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James Tate
£14.99James Tate
Tate’s poems are about the world we inhabit, our wrecked, vexed love for it. Existence is at times absurd but properly observed and considered that absurdity reveals, often with laughter, the something else by which we live.
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The Making of A Poem
£13.99The Making of A Poem
“Concise, learned, revisionary… should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come.”- Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
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Beowulf
£12.99Beowulf
‘Beowulf’, composed between the 7th and 12the century, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel’s mother. Here, the poem can be read in conjunction with the translation on facing pages.
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New Wings
£8.95New Wings
Contains poems which focuses on many different kinds of beginnings. The poems are about living through and coming to terms with changes – sometimes momentous or traumatic – and moving on into the future.
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Ooga-Booga
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Pelt
£8.95Pelt
First collection by young English poet featured in Bloodaxe’s new poets anthology “Voice Recognition” (2009). Sarah Jackson lived in Brighton for many years, and now lectures at Nottingham Trent University.
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The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion
£9.95The Cartographer Tries To Map A Way To Zion
The new collection by acclaimed Jamaican poet, Kei Miller. Here the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognise – even to envy – a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman’s eternal city of Zion.
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Jutland
£9.95Jutland
Two sequences of of poems on forgiveness combined in a collection which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Hill is one of Britain’s leading poets and previously won the Whitbread Poetry Award.
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Citizen
£9.99Citizen
Claudia Rankine’s book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st century daily life and in the media. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person’s ability to speak, perform and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essays, images, and poetry, ‘Citizen’ is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, ‘post-race’ society.
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Vade Mecum
£9.99Vade Mecum
‘Vade Mecum’ brings together Richard Skinner’s best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeare’s The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers (Antonioni, Krzysztof Kielowski, Chinatown) and idiosyncratic reflections on Werner Herzog’s ‘Of Walking in Ice’ and ‘Steely Dan’.
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Night Sky With Exit Wounds
£12.00Night Sky With Exit Wounds
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
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