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Poetry
Songs and Sonnets
By Paul Muldoon
Paperback
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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Seacunny
By Gerard Woodward
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Published 11-Oct-2012
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The fabulous new collection from the prize-winning poet Gerard Woodward.
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Quick Question
By John Ashbery
Paperback
Published 31-Jan-2013
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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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Unsent
By Penelope Shuttle
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Published 25-Oct-2012
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Penelope Shuttle is one of Britain's leading poets. This selection - drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus new work - shows both her consistency of voice and her energised openness to language and to life.
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Hill of Doors
By Robin Robertson
Hardback
Published 28-Feb-2013
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A brilliant new collection for the Forward Prize winning poet
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Word on the Street
By Paul Muldoon
Hardback
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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Ice
By Gillian Clarke
Paperback
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
Paperback
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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Havocs
By Jacob Polley
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Published 08-Nov-2012
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A daring new collection from one of poetry's rising stars.
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