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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781509886258 | ISBN 10: 1509886257
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2018 Winner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 Shortlisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction A noir narrative written with the intensity and ... more
View book details£4.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781907598685 | ISBN 10: 1907598685
The ten poems in our revised and updated edition offer a taste of the poetry of Scotland. Some poems explore ideas around identity and change, exile and belonging. Others focus on landscape and place, or are principally about language itself. As Don ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509852789 | ISBN 10: 1509852786
Carol Ann Duffy's seventh collection is a book-length love poem, and a moving act of personal testimony, but what sets these poems apart is Duffy's refusal to simplify the contradictions and transformations of love - infatuation, longing, passion, co ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509863174 | ISBN 10: 1509863176
Jackie Kay’s first collection as Scottish Makar is a book about the fighting spirit – one, the poet argues, that we need now more than ever. Bantam brings three generations into sharp focus – Kay’s own, her father’s, and his own father’s ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509852918 | ISBN 10: 1509852913
In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on women's experience - both personal and historical - to entertain and challenge through poems which celebrate, elegise and eroticise the female condition. � With an architecture of longer poems on bea ... more
View book details£10.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780224097406 | ISBN 10: 0224097407
Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection In this absorbing, brilliant new collection – his first since Black Cat Bone – John Burnside examines our shared experience of this mortal world: how we are ‘all ... more
View book details£11.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908251350 | ISBN 10: 1908251352
Throw a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you’ll hit a young poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determinati ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781852249298 | ISBN 10: 1852249293
From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846972072 | ISBN 10: 1846972078
Liz Lochhead was appointed Scotland’s Poet Laureate (Makar) in January 2011. A stunning new collection of selected works from one of Scotland’s most loved writers. During her career Liz Lochhead has been described variously as a poet, f ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571268580 | ISBN 10: 0571268587
In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847671127 | ISBN 10: 1847671128
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. He is famous as the author of Auld Lang Syne, and he has long since become the patron saint of the heart-sore and the hung-over. But ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781852247775 | ISBN 10: 1852247770
Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay’s part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780954407520 | ISBN 10: 0954407520
The Colour of Black and White is Liz Lochhead’s first collection of poems for more than a dozen years, and, for her, the most important since the award-winning Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems in 1984. The poems within this remarkab ... more
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