Smith/Doorstop Books

After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin was named Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation (Winter 2011) Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (1911-2003) is now recognised as a leading literary figure in Russia,...

Analogue/Digital brings together poems first published in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7, and other anthologies and magazines mainly from the 1990s, with recent poems relating to travels -...

Shortlisted for the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. This first full collection sees Paula Cunningham reflecting on her upbringing in Northern Ireland, while casting a clear eye on...

"These poems draw you in, gently but firmly, with telling detail and great emotional power. You share what Yvonne Green observes -- very beautifully -- about day-to-day experience; appreciate what...

Just Like That presents the distillation of over twenty years' marvellous writing - poems that are daring and restrained, modest and ambitious all at once, and both personal and socially committed...

No Apples In Eden collects nearly twenty years of John Lyons's brilliantly vivid and immediate poetry. This book celebrates the rich and colourful texture of the culture of Trinidad and Tobago. It...

Best known as a writer of crime fiction - notably the 12 volume Charlie Resnick series - and as the mainstay, for two decades, of Slow Dancer Press, John Harvey's own poetry has perhaps stayed too...

Part self-portrait, part love affair, the poems in Self-Portrait with The Happiness are obsessed with moments elsewhere. Rural England contends with immense Chinese cities via Thailand and Japan. The...

Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City ImaginedAuthor: Peter SansomPublisher: Smith/Doorstop BooksPublication Date: Dec 01, 2012Number of Pages: 242 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Skipper introduces an intriguing and readable new voice. Christy Ducker plays between light and dark, music and texture to take us into the swim of life. Warm, but never sentimental, the poems teem...

I love these poems. The voice overall has strength and confidence, but what matters most is its humanity. The Healing Station is a tribute to the courage and incorrigibility of the common men and...

Shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and twice a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Michael Laskey is widely regarded as one of Britain's most intelligent, insightful and sympathetic poets. This new...

"Poetry for Ann was a currency, like conversation, its nature being to capture and clarify elusive ideas that might otherwise remain unformed: so her characteristic style was natural and...

'In poetry she had an enviable talent for beginning a piece without ceremony and ending it without strain: not every poet can do both.'Author: Ann AtkinsonPublisher: Smith/Doorstop BooksPublication...

Carole Bromley's second collection of poems, The Stonegate Devil, centres on her hometown of York, exploring its personal stories and history in a way that is both playful and moving, addressing...

The poems in Andrew Forster's third collection continues his exploration of what it means to make a home: from Cumbria, where he now lives, to South Yorkshire where he grew up, this book is firmly...