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Prema


Prema, meaning love in Telugu, is the debut pamphlet from creative, actor, singer and poet, Rithvik Andugula. The uniting themes of love and grief are encompassed in these reflections on love across nations and time, whether the stories of grandparents whose unconditional love endures, or the love of people briefly known. Rithvik Andugula’s acting credits include Odessa (Disney+, 2025) and Death Valley releasing May 2025 on BBC One.
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The Rose


The award-winning poet reckons with feminine archetypes, erotic love, and the shifting boundary between power and surrender Fury is very lustful A body concealing its heart's desire Has a certain texture A tang or an edge if you will That the openhearted cannot match & when exactly does the deceitful Heart open? At climax. -from 'The Hanged Man' The Rose navigates the intersection of power and surrender. Drawing on the history of 'romance' as the troubadours knew it, and the titular flower's ancient allegories for sexuality and mystery, award-winning poet Ariana Reines plunges into feminine archetypes to explore masculine pain: 'I have always liked helpless / & terrible men because they break my mind.' In these poems, inherited ideologies of gender performance are replaced with bold vulnerability: paradoxes of power and surrender transmute the speaker's understanding of suffering, desire, and the soul. The voice in The Rose is wry and bare, approaching the connection between erotic love and spirituality with humour. Investigating war, maternity, violent sensuality, and the role of language in magical acts, Reines is unafraid to uncover the 'secret / & terrible shovelings / Of love,' and the result is a bloody and pulsing, sexy and unabashed bloom.
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The Kind Company of Others


A poet’s skill lies in their ability to distil complex themes into a few paragraphs; to pick out the fundamental quality in people that make us unique; they can describe nature in a way that makes us see its majesty. The poet traverses contents and political divides; they help us understand where we have come from which in turn allows us to figure out where we are going. And no one does this better than Alexander McCall Smith. He has brought – through his novels – many wonderful characters to vivid life and entertained readers all over the globe. And in his third collection of poetry, he guides the reader by the hand and takes them through time and place exploring the majestic themes of nature and the complexities of relationships and what it is that makes us human with his trademark warmth and humour.
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Miluj ma ako naozaj


HRANICA MEDZI NÁDEJOU A SEBAKLAMOM SLOVENSKÉHO KLASIKA Nemýlia sa tí, ktorí v básnikovi Miroslavovi Válkovi (1927 – 1991) vidia deziluzívneho analytika ľudskej situácie. Ako analytik preukazoval zmysel nielen pre veci skryté, ale aj pre tie skrývané, ktoré ľudia nechcú ukazovať pred inými. Možno preto, lebo sa to nesluší, ale určite tiež preto, že by tým odhalili svoje zraniteľné miesta. A hoci Válek začínal očarený krásou a duchovnosťou sveta, pribúdajúcimi skúsenosťami sa z ilúzií o láske, dobre či spravodlivosti nedobrovoľne vyliečil... Ján Gavura Miroslav Válek (1927 – 1991) vydal básnické zbierky Dotyky (1959), Príťažlivosť (1961), Nepokoj (1963) a Milovanie v husej koži (1965), ku ktorým neskôr pribudla poéma Slovo (1976). Ďalšia Válkova bibliografia odráža paradoxnosť doby a výnimočnosť autorovho postavenia v slovenskej literatúre a kultúre. Jeho tvorba sa stala predmetom početných reedícií a výberov, do ktorých boli doplnené básne z autorových začiatkov (známe tiež ako výber Domáca úloha a cyklus Zápalky), ako aj dva rozsiahle cykly zo záveru básnikovej tvorby (Obrazáreň a Z vody). Aktuálne vydanie v Luxusnej knižnici vychádza z edície Miroslav Válek Básnické dielo (Kalligram – Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV, Bratislava, 2005, ed. Valér Mikula) a Miroslav Válek Domáca úloha (FACE – Fórum alternatívnej kultúry a vzdelávania, 2018, ed. Peter Tollarovič).
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Time Seeds


Time Seeds is a collection of poems celebrating life, acknowledging loss and asserting the moral imperative of hope and renewal. Already acclaimed for her eloquently written works of historical fiction, Margaret Elphinstone has now applied her skills to a collection of writing which has adopted the brevity and immediacy of poetry to articulate the urgency and perils of our times. Each turn of the page brings its own surprise, whether a deeply personal or globally challenging idea. This is no predictable poetry collection. Nor, despite the passionately expressed fears for all living beings, is it a missal of doom. A belief in renewal, she argues, is essential, though the form it will take is as yet unknown and may surprise us. Doing nothing is not an option. Failure to hope would be a terrible betrayal of future generations, not just of humanity but of all life. These wholly approachable poems share moments from a life richly observed. Here are poems of time and memory, experience, and gratitude for the beauty of the world. They are bright, full of colour and unpretentious, shaped by Margaret Elphinstone’s characteristic wisdom and warmth. – Kathleen Jamie
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Looting Hummingbirds


In the first quarter of the 20th century, Daniel Thaly of Dominica, then a British Caribbean colony, was one of France’s most celebrated poets. He was educated in Martinique and then at medical school in France before returning to Dominica. His illustrious reputation crumbled when radicals in the emerging anti-colonial Negritude movement criticised his work. From then on he wrote little. Here for the first time in English (and French) we can read a selection of his lyrical and passionate poems - many about Dominica - alongside an introduction that pieces together what little is known of his life.
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The Time of Falling Apart


In a voice that shifts from ironic and quirky to contemplative and speculative, The Time of Falling Apart follows the poet through the inevitable passage of memory and time, and a search for meaning in a world rife with injustice.Without a traditional faith to navigate the horrors and wonders of life on earth, Wendy Donawa lingers with small beauties in a spiritual quest to keep love alive in a “darkening world.”The speaker’s eyes are wide open on catastrophes of aging, illness and family strife. But early memories are idyllic, entangled in the tides and towns of Vancouver Island, grounded by the coast’s sensory world: “the tide’s pebbly click and shush / and crows cawing in the arbutus.”As she ages, the speaker’s internal narrative expands to consider a wider world populated with casualties of colonizing desires, fuelled by competing ideologies and a destabilizing pandemic—the “time of falling apart.” Here are the social hells of racism, war, colonial violence and homelessness. Here are despair over a damaged earth and grief over nature’s destruction.And yet, how not to notice when bees hum in the lavender, cyclamen gleams in December, and bears burrow in their marvellous, layered coats? When Bach blasts on the sound system, friends and cappuccinos are at hand, and, at the back of it all, there is always the unfathomable, glorious mystery of the cosmos.Elegiac, meditative and unwaveringly kind, this collection is for anyone who has felt unable to reconcile the implacable passing of time, but determined to recognize love and beauty wherever they may be found.
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Like Never Before


Comic, poignant, and observational, these poems embrace the theme of a changing world – linguistically, politically, and environmentally – and the changes we all experience as we age. This is Alistair – like never before – commenting on a world that is accelerating like never before.
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Collected Poems


For the first time, this volume gathers together all Tobias Hill’s poems from his four full-length collections in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition, introduced by Maura Dooley. The Collected Poems marks an important moment in British poetry, drawing together Hill’s work from his Eric Gregory Award-winning debut, Year of the Dog (1995), to the bestselling Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow (2006). Hill’s celebrated ‘urban pastoral’ was decadent yet austere, driven through radical visual desire. Here in one volume we can see the extent of his imaginative journey, travelling through towns and cityscapes, presenting a simmering world of captured lives, haunting, but filled with charm and wit. The early work is dominated by Japan, where Hill lived for two years, yet it is his beloved London that becomes the imaginative centre of his work, filled with the sensuous intensity of that great city. Tobias Hill was selected as one of the country’s Next Generation poets in 2004, shortlisted for the 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and named by the TLS as one of the best young writers in the country.
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Gravity Archives


From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return. Andrew Motion's new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the opening elegies for friends and former versions of the self, and in the long title sequence which completes the book, he explores the ways in which regrets compete with hope, and the appetite for life is always a prey to hard facts of mortality. The energy and reach of these poems opens a new chapter in Motion's writing, remaining true to the elegiac subjects which have always been his main concern, while adding new depths of pathos and resonance.
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Where Silence Learns to Speak


Where Silence Learns to Speak je jemná zbierka básní o láske, strate, osobnom raste a sile ženy, ktorá sa učí stavať na prvé miesto samu seba. Minimalistický a intímny štýl odhaľuje vnútorné emócie, zachytáva tiché momenty sebapoznania a ponúka čitateľovi hlboký pohľad do sveta ženského prežívania. Každá báseň je pozvánkou k zamysleniu, k prijatiu zmien a k objaveniu vlastnej vnútornej sily. Básne v knihe sú v anglickom jazyku.
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Jiving with Wasps


Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades, from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), in addition to new poems appearing here for the first time. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles. Defiantly mischievous, playfully subversive, this irreverent iconoclast has been achieving even wider popularity through her regular appearances on RTÉ's Brendan O'Connor Show: 'Rita Ann Higgins is the people's poet. She's magic. She's a one-off.'
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A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost


The early works of esteemed American poet Robert Frost are collected here in one volume.The poetry of Robert Frost is praised for its realistic depiction of rural life in New England during the early twentieth century, as well as for its examination of social and philosophical issues. Through the use of American idiom and free verse, Frost produced many enduring poems that remain popular with modern readers. A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost contains all the poems from his first four published collections: A Boy’s Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), Mountain Interval (1916), and New Hampshire (1923), including classics such as “The Road Not Taken,” “Fire and Ice,” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” This handsome leather-bound volume is an elegant addition to every poetry lover’s shelf.
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Life Immediately


Life Immediately is a pacy, dynamic debut collection containing all the preoccupations of Lily Blacksell’s work, from womanhood, to music, to the natural world and our calamitous dealings with it, to the calamity and comedy of human relationships, romantic or otherwise. Blacksell’s writing showcases the expansiveness of language, but also its failures: communication builds up and breaks down, geese honk, hangovers linger, in eclectic, formally confident poems where observation is balanced with insouciance.
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Crowd Voltage


John McCullough's Crowd Voltage addresses yearnings for community. It probes fragmentation within groups and individuals – disturbances within the body of the crowd and the crowd of the body. Engaging with working-class and queer experiences, the poems move between solitude and togetherness, haunted by ghosts from history as they dream of unity and discover joy in deserted corners. To be common here is to share not only qualities but stories with many others – to be classed alongside people with similar origins and become connected also to what is commonplace in the world of animals and plants, days and tables. Sky and sea dominate as the speakers search for oneness and completion, confronted by vast silences and the shadow of Brighton’s collapsing West Pier. John McCullough has published four previous collections, one with Salt and three with Penned in the Margins, most recently, the Costa-shortlisted Reckless Paper Birds (2019), winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and Panic Response (2022), which included his long poem 'Flowers of Sulphur', shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
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I Do Know Some Things


'A spectacular comeback' Jeremy Noel Tod, Prospect'Siken’s signature intensity still throbs between sentences' The Yale ReviewA collection of pitch-perfect prose poems written in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophic stroke. From the author of cult poetry bestseller, Crush. Richard Siken’s Crush was an underground international sensation. Twenty years on, he returns with the momentous I Do Know Some Things, cinematic in its tragic vision and emotive force. In the aftermath of a stroke, the poet’s language and much of his memory is, for a time, wiped out. As his mind gropes its way back from oblivion, the scenery flickers between memories of a ruptured childhood and queer coming-of-age, and the precipice of the present. Each poem is a room in a ‘house owned by ghosts'. In these seventy-seven prose poems, Siken has forged a new voice at once terrifying and vital. Brave in content and in method, I Do Know Some Things demands his recognition as an essential poet of our times. ‘Thrums with reinvention: of the self, of the prose poem, of the false divide between the everyday and the surreal’ Andrew McMillanPraise for Crush:'Cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power' Louise Glück‘The immense wingspan of influence that Crush has on 21st-century American poetry cannot be overstated’ Ocean Vuong
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Čas manga


V poradí druhá básnická kniha slovensko-americkej poetky Oľgy Urminskej, ktorá po emigrácii žila v amerických alternatívnych, hippie komunitách je výberom jej básní z archívu zo 70. a 80. rokov v preklade Samuela Vahovského. Poézia z tohto obdobia, časť ktorej bola publikovaná v amerických časopisoch a zborníkoch, reflektuje jej rebelský, nonkonformný a nezávislý život v týchto komunitách. Ale predovšetkým skúsenosť materstva, afirmáciu ženského tela, akými to aktuálne robila americká druhá vlna feminizmu či beat poézia – návratom k vytesneným formám rytmu, zariekavania či opakovania. Druhá časť knihy pod názvom „Jeden deň v živote umelkyne“ predstavuje civilnejšie ladené básne, ktoré ukazujú na jej neskoršie snahy popísať jedinečnosť umeleckého procesu, zachytávajú ju ako poetku aj maliarku.
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Calling It Back to Me


A poet’s clear-eyed witnessing of familial history, this is the most personal collection yet from two-time Trillium Book Award finalist Laurie D. Graham.In these searching, spare, and resonant poems, Laurie D. Graham traces the story of her great-grandmothers’ lives before and after they left their homelands and settled on this continent, striving to understand how she came to be here and writing the act of colonization as it exists in her own family history. This collection’s fractured lines, time-weathered yet alive with detail, reflect a family’s knowledge broken by global immigration and memory loss, both individual and collective. The result is a courageous reckoning with the legacy of leaving home.With tender curiosity and a determination to bear unflinching witness, Calling It Back to Me asks: When language and memory are so tenuous, what is it that gets passed down between generations?
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Dispatch From Every Second Guess


A verse-memoir spanning the breakdown of a marriage and the resulting wide-open horizon of single motherhood,Dispatch From Every Second Guess explores how we negotiate the present in the light of the past, how our lingering resentments limit our attentions, and how old wounds reopen in new ways. Gannon’s life is layered with tensions. The tension of being a white adoptive mother to a Black son. The tension of healing from a failed marriage. The tension of supporting a partner through mental health crises. The tension of mothering the partner’s child in the shadow of a fraught relationship with one’s own mother. And the tension of admitting ugly truths in a genre that often demands beauty, especially from women poets. Perfect for fans of Sharon Olds and Maggie Smith, Gannon’s second full-length collection of poetry is rife with poignant self-reflection and lyrical storytelling as she writes her way toward understanding, and maybe even forgiveness.
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Pre niekoho nezmyselné, pre iného uchu lahodiace. Také je básnické umenie.

Tu ste správne, ak si radi vychutnáte krátke verše o láske alebo dlhé o živote, poéziu veselú či vážnu. Nájdite si v našej ponuke ideálnu báseň na prednes alebo na intímne tiché čítanie.

Ak obľubujete klasikov, vyberte si niektorého z najprekladanejších svetových básnikov. Vychutnajte si nesmrteľné verše z pera Apollinairea, Walta Whitmana, Johna Keatsa a mnohých ďalších. O tom, že romantická poézia nemusí byť vždy o láske vás presvedčí Stendhal či Lord Byron. O temných stránkach ľudskej duše nás aj po desaťročiach vie poučiť Baudelaire či Rilke.

Očarila vás súčasná tvorba? Nesklamú vás ani slovenskí autori. Pavel Hirax Baričák a množstvo jeho kolegov i kolegýň poetiek vám rado spríjemní dlhé večery. Siahnite po veršoch Jany Melcerovej inšpirovaných ženskou dušou, po básnických zbierkach dvojjazyčnej autorky Judity Kaššovicovej či po Mile Haugovej, držiteľke prestížnej ceny Dominika Tatarku.

Radi si beriete básne ako spoločníkov na cesty? Vtedy sa vám bude hodiť niektorý z našich titulov „do vrecka“. Čas strávený vo vlaku či let na dovolenku bude razom príjemnejší.

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