Life of the Party: Poems (Gatwood Olivia)(Paperback)

Life of the Party - If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems (Gatwood Olivia)(Paperback / softback)

Life of the Party: Poems (Gatwood Olivia)(Paperback)

A dazzling debut collection of raw and explosive poems about growing up in a sexist, sensationalized world, from a thrilling new feminist voice. i'm a good girl, bad girl, dream girl, sad girl girl next door sunbathing in the driveway i wanna be them all at once, i wanna be all the girls I've ever

New American Best Friend (Gatwood Olivia)(Paperback)

2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The

Winter Trees (Plath Sylvia)(Paperback / softback)

The poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were

Secret Life of the Savoy (Williams Olivia)(Paperback)

Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems (Oroo Tatiana)(Paperback)

Still Life with Defeats: Selected Poems of Tatiana Oro o is the first English-language collection of Oro o's poetry. Her poems draw on motherhood, the loses in the Uruguayan dictatorship of the 1980s and, most of all, the natural world. She is a feminist and her poems show a consciousness of her

For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics (Housden Roger)(Paperback)

Roger Housden, author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with this beautiful compilation from the Christian contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and

Life of the Party (Philip Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Ginsberg Allen)(Paperback)

'Taken all together, Ginsberg's poems are X-rays of a considerable part of American society during the last four decades.' -- The New YorkerThis magnificent volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half-century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. A

Kingsley Amis: Collected Poems

'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign), and old age. Collected Poems, arranged

Penguin's Poems for Life (Barber Laura)(Paperback / softback)

Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this anthology brings together the poems in English. Beginning with babies, it is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death,

Poems and Prose (Rossetti Christina)(Paperback)

'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even deadly. She is a religious poet, but much of her work is

Luxury: Poems (Schultz Philip)(Paperback)

With humor, irony, and celebration, Luxury explores the comfort and sustenance of life, the bittersweet clarity of aging, and the anxiety of existence.'A notable addition to a body of work that is durable, compelling, and instructive.' -- David Wojahn'A snapshot of our malaise 'one luminous, lost

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (Astley Neil)(Paperback)

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 poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to

The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook (Hughes Shirley)(Paperback)

A collection of stories and poems starring Alfie as he discovers the wonder of life in the great outdoors with various family members, including his sister Annie Rose, Grandma, and Dad

Complete Poems (Bunting Basil)(Paperback / softback)

The Bloodaxe edition of Bunting's Complete Poems is a reissue of The Complete Poems (Oxford University Press, 1994). Bloodaxe later sublicensed a critical edition of Bunting's complete poetry, The Poems, edited by Don Share (2016), to Faber & Faber, which includes three poems not included in the

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition (Dickinson Emily)(Paperback)

Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer,

After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (Chambers-Letson Joshua)(Paperback)

A new manifesto for performance studies on the art of queer of color worldmaking. After the Party tells the stories of minoritarian artists who mobilize performance to produce freedom and sustain life in the face of subordination, exploitation, and annihilation. Through the exemplary work of Nina

Where The Memory Was (Osman Hibaq)(Paperback / softback)

In her first full collection, Hibaq Osman presents her poems in flashes of memory. Part of the #TwentyIn2020 collection for Black British writing, Where The Memory Was represents the voice and experience of young Black Britain today through one of their own literary

Promised Land - Poems from Itinerant Life (Naffis-Sahely Andre)(Paperback / softback)

Flitting from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood, from present-day London to North America, Andr Naffis-Sahely's bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised lands and those who go

The Dead Queen of Bohemia: New & Collected Poems (Fagan Jenni)(Paperback)

The Dead Queen of Bohemia is a journey through a life lived on the edge. With a poetic style influenced by Gertrude Stein and William Burroughs, this collection is woven with surrealistic imagery that is both unflinching and dislocating.Fagan's poetry is raw and tough yet beautiful and tender and

Malta 'My Island' (Harland Mark)(Paperback / softback)

A three-part book on visiting Malta throughout the life of the

The Blue Absolute (Shurin Aaron)(Paperback)

The Blue Absolute's prose poems are hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action--urban and pastoral, highly figured and fragmented, grieving and dreaming--each poem a compressed but

A Year in the New Life (Underwood Jack)(Paperback)

This new book of poems finds fresh ways of navigating a time of continual surprise and uncertainty. Jack Underwood's debut collection, Happiness (2015), was celebrated for its unconventional and daring tone: 'conversational, arresting . . . weird, singular' (Guardian). Such qualities are on