The Sun is Open
By: Gail McConnell
4.23
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a…
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1. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
2. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By: Ross Gay
4.25
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the se… read more
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"...the mistake I say is a gift don’t be afraid see what it teaches you..."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"I swore when I got into this poem I would convert this sorrow into some kind of honey with the little musics I can sometimes make with these scribbled artifacts of our desolation."-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Of course she’s dead: Tina was her name, of leukemia: so I heard— why else would I try sadly to make music of her unremarkable kindness? I am trying, I think, to forgive myself for something I don’t …"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
"Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, a…"-Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
3. Sweat
By: Lynn Nottage
4.06
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more
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4. There but for the
By: Ali Smith
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith 'There once was a man w… read more
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5. The Elementals
By: Michael McDowell
4.01
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching… read more
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"Savage mothers eat their children!"-Michael McDowell, The Elementals
"There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown."-Michael McDowell, The Elementals
6. Hood
By: Emma Donoghue
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A tale of grief and lust, frustration and hilarity, death and family. Penelope O'Grady and Cara Wal… read more
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7. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.10
Format: 264 pages,
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and politic… read more
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- poetry
8. The Spanish Tragedy
By: Thomas Kyd , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more
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9. North
By: Seamus Heaney
4.00
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
In NorthSeamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people… read more
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10. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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11. An American Sunrise
By: Joy Harjo
4.28
Format: 116 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more
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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
12. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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13. The Grassling
By: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
3.50
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and me… read more
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"If it wants to listen to the trees, it is best to be in them, it reminds itself, not out in the open fringes."-Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling
"I am plant as well as animal. My blood transports oxygen; my chlorophyll produces it. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus surge along tissue, torso, culm to my blades. Blood blends magnesi…"-Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling
"I run on a thousand chandeliers, as each blade sparkles with frost; a river of glass underfoot. It is as though the elements are reversed: sky is ground and ground is sky, and I am running on the pin…"-Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling
14. Barber Shop Chronicles (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Inua Ellams
4.13
Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition
Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five Afr… read more
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15. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
16. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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17. Snowflake
By: Louise Nealon
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more
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18. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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19. Self-Portrait as Othello
By: Jason Allen-Paisant
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more
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20. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
21. If All the World and Love Were Young
By: Stephen Sexton
4.04
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in t… read more
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- poetry
22. The Sun is Open
By: Gail McConnell
4.23
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life a… read more
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23. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
By: Terrance Hayes
4.27
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more
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"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
24. PLUS ULTRA
By: Sarah Fletcher
4.42
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
'High-concept, formally daring, and sonically rich [...] What a tremendous gift to readers to witne… read more
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25. Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories
By: Jan Carson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses of… read more
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26. The Actual
By: Inua Ellams
4.33
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury - sometimes probing delicately, sometimes b… read more
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"Fuck / Our Future When our scorching planet ignites the last evacuating airship to cook its soft cargo of human flesh in an expanding fireball and fragments of its propeller blades thunk inches deep …"-Inua Ellams, The Actual
"The poem "Fuck / Our Future" (p. 49): When our scorching planet ignites the last evacuating airship to cook its soft cargo of human flesh in an expanding fireball and fragments of its propeller blade…"-Inua Ellams, The Actual
27. Some Integrity
By: Padraig Regan
4.09
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious p… read more
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28. More Sky
By: Joe Carrick Varty
4.62
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Jo… read more
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29. What Mama Said
By: Osonye Tess Onwueme
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Renowned playwright Osonye Tess Onwueme's powerful new drama illuminates the effect of national and… read more
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30. The Kitchen Sink
By: Tom Wells
3.79
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes. Amid the dreaming, the dr… read more
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31. Cheryl's Destinies
By: Stephen Sexton
3.78
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
"history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn't" It is the decade o… read more
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