Christmas 2024: Poetry
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This volume comprises the full poetic works of one of our wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems.When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope became that rarest of…
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The life-affirming new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Poor'Atmospheric and intoxicating … The Wickedest is a heady night in the dance' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Hypnotic and…
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An astonishing collection of Derek Jarman's rare poetry.A facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s sole, early, extremely rare poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972.Heavily illustrated from Jarman's…
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“ALL THE HOT WOMEN I KNOW HAVE ELLA FREARS ON THEIR BEDSIDE TABLES.”—Sheena PatelTaking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre-defying…
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A collection of poems both old and new, spanning a career of ground-breaking writing. Dearly gave us Atwood’s first new poetry collection in over a decade; Paper Boat not only provides us with new wise, playful and…
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Published to coincide with his 85th birthday, Ash Keys looks back on the extraordinary career of the last surviving member of the triumvirate of poets that rose out of 1960s Belfast'A master in an old, great tradition' THE…
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‘Powerful, capacious and profound’ OCEAN VUONG‘A book you won’t soon forget’ ILYA KAMINSKY‘Astonishing’ TERRANCE HAYESA deeply powerful collection of poems about life in Gaza by…
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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2024A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit. The collection…
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J.H. Prynne is Britain’s leading late Modernist poet. His austere yet playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes…
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Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius'COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Brooklyn'She pinpoints the collision of…
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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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