From Ovid's Rome to the blood-soaked trenches of Gallipoli, "The Word for Sorrow," brings new resonance to ancient grief. Its powerful and spellbinding poems give voice to the universal suffering of exile, war or grief, celebrating the enduring common humanity that binds us across countries and over all the centuries.
From Ovid's Rome to the blood-soaked trenches of Gallipoli, "The Word for Sorrow," brings new resonance to ancient grief. Its powerful and spellbindin...
Letters to the Sky is a collection of poems examining themes of friendship, nostalgia, identity, self-adornment, self-protection, sadness, hope and change. These ethereal, romantic, and feminine poems draw on the aesthetic beauty of nature, flowers, trees, the sky and the sea, to convey emotional intimacies. As if happening upon a cache of personal letters, the reader is invited to share in the poet's private world, where gardens, the seaside, a palace bathroom and an antique's cabinet are among the poems' settings. The poet's love of London and her experiences of living in the city feature...
Letters to the Sky is a collection of poems examining themes of friendship, nostalgia, identity, self-adornment, self-protection, sadness, hope and ch...
Features texts written and assembled as a time-based project between 1989 and the end of the twentieth century. This volume focuses on the alternative history of the twentieth century. It includes a book-length text on the paintings of Jack B Yeats, as well as a number of shorter pieces.
Features texts written and assembled as a time-based project between 1989 and the end of the twentieth century. This volume focuses on the alternative...
People want pleasure from poetry, and in "Bones & Breath," this masterly new collection from Alexander Hutchison, they can find it in many forms and registers. Power and beauty, mischief and humour. Longer poems mix satire with tender affection. Others offer everything from solar loops to red-throated divers.
People want pleasure from poetry, and in "Bones & Breath," this masterly new collection from Alexander Hutchison, they can find it in many forms and r...
This is Luke Kennard's fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse more personal. It is unmistakably a Kennard book (the wolf appears here in his sixth outing), but there is also a striving to turn away from the self-referential games and literary in-jokes of Kennard's previous work and look outward; an attempt to grow something in the personal ground broken by the last two collections, without sacrificing the wit and energy.
This is Luke Kennard's fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologue...
In this collection, Peter Daniels looks at his life as an older gay man, his London neighbourhood, his furniture, other people's gardens and London's creatures.
In this collection, Peter Daniels looks at his life as an older gay man, his London neighbourhood, his furniture, other people's gardens and London's ...
Peterkin explores the expectations and limits of being human with lashings of wit and sometimes a disquieting note of threat. Mad cap, extravagant, urban and questioning, this is a collection no one will forget.
Peterkin explores the expectations and limits of being human with lashings of wit and sometimes a disquieting note of threat. Mad cap, extravagant, ur...
