Poetry By Individual Poets
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Song of the Taxidermist
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /There's something fresh and fantastic in Aurian Haller's view of the world. In Song of the Taxidermist, he demonstrates both a fascination and unea...
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Soundings
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Soundings is another landmark in the development of an important and widely read New Zealand poet. This collection continues and develops the theme...
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Standard candles
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major's earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle w...
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Stedfast
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Breaking open John Keats’s “Last Sonnet,” Ali Blythe writes marginality into the canon, at once cl...
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Steeling Effects
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Why do some of us learn to bend? Others break? How do we move from shame to being "enough"? How do we bounce back stronger after adversity and then...
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Straggling Into Winter
Interactive Press£18.99| /A serene and very human voice emerges from a year-long tanka journal in which the changing seasons reflect the poet's thoughts on illness, love, an...
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Strands of Eternity
Ayurvedic Press (US)£10.99| /The Sanskrit word, sutra, means thread or suture. It is the 'Strand of Eternity' that sews our two selves back together and reawakens us to that wh...
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Stray
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSord...
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Strength of the Human Spirit
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£13.99| /"Jade's poetry is an inspiration not only because of his perseverance and dedication in the face of such great odds but because he writes straight ...
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Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /Written over seven years, Jules Leigh Koch's latest collection depicts people living between pension day and charity. Fringe dwellers whose lives a...
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Stunning debut of the repairing of a life
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /SIMPLE BROKEN BEAUTIFUL is the title on a notebook of poetry written by Leigh Davis in 2008. This was during radiotherapy treatment following surge...
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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Spinifex Press£12.95| /To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...
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Surrender
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.99| /"As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong. Written out o...
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Sweet Water
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This book gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary ...
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Sybil
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both ...
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Syzygy
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Louise Bak's third collection of poetry continues to reinvent the English language as a sharp and challenging post-modern argot that combines termi...
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Taking My Mother to the Opera
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From careful...
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Tar Swan
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /An allegorical reckoning of the physical and psychic wounds inflicted by the oil sands.
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Temporary Shelter
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /In Temporary Shelter, Travis Lane demonstrates that she is one of Canada's finest and most rigorous poets. Yet, she writes with a subtle, sometimes...
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Tender Machines
Otago University Press (NZ)£11.50| /In this follow-up collection to the award-winning The Truth Garden, Emma Neale asks where exactly do the personal and the political drop hands? In ...
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That Light Feeling Under Your Feet
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers.
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The Architect of Love
Kopernik Inc£20.99| /True spiritual Masters are like rivers, each with their own uniquely pure, sweet water, nourished by the highest peaks. Although one may see them f...
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the bentleys
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /In the bentleys, Dennis Cooley, with his trademark energy and verve, has recreated the tensions and themes of Sinclair Ross's classic prairie novel...
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The Brightest Thing
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In her first full-length collection, award-winning poet Ruth Daniell offers work that is both earnest and hopeful, even in the face of trauma. In f...
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