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  • A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus Out of stock Quick View
    By: Hill, Selima

    A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus

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    Selima Hill’s twenty-second collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus presents ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the w

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    • Author: Hill, Selima
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1780377525
    • Language: English
  • Lives of the Female PoetsQuick View
    By: Pollard, Clare

    Lives of the Female Poets

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    Clare Pollard thumbs her nose at Dr Johnson’s all-male Lives of the Poets in chronicling her own life and theirs in her Lives of the Female Poets.

    These portraits and self portraits offer glimpses int

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    • Author: Pollard, Clare
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: November 18 2025
    • ISBN10: 1780377479
    • Language: English
  • Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent PoetsQuick View
    By: Boast, Rachael

    Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets

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    Poetry Book Society Recommendation

    This groundbreaking anthology brings together one hundred deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the international arena, from emerging voices to world-r

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    • Author: Boast, Rachael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 1780377312
    • Language: English
  • AvidyaQuick View
    By: Ravinthiran, Vidyan

    Avidya

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    The poems in this collection emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries: Sri Lanka, the UK and the USA. Sensuous, droll, y

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    • Author: Ravinthiran, Vidyan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: July 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 1780377398
    • Language: English
  • BeastQuick View
    By: Petit, Pascale

    Beast

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    Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit’s Beast, a collection that ranges from the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorge

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    • Author: Petit, Pascale
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 1780377371
    • Language: English
  • The Shadow of WordsQuick View
    By: Blandiana, Ana

    The Shadow of Words

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    Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country’s strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the C

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    • Author: Blandiana, Ana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 1780375409
    • Language: English
  • First Rain in ParadiseQuick View
    By: Lewis, Gwyneth

    First Rain in Paradise

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    First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill

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    • Author: Lewis, Gwyneth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1780377339
    • Language: English
  • I Think We're Alone NowQuick View
    By: Parry, Abigail

    I Think We’re Alone Now

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    I Think We’re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new voice in British poetry.

    This was supposed to be a book about intimacy: what it might look like in soli

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    • Author: Parry, Abigail
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: January 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1780376812
    • Language: English
  • Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds Out of stock Quick View
    By: Astley, Neil

    Soul Food: Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds

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    “Soul Food” is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ran… [more below]

    • Author: Astley, Neil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 24 2007
    • ISBN10: 1852247665
    • Language: English
  • Lorca: Selected Poems: Bilingual Spanish-English EditionQuick View
    By: Lorca, Federico García

    Lorca: Selected Poems: Bilingual Spanish-English Edition

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    A new dual-language edition of poems from Spain’s greatest modern poet and dramatist.

    Federico Garc? Lorca was murdered by Fascist partisans in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

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    • Author: Lorca, Federico García
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: January 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 1780376103
    • Language: English
  • Blood Wedding: Bodas de SangreQuick View
    By: García Lorca, Federico

    Blood Wedding: Bodas de Sangre

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    Blood Wedding by Federico Garc? Lorca is a classic of Spanish literature, the tragedy of a woman loved by two men. The man she has loved since childhood is hot-blooded Leonardo, but his family are hat… [more below]

    • Author: García Lorca, Federico
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 24 1996
    • ISBN10: 1852243554
    • Language: English
  • A Change in the AirQuick View
    By: Clarke, Jane

    A Change in the Air

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    Jane Clarke’s third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place. In luminous language her poems explore how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and pre… [more below]

    • Author: Clarke, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 1780376596
    • Language: English
  • City PsalmsQuick View
    By: Zephaniah, Benjamin

    City Psalms

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    City Psalms was Benjamin Zephaniah’s first collection from Bloodaxe back in 1992. It includes some of his best-known poems, including ‘Dis Poetry’, ‘Money’ and ‘Us and Dem’.

    Best known for his performa

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  • Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal TimesQuick View
    By: Astley, Neil

    Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

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    Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life-affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow.

    These are poem

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    • Author: Astley, Neil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: June 27 2002
    • ISBN10: 1852245883
    • Language: English
  • Propa PropagandaQuick View
    By: Zephaniah, Benjamin

    Propa Propaganda

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    Propa Propaganda was Benjamin Zephaniah’s second collection from Bloodaxe. It includes some of his best-known poems, including ‘I Have a Scheme’, ‘The Death of Joy Gardner’, ‘White Comedy’ and ‘The An

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    • Author: Zephaniah, Benjamin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 82
    • Publish Date: September 26 1996
    • ISBN10: 1852243724
    • Language: English
  • Too Black, Too StrongQuick View
    By: Zephaniah, Benjamin

    Too Black, Too Strong

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    Too Black, Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah’s third collection from Bloodaxe. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. With poems like ‘Chant of a Homes

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    • Author: Zephaniah, Benjamin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: September 27 2001
    • ISBN10: 1852245549
    • Language: English
  • Essential Poems from the Staying Alive TrilogyQuick View
    By: Neil Astley

    Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

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    “Staying Alive”, “Being Alive” and “Being Human” have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry

    • Author: Astley, Neil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 24, 2012
    • ISBN10: 1852249420
    • Language: English
  • The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther KingQuick View
    By: Forché, Carolyn

    The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King

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    When he was awarded an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in 1967, Dr Martin Luther King gave an electrifying extemporaneous address, speaking without notes, in which he said: ‘There… [more below]

    • Author: Forché, Carolyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 226
    • Publish Date: November 16 2017
    • ISBN10: 1780373929
    • Language: English
  • Please Do Not Touch This ExhibitQuick View
    By: Campbell, Jen

    Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

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    Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit explores disability, storytelling, and the process of mythologising trauma. Jen Campbell writes of Victorian circus and folklore, deep seas and dark forests, discussin

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    • Author: Campbell, Jen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1780376618
    • Language: English
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