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£10.99Written by Yrsa Daley-Ward, ‘The How’ is a treasure trove of inspiration and an invitation for personal renewal.
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I Walked on Into the Forest
£10.99Tua Forsström is one of Finland’s best-loved Swedish-language poets. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world. Her new book focuses acutely on death and grief, and in particular the devastating loss of her beloved granddaughter.
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The Late Sun
£10.99‘The Late Sun’ asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the collection is a set of poems about the poet’s mother, who died in great age after a life of exotic travel, and the poet’s own travels, his sense of both place and displacement, are vibrantly explored in other pieces. The city where he lives – particularly, and somewhat unusually, in a sequence titled ‘Smells of London’ – provides many of the themes, but the civic glades and sparkling vistas of the Mediterranean are just as important, and the book adds up to an affirmation of international perspectives at a time when civilised values are increasingly threatened.
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An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
£16.99This collector’s edition of Gray’s ‘Elegy’ reproduces the exquisite wood engravings made by Agnes Miller Parker in 1938. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the poet’s death, this edition will not only bring new readers to the ‘Elegy’ but will also appeal to those already familiar with its riches.
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Selected Poems
£12.99Federico GarcÃa Lorca, Spain’s greatest modern poet and dramatist, was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. He was by then an immensely popular figure, celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and at the height of his creative powers. After his death, with his work suppressed, he became a potent symbol of the martyrdom of Spain. The manuscript of Lorca’s last poems, his tormented ‘Sonnets of Dark Love,’ disappeared during the Civil War. For fifty years the poems lived only in the words of the poets who had heard Lorca read them, like Neruda and Aleixandre. Lorca’s lost sonnets were re-discovered in Spain during the 1980s, and this was the first book to include English translations of these brooding poems.
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Fresh Out of the Sky
£12.99George Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to his arrival in England as a young child, and to the themes of identity, memory, belonging, war, and upheaval, with a sequence on living now in a country under siege from coronavirus.
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Velkom to Inklandt
£12.99‘Velkom to Inklandt’ is a collection of poems in which Sophie Herxheimer brings vividly to life the voice of her German Jewish Grent Muzzer, Liesel, whose somewhat abrasive perspektiff she has never been able to forget. Liesel came to live in Britain in 1938, her husband, a doctor, one of many saved by the speedily set up Council for Academic Refugees. Playing on the difficulties of the English lenkvitch and vokebulerry, the poems tell of immigrant’s attempts to fit in and make her home in a new country at war with her own.
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All the Men I Never Married
£9.99‘All the Men I Never Married’ is a collection of avowedly feminist intent, rich in ambiguity and with an understanding of the layers of complexity and complicity that exist between men and women. The poems are numbered 1-48 with first lines acting as titles. The book is roughly chronological, with early poems about the innocent friendships of childhood that have a dreamy, anticipatory quality.
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The Kids
£10.99Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are ‘The Kids’, her students, the teenagers she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in 80s and 90s. Costa Book of the Year, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.
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Pam Ayres on Animals
£16.99A beautiful collection from beloved poet Pam Ayres, compiling her best verse and anecdotes dedicated to her love of animals, including brand new poems and illustrations by Ellie Snowden.
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
£10.99The original punk poet, now a beloved national treasure, this is the outstanding long-awaited collection by the inimitable Bard of Salford, Dr John Cooper Clarke
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100 Poems
£9.99Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, ‘100 Poems’ is a singular, accessible collection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and for years to come.