey Poets by Phil Bowen
    A Gallery To Play To: The Story of the Mersey Poets - by Phil Bowen

    £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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  • Cover image of book Tilt by Jean Sprackland
    Tilt - by Jean Sprackland

    £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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  • Cover image of book Song of the Butcher Bird by Gladys Mary Coles
    Song of the Butcher Bird - by Gladys Mary Coles

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten
    The Mersey Sound - by Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten

    £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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  • Cover image of book From the Page to the Stage by Levi Tafari
    From the Page to the Stage - by Levi Tafari

    £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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  • Cover image of book Collected Poems by Roger McGough
    Collected Poems - by Roger McGough

    £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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