The Goldfinch The study of human life
£10.99An award-winning collection and novella exploring the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood.
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£9.99This title concerns itself with the fugitive nature of being in the world especially, but not exclusively, within blackness. The poems reshape possibilities for poetry by paying close attention to the author’s rhythm of thought, making a series of durable anthems from the noise of the contemporary moment.
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Girls that never die
£9.99Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like, from the award-winning author of ‘The January Children.’
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Mothersong
£9.99Award-winning poet Amy Acre’s debut collection Mothersong is a book for our contemporary moment and the moments which follow it, also; an unforgettable, unflinching excavation of motherhood, what it means to be a female artist, and what it means to be a poet with a deeply integrated community.
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£9.99Solmaz Sharif offers a series of poetic refusals, weighing nuanced questions about what it means to belong to a place. In the face of hard borders these poems seek a reckoning with the structures, in society, in language itself, by which these limits act on us. Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal; to navigate a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches, and questionings that can become a relentless challenge; a mutating shibboleth.
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£12.99This title concerns itself with the fugitive nature of being in the world especially, but not exclusively, within blackness. The poems reshape possibilities for poetry by paying close attention to the author’s rhythm of thought, making a series of durable anthems from the noise of the contemporary moment.
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Sonnets for Albert
£7.99Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection. In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent father, in poems that, though they threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, are always masterfully poised as the stylish man they depict.