Individual Poets

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

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Slug and Other Things I’ve Been Told to Hate by Hollie McNish

£14.99

The new collection of poetry and prose from the Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody Told Me.

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Mother, Nature by Aoife Lyall

£9.95

Aoife Lyall’s debut collection explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood.

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How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil

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Kapil’s debut UK collection, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020.

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The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay

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The story of a black girl’s adoption by a white Scottish couple, from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter.

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In a Time of Distance & Other Poems Alexander McCall Smith

£12.99

In this collection, Alexander McCall Smith reminds us to look at the world differently, to stop once in while and look up at the sky.

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Burns for Every Day of the Year Edited by Pauline Mackay

£20.00

366 daily dips into Burns to inspire, invigorate and amuse.

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Paradise by Dante, translated by Alasdair Gray

£14.99

The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante’s trilogy.

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The Threadbare Coat by Thomas A. Clark

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Celebrating Scotland’s most distinctive contemporary writer – a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist.

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Selected Poems by John Glenday

£14.99

A new selection from one of our foremost lyric poets, including work from some long-out-of-print early collections

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That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu

£8.99

The story of one young man, from birth to adulthood, told in fragments of memory – a deeply moving and completely original work of literature from one of the brightest British writers of today.

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The Night Jar by Louise Peterkin

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The dynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, Peterkin explores the expectations and limits of being human with lashings of wit and sometimes a disquieting note of threat.

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The Readiness by Alan Gillis

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Alan Gillis addresses some of the most pressing concerns of the age with a formal confidence, a dry wit and often astonishing lyricism.

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