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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 28 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope
    The Orange and Other Poems - by Wendy Cope

    £8.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571389513 | ISBN 10: 0571389511

    The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain’s wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets.  My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.   A glorious selection of Wendy Cope’s most be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Margaux Carpentier
    Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water - by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Margaux Carpentier

    £9.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529083934 | ISBN 10: 1529083931

    The enchanting festive poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, and adorned with sumptuous illustrations by artist Margaux Carpentier, Christmas Eve at The Moon Under Water is the perfect festive gift for the poetry love ... more

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  • Cover image of book you are your own fairy tale by Amanda Lovelace
    you are your own fairy tale - by Amanda Lovelace

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781524880859 | ISBN 10: 152488085x

    Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and bestselling author amanda lovelace presents the you are your own fairy tale series bound collection— a beautiful and empowering trilogy that proves the only thing needed for a happily ever after is yourself. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tam Lin of the Winter Park by Eleanor Rees
    Tam Lin of the Winter Park - by Eleanor Rees

    £12.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913749231 | ISBN 10: 1913749231

    A collection of posthuman lyric poems which emerge from writing in situ in an urban parkland in Liverpool, as well as on the shores of the river Mersey, the Wirral peninsula and Ynys Mon (Isle of Anglesey). The poems expand into the otherworld beyond ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Built Moment by Lavinia Greenlaw
    The Built Moment - by Lavinia Greenlaw

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571347117 | ISBN 10: 0571347118

    Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry – now in paperback.   Lavinia Greenlaw’s last collection, The Casual Perfect (2011), focused on ‘the achievement of the provisional’. The Built Moment explores what we build out of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
    Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head - by Warsan Shire

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784743703 | ISBN 10: 1784743704

    ** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4** "Warsan Shire is an extraordinarily gifted poet whose profoundly moving poems so powerfully give voice to the unspoken"(Bernardine Evaristo) Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience from the award-winnin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charred: A Survivor Speaks Her Truth to Inspire by Andreena Leeanne
    Charred: A Survivor Speaks Her Truth to Inspire - by Andreena Leeanne

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916356122 | ISBN 10: 1916356125

    "There is strong correlation between childhood trauma and mental health issues. I suffer with PTSD and depression, and use poetry to write honestly about the multitude of issues I have experienced in my 39 years. I have found writing to be hugely the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy
    Sincerity - by Carol Ann Duffy

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509893454 | ISBN 10: 1509893458

    The effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet.   Sincerity is Duffy’s final collection of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Well at Winter Solstice by Eleanor Rees
    The Well at Winter Solstice - by Eleanor Rees

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784631840 | ISBN 10: 1784631841

    These are the voices of those who are silent: in the graveyards, holy wells, the river, the changing tides. A ghostly choir of lost children, hermits, lovers and rough sleepers, serving maids and sailor boys, saints and hermaphrodites resounding thro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith
    Incendiary Art - by Patricia Smith

    £12.00   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781780374710 | ISBN 10: 1780374712

    2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 2018 NAACP Image Award Finalist 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Los Angeles Times Book Prize  Incendiary Art confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of the mothers of mu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Luck is the Hook by Imtiaz Dharker
    Luck is the Hook - by Imtiaz Dharker

    £12.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781780372181 | ISBN 10: 1780372183

    Winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2014  Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taking the Arrow out of the Heart by Alice Walker
    Taking the Arrow out of the Heart - by Alice Walker

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781474607261 | ISBN 10: 1474607268

    Mindful poems about tolerance, justice and hope for the Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.   Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classic, The Color Purple, returns with a poetry collection th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
    Electric Arches - by Eve L. Ewing

    £13.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781608468560 | ISBN 10: 1608468569

    Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.   Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. ... more

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  • Cover image of book She Grrrowls: The Anthology by Various poets
    She Grrrowls: The Anthology - by Various poets

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781911570141 | ISBN 10: 1911570145

    ‘But there’s just not many women doing poetry...’ – some men have said.   Back in 2013, when London was in need, poet and feminist Carmina Masoliver founded a monthly event that catered for self-identifying women and non binary folks, brin ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Balance by Sinéad Morrissey
    On Balance - by Sinéad Morrissey

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784103606 | ISBN 10: 1784103608

    Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017  Set against a backdrop of ecological and economic instability, Sinéad Morrissey’s sixth collection, On Balance, revisits some ... more

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  • Cover image of book Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
    Measures of Expatriation - by Vahni Capildeo

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784101688 | ISBN 10: 1784101680

    ‘Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch... a ‘Trinidad’ being created that did not take my Trinidad awa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012 by Adrienne Rich
    Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012 - by Adrienne Rich

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780393351835 | ISBN 10: 0393351831

    The final volume of poems assembled by America's most powerful and distinctive voice.  Adrienne Rich’s Later Poems Selected and New displays the strong trajectory of the work of one of the most distinguished artists of American letters. After ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar
    Eidolon - by Sandeep Parmar

    £8.95   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848613928 | ISBN 10: 184861392x

    Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America.   An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a devi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry - by Maya Angelou

    £16.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349006215 | ISBN 10: 0349006210

    As the world celebrates and reflects on the beautiful life of Maya Angelou, Virago presents an updated collection of her works of poetry, collected together for the first time.   From her reflections on African American life and hardship in Ju ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Christmas Wren by Gillian Clarke
    The Christmas Wren - by Gillian Clarke

    £4.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781907598265 | ISBN 10: 190759826x

    This year, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, Candlestick Press are privileged to publish Gillian Clarke’s story The Christmas Wren, written in response to Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales.   Commissioned by the Dylan Th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Division Street by Helen Mort
    Division Street - by Helen Mort

    £12.00   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780701186845 | ISBN 10: 0701186844

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2013   SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2013   The much-anticipated debut collection from award-winning poet and rising star, Helen Mort.   A stone is lobbed in '84, hangs like a star over Orgre ... 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 Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women
    Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women's Writing Competition 2008 - by Various authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781920196196 | ISBN 10: 1920196196

    Survivors of violence are often forced to flee – emotionally and geographically – from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. This year, POWA called for entries ... more

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  • Cover image of book Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems by Abena P.A. Busia
    Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems - by Abena P.A. Busia

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955507977 | ISBN 10: 0955507979

    "Sorrows of exile, so powerfully engraved in Testimonies of Exile, linger still in some of these poems, but it is the joys of homecoming, joys contstantly interrupted by long shadows of death, that define this new collection. It is a treasury of prec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Journey from Winter: Selected Poems by Valentine Ackland
    Journey from Winter: Selected Poems - by Valentine Ackland

    £18.95   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781857548761 | ISBN 10: 1857548760

    Valentine Ackland is best known as the lover of poet Sylvia Townsend Warner, with whom she collaborated on Whether a Dove or a Seagull (1934). She was a distinguished poet in her own right, however, and enjoyed popular success during the 1930s. Consi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Writings by Mai Ghoussoub
    Selected Writings - by Mai Ghoussoub

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566424 | ISBN 10: 0863566421

    Mai Ghoussoub was a woman who lived with one foot in the East and one in the West, who embodied cosmopolitanism, and who was deeply committed to freedom of expression. Drawing on her own extraordinary experiences as well as political and histori ... 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 Apology for Absence by Julia Darling
    Apology for Absence - by Julia Darling

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781904614128 | ISBN 10: 1904614124

    A little over a year since the appearance of her first book of poetry, Sudden Collapses in Public Places (which was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Julia Darling completed her second collection.  Her first book grew from her e ... more

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