Ephemeron
By: Fiona Benson
4.39
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent li…
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1. Dear Boy
By: Emily Berry
3.82
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Dear Boy is the dramatic and inventive debut by Emily Berry. These characterful, intelligent and da… read more
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- poetry
"I have cried your name in every possible colour"-Emily Berry, Dear Boy
"I was very young when I was cracked open. Some things you should let go of Others you shouldn't Views differ as to which I keep hold of everything, just in case"-Emily Berry, Dear Boy
2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
3. 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
4. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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5. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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6. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
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7. War of the Foxes
By: Richard Siken
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
In this long-awaited follow-up to Crush, Yale Series of Younger Poets prize-winner Richard Siken tu… read more
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8. blud
By: Rachel McKibbens
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited … read more
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9. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
10. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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- poetry
11. 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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"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
12. Bolla
By: Pajtim Statovci
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Kansainvälisen tähtikirjailijan lumoava romaani sokeasta rakkaudesta, sodasta, kodittomuudesta ja k… read more
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"Faced with death a person is as close to the radiance of life as can be. A lack of options is in fact a multitude of possibilities."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"War is born of war and there is no war that will end a war, and the disgust the boy caused was war’s finger, a fist shoved down the throat."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"One raised with fear never learns to live without it. When you take away its cause, fear manifests, becoming its own consequences – a lingering suspicion, hallucinations and waking dreams."-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
"Isn’t it strange how – again and again, as if to humiliate themselves – people fool themselves into thinking they can get time back somehow? How time only becomes important once it has passed?"-Pajtim Statovci, Bolla
13. Pew
By: Catherine Lacey
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more
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"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"-Catherine Lacey, Pew
"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."-Catherine Lacey, Pew
14. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- poetry
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
15. Rapture's Road
By: Seán Hewitt
4.28
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
In this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and est… read more
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- poetry
16. 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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17. 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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18. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
19. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
20. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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21. Honeybee
By: Trista Mateer
3.85
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer "expertly exposes the intensity of first love" in… read more
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"I still wake up with things to tell you."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"I Have A Postcard Mouth All it ever says is: wish you were here."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
"I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence."-Trista Mateer, Honeybee
22. A Ghost in the Throat
By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
4.04
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and auto… read more
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"Swift, the twist from ordinary to catastrophe."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"Instead, I'll think of new words, and then I'll follow them."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot know from whose mouths the echoes of our lives will chime."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
"We cannot permit reason to intrude upon this moment. Do not deny us this."-Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat
23. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
24. The Home Child
By: Liz Berry
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winnin… read more
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25. This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas)
By: George Monbiot
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In the galvani… read more
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27. Ephemeron
By: Fiona Benson
4.39
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent li… read more
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29. The Echoes
By: Evie Wyld
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future set between rural Australia and … read more
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30. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
31. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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