Individual Poets

From long-time favourite writers to exciting new voices in contemporary poetry

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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

£9.99

A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America’s most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead.

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Truth Street by David Cain

£7.99

In Truth Street, David Cain draws on the eye-witness testimonies of survivors of the Hillsborough disaster to create a work that is part epic-poem, part oral history and part documentary theatre.

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Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi

£9.99

The dazzling first collection from Scottish-Algerian poet Janette Ayachi.

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Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic by Simon Armitage

£16.99

Collected for the first time, poems resulting from projects, commissions, collaborations and residencies from the UK’s new Poet Laureate.

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Moder Dy by Roseanne Watt

£8.99

Winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2018, Roseanne Watt’s debut collection explores memory and place in English and Shetlandic.

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Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith

£12.00

Urgent poetry of race, violence and resistance from American poet Patricia Smith.

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Aeneid: Book VI Virgil, translated by Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney’s translation of Book VI of Virgil’s epic poem.

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joinedupwriting by Roger McGough

£12.99

The new collection from one of the UK’s favourite poets.

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Surrender to Night by Georg Trakl

£15.00

With a biography, a critical introduction and a chronology of Trakl’s life, this collection promises to reinvigorate interest in this under-appreciated poet.

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Sergius Seeks Bacchus by Norman Erikson Pasaribu

£9.99

A heartbreaking and humorous rumination on what it means to be in the minority in terms of sexuality, ethnicity, and religion.

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The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams

£10.00

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.

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The Girl Aquarium by Jen Campbell

£9.95

Jen Campbell’s debut collection from Bloodaxe Books.

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