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At HajjAmaan HyderAt Hajj is a book of yearning and of pulling away, of things handed down and newly made.
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No Dogs, No IndiansSiddhartha BoseThree intertwining stories explore the effects and legacy of the British in India.
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The TollLuke WrightTravel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England — ‘where industry meets marsh’ — with poet Luke Wright. Discover a country riven by inequality and corruption but sustained by a surreal, gallows humour.
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CainLuke KennardNew paperback edition of the award-winning new collection by Next Generation Poet Luke Kennard
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TrammelCharlotte NewmanUrbane yet uncompromising, Trammel is the powerful debut collection from a voice that demands to be heard.
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SunshineMelissa Lee-HoughtonSunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain.
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SpacecraftJohn McCulloughMargins, edges and coastlines abound in John McCullough’s tender, humorous explorations of contemporary life and love.
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Sunspots (paperback)Simon BarracloughSimon Barraclough (Poet in Residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory) is your guide to the Sun in this ambitious and energetic new collection of poems, fusing science and literature, and channelling Shakespeare, Byron, Nabakov and more.
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Forgive the Language: Essays on Poets & PoetryKaty Evans-BushTypewriters, plagiarism and the poetic line are just three of the subjects under the spotlight in this book of essays by much-loved literary blogger Katy Evans-Bush.
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Futures: Poetry of the Greek CrisisTheodoros Chiotis (editor)Futures features some of the most daring new voices in Greek poetry, together with international poets with Greek connections.
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FenceTim CresswellAn epic of fragments that is at once beautiful and beautifully strange.
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The Story of NoEmma HammondIn The Story of No Emma Hammond delivers an experimental lyric that is wild, weird and full of the errata of modern life.
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Everything CrashTim WellsA piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells.
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The Lost Art of SinkingNaomi BoothThe Lost Art of Sinking is a dark comedy about losing yourself. Sensual, funny and exquisitely written, this bold novella introduces a fresh new literary voice in Naomi Booth.
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The Good DarkRyan Van WinkleIn his atmospheric second collection, Ryan Van Winkle charts what is found when love is lost. A lyric voice that is both familiar and strangely different leads us through the shifting forests of memory and towards a grim acknowledgement of the need to get up, to be careful, to move.
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SpeculatrixChris McCabeIn his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist.
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The Hard Word BoxSarah HeskethThe Hard Word Box is a book of poems and verbatim interviews that takes the reader on a surprising and enriching journey through memory and imagination.
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MarginaliaTom Chivers (editor)This new anthology celebrates the first decade of Penned in the Margins, bringing together over seventy-five of the very best poems and texts carefully selected by editor Tom Chivers.
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In the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood CemeteryChris McCabeA startling and original work of literary detection, In the Catacombs places West Norwood Cemetery and its dead poets back into the foreground of the London psyche
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Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical CityTom Chivers & Martin Kratz (editors)An invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital - and at over 1,800 metres, it is Britain’s highest peak. Mount London is a unique and visionary record of the vertical city.
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Beautiful GirlsMelissa Lee-Houghton"In this hypnotic and arresting collection Melissa Lee-Houghton holds a mirror to our mouths and teaches us how to breathe so that hurts like hell." - Abegail Morley
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Digital MonsoonSiddhartha BoseDigital Monsoon celebrates the dynamism of the urban edgeland in an updated Jazz Age poetic.
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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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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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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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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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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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