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In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Simon Armitage selects Ted Hughes.

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Towards the end of his life the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) wrote nearly four hundred poems in French - notably the two collections published as Les Fentres (The Windows) and Les Roses.

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The real England, the real John Betjeman

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This collection includes, of course, such celebrated poems as "The Lady of Shalott" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Finally, there are many of the short lyrical poems, such as "Come into the Garden, Maud" and "Break, Break, Break," for which he is justly celebrated.

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A thrilling and powerful debut from an urgent new voice.

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Whether making versions of Cavafy or elegising fellow poet Mick Imlah, or writing how a father hands on a piece of marble to his son, Robert Crawford shows in Testament how poetry can communicate from generation to generation aspects of what makes us most vulnerably and engagingly human.

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Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.

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WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020
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'A singular achievement.'
Michael Donkor, Guardian

'Heartbreaking, important and original.'
Christie Watson, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS

'Derek Owusu's writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough.

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The legendary origin of the Roman nation which tells the story of the Trojan Prince Aeneas who escaped with some of his men after Troy fell and sailed to Italy under the protection of the goddess Venus. Here they settled and laid the foundations of Roman power.

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David Jones was one of the most important first generation British modernist poets.

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The Beat Movement that emerged in the early 1950s was not just another literary genre, but a literary and social revolution. This wide-ranging anthology of the best of Beat literature includes biographies of the writers and a literary guide to "Beat places" around the world.

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A critically acclaimed collection from Carol Ann Duffy, her first as Poet Laureate.

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A delightful anthology of Betjeman's greatest poetry and prose

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'When does a poem end' This book is about the rhythms of life against the riddle of time. It is a celebration of the things we leave behind - in art, music and poetry - as well as a stirring memento mori to gather our rosebuds while we may.

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Records the dichotomy of human experience. This book deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. It also reveals an intense involvement with nature and a capacity for healing and love. There are intimate personal poems reflecting on relationships with people and creatures; poems which enter the lives of real and imaginary characters.

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A debut collection of poems from one the most exciting new voices in poetry.

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Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. This poetic sequence illuminates a period in British colonial history.

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Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry - now in paperback.

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Karen Solie's fifth poetry collection, The Caiplie Caves, is a profound and timely consideration of the nature of crisis.

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*AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*

'I can't bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.' So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley's previous book Angel Hill.