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“deryn rees jones”

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  • Erato

    by Deryn Rees-Jones ...
    Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize Poetry Book Society Recommendation Named after the Greek muse of lyric poetry, Erato combines documentary-style prose narratives with the passionate lyric poetry for which Rees-Jones is renowned. Here as she experiments with form, particularly the sonnet, Rees-Jones questions the value of the poet and poetry itself. What is the difference, asks one poem, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burying the Wren

    by Deryn Rees-Jones ...
    In Burying the Wren Deryn Rees-Jones returns to familiar preoccupations but with a new clarity and maturity of vision. With intense lyricism she calls on the Roethkean 'small things' of the universe -- truffles, slugs, trilobites, birds, stones, feathers, flowers, eggs -- which, mysterious, and magical as well as ordinary -- she sets up against loss. Her sequence of 'Dogwoman' poems, which draws ... Read more

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  • Hôtel Amour

    by Deryn Rees-Jones ...
    "This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation…" Joanna KlinkA sequel to her T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Erato, Deryn Rees-Jones' remarkable new collection sees her returning to ongoing preoccupations: the complexities of memory and memorialisation, desire and the body, and poetry's place in a hostile world.The book begins with a woman checking into Hôtel Amour, a space ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • When the Barbarians Arrive

    by Alvin Pang ...
    Series series Arc International Poets Series
    This book is also available as an ebook: buy it from Amazon here.When the Barbarians Arrive is a selected works from Singaporean poet Alvin Pang's five previous collections, including Testing the Silence (1997) and City of Rain (2003). Wry, sensitive and intelligent throughout, the selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, at ... Read more

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  • Dear World & Everyone In It

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    by Nathan Hamilton ...
    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. Chosen by one of the country's leading young poetry editors, inspired by American precedents, and growing out of The Rialto's recent series of young poets features curated by Nathan Hamilton, it is the first British ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • All One Breath

    by John Burnside ...
    Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection‘There are lines in All One Breath for instance, that brand themselves into your brain with the fire of painful recognition. And yet it is also part of his genius to be ever alert to beauty, too.’ - Sebastian Barry, a*New Statesman* Book of the YearIn this absorbing, brilliant new collection – his first since Black ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Casual Perfect

    by Lavinia Greenlaw ...
    If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book's presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather than ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Magma 59: Breaks

    by Roberta James, Alex Pryce ...
    Series series Magma Poetry
    Magma poetry magazine’s summer 2014 issue, Magma 59, is on the theme of breaks.Editors Roberta James and Alex Price have selected over 65 new poems that reach in to bring a new look on a familiar scene, take us to places we have not been before, or show us new ways to be in our sometimes broken but beautiful world. After poems of great delicacy and eggshells came others of metal and grind. Poems ... Read more

    $1.35 USD

  • Out There

    by Jamie McKendrick ...
    Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus, or the perils of medieval travel, or listening for the speech of alien landscapes. Closer to home, the poems adopt an outsiderish stance as they ponder the business of non-belonging and draw up wry inventories of marginality ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Water Stealer

    by Maurice Riordan ...
    These poems report on worlds both robust and delicate, from boisterous pub-bluff to the oxygen bubble of an exquisite underwater spider. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London, Riordan's poems exist between many states, poised at once in the grip of both activity and stillness, concerned with speaking and listening to what he hauntingly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hunt in the Forest

    by John Burnside ...
    Taking its title from Uccello's famous painting of a band of men - on foot and on horseback - massing for the chase, John Burnside's new poems take us on a journey out of the light and into the darkness, where we may just as easily lose ourselves as find what we are looking for.In these poems of hunting and predation, Burnside explores our most deep-rooted and primeval pursuits: romantic love, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Beauty/Beauty

    by Rebecca Perry ...
    Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The world of Beauty/Beauty is 'built from the nose/out, like a painting', accumulating its various feelings, ideas, objects, disappointments and joys to the point of almost overflowing. Preoccupied with demise and loss, as well as reimagination and regeneration, Rebecca Perry's debut collection has the duality and symmetry of its title at its core. Beauty/Beauty ... Read more

    $8.99 USD