Christmas 2023: Poetry
Selected by the Bookshop
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Translated by Emily WilsonThe greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our timeWhen Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017—revealing the…
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This East-meets-West hybrid work combines playful cavort with serious comment.A cast of ‘Indic-heritage poets’ meets to perform poems and discuss the future of poetry. indiom engages eclectic, often Rabelaisian styles…
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Steeped in honey, Juventius,your golden eyes, and as sweet toowhen I press my lips to them -three hundred thousand kissesis not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today,…
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The much-anticipated debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Susannah Dickey, on the subject of our cultural obsession with true crime.ISDAL is a timely interrogation of the true crime genre. In the first of its three parts, we…
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'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of the…
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36 new poems. Risograph printed throughout, by Earthbound Press, London, on acid free paper. Large format book (~A4). Hand-sewn with red linen thread. Covers risograph printed in metallic gold, in seven variant designs. Grey endpapers.…
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This unforgettable book-length poem is both an honouring and an inquisition.In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during…
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‘A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self.’ Michael Hofmann, TLSHeaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also poems from a great number…
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Welcome to Kathryn Gray’s Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as any Old Hollywood movie. These worldly-wise poems explore celebrity culture in a mode that is both seriously playful and playfully…
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A lyrical excavation of trauma and healing in the midst of early motherhood - the debut work of an endlessly inventive poet whose work 'fizzes with energy, physicality, and the levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tamás)'An…
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During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari Carmina, published to acclaim in 2021,…
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Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical skills of any living poet', the work of 'one who is not afraid of big subjects, whose…
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