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BeowulfMeghan PurvisThe Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is brought to life in a vigorous, contemporary translation by American poet Meghan Purvis. |
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The Shipwrecked HouseClaire TrévienAnchors, shipwrecks, whales and islands abound in this first collection by young Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien. |
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Human FormOliver DixonHuman Form is as much a reflection on an interior world on the cusp of change. This book is a search for form, of modes of utterance, combining elegantly crafted lyrics with dense blocks of prose poetry and fractured texts. |
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Mondeo ManLuke WrightExplosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page in the hotly anticipated debut collection from Luke Wright. |
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Count from Zero to One HundredAlan CunninghamSet across Berlin, London, Budapest and Dublin, Alan Cunningham's debut novella is a moving and contemporary meditation on the limits and vulnerability of the body. |
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NOT AN ESSAYHeather PhillipsonCavalier, acerbic, droll and disconsolate, this experimental text by poet and artist Heather Phillipson is a self-incrimination, the noise of the intellect giving its mechanics away. |
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Where Rockets Burn ThroughRussell Jones (editor)Blasting into the future, across alien worlds and distant galaxies, fantastic technologies and potential threats to humanity, Where Rockets Burn Through brings science fiction and poetry together in one explosive, genre-busting collection. |
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HolophinLuke KennardIt is 2031 and the must-have gadget is the Holophin: a tiny, dolphin-shaped microprocessor which cures your worst impulses and phobias, comforts you in your grief or boredom and makes everything look much, much prettier. |
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Emergency WindowRoss SutherlandWelcome to a science fiction reality of mirrors, windows and menacing simulacra – where nothing is as it seems. Surreal, funny, intelligent and experimental, Emergency Window charts a search for meaning in a disintegrating world. |
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The Bells of HopeRoddy LumsdenA series of 51 poems, all of them in a short form developed by the author, in which metaphor and truth swirl in one short and three long lines. |
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Adventures in FormTom Chivers (editor)Welcome to a strange new world in which a poem can be written using only one vowel, processed through computer code, collaged from film trailers, compiled from Facebook status updates, hidden inside a Sudoku puzzle, and even painted on sheep to demonstrate Quantum Theory. Discover a multitude of new and unusual poetic forms – from tweet to time-splice, and from skinny villanelle to breakbeat sonnet – in this inspiring and inventive anthology. |
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Hyakuretsu KyakuRoss SutherlandThe mercurial Ross Sutherland's new sonnet sequence Hyakuretsu Kyaku playfully recasts the characters from cult video game Street Fighter 2 as "twelve heroes that span the breadth of the human condition." |
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Speak to StrangersGemma SeltzerLondon is a city full of millions of strangers and Gemma Seltzer wants to meet them all. Speak to Strangers is a brilliant, funny and uplifting sequence of one hundred hundred-word stories. |
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The MethodRob StantonFrom the opening Tuyman's Sonnets, which depict the cultural detritus of recent history as evidence of the severed real, to the sly, deft, minimalist lyrics of the book's second half – The Method is a tour de force which shows Rob Stanton to be a poet to watch. (Rae Armantrout) |
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A Body Made of YouMelissa Lee-HoughtonCharged with sexuality and an uncomfortable sense of the strange, A Body Made of You introduces a powerful new voice in poetry. |
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Love / All That / & OKEmily CritchleyLove / All That /& OK, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004 |
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Limits of ControlSteve SpenceIn this extraordinary sequence of prose poems, coral reefs fall from the sky, volcanoes smoulder and pirates come to power in Britain. |
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Steak & StationsMichael EganReports from a landscape of contrasts and contradictions: of speed and consumption, haute cuisine and isolated railway platforms; from nocturnal inner-city encounters to rural wildernesses. |
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KalagoraSiddhartha BoseIn this dazzling debut collection by Indian-born poet Siddhartha Bose, the cities of Kolkata, Mumbai, New York and London are transformed into sites of fractured vision. |
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Twelve NudesRoss SutherlandWith trademark wit, Twelve Nudes interrogates the failures of love, exploding the dynamics of text, voice and body. In this elegant but uneasy satire, ‘to be naked is to speak without footnotes’. |
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Stress Fractures: Essays on PoetryTom Chivers (editor)Where can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? Why is poetry taught so badly at school? What do Wordsworth, Byron and Roots Manuva have in common? |
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Shad Thames, Broken WharfChris McCabeShad Thames, Broken Wharf is a play of voices that spans centuries of changes across the Docklands, allowing past ghosts to be heard above the white noise of the polemical present. |
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Bonjour TetrisSimon BarracloughFrom retro computer games and Hollywood blockbusters to the West Indian cricketer Brian Lara - no field of contemporary culture is safe from Simon Barraclough's sophisticated and inclusive vision. |
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Weather A SystemJames WilkesBodypopping Belgians and bicycle couriers populate a world of public fountains and archaeological debris in this original and eclectic collection by James Wilkes. |
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Static ExileGeorge TtoouliStatic Exile is a powerful and meditative debut collection which combines acute political observation with caustic humour. |
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Napoleon’s Travelling BookshelfSarah HeskethErudite, humourous and stylishly, Hesketh's debut invokes a world of frozen lakes and people who have stayed too long. |
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MetrophobiaStephanie LealFrom urban sketches of London and warped love poems to a paean to the Boston Tea Party and a letter to an American in Afghanistan, Metrophobia establishes a poetry that is inventive, quirky and packed with humour. |
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City State: New London PoetryTom Chivers (editor)City State showcases a new generation of London writers, a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from the capital. |
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Things To Do Before You Leave TownRoss SutherlandMono-browed cousins, clandestine paperboys, murderous action heroes and Swiss euthanasia clinics jostle for position in Ross Sutherland’s intelligent and wildly entertaining debut collection of poetry. |
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Charismatic MegafaunaTamsin KendrickThe sacred, the profane and the prophetic come together in this stylish debut collection of poetry by Tamsin Kendrick. |
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Man in BlackDavid CaddyMan in Black is the extraordinary latest collection by Dorset poet David Caddy, dubbed ‘the Robert Frost of the Blackmore Vale’ (Jay Parini). These poems are brimming with radical intent, drawing from a rich and varied lineage. |
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Generation TxtTom Chivers (editor)In a world of dumbed-down media and txt-speak, six of the most talented young writers speak out. This is a must-have anthology for anyone interested in the future of poetry, featuring new work by Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Emma McGordon, Abigail Oborne and James Wilkes. |
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Peckham BlueSusie GordonPeckham Blue is about finding the family you thought you never had. In ten extraordinary poems, Susie Gordon records a journey from her home on the Lancashire coast to the inner-city neighbourhoods of South London - to rediscover the family who gave her up for adoption at birth. |
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