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Labyrinths
Book. English.
Published
Oxford: Heinemann, 2011
Christopher Okigbo's words have often been described as prophetic and have inspired generations of writers in Nigeria and beyond. This collection of interlinked...
The world will follow joy: turning madness into flowers: new poems
Book. English.
Published
New York: The New Press, 2013
In this luminous collection of poems, Alice Walker casts her eye on history, politics and nature, as well as world figures. In tributes to such people...
A river dies of thirst: (a diary)
eBook. English.
Published
London: Saqi, 2009
Mahmoud Darwish was often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. During the summer of 2006, Darwish was in Ramallah. He recorded his observations...
First of the last chances
eBook. English.
Published
Manchester: Carcanet, 2003
In this collection of poetry, Sophie Hannah explores and celebrates the complex interactions and strong feelings involved in everyday experience, in poems...
A night out with Robert Burns: the greatest poems
eBook. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. In this text, Scottish essayist Andrew...
The malarkey
eBook. English.
Published
Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2012
As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the...
Let them eat chaos
Book. English.
Published
London: Picador, 2016
'Let Them Eat Chaos', Kate Tempest's long poem written for live performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon...
Hill of doors
Book. English.
Published
London: Picador, 2013
Charged with strangeness and beauty, 'Hill of Doors' is a haunted and haunting book, where each successive poem seems a shape conjured from the shadows...
The breakfast machine
Book. English.
Published
Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2010
Inside 'The Breakfast Machine' a chicken on squeaky tin legs is cooking you eggs & a squirrel plays tape-recorded birdsong high up in a tree. The Horsemen...
The Mabinogi
Book. English.
Published
London: Faber & Faber, 2017
'Here at the turn of the leaf a horseman is riding.' 'The Mabinogi' is the Welsh national epic, a collection of prose tales of war and enchantment, adventure...
