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Boyish Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430922, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
48 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narra...
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£12,00
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Life in a Field Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430908, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 1 halftone
This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time. A lyric fable, Life in a Field intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs b...
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£16,00
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100 Words Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781632430915, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, April 2021
128 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
Written as a conversation, 100 Words is an exchange of ideas, dialogues, burdens, and ideals between someone White and someone Brown. Two poets, Damon Potter and Truong Tran, write to each other about one hundred powerful words – like "proximity", "s...
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£15,00
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Paper Collage
ISBN: PB: 9780857428431, ISBN: HB: 9780857422293, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm
Should you find yourself strolling along the coastal heights of Douarnenez, a Brittany town near the westernmost point of continental France, you would do well to look out for a signpost marked, "Georges Perros (1923-1978) 'Dazzled by the sea'". Perr...
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£9,99
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£19,00
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Within the Sweet Noise of Life Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780857427878, Seagull Books, January 2021
120 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Widely considered to be among the most important Italian poets of the twentieth century, Sandro Penna was born and raised in Perugia but spent most of his life in Rome. Openly gay, Penna wrote verses celebrating homosexual love with lyrical elegance....
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£14,99
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This Red Metropolis What Remains
ISBN: PB: 9781632430854, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Answering a call to go feral, these poems are part invocation and part prayer, re-imagining the form of the confessional poem by exploring the nature of confession from a feminist and anti-colonial perspective. In This Red Metropolis What Remains, Le...
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Petition
ISBN: PB: 9780887486616, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
From privilege at a gas station to fraud in a memorial grove, Joyce Peseroff follows the faults of indifference and division that crack our impulses toward mercy and love. She nests fragmented tales of the overheard and overlooked – lonely widowers,...
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£13,00
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Take Nothing
ISBN: PB: 9780887486562, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
80 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
The poems of "Take Nothing" are embedded in connections to family and landscape, to memory and possibility. They especially explore and distill those indelible, sometimes small, moments that cumulatively shape the arc of a life. These can be as surpr...
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£13,00
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Firsts 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets
ISBN: PB: 9780300243161, ISBN: HB: 9780300243178, Yale University Press, January 2020
440 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
The Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Its winners include some of the most influential voices in American poetry, including Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Margaret Walker, Carolyn Forche, and Robert Hass...
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£25,00
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£50,00
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Very Drunk / Borracho Love Poems & Other Acts of Madness / Poemas de Amor y Otros Actos de Locura
ISBN: PB: 9781940939964, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
244 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone
This collection of poems by Jesus Papoleto Melendez reads as a poetic autobiography of a hopeless romantic. "Borracho" invites us to find the essence of a man's character laid bare in the foibles of his desire and passionate pursuit of love. Spanning...
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£15,00
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