Poetry
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We Fall Like Children
Laertes, a Press for Literary Translation, Inc£10.99| /How does a writer translate war? And when the war is over, how does the individual reconstruct his world from the ruins? Bajraj lives in Mexico, in...
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Weathering Wilderness
Birch Brook Press (US)£16.99| /This is the first volume of poetry by this 30-year veteran of the National Park Service, where he worked as a Senior Planner at the Interpretive De...
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Weathers
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's finest poets. In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers: Poems New an...
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--"Where do we fit in the ...
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Wells
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form th...
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Wharton Esherick's Illuminated & Illustrated Song of the Broad-Axe
Schiffer£31.99| /In 1922, Wharton Esherick showed a copy Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk, which he had illustrated with woodcut prints, to Harold Mason, owner of the Ce...
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What Can Be Proven
Interactive Press£18.99| /A strange and compelling world is revealed in What Can Be Proven, and yet reading it is like returning to familiar things that we have forgotten. O...
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What did I know? CD
Interactive Press£19.99| /In this audio book selected from BN Oakman's latest poetry collections, In Defense of Hawaiian Shirts and Second Thoughts, we have brilliant readin...
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What Fox Knew
At Bay Press£15.99| /'His voice was as thick as pine resin when he began to read and as the words travelled down my spine.' Mary Barnes has identified beauty in subtlet...
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What We're Left With
Brindle & Glass (CA)£19.99| /The poems in Ben Murray' s debut collection, What We' re Left With, reflect on disconnection as a feature of contemporary urban experience. Murray'...
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What You Used to Wear
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Charmaine Cadeau's intensely imagined poems captivate everyone who experiences them. Delving beneath the gleaming surfaces of satellite dishes, wag...
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When Eyes Meet Over the Minestrone
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /These poems offer readers a sometimes humorous, sometimes unsmiling view of the joys and disenchantments of married as well as unmarried love. The ...
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When Sleep Comes
Sagging Meniscus Press£22.99| /In his new poetry collection, Jack Foley revels in a wild and varied display bringing together many styles and preoccupations, from the depths of g...
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When They Broke Down the Door
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£20.99| /The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a thousand years, and Fatemeh Shams wields it unforg...
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Where I Sit
Presa Press (US)£16.99| /Donald Lev's book collects seventy-four poems that are deceptively simple yet infused with a subtle irony that gives them a poignant intimacy. He a...
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Widow's Walk
Goose Lane Editions£4.99| /The first book of an enormously talented and award-winning author and songwriter.
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Wild Honey
Massey University Press£34.99| /Highly regarded poet and anthologist Paula Green is the author of this much overdue survey of New Zealands women poets. Illustrated throughout by ...
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wild horses
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Cast during his year in the U of A's writer in residency, wild horses is Ottawan rob mclennan's deep lyrical engagement with Edmonton, Alberta. He ...
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Wind & Water
Birch Brook Press£15.99| /An engaging collection of poetry which invokes classical allusions while immersing itself in the land the poet loves, echoing early days in Michiga...
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Wings of Angels
Spinifex Press£14.95| /Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Able to manipulate key images, she moves from Niobe in 'widow'...
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Wings of Same Bird
Interactive Press£19.99| /Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Interactive Publications Picks Best Poetry Award. WINGS OF THE SAME BIRD is an impressive collection grown from the myth...
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Winter River Flowing
Presa Press (US)£22.99| /This book contains the very best poetry of reclusive poet t.kilgore splake, chosen by splake himself at the age of seventy-seven, from all of this ...
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Winter Tennis
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Todd Swift's fourth collection, "Winter Tennis" is a passionate appraisal of life by the poet at age forty. By turns elegantly sad and radically wi...
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Winter's Cold Girls
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In her debut collection of poetry, Lisa Baird explores themes of trauma and recovery, everyday violence and queerness from a personal point of view...
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Wire Dancing
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and priv...
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Witch Dance
Presa Press (US)£14.99| /Poet Glenna Luschei responds to the death of her husband Bill with a special kind of poetic magic. The collection is built around the poems remembe...
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With One Brush
Interactive Press£18.99| /The act of painting takes on metaphorical significance as Dean navigates themes of creation and documentation of life through art. What emerges is ...
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Within the Song to Live
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£23.99| /Book & CD. Natan Yonatan is one of Israel's most beloved and popular poets, whose books have sold in the hundreds of thousands. Over two hundre...
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Woodstoves & Ravens
Birch Brook Press (US)£16.99| /This book describes a wild-land sojourn with woodstoves and ravens in the boreal forest on the Canadian north shore of Lake Superior, near Thunder ...
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Word, Woman and Place
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Word, Woman and Place is McCarthy's fourth collection of poetry. Selections from his earlier works are gathered together with recent poems into thi...
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Words Flower
Interactive Press£19.99| /This is a collection of delightful tanka, in Japanese and English, by two poets experienced and skilled in the form. Saeko Ogi, whose primary langu...
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Working in the Dark
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£18.99| /Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, hi...
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Works and Days and Theogony
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Thos...
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Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Interactive Press£19.99| /This book-length tanka collaboration, by Kathy Kituai and Amelia Fielden, explores the deep and sometimes uncanny relationships between our human e...
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You are Never Too Far
Wisdom Tree (IND)£7.95| /Is the learning that we need essentially different from the education that we receive?