Poetry

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by Bethany Rose (Author)Neon softly lights the shadows of LGBT issues, mental health, school, grief and longing. Delve into a mind of swimming pools and hospitals, planets and supernovas, classrooms and therapy offices, playgrounds and the sky - all bound together in tight prose spliced with light. This is a book for all ages, for the very radical act of just being alive. Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.3 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: November 19, 2020

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by James McDermott (Author)Manatomy is a collection of wry, witty and cheeky poems exploring how nature, nurture, pop culture, prejudice and politics shape the identity of camp gay man James McDermott.Structured in three parts - 'Boy', 'Youth' and 'Man' - Manatomy interrogates how the experiences of growing up gay in a homophobic world and in rural millennial England affect a gay man's relationships with himself, his partners, the LGBTQ+ community and the wider world. Number of Pages: 108 Dim...

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by Pascal Vine (Author)The world has a way of getting into you; these poems document the process of prying it out. Whether that be from an ash tree's trunk or a rabbit's warren, or behind an abandoned shipping container on the way to work, or in a dusty noiseshow basement, Good Listeners leads you through the afterlife of trauma and disability. You will meet many strangers to guide youinto a world where you may suddenly find yourself coping. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 7.81 x 5.06 ...

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by Stephen Lightbown (Author)A paraplegic wakes to find he is the sole survivor of an unknown apocalypse. He decides to survive and spends a year navigating the empty motorways of England to see if he really is the only one left alive. He sets off with only his wheelchair and enough food and medical supplies to last a week. To live beyond that he must adapt and scavenge. Told through a daily account of poems he begins to question his own identity, whether you are disabled if there is no-one t...

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by Helen Sheppard (Author)Fontanelle is about 'soft spots', birth, women and those whose voices are often unheard. Helen has long family connections to care: aunt a midwife from 1941, her mum worked at a Transplant hospital, and her Dad passed down a quirky nature. All these influence her reasons to become a nurse and midwife. This debut collection is her 'take' on the complexities and joys of care, duty, burnout and friendships. Unexpected tender pockets of tragedy and humour in poetry and l...

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Auton (Author)Take Hair is the third collection of writing and drawing from award winning writer and performer Rob Auton. Take Hair houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist. The ideas that came to him that he got enough from to want to record them and share them with others to see if they get anything from them too. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.23 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2018

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Report copyright infringementby Joelle Taylor (Author)Joelle Taylor is a TS Eliot Prize winning poet, spoken word artist, playwright and novelist. She is a former UK slam champion and founder and artistic director of the Poetry Society's national solo youth slam SLAMbassadors UK. She has produced four plays for theatre as well as several texts on performance practice. This is her second poetry collection. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.22 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN ...

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by Ibizo Lami (Author)Adapted from a spoken word solo show, Chosen Family by ibizo Iami is a raw but gentle story of recovery and strength. Set in the waiting room of Dr Unicorn's office, Ibizo reflects on the instances that have knocked her down and built them back up again. Through emotionally charged poems and monologues, we start to unpick the importance of boundaries, love and expression in the quest to recover the body from trauma. We meet friends and concepts along the way that shape I...

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Bolens (Author)How do we remember those who have died? Why are we so attached to their stuff? Have you ever pictured your own funeral? Erin has. She's pictured yours too. Not everyone will be in black and at least one person will just be there for the buffet. In her debut show, poet and performer Erin Bolens explores our relationship with legacy and loss. Using wit, warmth and funeral tunes, What We Leave Behind tenderly examines the rules and of funerals ...

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by Maz Hedgehog (Author)Madeleine Ekezie has done everything right: good job, a step on the housing ladder, successful friends. But she's lost, miserable and deeply lonely. When she discovers the story of The Body - a maybe mythical, definitely magical being who feeds the hungry and soothes the hurt - Maddy blows her life up to find it. She quits her job to hunt through old zines, ignores her parents to pick through abandoned blogs, finding in each entry some truth about The Body.The Body in ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Auton (Author)With two hit Edinburgh Fringe shows under his belt, Bang Said The Gun's Rob Auton delivers his debut collection of poems and stories. In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh captures the charming, kooky, sideways look at the ordinary and the extraordinary that have gained Rob's live shows a cult following. Through Rob's eyes the world is a magical/beautiful/ridiculous/horrific place to live. It includes the acclaimed A Footballer's Life For Me whi...

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by Fay Roberts (Author)Moving through moods and atmospheres (Passion, Anger, Joy, Nature/ The Sea, Melancholy, Philosophical/ Mystical, and finally Whimsy), Spectralis a book intended to be read in a number of different ways: 1. From beginning to end, moving through the blended spectrum of moods laid out in order;2. As a mood-picker - either finding something to match your feelings from one of the seven main sections, or using something to change your mood to where you would like it to be; or...

That day she'll proclaim her chronicles - Paperback

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by Muneera Pilgrim (Author)For centuries poetry has been a form of knowledge and a way of knowing for non centred people. In this collection Muneera re-centres her voice and the voices of other people that are often times relegated to the sidelines or misrepresented in mainstream thought. This collection explores belonging, spirituality, gender, race and identity as well as themes of girlhood, pop culture, familial bonds and crushes, against the back drop of London and Bristol streets steeped...

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by Tom Denbigh (Author)In ...and then she ate him Tom Denbigh's wickedly beautiful writing holds up a distorted mirror to the world. Deftly weaving the queer experience with tales of friends and strangers, Tom toys with myth, devilish humour, and absurdity to portray the bizarre and brilliant in the everyday. Imagination is brought to life in this unique collection that is thought-provoking, insightful and startlingly joyous. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.24 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication ...

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Simpson (Author)From childhood innocence to Millennial angst - via the ballet, New Zealand, and outer space - Dan Simpson's poetry jumps off the page in a high-energy riot of words. Whilst the familiar themes of science and technology are examined with the snappily-smart observations he's known for, in this second collection Dan taps into a more personal and poignant voice. By turns robust and vulnerable, the book is shot through with the sense of humour an...

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by Afshan D'Souza-Lodhi (Author) Afshan D'souza-Lodhi's debut poetry collection re: desire explores the yearning to love, be loved and belong from a desi (South Asian) perspective. Her work sits on the intersections of flash fiction, poetry and script, echoing the hybridity of the worlds that many young British desis find themselves occupying. Drawing on the poetry of many different languages and cultures - Urdu, English, Konkani, Islamic and Christian - this collection explores how we access...

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by Molly Naylor (Author)Second poetry collection by award-winning writer Molly Naylor. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.12 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: June 11, 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Bolens (Author)Alternate Endings is a collection of poems made of worry and hope. With wit and warmth, Erin looks for the beginnings in endings as she confides her stories of living, loving, feeling and fretting.These are poems with big hearts and wry smiles. They are hugs for the days when it's all a bit much and energy for the days that you can change the world. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN ...

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by Bob Goody (Author) Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.53 x 8 x 5.25 IN Publication Date: November 18, 2021

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by DL Williams (Author)What's it like to navigate between worlds anchored in different dimensions? DL Williams is an interdimensional traveller, moving through the 2D audio-centric world inhabited by 'hearing people' while negotiating the fantastical 3D world shaped by sign language and those who wield it. DL's poems reflect a journey that has been far from easy, negotiating misunderstandings and cultural confusion while trying to figure out their identity and where exactly they belong. Numbe...

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by Leanne Moden (Author)Get Over Yourself is a biographical delve into belonging, exclusion, and the relationship between self-awareness and self-delusion, the rejection of social norms, and the ways in which we accept and question implied cultural rules. Using humour, spoken word poetry and storytelling Leanne takes us through the familiar - teenage rebellion, grief, sex, self-esteem and self-discovery in a personal political narrative that always reminds us of the uncertain world we are gro...

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by Cynthia Rodríguez (Author)This is a book about being trapped in the Meanwhile. Walking through seemingly perpetual journeys between borders, genders, nationalities and social status. As a product of mixing races, yet not mixed race. Inhabiting a large body of before with no clear sense of an after. Set to a time of one's own, decades lost and found in the way, at the mercy of socio-political circumstances, legal procedures and test results. Cyclically prone to fail and start again.These po...

Life Goals of Millennials: or The Commune Manifesto

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Report copyright infringementby Ross McFarlane (Author)Life Goals of the Millennials: or The Commune Manifesto is about growing up queer and not growing out of it. In The Commune we champion platonic love and commitment. We tell stories, find good in those around us, holdfast our beliefs and each other, and we face down the practicalities of a world not made for us. The Commune Manifesto has taken shape over 10 years of late-night conversations in Glasgow tenements. It is dedicated to every b...

The Trilogy of Surfaces and Invisibilities

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Report copyright infringementby Nora Gomringer (Author), Annie Rutherford (Translator)Combining the collections Monster Poems, Morbusand Fashions, Nora Gomringer's trilogy offers a modern anthropology. Gomringer shines a light on the all-too-human, plays with the superficial and loves the invisible. Accompanied by Reimar Limmer's illustrations, these poems unpick ideas around the monstrous, the inscribed and gendered body and the face we present to the people around us. Packed with pop cultur...

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Report copyright infringementby Panya Banjoko (Author)(Re)framing the Archive delves into Panya Banjoko's personal engagement with museums over two decades, and as the founder of Nottingham Black Archive. Attempting to give space to those voices that are otherwise submerged, and highlighting the disparity in underrepresentation of Black people as curators of their own history. The poems here can be seen as an intentional social and political act of activism providing a space for political tho...

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Report copyright infringementby Sally Jenkinson (Author)A poem cycle about giving birth. A creative response to the seemingly improbable and yet utterly commonplace act of somehow producing a human from your body. A rollercoaster ride of viscera and vulnerability, exploring the agony and the ecstasy of an everyday accouchement. Number of Pages: 36 Dimensions: 0.09 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN Publication Date: September 14, 2022

Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer

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Report copyright infringementby Bibi June (Author)The Kinsey Scale is an archaic measure of homosexuality on a scale of 0-6, thought up by Dr. Alfred Kinsey in 1948. It ranks queerness with 0 being completely heterosexual, 6 being fully homosexual, and 3 being a perfect split down the middle. But the world is ending, and modern queers are famously bad at numbers. 'Kinsey Scale for the Emotionally Fragile Queer' is a rewriting of the original scale, measured to fit the expansiveness of a gener...

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Report copyright infringementby Leyla Josephine (Author)Leyla Josephine dances between her private and public lives, her inner thoughts and outer performance, dipping into each side of herself with humour and reverence. In Public/In Private ends up in a stranger's flat on a one night stand, an awkward lunch with a politician, raves in dark sweaty clubs and midnight mass in Ireland. Some poems read like public proclamations but in others we are invited to listen through the crack of a bedroom ...

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States

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Report copyright infringementby Lori Marie Carlson (Editor), Oscar Hijuelos (Introduction by)Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life.Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory--and pain--of being Latino ...

A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025

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Report copyright infringementby New Yorker Magazine Inc (Author), Kevin Young (Editor)Edited by the magazine's poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sa...

Through Katrina's Eyes: Poems from an Animal Rescuer's Soul

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Report copyright infringementby Ed Kostro (Author)This book of poems depicts my Hurricane Katrina pet rescue efforts and some of the remarkable souls I encountered on the Gulf; stories of both victims and rescuers; stories that I will remember for the rest of my natural days. Number of Pages: 72 Dimensions: 0.17 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 13, 2005

Shadow Dancing: $elling $urvival in China

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn Waddell Takara (Author)Award winning author Dr Kathryn Waddell Takara provides a compelling and intimate traveling stage through her pictorial poems that witness her impressions of the waking of a sleeping dragon - the New China, including the startling successes and disquieting obstacles and corruption. She likewise illuminates the reader of Chinese spiritual qualities, history, and their continuing reverence for knowledge, ancestors, and nature. Most ...