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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Let the Light Pour In: Morning Poems by Lemn Sissay
    Let the Light Pour In: Morning Poems - by Lemn Sissay

    £9.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781837262670 | ISBN 10: 1837262675

    An uplifting poetry collection from the number one bestselling author of My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay OBE.  THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affir ... more

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  • Cover image of book May Day by Jackie Kay
    May Day - by Jackie Kay

    £10.99   paperback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781509864836 | ISBN 10: 1509864830

    May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay.  These poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry by Kayo Chingonyi (Editor)
    More Fiya: A New Collection of Black British Poetry - by Kayo Chingonyi (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838855321 | ISBN 10: 1838855327

    A scorching anthology of Black British poetry, edited by the award-winning acclaimed poet Kayo Chingonyi and following in the footsteps of the 1998 seminal collection The Fire People.  A SUNDAY TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR  In t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance by Salena Godden
    Pessimism is for Lightweights: 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance - by Salena Godden

    £13.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914236228 | ISBN 10: 191423622x

    One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, Pessimism is for Lightweights began life as thirteen pieces of courage and resistance from the pen of the one and only Salena Godden. These are poems written for the women’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu
    A Little Resurrection - by Selina Nwulu

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526649980 | ISBN 10: 1526649985

    AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR  A Little Resurrection is the debut full-length collection from acclaimed poet Selina Nwulu.  In these reflections on being and blackness, informed by empathy and intellectual curiosity, Nwulu melds the golden ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Poems by Linton Kwesi Johnson
    Selected Poems - by Linton Kwesi Johnson

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241994115 | ISBN 10: 024199411x

    Now including an afterword and new poems by the author and an introduction by Gary Younge.  Pioneering poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has revolutionized English literature with his electrifying fusion of oral verse, Jamaican speech, radical politi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
    Letters to Gil - by Malik Al Nasir

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008464479 | ISBN 10: 0008464472

    "A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure"(Irenosen Okojie) Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir's profound coming of age memoir - the story of surviving physical and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Poor by Caleb Femi
    Poor - by Caleb Femi

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141992150 | ISBN 10: 0141992158

    A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR  What is it like to grow up in a place where the same police officer who told your primary school class they were special stops and searches you at 13 because 'you fit the description of a man' - and where it ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
    The Black Unicorn - by Audre Lorde

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241396865 | ISBN 10: 0241396867

    I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic   Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
    The Terrible - by Yrsa Daley-Ward

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846149825 | ISBN 10: 1846149827

    "A major literary talent... speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way... you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest."(Stylist) 'You ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten: Poets of the New Generation by Karen McCarthy Woolf (Editor)
    Ten: Poets of the New Generation - by Karen McCarthy Woolf (Editor)

    £9.95   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780373829 | ISBN 10: 1780373821

    Ten: Poets of the New Generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets fo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems by Lemn Sissay
    Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems - by Lemn Sissay

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782119456 | ISBN 10: 1782119450

    Lemn Sissay's first poetry collection was written aged eighteen and hand-sold to miners on the picket lines of Warrington. Since then his poems have been sculpted in iron and built from concrete, declaimed in over twenty countries. He has performed t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Four Points Fourteen Lines by Tony Chan
    Four Points Fourteen Lines - by Tony Chan

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911335177 | ISBN 10: 1911335170

    In January of 2015, school teacher Tony Chan gave up his job and embarked on a 78-day, 1,400-mile solo-trek across the four extreme points of mainland Britain, writing a sonnet on each day of the journey from Dunnet Head to Ardnamurchan Point and fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
    Citizen: An American Lyric - by Claudia Rankine

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141981772 | ISBN 10: 0141981776

    WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY   WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY   'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then I ... more

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  • Cover image of book Continental Shelf by Fred D
    Continental Shelf - by Fred D'Aguiar

    £9.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847770431 | ISBN 10: 1847770436

    "Demerara whose east coast raised me From a mere stalk to stand straight  To stand tall no matter what current Help me find your grain your flow And Demerara sweeten me  So my art keeps your river's cave at Your sense of cane fie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems by Abena P.A. Busia
    Traces of a Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems - by Abena P.A. Busia

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780955507977 | ISBN 10: 0955507979

    "Sorrows of exile, so powerfully engraved in Testimonies of Exile, linger still in some of these poems, but it is the joys of homecoming, joys contstantly interrupted by long shadows of death, that define this new collection. It is a treasury of prec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Langston Hughes: Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
    Langston Hughes: Selected Poems - by Langston Hughes

    £9.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9781852421274 | ISBN 10: 1852421274

    For over 40 years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. Selected Poems is made up of Hughes' own choice of his poetry, published first in 1959. It includes all of Hughes' best known poe ... more

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