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SoilTim CresswellSoil is a striking debut by geographer and poet Tim Cresswell – rich, multi-layered, full of organic life and the compacted detritus of the city. |
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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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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 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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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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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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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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