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Eye of the Hare

John F. Deane

Eye of the Hare affirms a spirituality for healing a shattered world. In a richly textured collection, layered with Biblical echoes and the music of the Psalms, John F. Deane explores the possibil...

New Collected Poems

Iain Crichton Smith

Iain Crichton Smith's <em>Collected Poems</em> was awarded the Saltire Prize when it was published in 1992. This completely revised and enlarged edition includes seventy additional...

Carrying the Songs

Moya Cannon

Carrying the Songs explores what is lost to time and change, and what endures and is transformed: languages and landscapes, artefacts and songs, carried through a lifetime, across oceans, across c...

Deceiving Wild Creatures

Jeremy Over

The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are 'found in the field': the beauty and oddity...

Baboons of Hada

Eric Ormsby

The Baboons of Hada introduces thirty years of Eric Ormsby's precise and generous poetry. Opening with an exuberant bestiary of spiders and starfish, penguins, snakes and contemplative baboons...

First of the Last Chances

Sophie Hannah

Best-selling poet Sophie Hannah returns with a wonderful collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and p...

Talking to the Dead

Elaine Feinstein

Opening with a death in winter, this is a tender work of mourning which is wonderfully moving but never dispiriting. Elaine Feinstein uses the remembered words of a much-loved husband - sometimes ...

Selected Poems

Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati's Selected Poems draws on her three Carcanet collections, In White Ink (1991), Mirrorwork (1995) and Entries on Light (1997). It provides us with the essential Khalvati, from the...

Extended Family

Linda Chase

Extended Family is a sensual celebration of the varied relationships that make up lives richly lived: from the subtle, intimate interactions of close family members and lovers, to the mutual rewar...

Laughing at the King

Peter Pindar

Peter Pindar (1738-1819), the pen name of John Wolcot, dared to ridicule the foibles, corruptions and misdemeanours of King George III and those in power in his kingdom. His satire was merciless, ...

Collected Poems

Gillian Clarke

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved...

Storm House

Tim Liardet

In 2006 Tim Liardet's brother died in mysterious circumstances. The Storm House is a book-length elegy that is both grief-fugue and exploration of family psychodrama. The two parts of the book...

Meanest Flower

Mimi Khalvati

Wordsworth's 'meanest flower that blows' suggested to him 'thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears'. The lyrics, elegies, songs and ghazals in Mimi Khalvati's book pa...

Pessimism for Beginners

Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah's sharp pen dissects modern life and relationships with insouciant honesty and ruthless wit, and her love poems evoke timeless feelings with a shrewd simplicity that deepens her ...

Dinosaur Bones

Elaine Whybro

A stunning debut collection of modern contemporary poetry providing a delightful and thought provoking look at aspects of everyday life. With her sharp intellect and wonderful sense of humour Elai...

The Rebirth of Spoken Word

Heru Senghor Fatiu

The Rebirth of Spoken Word is a mission statement; a poetic call to action and Brother Heru emerges from its pages as a liberator, a freedom fighter. P.O.W., My Father Died and Destruction of Bla...

Wolfstage

Peter Hellinger

Selected Poems

Robert Crawford

Reflecting on Adolescence

Ogun Obika

This is a reflection of my innate emotion and thoughts.Reading this book will take you on a journey, not ajourney of your life, or my life but a journey of life.It is a testament to my survival an...

First Impressions

Terry W. Drake

I have prepared a collection of poetry for your enjoyment that presents the various aspects of human emotion. I study the vivid reality of depression and the contrasting illusion of happiness. Thi...