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An extraordinary debut collection of poetry which tackles the criminal justice system.

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Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I - i

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A new translation of the first narrative poem in the English language closely follows the original poetic form and includes an introduction that discusses the poem's historical background, structure, form, principal characters, religion, and importance. Reprint.

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A title, in which paraphrases and reworked quotations, draw upon the vanished prewar legacy, particularly its German Jewish aspects, that appear in sharp juxtaposition with images of post-1989 Berlin frantically rebuilding itself in the wake of German unification.

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An affectionate and unabashed celebration of Englishness from one of the nation's most popular poets

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The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair, now ended. Its complications, obsessions, evasions, secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with all the subtlety and irony of which Hugo Williams, among contemporary poets, is the acknowledged master. These are brilliant, wry and moving elegies for a love affair.

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Whether walking an abandoned road or considering a friend's suicide, his poems remind us of our abdications, of our collapsed relationships with nature, with history, with ourselves.

There are, however, all the vestiges of connective tissue - memories and mementoes, sudden, miraculous leaps of beauty.

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Drawing on various sources, this book examines varieties of love, faith, hope and illusion, to suggest an unusual possibility: that when the search for what we expected to find - in the forest or in our own hearts - ends in failure, we can now begin the hard and disciplined quest for what is actually there.

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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014

*PBS Recommendation 2014*

When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me

In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut;

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Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding devastation with the same mixture of fascination and alarm he feels when he discovers the sweat-mark on his T-shirt makes a perfect map of Ireland.

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From the brave and visionary poet of Terror (2014) comes a sequel of poise and clarity

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Sharing the preoccupations of the songs and including moving elegies to Paul's wife, Linda, they give us unique access to the inner life of one of the most influential figures in popular culture of the last fifty years.

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Matthew Francis's evocative and exhilarating debut collection, reissued twenty years after its first appearance.

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The first major collection of poetry written in English by the flabbergasting and flamboyant Baroness Elsa, the first American Dada.

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Losing none of the exuberance which has become a hallmark of Simon Armitage's poetry, these poems are more personal. The book is divided into three sections - the "Book of Matches" which are sonnets, "Becoming of Age" and "Reading the Bans", a series of poems about Armitage's marriage.

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A virtuosic, formally adept and often deeply affecting memoir-in-verse from a former winner of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize.

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This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats' gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most moving love poetry ever written.

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Winner of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, this title shows the author's fascination with human experience. It explores the shared human continuum of bodily longing - from the Prehistoric maker of a wooden fertility fetish, to a modern-day couple wading through summer pollen - and the timeless cycles of conception, birth and child-rearing.

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Trillium Book Award-winning poet Adam Sol's newest collection of contemporary poetry. A collection of poems, loosely linked to the traditional Jewish morning prayers, the Birkhot haShachar, that try to find moments of blessing in the midst of personal and public pain, shame, and worry.