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  • MARYVILLE
    MARYVILLE
    JOELLE TAYLOR
    A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION 'Taylor's poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous . . . A wildfire blazing free' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Kaleidoscopic in its breath, structure and humanity . . . Both selfless and intimate' ANTHONY JOSEPH ----------------------------------------------------- From the T. S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of C+NTO & Othered Poems come...
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  • POETRY PRESCRIPTION: INSPIRATION
    POETRY PRESCRIPTION: INSPIRATION
    DEBORAH ALMA
    This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these poems will bring you inspiration. For Insights & Bursts of Illumination; Stimulants for Creative Awakening; To Quicken the Heart and Mind; for Energising Body and Spirit Includes ...
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    12,50 €

  • POYUMS ANNAW
    POYUMS ANNAW
    LEN PENNIE
    The anticipated follow up to poyums, from a singular voice in modern Scots poetry "A second, blistering collection that confronts patriarchy, gender-based violence and societal injustice with tenderness, a jousting wit and not a little righteous fury"--Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller There isn't a timescale for how you should healYour bad days are valid, your heartache is re...
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  • BAD DIASPORA POEMS
    BAD DIASPORA POEMS
    MOMTAZA MEHRI
    Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on your shirt. ***WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION*** ***FINALIST FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD*** ***WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR POETRY*** 'Exceptional... Mehri is a truly transnational poet of the twenty-first century' BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other 'A o...
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  • THIS IS NOT A SMALL VOICE
    THIS IS NOT A SMALL VOICE
    SONIA SANCHEZ
    hear your voice a wild sea pausing in the wind Few poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and abundant positivity that characterize Sonia Sanchez's astonishing body of work. Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez's poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration...
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  • JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME
    JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME
    SASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNEY
    Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems pull at the edges of the performed self with conversational ease. Humble, giddy, bold, empathetic, subversive, hilarious, lithe - the collection fe...
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  • ARIEL
    ARIEL
    SYLVIA PLATH
    Written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963, the poems in this collection are as expressive of joy as they are of desolation. The remarkable combination of artistry and intensity that was recognised on this volume's first publication established Plath as one of the most original and gifted poets of the twentieth century. ...
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    16,25 €

  • WHEN ANGELS SPEAK OF LOVE
    WHEN ANGELS SPEAK OF LOVE
    BELL. HOOKS
    Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, i...
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  • LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD
    LOVE IS A DANGEROUS WORD
    ESSEX HEMPHILL
    For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of sexuality, gender, and race, the American political landsca...
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  • THE NEW BOOK
    THE NEW BOOK
    NIKKI GIOVANNI
    Nikki Giovanni's extraordinary final collection--a landmark of American literature which speaks to the fury and upheaval of our time, as well as the triumphs and delights of her remarkable creative life. For decades, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the divisions of our time, leavened with ...
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    23,75 €

  • TIME IS A MOTHER
    TIME IS A MOTHER
    OCEAN VUONG
    Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 'Tender and heartbreaking' TIME 'Powerful' DUA LIPA In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive...
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  • SAPPHO
    SAPPHO
    ANDRÉ LARDINOIS
    Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems and fragments, including three poems discovered in the last two decades. The power of Sappho's poetry - her direct style, rich imagery, and pas...
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  • EVERYTHING COMES NEXT
    EVERYTHING COMES NEXT
    NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
    "Emotionally resonant and stirring."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting."--Horn Book Magazine This celebratory book collects in one volume award-winning and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's most popular and accessible poems. Featuring new, never-before-published poems; an introduction by be...
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    8,75 €

  • BLESS THE DAUGHTER RAISED BY A VOICE IN HER HEAD
    BLESS THE DAUGHTER RAISED BY A VOICE IN HER HEAD
    WARSAN SHIRE
    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION* ** 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 'Vital, moving and courageous, this is a debut not to be missed' Guardian __________ Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience ...
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  • UNEXHAUSTED TIME
    UNEXHAUSTED TIME
    EMILY BERRY
    Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', and all the elements are brought closer in. Feelings, messages, symbols, visions . . . Emily Berry's latest collection takes shape in the half-light between the real and the imagined, where everything is lost and yet 'nothing goes away'. Here life's innumerable impressions, moods,...
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  • AFTER LORCA
    AFTER LORCA
    JACK SPICER
    Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico García Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work.Jack Spicer was one of the outstanding figures of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, bent on fashioning a visionary new lyricism. Spicer called his poems "dictations," and they combine outrageous humor, acid ...
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  • PANDEMONIUM
    PANDEMONIUM
    ARMANDO IANNUCCI
    "From the author of The Audacity of Hype, a satirical epic poem on the trials and tribulations of Coronavirus. Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off our panic and Globed vexation Until a drape of calmness furled around the earth And beckoned a new and greater normal into each life For which we give plenty gratitude and ...
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    13,75 €

  • DEVOTIONS: A READ WITH JENNA PICK
    DEVOTIONS: A READ WITH JENNA PICK
    MARY OLIVER
    Now a Read With Jenna Book Club Pick Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career."I love [Mary's] work. It's about nature and love and what it means to be human. . . . I find her poetry to be so cathartic and beautiful." -Jenna Bush Hager"N...
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    25,00 €

  • MERCIES
    MERCIES
    ANNE SEXTON
    The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost...
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  • TEN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH WOMEN POETS
    TEN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH WOMEN POETS
    TERENCE DOOLEY
    "'Down from the mountain they forbade us swarm frantic men, brandishing their manuals of transcendental reason.' The mountain is of course Mount Olympus, and the frantic men Spain's all-male poetry establishment bent on excluding women from all their activities. 'Not to confront them, ' continues Erika Martínez, 'would be to bow one's head in shame in front of one's own mirror....
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    16,20 €

  • SECOND TONGUE
    SECOND TONGUE
    YOLANDA CASTAÑO
    "Yolanda Casta?o writes love poems which are not tearful. Her love belongs to mysterious strangers from different continents and languages. She is never pedantic. She loves skipping [...] between lines of her poems, between images and metaphors, between being frank and being mischievous. It's about singing all the way to Land's End, in good and bad weather.' Yolanda Casta?o's p...
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    13,70 €

  • HOME BODY
    HOME BODY
    RUPI KAUR
    A revised hardcover edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller home body by rupi kaur, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers milk and honey and the sun and her flowers. Rupi's long-awaited hardcover edition debuts exclusive poems and is beautifully clothbound and foil stamped. rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective ...
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  • IN LEAF
    IN LEAF
    ROSALÍA DE CASTRO
    An annotated, commented and revised translation of Rosalía de Castro's Follas Novas (1880) [New Leaves]. A contemporary version of the Erín Moure 2016 translation from the original Galician, traversed by the thoughts and links and memorations of the translator. A book of thinking, in which Rosalía de Castro's own thinking comes more into the clear, and thus her relevancy to poe...
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  • CAROL ANN DUFFY: COLLECTED POEMS
    CAROL ANN DUFFY: COLLECTED POEMS
    CAROL ANN DUFFY
    Carol Ann Duffy has been a bold and original voice in British poetry since the publication of Standing Female Nude in 1985. Since then she has won every major poetry prize in the United Kingdom and sold over one million copies of her books around the world. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009.Her first Collected Poems includes all of the poems from her nine acclaimed volume...
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  • CRUSH
    CRUSH
    RICHARD SIKEN
    Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry--an erotic, powerful collection "One of the best books of contemporary poetry."--Victoria Chang, Huffington Post "Vital, immediate, and cinematic in scope."--Library Journal (Best Poetry of 2005) Selected by Nobel Prize laureate and competition judge Louise Glück as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets pri...
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  • A THOUSAND MORNINGS
    A THOUSAND MORNINGS
    MARY OLIVER
    Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Mary Oliver is beautifully open to the teachings contained within the smallest of moments. In 'A Thousand Mornings' she explores, with startling clarity, humour, and kindness, the mysteries of our daily experience. ...
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  • GOBLIN MARKET AND OTHER POEMS
    GOBLIN MARKET AND OTHER POEMS
    CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
    A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Goblin Market and Other Poems was Christina Rosset...
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    16,25 €

  • CALLING A WOLF A WOLF
    CALLING A WOLF A WOLF
    KAVEH AKBAR
    I could not be held responsible for desire he could not be held at all In Calling a Wolf a Wolf, the reality of love can all too often prove disappointing at best, and life-threateningly ineffectual at worst. As Kaveh Akbar puts it in 'Heritage', a poem dedicated to an Iranian woman executed for killing the man who was attempting to rape her- 'in books love can be war-ending/....
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    12,50 €

  • BLUETS
    BLUETS
    MAGGIE NELSON
    **AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS** A Guardian Book of the Year Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billi...
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  • LATER POEMS: SELECTED AND NEW
    LATER POEMS: SELECTED AND NEW
    ADRIENNE RICH
    The final volume of poems by America's most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.Later Poems: Selected and New brings together a remarkable body of work by the celebrated poet. Included are Adrienne Rich's own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award-winning Diving into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her final volume...
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