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Here are poems that celebrate an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence. Circling themes...

When the Tree FallsAuthor: Jane ClarkePublisher: Bloodaxe BooksPublication Date: November 26, 2019Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1780374801ISBN-13: 9781780374802

"When Then is Now" brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless...

"Where I Live" combines Arundhathi Subramaniam's first two Indian collections of poetry, "On Cleaning Bookshelves" and "Where I Live", with a selection of new work. Her poems explore various...

Unlike his contemporaries from the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s - most of whom have either retreated into a very private poetry or stopped writing altogether - Yang Lian has...

Author: Diana AnphimiadiPublisher: Bloodaxe BooksPublication Date: March 22, 2022Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1780375476ISBN-13: 9781780375472

Author: Joan MargaritPublisher: Bloodaxe BooksPublication Date: Apr 12, 2022Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1780375921ISBN-13: 9781780375922

These poems gives voice to the people who came on the first ships from the Caribbean, whose journeys held strange echoes of earlier sea voyages which had brought ancestors from Africa to the slave...

Barry MacSweeney's last book, The Book of Demons, recorded his fierce fight against alcoholism as well as the great love of those who helped save his life - though only for three more years. When he...

Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is the 21st book of poetry from "the UK's Emily Dickinson". This collection presents eleven...

Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows you not how to write but how to write better, how to write authentically, how to say genuinely what you...

Yarn is about the stories we tell. Collected around three dramatic monologues - The Cattle Farmer's Tale, The Travellers from Orissa and Aaron's Brother - Yarn includes an extended sequence of...

Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage's meteoric rise to poetic stardom. Unusually for a first collection, Zoom! was picked as a Poetry Book Society Choice as well as being...