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Shortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards At the centre of Emery's third collection are a series of narrative poems that reveal an astonishing range of personas, from the set of...

This is a poetically charged work of autobiographical retrospection, speculative memory and an artistic alternative to common constructions of identity. The influences include traditional songs,...

This book is the winner of Native Writers Circle of the America's First Book Award for Poetry. These poems rise from the smoke of a Council Fire. Around the fire gather many nations of the world,...

Just when you thought you knew it all! The first truly representative translation into English of a Central European poetic prodigy of the early twentieth century - the Slovenian Rimbaud - who died...

Succinct in length and vast in imagination, Gaffney's micro stories are bizarre and witty slices of condensed reality. Frequently hilarious and often poignant, they leave an after taste that is...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD POETRY PRIZE 2007. Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic, dramatist and research student at the University of Exeter. His first collection of prose poems "The...

'The Itchy Sea' is a vivid collection of poems which are, above all, entertaining. The poems each have a kind of freshness and cut-through that will hold the general reader's attention. Their...

In the house where Marie lives, the cutlery is running wild ... Madness and fairy-story creep hand in hand in this darkly comic tale, where the mice learn the art of voodoo; where murdered bodies...

A gorgeous and brilliant book, a work of complex sensuousness and deep intelligence. Its four major sequences are each formally distinct, but the works are all related to one another in being...

"The Lyric Touch" brings together essays by John Wilkinson on twentieth century British and American poetry, several now recognised as classic but hitherto hard to obtain. Throughout this book,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE PRIZE FOR POETRY In a ruined garden children play cowboys and Indians while their fathers fight the Cold War. The children grow up and discover the enemy are...

A combination of verse and prose poetry, 'The Migraine Hotel' is Luke Kennard's third collection and very much a sequel to 'The Harbour Beyond the Movie'. The voices continue to explore the territory...

Readers tired of the latest, the hottest, the most expensive will be glad for a look at grubbier times, grittier adventures than virtual reality or Reality TV can supply. What would happen if you...

Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe...

The Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the culture you come from and the society you're...

Vampires, witches, fairies, wizards and mermaids meet them all here in Angela Topping's poems. She shares her wicked sense of humour about school and celebrates festivals, families and nature in this...

The poems in the first half of "The Ophelia Letters" explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with Werner Herzog, stopping...

Throughout this collection, opposites collide - reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. These poems cut away at convention and simmer with unsettling,...

This translation offers to English readers for the first time the splendid verse of imaginary American author Sidney West, created by Juan Gelman, one of the greatest living poets of the Hispanic...

"The Salt Companion to Carter Revard" is a groundbreaking collection of essays on the work of Osage poet and scholar of medieval English literature, Carter Revard. Erudite, yet highly readable and...

The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein presents scholarship on one of the USA's best living innovative poets. Scholars explore major themes in his work, and poets present pieces inspired by his...

Diane Glancy is one of the greatest modern Native American writers: this companion provides various readings of her work. Also included are an interview with Glancy herself and a bibliography. This...

Geraldine Monk's reputation as one of the most exciting and provocative writer-performers on the British scene has been established for some time. This title presents a collection of responses to...

"The Salt Companion to Mina Loy" comprises ten new essays by leading scholars and writers on the work of modernist poet Mina Loy. Loy (1882-1966) is increasingly seen as central to Anglo-American...

'The Searching Glance' is the long-awaited second collection from one of Scotland's leading short story writers. The worlds inhabited by the characters in these stories are diverse. Linda Cracknell's...

"The Solex Brothers" explores the fate of the individual - albeit a rather feeble individual - and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral...

A pivotal book for Bernstein, The Sophist demonstrated his great range of subject matter, style, and genre. By contrasting wildly different approaches to poetry, Bernstein not only questions the...

"The Source of the Sound" traces the journeys of exiles in search of home. The collection is littered with the mise-en-sc?ne of being lost: motel rooms, alcohol abuse, prostitution ... Yet, in each...

The Terrible Wife, in this new collection of poems by Terry Ann Thaxton, has married four times and imagined marriages to a soap opera star, her brother-in-law, and any man who will give her a ride...

Featuring "La Tierra Gir? para Acercarnos" (The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer) from the Oscar-nominated film 21 Grams, this new translation of selected poems and prose by Venezuela's leading poet...