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Poetry
Bees
By Carol Ann Duffy
Paperback
Published 27-Sep-2012
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The critically acclaimed new collection from the Poet Laureate.
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Uncollected Poems
By R S Thomas
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Published 29-Mar-2013
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New book of previously uncollected poems by R.S. Thomas - all totally new to his thousands of readers.
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Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
By Thomas Browne
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Published 03-Sep-2012
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Bones Will Crow
By James Byrne
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Published 26-Jun-2012
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The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship is an industry. The poets have been ingenious in their use of metaphor to escape surveillance and censorship, writing poet-modern, avant-garde, performance and online poetries.
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Ariel
By Sylvia Plath
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Published 06-May-2010
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Includes such poems as "Lady Lazarus", "Daddy" and "Fever 103 degrees".
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Bad Machine
By George Szirtes
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Published 24-Jan-2013
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One of several major British poets who took their work to Bloodaxe following the closure of OUP's poetry list in 1999, George Szirtes has published seven books with Bloodaxe, including Reel, which won him the T.S. Eliot Prize for 2004, New & Collected Poems and The Burning of the Books, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2009.
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Yellow Tulips
By James Fenton
Hardback
Published 22-Sep-2011
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Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the author has given readers some of the most memorable 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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By Heart
By Ted Hughes
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Published 01-Mar-2012
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What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? This title explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the more frequently it is practised.
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Nonsense
By Christopher Reid
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Published 06-Sep-2012
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Opens with a coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in California. In this title, his strange ride ends on a note of recovery, with the world suddenly in focus again and brimming before him.
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Funny Side
By Wendy Cope
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Published 01-Mar-2012
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A collection of poems, that illustrates the range to be found under the heading of humorous poetry.
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