8 must-read poetry books like Zoom! by Simon Armitage

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Zoom!

By: Simon Armitage

4.03

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage’s meteoric rise to poetic stardom. Unusually for a…

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1. Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

By: Ted Hughes

3.91

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Ted Hughes's celebrated programs for the BBC's "Listening and Writing" series, Poetry in… read more

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"In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words."

-Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

"If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatso…"

-Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

"Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself …"

-Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

"There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how do you make your writing interesting? The answer …"

-Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology

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2. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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3. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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4. A Poetry Handbook

By: Mary Oliver

4.22

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"(...) A Poetry Handbook was written with writers of poetry most vividly in my mind; their needs an… read more

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"A poem on the page speaks to the listening mind."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Invention hovers always a little above the rules."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

"Whatever can't be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned."

-Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

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5. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

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6. The Journals of Susanna Moodie

By: Margaret Atwood , Charles Pachter

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970), regarded by many as her most fully realize… read more

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7. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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8. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

By: George Monbiot

4.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more

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9. The Rhetoric of Fiction

By: Wayne C. Booth

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fictiontransformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a … read more

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10. 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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11. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

12. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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13. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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14. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more

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15. Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt

By: John Cooper Clarke , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

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16. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.34

Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more

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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)

17. The Inheritors

By: William Golding

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea.… read more

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18. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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19. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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20. Dearly

By: Margaret Atwood

3.74

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret … read more

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"If there were no emptiness, there would be no life."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Lwy nie wiedzą, że są lwami. Nie wiedzą, jak bardzo są odważne"."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Many things that are not what you want arrive in the disguise of flowers."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

"Here are the tulips, budded and full-blown, their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses, the satin of their darks."

-Margaret Atwood, Dearly

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21. The Forward Book of Poetry 2014

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.55

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Forward Book of Poetry showcases the best of contemporary poetry published in the British Isles… read more

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Cover of Zoom! by Simon Armitage

22. Zoom!

By: Simon Armitage

4.03

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage’s meteoric rise to poetic stardom. Unusually for a… read more

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6 must-read adult books like The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Transform Your Habits

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

4.02

Transform Your Habits

In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

Transform Your Habits

The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

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