8 best-selling poetry books like Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp

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Peach Pig

By: Cecilia Knapp

4.10

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

' Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPEST In her devastatingly powerful debut c…

If you liked the poetry plot in Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl R. Rogers, Peter D.    Kramer

1. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

By: Carl R. Rogers , Peter D. Kramer

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy w… read more

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2. 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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3. Blue Horses

By: Mary Oliver

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more

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4. 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

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5. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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6. 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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"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

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7. 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

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8. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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9. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

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"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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10. Slug

By: Hollie McNish

4.51

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, … read more

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11. Bad Diaspora Poems

By: Momtaza Mehri

4.29

Format: 115 pages, Hardcover

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2023*Diaspora is witnessing a murder without getting blood on yo… read more

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Cover of Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant

12. 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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13. Rest and Be Thankful

By: Emma Glass

3.52

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more

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"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

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14. 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

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15. Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more

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"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

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16. Alison

By: Lizzy Stewart

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter … read more

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17. Tender

By: Beth Hetland

3.91

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

A psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life… read more

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18. little scratch

By: Rebecca Watson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more

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19. 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

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20. Peach Pig

By: Cecilia Knapp

4.10

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

' Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPEST In her devastatingly powerful debut c… read more

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21. 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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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Claire Keegan

4.00

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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