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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 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 WHAT by John Cooper Clarke
    WHAT - by John Cooper Clarke

    £16.99   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781035033164 | ISBN 10: 103503316x

    'Nothing short of dazzling' – Alex Turner 'A big-hearted poet of boundless humour and unmistakable style' – Kit Fan, Guardian   Dr John Cooper Clarke's dazzling, scabrous voice has reverberated through pop culture for decades, his influence o ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope
    The Orange and Other Poems - by Wendy Cope

    £8.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571389513 | ISBN 10: 0571389511

    The Orange provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain’s wittiest, best-selling and best-loved poets.  My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.   A glorious selection of Wendy Cope’s most be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone by Jackie Morris
    Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone - by Jackie Morris

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181557 | ISBN 10: 1800181558

    Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone is a book of poems and meditations with a difference. More than a hundred short texts have been typed onto small squares of gold leaf, then photographed. These pieces are arranged in a sequence which culminates in a glorio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reflections: A Poet-Theologian in Lockdown Leeds by Hannah Stone
    Reflections: A Poet-Theologian in Lockdown Leeds - by Hannah Stone

    £0.00   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913508135 | ISBN 10: 1913508137

    Reflections: A Poet-Theologian in Lockdown Leeds features a collection of stories, observations and poetry by Leeds based author, Hannah Stone.   The project began in Spring 2020 as England entered the first lockdown. Hannah was appointed Poet ... more

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  • Cover image of book Country Music by Will Burns
    Country Music - by Will Burns

    £10.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916015913 | ISBN 10: 1916015913

    Nothing in the place meant nothing.   The poems in Country Music are observant, curious, finding everywhere they look detail worthy of notice, determined in that ‘The falsehood is that there is little / left for us to know’. This same ... more

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  • Cover image of book Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage
    Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems - by Simon Armitage

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780571361441 | ISBN 10: 0571361447

    Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those ‘private, moonstruck observations’ and the clockwork comings and go ... more

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  • Cover image of book The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
    The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen - by Wilfred Owen

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784874407 | ISBN 10: 178487440x

    When Wilfred Owen was killed in the days before the Armistice in 1918, he left behind a shattering, truthful and indelible record of a soldier's experience of the First World War. His greatest war poetry has been collected, edited and introduced here ... more

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  • Cover image of book Elephant by Siana Bangura
    Elephant - by Siana Bangura

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993513107 | ISBN 10: 0993513107

    Elephant is the debut collection of poetry by writer, blogger, and poet Siana Bangura (@sianaarrgh).  Never afraid to address the elephant in the room – the very spirit with which this collection was put together – Bangura’s work has a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Poems by Nancy Cunard, edited by Sandeep Parmar
    Selected Poems - by Nancy Cunard, edited by Sandeep Parmar

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784102364 | ISBN 10: 1784102369

    Selected Poems gathers writing from four decades of Nancy Cunard's life, some published here for the first time.   The selection illuminates Cunard's transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kaleidoscope by Laura Taylor
    Kaleidoscope - by Laura Taylor

    £8.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780993237058 | ISBN 10: 0993237053

    Laura Taylor was born into a working-class family in the North of England in 1968. She has challenged arbitrary forms of authority all her life. Obsessed with words and language since her early childhood, she believes in the power of poetry as a mean ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scent: The Complete Works of Dinesh Allirajah by Dinesh Allirajah
    Scent: The Complete Works of Dinesh Allirajah - by Dinesh Allirajah

    £15.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910974261 | ISBN 10: 1910974269

    Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic, wry social commentator or masterfully understated sho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hold Your Own by Kae Tempest
    Hold Your Own - by Kae Tempest

    £11.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447241218 | ISBN 10: 1447241215

    Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias.  This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Poems by Tony Harrison
    Selected Poems - by Tony Harrison

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241964842 | ISBN 10: 0241964849

    A revised edition of Tony Harrison's award-winning Selected Poems.   This indispensable new selection of Tony Harrison's poems includes over sixty poems from his famous sonnet sequence The School of Eloquence and the remarkable long poem 'v. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Peter Hay
    The Ballad of Reading Gaol - by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Peter Hay

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781901677751 | ISBN 10: 1901677753

    In May of 1895, the most dazzling man of letters of the nineteenth century was sentenced to two years with hard labour for ‘acts of gross indecency with another male person.’ On his release he moved to France, where he wrote the Ballad: an anguished ... more

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  • Cover image of book Percy Bysshe Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley, selected by Fiona Sampson
    Percy Bysshe Shelley - by Percy Bysshe Shelley, selected by Fiona Sampson

    £8.00   hardback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571274307 | ISBN 10: 0571274307

    Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory - Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art g ... more

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  • Cover image of book Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Rob Ryan
    Another Night Before Christmas - by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Rob Ryan

    £5.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330523936 | ISBN 10: 0330523937

    A classic Christmas tale re-told for modern times by the Poet Laureate, with illustrations by Rob Ryan.  It’s the night before Christmas and a young girl creeps like a mouse down the stairs, determined to find out for certain whether Santa is ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Room in the Sunlight: Collected Poems by Bernard Kops
    This Room in the Sunlight: Collected Poems - by Bernard Kops

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780954848262 | ISBN 10: 0954848268

    Bernard Kops is one of Britain's most celebrated and prolific authors. His new collection, This Room in the Sunlight includes over forty recent unpulished poems, together with most of his best poetry from his long writing years. His poems are witt ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fighters for Life: Selected Poems by Michael Rosen
    Fighters for Life: Selected Poems - by Michael Rosen

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905192274 | ISBN 10: 1905192274

    Our mothers and fathers fought the thugs who came totorment them on thestreets.They organised in their places ofwork against magnateswho were pouring milk down mines, shooting minerskilling Afghans and hobnobbing withHitler... (from Fighters for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Uncut Confetti by John Hegley
    Uncut Confetti - by John Hegley

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780413775702 | ISBN 10: 0413775704

    New poems, prose and pictures, a mixture of moods, jolly, melancholy, reflective, detective, tales from home and abroad, an uttering of fluttering delight. The title Uncut Confetti has suggested a few images.   One is a confetti which has n ... more

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