A Portable Paradise
By: Roger Robinson
4.40
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racis…
Want to Read $ 6.53"in the car park a young father whispers weed smoke about how his life feels, like that burnt-out car that never moves, the one with the shattered windows leaving diamond tears in the asphalt."-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"in the car park a young father whispers weed smoke about how his life feels, like that burnt-out car that never moves, the one with the shattered windows leaving diamond tears in the asphalt."-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"How is it I'm begging you for housing, when you burnt my building down? You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls, all straight jargon, and nothing but the jargon."-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"How is it I'm begging you for housing, when you burnt my building down? You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls, all straight jargon, and nothing but the jargon."-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
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1. Citizen: An American Lyric
By: Claudia Rankine
4.27
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- anti racist
"You can't drive yourself sane."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"Memory is a tough place. You were there."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2. Averno
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarde… read more
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- literature
- poetry
"Is it possible to miss the opportunity of one's life?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"What will you do, when it is your turn in the field with the god?"-Louise Glück, Averno
"My memory is like a basement filled with old papers: nothing ever changes."-Louise Glück, Averno
"If your soul died, whose life are you living, and when did you become that person?"-Louise Glück, Averno
3. Rapture
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, … read more
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- poetry
4. Black Box
By: Jennifer Egan , Brendan Monroe
3.86
Format: None pages, ebook
Novelette length collection of tweets published over a period of ten days. Science fiction. read more
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5. Volpone
By: Ben Jonson
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more
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6. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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- poetry
7. Hold Your Own
By: Kae Tempest
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for Brand New Ancients and widely regarded as the UK's… read more
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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. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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10. The Duchess of Malfi
By: John Webster
3.00
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more
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11. Black Cat Bone: Poems
By: John Burnside
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Burnside's remarkable new book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory lik… read more
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12. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
13. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
14. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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- poetry
15. 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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- poetry
- nonfiction
16. The Perseverance
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.31
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging ac… read more
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- poetry
- race
- literature
- nonfiction
- 21st century
17. Frankissstein: A Love Story
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.54
Format: 344 pages, ebook
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better j… read more
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"Yet I wish I had a cat."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"Stars in the sky like uncounted chances."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I don't want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
"I discover that grief means living with someone who is no longer there."-Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story
18. Bright Fear
By: Mary Jean Chan
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Following their award-winning debut, Flèche (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collecti… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
19. England's Green
By: Zaffar Kunial
4.08
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single wor… read more
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- poetry
"There is something locked-in about grief, but there is something horribly unlocked about grieving. - Ings "-Zaffar Kunial, England's Green
20. Blossomise
By: Simon Armitage
4.22
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
21. Bargain Bin Rom-Com
By: Leena Norms
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Bargain Bin Rom-Com is the first collection of poems by Leena Norms. From the politics of ice-cream… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
22. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
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- poetry
- race
- nonfiction
- anti racist
"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
23. Oil
By: Ella Hickson
3.80
Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil.The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones. What do y… read more
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24. Tongues of Fire
By: Seán Hewitt
4.23
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A remarkable first collection by an important new poet In this collection, Seán Hewitt gives us … read more
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- poetry
"I did not / realize how far I had walked you / into my life, until your hand let go." - "Epithalamium"-Seán Hewitt, Tongues of Fire
25. In the End, It Was All About Love
By: Musa Okwonga
4.40
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
The narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only … read more
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- poetry
26. A Portable Paradise
By: Roger Robinson
4.40
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racis… read more
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- poetry
- race
- literature
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- anti racist
"in the car park a young father whispers weed smoke about how his life feels, like that burnt-out car that never moves, the one with the shattered windows leaving diamond tears in the asphalt."-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"How is it I'm begging you for housing, when you burnt my building down? You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls, all straight jargon, and noth…"-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
"You fooled us. Render your work, not your lives. This seems like the newest answer to an old question. Cheap muscle and blood to build you an Empire- that we can't stay in. Gran's gone missing from S…"-Roger Robinson, A Portable Paradise
27. truth and reconciliation (Nick Hern Books)
By: debbie tucker green
3.67
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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28. Sonnets for Albert
By: Anthony Joseph
3.99
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his ea… read more
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- poetry
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30. The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity
By: Naomi Evans
4.16
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- anti racist
31. Olivia Twist: Honor Among Thieves (Oliver Twist)
By: Darin Strauss
3.12
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The Dickens classic reimagined as a female-centric, dark futuristic fable. To save a boy she barel… read more
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