Poetry
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£33.99| /A dazzling recreation of the most memorable Middle English poem, and one that captures the original alliterative verse in all its dimensions: sense...
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Sit You Waiting
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Kim Clark believes that before multiple sclerosis began its insidious infiltration, there was no writing in her. That somehow the damaging changes ...
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Sleeping in Tall Grass
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /"My emptiness will not be frenetic with the friction of my father's silences but still as the unmarked graves of his many forgotten selves" --From ...
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Small Acts of Purpose
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /In her third collection from Interactive Press, E. A. Gleeson casts her poetic eye as far afield as Belfast or as close to home as her own mortalit...
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Smaller Hours
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. T...
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Snowman
Manor House Publishing (CA)Original price £19.00Current price £15.99| /"The poems in Snowman are full of intelligence, humor, and craft. I found myself through Keelers loveof language and ability to capture broad expe...
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Snowman
Manor House Publishing (CA)Original price £38.99Current price £30.99| /"The poems in Snowman are full of intelligence, humor, and craft. I found myself through Keelers loveof language and ability to capture broad expe...
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Soft Geography
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /"What a wonderful, fresh voice Gillian Wigmore brings to the page. These wise poems know the push and pull within family. They reveal the tender tr...
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Soft Power
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Watch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.So drinkAs the fanged stoat from the rabbit's napeAs though from a flagon of river waterSha...
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Someone Forgot to Tell the Fish
Interactive Press£18.99| /Hal Judge is a energetic, risk-taking poet who is formulating a unique poetics. It is fascinating to watch something poetically 'new' take shape, w...
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Song of the Broad-Axe
Schiffer£318.99| /Produced in a numbered limited edition of 350, this is a full-sized facsimile of Wharton Esherick?s prototype of Walt Whitman?s ?Song of the Broad-...
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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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Sound and Bundy
Interactive Press£20.00| /In 2006, the posthumously-published works of little known poet Jason Silver caused a minor sensation on the Adelaide literary scene. His surreal, i...
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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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Spirit of Place
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£9.99| /An injured dragonfly is picked from a car grill and placed on a rock to recuperate, only to materialize at a distant trailhead to usher the hiker t...
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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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Stepping Over Seasons
Interactive Press£19.99| /This collection artfully depicts the finer details of life, encapsulating change within people and places as the seasons unfurl. In "Overlook", Cap...
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Stitching Things Together
Interactive Press£19.99| /This is fluent, well crafted poetry but it is not always comfortable as Leah Kaminsky takes us on a journey with her father fleeing from Poland to ...
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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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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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