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Poetry
Twelve Poems of Christmas
By Carol Ann Duffy
Paperback
Published 09-Oct-2012
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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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Customs House
By Andrew Motion
Hardback
Published 18-Oct-2012
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Presents a collection of war poems (first published as the pamphlet "Laurels and Donkeys", on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Go Giants
By Nick Laird
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Published 17-Jan-2013
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Presents a collection of poems that connects the shores of the author's native Northern Ireland with those of the American east coast where he spends increasing time. This title covers subjects such as: weapons of mass destruction, sectarian violence, religious faith, Jonah and the Whale, marriage, fatherhood, a daughter.
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Dear Boy
By Emily Berry
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Published 07-Mar-2013
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Includes poems that explore lives lived strangely in unusual worlds, through a series of deft and seductive soliloquies.
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Collected Poems
By Edward Dorn
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Published 29-Nov-2012
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The first definitive collected edition of American poet Edward Dorn's writings, this irrepressibly offbeat volume marries the old West with American counterculture. As it celebrates Dorn's epic poem "Gunslinger, "this collection--which is both wonderfully resourceful in tone and idiom--puts Edward Dorn on an equal footing with his masters.
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Queen of Spades and Selected Works
By Pietro Grossi
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Published 22-Nov-2012
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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works is a brand new English translation of two of Alexander Pushkin's greatest short stories, 'The Queen of Spades' and 'The Stationmaster', together with extracts from Yevgeny Onegin and Boris Godunov, and a selection of his poetic work.
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Songs and Sonnets
By Paul Muldoon
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Published 13-Nov-2012
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In this selection from five years' worth of lyrics, accompanied by recent sonnets, Muldoon recalls the bardic traditions of his homeland where songs and poems exist somewhere in between Parnassus and Tin Pan Alley.
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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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Dear World & Everyone In It
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Published 21-Feb-2013
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Dear World & Everyone In It is a ground-breaking new poetry anthology presenting the work of over 60 of the most talented and interesting young poets currently writing in the UK.
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