Quick view Bloodaxe Books Chick Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his... $16.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and... $18.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books City Psalms 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... $16.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Classical Women Poets Fragmented and forgotten, the women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long been overlooked by translators and scholars. Yet to Antipater of Thessalonica, writing in the first century AD, these... $18.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Clever Backbone John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry for the past 40 years with his mischievous, satirical fables. In "Clever Backbone", the Guyanese-born word magician plays havoc with... $16.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Collected Poems in English Arun Kolatkar was one of India's greatest modern poets. He wrote prolifically in both Marathi and English, but did not publish a book of poems until he was 44. Jejuri (1976) won him the Commonwealth... $30.00 $27.64 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Collected Poems: 1: Poems 1970-1984 Peter Reading was one of the most original and controversial British poets of the post-war period: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking - as funny as he was... $24.00 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 9% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Come on Everybody: Poems 1953-2008 Come On Everybody brings together poems from a dozen collections published by Adrian Mitchell over five decades, from Poems (1964) to his final collection, Tell Me Lies (2008). His poetry's... $35.00 $31.86 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Concentric Circles Before and since his enforced exile, Yang Lian has been one of the most innovative and influential poets in China. Widely hailed in America and Europe as a highly individual voice in world... $18.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 5% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Constructing a Witch : 9781780377193 Featuring ten collages by the author, Helen Ivory's new poetry collection Constructing a Witch fixes on the monstering and the scapegoating of women and on the fear of ageing femininity.In this... $17.95 $16.97 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Crooked Love / Gr? Fiar: Dual Language Irish-English Edition Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's leading Irish-language poets. This new dual-language selection is drawn from his collections C?pla Siamach an Ama/The Siamese Twins of Time and Gr? fiar/Crooked... $18.95 $17.45 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 5% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Crystal : 9781780376974 Through moving and incisive poetry, Crystal traces the arc of one woman's experience after the discovery that her partner is addicted to crystal meth. In a highly original poetic act of reclamation,... $17.95 $16.97 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Darling: New & Selected Poems Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. Darling... $22.00 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 7% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Days of Grace : 9781780371597 Doris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, admired especially for poems that balance precision and control with passion and bravado. Her achievement, according to Estonian Literature, is in... $18.95 $17.66 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK Dear World & Everyone In It is a ground-breaking new poetry anthology presenting the work of over 60 of the most talented and interesting young poets currently writing in the UK. Chosen by one of the... $24.00 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Do Not Go Gentle: Poems for Funerals This wide-ranging selection combines popular choices of traditional poems read at funerals with powerful poems by contemporary writers more tuned to our present age of doubt and disbelief. There are... $20.00 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 7% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Earth House In this long awaited second collection, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the... $17.95 $16.77 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Earth Shattering: Ecopoems Earth Shattering lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction. Whether the subject - or target - is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of... $30.00 $27.64 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Electric Shadow Heidi Williamson's first collection is peopled with vibrant and disturbing shadows. The Northern Lights reach down beneath the London skyline, James Dean learns the craft of distance, Darwin staggers... $16.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy 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... $16.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Eternal Monday: New & Selected Poems Gy?rgy Petri (1943-2000) belonged to the generation of Hungarian poets who grew up after the uprising of 1956. He made his name in the West as the most uncompromising and outrageous of his country's... $17.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 5% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Fairoz Fairoz is a a powerful portrayal of human vulnerability, a book-length poetry sequence in which Moniza Alvi explores an imagined teenage girl's susceptibility to extremism. The book's fragmented,... $16.95 $16.09 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 9% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960-2004 Familiar Strangers is Brendan Kennelly's own selection from over 20 poetry books written over five decades. This landmark volume replaces his earlier selections A Time for Voices, Breathing Spaces... $35.00 $31.86 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Femenismo Joanne Limburg wears comic camouflage to stalk serious subjects, from envy and guilt to bereavement and its tangled aftermath. Her often boisterous poems celebrate the defiant vulnerability of... $17.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books First Person Sorrowful Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political... $18.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 5% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Five Fifty-Five - 9781780376578 Five Fifty-Five is a book of quizzical poems concerned with time and mortality which ask fundamental questions about our lives, such as Where have you gone? and Who were you anyway? In her first new... $16.95 $16.09 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop is one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the 20th century. First published in hardback in 1998, "Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop" is a highly illuminating... $19.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 5% Quick view Bloodaxe Books Flood - 9781780374208 The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home. The 2015 floods in Britain left whole swathes of the... $16.95 $16.09 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books French Love Poems French Love Poems is about the kinds of love that puzzle, delight and afflict us throughout our lives, from going on walks with an attractive cousin before Sunday dinner (Nerval) to indulging a... $18.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view Bloodaxe Books Geography for the Lost Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian ?migr? poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. Her well-travelled poems speak from different parts of the world and different moments of... $16.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart