BookOdyssey

Theophilus Kwek\'s first UK collection is concerned with the individual and the collective stories that become history. The poems set out from formative moments in the poet\'s memory, to pivotal moments in the colonial past of Southeast Asia, and finally the political upheavals of the present. Hospitality, precarity, migration - these are some of the themes that recur as the poet makes his own journey from Singapore to Europe and back again. Moving House moves on a big time and space map, from Icelandic tales to the Malayan Emergency, and more contemporary dramas. From the perspective of a Chinese Singaporean shaped by the collective traditions and histories described in this book, writing in Britain, the poems model a sense of openness on the space of the page. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

Winner of the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections 2021. Slip-ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi\'s Two Tongues, a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicious abandon. In a landscape populated by levitating snailfish, sotto voce therapists, melancholic kittiwakes and collapsing stage sets, boundaries blur, languages merge, vision is partial and identity nothing but fluid. Misdirected medical reminders, discarded letters, crossed wires and linguistic mash-ups proliferate as the urban and natural worlds collide in an exuberant exploration of confusion - spatial, verbal and psychological. A gallery is overrun with mushrooms, a scientist takes home a fox-cub to nurse, a wild swimmer grapples with sharks and all the while these questing, querulous poems shape-shift from searing to soulful to droll to defiant, as they confess, cajole, sometimes ponder, occasionally pout and perpetually wrestle with our fractured world. Σελίδες: 72, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

Material Properties, Jacob Polley\'s fiith collection of poems with Picador, asks what it might mean to interpret and translate wildness into human language and human understanding. The book is a multi-faceted and vital exploration of the non-human, the elemental and the borders between existences. Through poems of parenthood at a time of environmental emergency, and poetic versions of Old English riddles in which animals, objects and natural phenomena speak, the book poses essential questions about our relationship with the living world and with each other.Praise for previous work, Jackself, from T.S. Eliot Prize judges: ‘a firework of a book, inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling’. Σελίδες: 80, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0711, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm

I can’t undo all I have done to myself,what I have let an appetite for love do to me.I have wanted all the world, its beautiesand its injuries; some days,I think that is punishment enough.Maya C. Popa\'s poems explore the capacity of wonder to reawaken our appetite for the world, at a time that is fraught with the threat of endings, engaging lucidly with the most profound questions we face in our collective responsibilities and our relations with each other.She writes with love and wonder of a world poised at a perilous moment: “My children, will they exist by the time / it’s irreversible?” she asks. “Will they live / astonished at the thought of ice / not pulled from the mouth of a machine?” Popa takes seriously the poet’s duty to pay attention, to seek what Seamus Heaney called “the images... adequate to our predicament”.To read her poems is to pause again and again at the precision of imagery, breadth of ideas, and the warmth and generousness of her lyric voice. These are beautiful and profound lyric poems that will delay you, affect you, and invite you to return. Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1010, Διαστάσεις: 15.4x15.4cm

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020. A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. A Guardian Book of the Year 2020. A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020. An Irish Times Book of the Year 2020. A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century. Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her \'edgy precision, an uncanny sympathy and warmth, an unsettling sense of history\' ( J.D. McClatchy). Her final volume, The Historians, is the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of women\'s lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past. Two women burning letters in a back garden. A poet who died too young. A mother\'s parable to her daughter. Boland listens to women who have long had no agency in the way their stories were told; in the title poem, she writes: \'Say the word history: I see / your mother, mine. / ... Their hands are full of words.\' Addressing Irish suffragettes in the final poem, Boland promises: \'We will not leave you behind\', a promise that animates each poem in this radiant collection. These extraordinary, intimate narratives cling to the future through memory, anger, and love in ways that rebuke the official record we call history. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

A Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation. Bill Manhire\'s Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions. For Manhire, the reach of the lyric is long: it has the penetration of comedy, satire, the Jeremiad, but also the delicacy of minute detail and the rhythms of nature\'s comfort and hope, the promise of renewal. In the title poem the baby says \'Wow\', and the wonder is real at the world and at language. But the world will have the last word. Writing of Manhire, Teju Cole declared, \'Being the leading poet in New Zealand is like being the best DJ in Estonia, impressive enough on its own terms. But Bill Manhire is more than that: he\'s unquestionably world-class. As with Seamus Heaney, you get a sense of someone with a steady hand on the tiller, and both the will and the craft to take your breath away.\' Bill Manhire was New Zealand\'s first poet laureate. He established and until recently directed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. This is the ninth of his Carcanet books in 30 years. They include a Selected and a Collected Poems. Σελίδες: 88, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

A Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Wild Card Selection At the heart of In Her Feminine Sign, Dunya Mikhail\'s luminous new collection of poems, is the Arabic suffix taamarbuta, `the tied circle\' - a circle with two dots above it that indicates a feminine word, or sign. This tied circle transforms into the moon, a stone that binds friendship, birdsong over ruins, and a hymn to Nisaba, the goddess of writing. With a deceptive simplicity and disquieting humour reminiscent of Wislawa Szymborska, and a lyricism wholly her own, Mikhail slips between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, tracing new circles of light. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021. A White Review Book of the Year 2021. In this remarkable first collection, Parwana Fayyaz evokes events in the lives of Afghan women, past and present - their endurance and achievements, told from their points of view. John McAuliffe writes of the \'remarkable litanies, which haunt her poems\' occasions\' and the title poem, with which she won the 2019 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, is such a litany, conjuring and commemorating. The poems are not judgmental: they witness. The reader infers the contexts. As well as the human stories there is a spectacular landscape, unfamiliar villages and cities, and a rich history which the Western press in reporting contemporary news foreshortens and diminishes. \'Storytelling has a long tradition in Afghan culture. Stories are passed down orally. Every woman even or especially those who are illiterate knows and has memorized a few important stories - to share [...] I grew up among women who never went to school - my grandmothers, my mother, my aunts.\' As the poet grew away from that tradition, in which patience was the chief virtue, she lost patience and began her resistance, their resistance, in her poems which hover between cultures and languages, thinking in one and understanding in another. Each language has its history and value systems: \'it was learning English that gave me my voice as a poet, enabling me to distance myself as well as to comprehend the connection with the tradition I was brought up in.\' Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 13.5x13.5cm

A Scotsman Poetry Book of the YearThem! by Harry Josephine Giles is an exuberant collection of poems about trans life as it is lived today, through the lenses of work, technology and ecology.In Them! Giles excavates the lexicon of sex and gender, singing back with irony, fury and possibility. The visual poetics of Them! create an unusually dynamic reading experience as she finds new ways \'to sing, shout and strike in the cracks of what\'s possible\'. We hear from \'the reasonable people\' and the bureaucrats; a bewildered worker contemplates the horrors of neoliberalism; a group of women at a quiet dinner encounter a punitive, spectral guest.Throughout, Giles weighs the artist\'s need for reverie against the noise that surrounds the activist. How to be both? Must we set aside the struggle in order to create, or \'to hear a bird\'?‘Poetry’, writes Giles, ‘is the best way I know to magic the rage I feel into something more alive, and to offer that spark to others.’ Drawing on an abundance of influences with subversive wit, Them! is a zestful poetic intervention from one of this generation’s most necessary poets.\'A bold and inimitable tour-de-force\' – Guardian Σελίδες: 112, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1029, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm

\'Exquisite . . . readers will find themselves transformed by it\' Claire Lynch\'Stunning . . . dazzlingly laser-like and movingly original\' Lara Feigel\'Inventive and searching\' Calvin Bedient\'I am awestruck . . . a masterpiece\' Mary GordonThe stunningly original exploration of pregnancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of CitizenIn this, the landmark achievement that crowned the first phase of her writing career, Claudia Rankine invites us into the lives of Liv and her husband Erland, as they find themselves propelled into the classic plot: boy loves girl, girl gets pregnant. The couple\'s journey is charted through dreams, conversations and reflections, in a text like no other, deftly moulding language and crossing genres to arrive at new life: baby Ersatz.Plot is an inventive and engrossing meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. Each fear compounds Liv\'s reluctance to bring new life into a bewildering world. A profoundly daring collection, it explodes the emotive capabilities of language and form to achieve an unparalleled understanding of creation and existence. Σελίδες: 112, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

\'The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism\' Guardian\'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.\'This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man\'s return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself.\'Nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of this time\' André Breton\'A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exploding\' Jean-Paul Sartre\'The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation\' IndependentTranslated by John Berger and Anna Bostock Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the \'Beats\' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever an “original”––be it Rimbaud or Whitman––has broken with current verse conventions to give free rein to the magic of language. Another is that ancient pre-occupation of poets––the sense of the immediacy of death. Like Villon or Dylan Thomas, Corso lives close to the mystery of death. It is, perhaps, his central theme, on which variations ranging from the terrible to the comic are sounded. But Corso is seldom macabre. A bursting vitality always carries him back to the sensations of the living, though always it is the reality behind the obvious which has caught his eye. “How I love to probe life,” Corso has written, “That’s what poetry is to me, a wondrous prober… It’s not the metre or measure of a line, a breath; not ‘law’ music; but the assembly of great eye sounds placed into an inspired measured idea.” Σελίδες: 92, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0108, Διαστάσεις: 13.2x13.2cm

The New York Times BestsellerFrom former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly fifty new poems that showcase his trademark generosity, wit, and imaginative play.The Rain in Portugal - a title that admits he\'s not much of a rhymer - sheds Collins\'s ironic light on such subjects as travel and art, cats and dogs, loneliness and love, beauty and death. His tones range from the whimsical - \'the dogs of Minneapolis . . . / have no idea they\'re in Minneapolis\' - to the elegiac in a reaction to the death of Seamus Heaney. A student of the everyday, here Collins contemplates a weathervane, a still-life painting, the calendar, and a child lost at a beach. His imaginative fabrications have Shakespeare flying comfortably in first class and Keith Richards supporting the globe on his head. By turns entertaining, engaging, and enlightening, The Rain in Portugal amounts to another chorus of poems from one of the most respected and familiar voices in the world of poetry. Σελίδες: 128, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0214, Διαστάσεις: 12.7x12.7cm

From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet spellbound by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. When You are Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales returns to the younger Yeats, encountering him through Irish mythology and much-beloved poems like \"The Lake Isle of Innisfree\" and \"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven\" that made him popular during his own lifetime. The poems, plays, and prose collected here present Yeats as the 1890s aesthete who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote beautiful poems for his beloved, steeped in the late-Victorian aesthetics of the symbolist and decadence movements, as well as early modernism. Approaching his early verse and tales with innocent candor as if reading Yeats for the first time, this volume proffers lush images of western Ireland full of faeries and otherworldly beings, framed within a profound fascination with aestheticism and the Arts and Crafts Movement, all giving expression to Yeats\'s early nationalist sympathies. Σελίδες: 368, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen\'s astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago.Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. Book of Longing, his new collection of poetry, was twenty years in the making and written in Montreal, Mumbai and during his retirement in Mt Baldy. Enhanced by Cohen\'s own playful and provocative illustrations, these poems show the full range of one of the most influential and enigmatic writers of his generation.\'Awe-inspiring. . . Cohen emerges as the wry, sensual mystic his champions have always known he was\' Sunday Telegraph\'Exceptional. Clear yet steamy, cosmic yet private, both playful and profound. . . as soulful a credo as he has ever put on paper\' New York Times\'Playful, colourful, erotic. . . brilliant and sharp as flint\' Big Issue\'Dazzling\' Sunday Herald\'The best bring an ironic, world-weary sensibility to bear on themes of ageing, sex, sensuality and spirituality\' Financial Times\'A fine book of poems\' Time Out\'Cohen maps this wasteland of the heart with humour, and sometimes anger\' IndependentCohen\'s career began in 1956 with the publication of Let Us Compare Mythologies, and he has since published nine books of poems, and has made numerous internationally successful recordings. In a career spanning fifty years, Leonard Cohen has become one of the western world\'s most popular and innovative creative artists. Σελίδες: 240, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

WINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARDPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFlèche (the French word for \'arrow\') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan\'s young adult years, when they competed locally and internationally for their home city, Hong Kong. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable (\'flesh\') and weaponised (\'flèche\'), and evokes the difficulties of reconciling one\'s need for safety alongside the desire to shed one\'s protective armour in order to fully embrace the world.Central to the collection is the figure of the poet\'s mother, whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eight-part poetic sequence, combined with recollections from Chan\'s childhood. As complex themes of multilingualism, queerness, psychoanalysis and cultural history emerge, so too does a richly imagined personal, maternal and national biography. The result is a series of poems that feel urgent and true, dazzling and devastating by turns. Σελίδες: 88, Διαστάσεις: 15.8x15.8cm

Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time. Σελίδες: 64, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0819, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Exploring the paradoxes of contemporary life through the lens of an acclaimed Irish poetIn The Readiness, Alan Gillis – one of the most admired Irish poets of his generation – addresses some of the most pressing concerns of our age: how can we live at the centre of our contemporary paradox, disconnected and hyper-connected as we are? A poet of thresholds and crossings, Gillis finds his answers in the suburbs and edgelands, at the hesitation before the doorstep or the gate.These poems form a series of bad dreams and clear visions that speak to the chaos and fragility of both self and society: the childhood innocence that persists into the resignation of adulthood; the beauty of nature in an age of environmental ruin; the terrible isolation of contemporary life – and the live-streamed, advert-laden over-wiring that springs from its digital commons. With formal confidence, dry wit and often astonishing lyricism, Gillis explores the meaning at the heart of our human contradictions, marking him as one of the most individual and vital poetic voices now at work. Σελίδες: 80, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0223, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

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Rachel Long\'s much-anticipated debut collection of poems, My Darling from the Lions, explores shame, love and healing through her intimate poetic voice.Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Poetry AwardShortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionShortlisted for the Jhalak Prize\'An enchanting and heartwarming new voice in poetry.\' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, OtherEach poem has a vivid story to tell - of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip of religion or sexual awakening - stories that are, by turn, emotionally insightful, politically conscious, wise, funny and outrageous.Long reveals herself as a razor-sharp and original voice on the issues of sexual politics and cultural inheritance that polarize our current moment. But it\'s her refreshing commitment to the power of the individual poem that will leave the reader turning each page in eager anticipation: here is an immediate, wide-awake poetry that entertains royally, without sacrificing a note of its urgency or remarkable skill.\'This debut collection is the modern poetry we need to read right now\' - Stylist\'Beautiful. I\'m so glad it was written.\' - Hollie McNish, author of Nobody Told Me Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 2020, Διαστάσεις: 15.3x15.3cm

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as ‘a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth … half-melted, lumpy’. In contrast, imagist poetry, although riddled with conflicting definitions, was broadly characterized by brevity, precision, purity of texture and concentration of meaning: as Pound stated, it should ‘use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something … it does not use images as ornaments. The image itself is the speech’. It was this freshness and directness of approach which means that, as Peter Jones says in his invaluable Introduction, ‘imagistic ideas still lie at the centre of our poetic practice’. Σελίδες: 192, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare’s idea of the “seven ages” of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies, the book is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, ending with poems of mourning and commemoration.Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life – whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes – when only a poem will do. Σελίδες: 416, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'To read MAGICAL NEGRO it is to wonder what each poem will do next, and to be reminded, over and over, of Parker\'s extraordinary lyric gifts\' Meghan O\'RourkeMAGICAL NEGRO is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalogue of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms and customs. These poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma and objectification, while exploring tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of Black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics - of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. In MAGICAL NEGRO, Morgan Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present - timeless Black melancholies and triumphs. Σελίδες: 80, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0212, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

\'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I\'m thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.\' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, Bright Dead Things considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact - tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker\'s sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth and falls in love. In these extraordinary poems Ada Limón\'s heart becomes a \'huge beating genius machine\' striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. \'I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,\' the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O\'Hara, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, Limón\'s work is consistently generous, accessible, and \'effortlessly lyrical\' (New York Times) - though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt and lived. Σελίδες: 128, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0212, Διαστάσεις: 12.6x12.6cm

Byssus is Jen Hadfield\'s third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced \'bissus\', and meaning the mussel\'s \'beard\', the tough fibres which anchor it to the seabed - is a book first and foremost about home, and what it takes to find and forge one: amongst friends, alert to mortality, to love and to landscape. Her language, strongly rooted in the common names she finds in the sea, shore and moor of her adopted Shetland, has already been widely admired for its startling originality. Here, through poems of astonishment and adoration, through charms and fables, and ultimately through a practice of attention and careful honouring - she shows how speech itself can be an act of home-making. Byssus is a profound consideration of just what it means to get to know a place. Σελίδες: 80, Διαστάσεις: 15.4x15.4cm

By the author of The Handmaid\'s Tale and DearlyTHE DOOR is Margaret Atwood\'s first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. As the New York Times has said, \'Atwood\'s poems are short, glistening with terse, bright images. . . \' A brave and compassionate book, THE DOOR interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on.\'One of the best books by one of the best poets writing in English\' TLS Σελίδες: 144, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1001, Διαστάσεις: 13.2x13.2cm

From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021\'[Raymond Antrobus] has built another beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply satisfying time inside.\' Mark Haddon \'Moving deftly between tenderness and violence, hope and grief, praise and lament, this is a deeply evocative collection that will linger in the reader’s mind.\' GuardianRaymond Antrobus’s astonishing debut collection, The Perseverance, won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, amongst many other accolades; the poet’s much anticipated second collection, All The Names Given, continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory. Throughout, All The Names Given is punctuated with [Caption Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, which attempt to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems, as well as moments inside and outside of them. Direct, open, formally sophisticated, All The Names Given breaks new ground both in form and content: the result is a timely, humane and tender book from one of the most important young poets of his generation. Σελίδες: 96, Έτος Έκδοσης: 1130, Διαστάσεις: 15.2x15.2cm

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Rough Trade and the BBCShortlisted for the Rathbones Folio PrizeLonglisted for the Jhalak Prize\'Restlessly inventive, brutally graceful, startlingly beautiful ... a landmark debut\' Guardian\'Oh my God, he\'s just stirring me. Destroying me\' Michaela Coel\'A poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy\' Max Porter\'Takes us into new literary territory ... impressive\' Bernardine Evaristo, New Statesman (Books of the Year)\'It\'s simply stunning. Every image is a revelation\' Terrance HayesWhat is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because \'you fit the description of a man\' - and where it is possible to walk two and a half miles through an estate of 1,444 homes without ever touching the ground?In Poor, Caleb Femi combines poetry and original photography to explore the trials, tribulations, dreams and joys of young Black boys in twenty-first century Peckham. He contemplates the ways in which they are informed by the built environment of concrete walls and gentrifying neighbourhoods that form their stage, writes a coded, near-mythical history of the personalities and sagas of his South London youth, and pays tribute to the rappers and artists who spoke to their lives.Above all, this is a tribute to the world that shaped a poet, and to the people forging difficult lives and finding magic within it. As Femi writes in one of the final poems of this book: \'I have never loved anything the way I love the endz.\' Σελίδες: 160, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

\'The power of McSweeney\'s work cannot be separated from its association with forms of oracle and soothsaying, and so it is uncanny that it should arrive in the middle of a global pandemic... Frightening and brilliant\' Dan Chiasson, New YorkerHow does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?In the months leading up to her daughter Arachne\'s birth, US poet Joyelle McSweeney set out to write a quiver of poems like a quiver of poison arrows: formally and sonically virtuosic, laced with the poet\'s obsessive concerns with contamination, decay and the sublime, featuring a crown of \'toxic sonnets\' for the tuberculosis bacterium that killed Keats. But when Arachne was born with an unexpected birth defect, lived briefly and died, the poet was visited by a second welter of poems, odes of love, grief, perplexity and rage. These two books, Toxicon & Arachne, form a double collection of poems weighing love, grief, art and survival in increasingly toxic days.Toxicon & Arachne is the culmination of eight years of engagement with lyric under a regime of global and personal catastrophes. Σελίδες: 160, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0427, Διαστάσεις: 12.4x12.4cm

A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry.The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan\'s new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection.Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan. Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

In Rise Like Lions, Booker Prize winning writer Ben Okri has compiled a collection of poems that celebrate the many voices of politics, from polemics and rallying cries to lyrics and meditations. Many of these poems have resonated with readers over lifetimes and through generations, from William Blake to Marvin Gaye. In exploring the impact political poems have on ideas, vision, protest, change and truth, Okri demonstrates how the need for this strand of poetry is as great as it has ever been, and its inspiration just as powerful. Σελίδες: 288, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0920, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke\'s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and \'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner\'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest works to the increasingly effusive outpourings of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his later poems and culminates in the overwhelmingly personal vision of the famous \'Duino Elegies\' and \'The Sonnets to Orpheus\', in which his most intense experiences of living and being find their noblest expression. Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

John Keats is regarded as one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. But when he died at the age of only twenty-five, his writing had been attacked by critics and his talent remained largely unrecognized. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by Dr Andrew Hodgson.This volume, Selected Poems, reflects his extraordinary creativity and versatility, drawing on the collections published during his lifetime as well as posthumously. He wrote in many different forms – from his famous Odes to ballads such as ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, and the epic Hyperion. Together, they celebrate a poet who wrote with unsurpassed insight and emotion about art and beauty, love and loss, suffering and nature. Σελίδες: 272, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0212, Διαστάσεις: 10.2x10.2cm

The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways\'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or late;They cannot choose.\'Fired by his abiding love of the English landscape, the poetry of Edward Thomas is some of the most astonishing of the twentieth century. A journalist, essayist and critic for many years, he was encouraged to write verse by his friend Robert Frost. He produced a late outburst of poetry of extraordinary beauty and mystery about the subjects closest to his heart: rural England and its inhabitants, landscape, atmosphere, transience, endurance and death. By 1917, when he was killed on the Western Front, he had earned his place as one of England\'s most valued poets. This selection brings together his finest verse with his most vivid prose writings on the countryside.\'The father of us all\' Ted Hughes Edited by David Wright With a Foreword by Robert Macfarlane, taken from The Old Ways Σελίδες: 304, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm

Σελίδες: 256, Διαστάσεις: 11.5x11.5cm

\'A deeply personal collection... and provocative and moving meditation on friendship, sex and blackness,\' Guardian\'In its cutting compassion, Homie is as much a celebration of loved ones\' lives as it is a lament for their loss, equally a war cry for kinship and the burial dirge after the battle\' Amanda GormanA mighty anthem about the saving grace of friendship, Danez Smith\'s highly anticipated collection Homie is rooted in their search for joy and intimacy in a time where both are scarce. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family - blood and chosen - arrives with just the right food and some redemption.Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is written for friends: for Danez\'s friends, for yours.\'This is a book full of the turbulence of thought and desire, piloted by a writer who never loses their way\' New York Times Σελίδες: 96, Διαστάσεις: 16.5x16.5cm