Poetry
Subjects
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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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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£46.99| /A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liber...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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Sunjata: A New Prose Version
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£43.99| /"After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, h...
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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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Surviving the Gulag
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking ai...
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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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Swimming Ginger
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, PoetryThe Qingming Shanghe Tu scroll, sometimes called "Spring Festival by the River," was thought ...
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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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Tacoma Narrows
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In Tacoma Narrows, Mitchell Parry reflects on the nature of disasters, both public and private. A reflection on things lost, Parry allows himself t...
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Take Us Quietly
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In Take Us Quietly, Armstrong explores life, sickness, death and the importance of paying attention to the wider world, filtered through her own un...
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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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Tao of Walt Whitman
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...
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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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Ten Canadian Writers in Context
University of Alberta Press (CA)£19.99| /Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Ba...
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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 Aeneid
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£17.99| /Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down on the English p...
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