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Poetry
Drysalter
By Michael Symmons Roberts
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Like the medieval psalters echoed in its title, this collection contains both the sacred and profane. This title includes hymns of praise and lamentation, songs of wonder and despair, journeying effortlessly through physical and metaphysical landscapes, from financial markets and urban sprawl to deserts and dark nights of the soul.
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Found at Sea
By Andrew Greig
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Published 13-Feb-2013
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Andrew Greig embarked on a 'micro-odyssey' that took place from Stromness, Orkney to the Island of Cava, Scapa Flow on a single voyage, one evening in summer, this collection recounts his trip in poetic sequence.
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Word on the Street
By Paul Muldoon
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Published 21-Mar-2013
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Offers the essential meaning of the term 'lyric' - a short poem sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. This title includes the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars.
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Yellow Tulips
By James Fenton
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Published 04-Apr-2013
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Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the author gives readers the lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and political monologues of The Memory of War and Children in Exile.
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Ice
By Gillian Clarke
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Published 31-Oct-2012
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The author turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the imagination. This book also includes the 'asked for' and commissioned poems, and the "Guardian" spreads Clarke has written during her time as National Poet of Wales.
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Malarkey
By Helen Dunmore
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Published 28-Jun-2012
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The Malarkey is Helen Dunmore's first poetry book since Glad of These Times (2007). Its title poem won the National Poetry Competition in 2010.
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Speak, Old Parrot
By Dannie Abse
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Published 04-Apr-2013
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A collection of poetry in which Dannie Abse returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its moral implications, the nature of creativity, Jewish folk tradition and the passing of time.
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World's Wife
By Carol Ann Duffy
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Published 08-Sep-2000
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Poems of famous men -- and the women who married them -- by the Poet Laureate.
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Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
By Thomas Browne
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Published 03-Sep-2012
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Rapture
By Carol Ann Duffy
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Published 01-Sep-2006
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The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate.
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