Individual Poets

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

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The Threadbare Coat by Thomas A. Clark

£12.99

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

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Selected Poems by John Glenday

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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

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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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Dearly: Poems by Margaret Atwood

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The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist & poet – long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.

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Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge

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In this capricious, dreamlike collection, characters and scenes traverse states of airlessness, from suffocating relationships and institutions, to toxic environments and ecstatic asphyxiations.

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The Actual by Inua Ellams

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“This is what poetry looks like when you are a word sorcerer, a linguistic swordsman, a metaphor-dazzler, a passionate creator of poetry as fire, as lament, as beauty, as reflection, as argument, as home. I was blown away by this book”- Bernardine Evaristo

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Grimoire by Robin Robertson

£14.99

From one of our most powerful lyric poets, this is a book of curses and visions, gifts both desired and unwelcome, characters on the cusp of their transformation – whether women seeking revenge or saving their broken children, or men trying to save themselves.

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The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

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One girl’s wild journey of strength, beauty and growth as she discovers who she really is.

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The Fire of Joy: Roughly Eighty Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud by Clive James

£20.00

Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each. In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James explored […]

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Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair

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Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke. Cannibal marks the arrival of a thrilling and essential new lyrical voice.

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