The Historians: Poems
By: Eavan Boland
4.09
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2020 Costa Poetry Award A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most mast…
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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- poetry
- womens
- nonfiction
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. Dancing at Lughnasa
By: Brian Friel
3.71
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live… read more
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- ireland
- irish literature
"Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dan…"-Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
3. Birds of America: Stories
By: Lorrie Moore
4.10
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
A long-awaited collection of stories--twelve in all--by one of the most exciting writers at work to… read more
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- womens
- female authors
"I would be a genius now,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"This is a political New Year's Eve,"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"Talent. I don't have talent. I have willingness."-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
"don’t mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness"-Lorrie Moore, Birds of America: Stories
4. Novels in Three Lines
By: None , Félix Fénéon
3.88
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALNovels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appe… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Jules Marty, commesso di merceria, 56 anni, e sua moglie, 38, si sono asfissiati a Saint-Ouen. La miseria."-None, Novels in Three Lines
"Aubervilliers. Dopo aver ferito a morte la signora Brécourt, Louis Tiratoivsky si è tolto la vita. L'amore."-None, Novels in Three Lines
"Strahlend: >>Es hätte auch mehr werden können!<< rief der Möder Lebret, in Rouen zu lebenslänglicher Zwangsarbeit verurteilt."-None, Novels in Three Lines
"La sera Blandine Guérin, di Vauncé si è svestita nelle scale. Poi, nuda come la parete di un'aula scolastica, si è annegata in un pozzo"-None, Novels in Three Lines
5. Parallax
By: Sinéad Morrissey
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
Capturing David Niven on a magical marble escalator to heaven in 1946, recording L. S. Lowry's stud… read more
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- poetry
- ireland
- irish literature
6. Selected Poems
By: Elaine Feinstein , Marina Tsvetaeva
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva bore wi… read more
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- poetry
- womens
7. The Moon Is Always Female: Poems
By: Marge Piercy
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The poems in this volume fall into two parts. Hand Games, poems of the first section, is the daily… read more
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8. On Being Ill
By: Virginia Woolf , Hermione Lee
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every hu… read more
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9. An Triail
By: None
4.20
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Drama le Mairead Ni Ghrada is ea An Triail. Maire Ni Chathasaigh is ainm don phriomhcharachtar. Is … read more
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10. A Blood Condition
By: Kayo Chingonyi
3.94
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"A Blood Condition is one of the most arresting and beautiful set of poems of this or any year" Gua… read more
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- poetry
11. 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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- ireland
- irish literature
12. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems
13. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
By: Paul Tran
3.87
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)
14. 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
15. 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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- poetry
16. brother. do. you. love. me.
By: Manni Coe
4.39
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair
By: Christian Wiman
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Christian Wiman braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work. … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
18. All the Names Given: Poems
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.19
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A Guardian Best Book of the Year Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Costa Poetry Award “Exq… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Handiwork
By: Sara Baume
4.17
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily proc… read more
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- nonfiction
- irish literature
- ireland
20. The Historians: Poems
By: Eavan Boland
4.09
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2020 Costa Poetry Award A forceful and moving final volume from one of the most mast… read more
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- poetry
- female authors
- nonfiction
- womens
- ireland
- irish literature
21. We Play Here
By: Dawn Watson
4.28
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A Guardian Poetry Book of the Year 2023; shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Priz… read more
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- poetry
