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Giant Crabs and Spiders
Kant and marmalade, a solemn talk with a lift, an existential struggle with something from IKEA, an absurdist discussion of meaning in poetry, or a disquisition on the nature of windows: Robin Thomas is a poet of high imagination, always looking for the unusual angle and finding it over and over in this, his latest collection.Giant Crabs and Spiders ranges across philosophy, painting, music, literature, politics, history, science, and what it’s like to be alive. The poet explores knowledge, ethics, meaning, mortality, and writes of loss and grief. Bubbling away through these intense, sometimes quirky, always compassionate poems is a joy in language, its musical resources and endless possibilities.
Dog Show
'Collins remains the most companionable of poetic companions.' – The New York TimesBilly Collins’s poetry collection Dog Show celebrates the joy of our canine best friends, honouring the love we feel for the animals who play such vital roles in our lives. In twenty-five poems, Collins distills the many ways dogs warm our hearts, from the happiness we experience as we watch a dog run unencumbered by our burdens, to the silliness of cradling a dog in our arms as we step on the scale together. Turning his inimitable eye and ear to the complexities of dog behaviour, Collins ponders all that these winning creatures give us and what we learn from them about ourselves. For more than four decades Collins has delighted readers with his insight, wit, and clear poetic voice. In Dog Show, 'America’s favorite poet' (The Wall Street Journal) illuminates man's best friend (sorry, cat lovers). Accompanied by Pamela Sztybel’s watercolours, which effortlessly depict a dog’s humble grace, Dog Show reveals the profound role these majestic animals play in our lives and the meaning they give us.
The Sight of Light • The Sound of Clouds • The Touch of Skin
This new translation of three collections from one of Denmark?s leading poets completes the remarkable Senses Quintet in English. Pia Tafdrup has published over 20 books in Danish since her first collection appeared in 1981, including widely admired sequences of themed collections. The latest of these is a series of five books focussing on the human senses, her Senses Quintet (2014-2022), which the critic Carsten Palmer Schale has called ?a cathedral of the soul? and ?the best collection of poems written in Scandinavia in the past 20 years?.Bloodaxe published David McDuff?s translation of the first two collections in the quintet, The Taste of Steel and The Smell of Snow, in one volume in 2021. This edition brings together his translations of the third, fourth and fifth parts, The Sight of Light, The Sound of Clouds and The Touch of Skin.All parts of life are mediated through the five senses in the five books, including the way of the world and the losses that people sustain during the course of their lives ? the disappearance of friends and family members, but also the erosion of control of one?s own existence. The themes of ecology, war and conflict are never far away, and there is a constant recognition of the circular nature of life, the interplay of the generations.
Moon Garden
Reconnect with your intuition, heal gently, and manifest your dreams with intention—one season, one cycle, one phase at a time.From Melody Godfred, author of the international bestseller Self Love Poetry for Thinkers & Feelers, comes Moon Garden: Poetry for Manifestation, a one-of-a-kind poetry book where the moon becomes your manifestation guide. This isn’t a book that pushes you forward. Moon Garden welcomes you home to yourself. Inspired by the lunar cycles and set in an ethereal moon garden, this spiritual poetry collection combines deeply personal poems and meditative prose to help you slow down, soften, and realign—with your inner truth and the rhythm of nature. Moon Garden reminds us that personal growth and emotional healing don’t follow a straight line. Like nature, transformation unfolds like a garden, blooming in its own time. Whether you're in a season of planting, tending, harvesting, or rest, this book offers wisdom, encouragement, and space to reflect on where you are—and where you’re meant to go next as you begin to move through the world with greater intention and presence. More than a poetry book, Moon Garden: Poetry for Manifestation is a year-long companion for dream fulfillment and inner peace, guided by the quiet beauty of the night and the light that already lives within you.
Stop all the clocks
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone ...
Here are the anxieties that beset our waking and sleeping hours: the delirium of desire, the torture of unrequited love, the trauma of loss and displacement. And here, in these resonant, dazzling poems, is the understanding we might be looking for.
We Will Be Fine
Spiky, and as ominous as snow in June, We Will Be Fine is full of wistful yearning and eerie surrealism. With an arch, ironic tone that belies the precision of its imagery, this pamphlet lampoons the fallacy of the picture perfect relationship. The seemingly romantic and domestic is rendered silly, Sisyphean and downright absurd. But amongst the fatalist cynicism and dark humour are, I promise, sublime moments of fleeting tenderness. Expect magic, flying, burnt dinners and naked mole rats, just don't hold out for happily-ever-after. "In We Will Be Fine, the everyday takes on a fabulously surreal sheen: we are led into a world in which ant societies and naked mole-rats reveal unsettling truths about romantic relationships; a world in which ‘grass creaks’ and a flower can be grown from a buried stone. Throughout, Lyster deftly reflects on poignant moments of human connection — two people sheltering in a church porch, a choir of women breathing in unison — moments when barely suppressed fears and longings rise to the surface. With her signature wit and deliciously deadpan delivery, Lyster immerses us in the bizarre beauty and messiness of being alive." Natalie Linh Bolderston"The title may be ironic, but the poems are as earnest as they are uncertain, offering a perceptive view of the world and its entanglements. Resolution hinges on connection (‘I decided to give you back the horse, inside out, so you could see its beauty all the time’) as much as it does scepticism (‘I suspect the trees / aren’t real’). The poems are contemplative and precise, honest and hopeful: full of unique metaphors rooted in the mundane and the domestic, and venturing out into the world only to deconstruct it in this searching and skilful debut." Isabelle Baafi"The everyday anguish of being human is made magical here, as an extraordinarily vivid internal landscape is laid out before us. The poems in We Will Be Fine are funny, original, fresh, slightly scary, knowing at the same time as moving, strange and surprising. All of that, and all at once." Mark Waldron"Rowan Lyster's poems capture the shape of hands almost touching. In Lyster's word-world, moments of connection and severance come together with painful accuracy. The interior life of the human is revealed to be no different to that of the naked mole-rat, but in being picked up and weighed – which is to say, held – it becomes glowingly present again." Will Harris
Across the Narrow Straits
The narrow straits: The stretch of water between Ireland and Scotland The perilous, hopeful path of the refugee. The hidden, inner journey we all take to find the shore Historian and social justice advocate Rosemary Power maps the stormy crossings of the human spirit. Drawing on her deep connection to the Hebrides and a lifetime of advocating for the vulnerable, she offers poems that go to the heart of human experience and illuminate the most difficult straits of our lives. From the stormy seas between Ireland and Scotland to the harrowing, eternal struggles of refugees seeking safety, these poems capture moments when land – and hope – is both tantalisingly close and agonisingly out of reach.
The Taste of Lightning
The Taste of Lightning is a new selection of poems by Ivan V. Lalic, one of 20th-century Yugoslavia?s most crucial poets. Lalic?s poetry is alive with seeing and feeling the world ? a world of sun and wind, water and fire. He is also a poet of love ? a love for his wife Branka that ?matures like wine? over the decades. From adolescence, through young adulthood, to the onset of old age, where ?We are twin foci of the same ellipse? Which links two other foci: death and love.?But for Lalic, the seen and the felt need to be held in memory if they are to last beyond the instant. This means putting them into words, in speech or a poem, though doing so distances us from the raw freshness of experience: ?Images I barter for the right to pronounce them, / Names I slip as a bribe to time?. Memory, for Lalic, is also cultural. Many of his poems speak about Yugoslavia?s Eastern and Western heritages. About his native Serbia?s history and landscape, and its roots in Byzantium and ultimately in Ancient Greece. But also the seascapes and culture of the Croatian Adriatic, and of Italy.The Taste of Lightning introduces new readers to this grand master of European poetry, whose other books in English are now out of print. And for those who know Lalic?s poetic world, it combines revisions of previously published translations with poems not seen before in English.The Taste of Lightning traces the whole arc of Lalic?s poetic career. From the directness of his early work in the 1950s, which emerged from the trauma of a wartime boyhood. Through the rich imagery and startlingly apt similes of his mature verse. But it also charts another voice, thoughtful and meditative, that gradually grows more prominent. This voice finally reflects, just before Lalic?s death in 1996, on what God?s purpose might be in a world wounded by personal and national tragedy: ?may he forgive my fear / That he created me, as the book says, in his own image?. Francis R. Jones, the book?s editor and translator, knew Lalic well, and has worked with his poems for almost five decades. Of Jones?s 15 translation prizes to date, five were awarded for his versions of Lalic?s poetry.
The Book of Rain
The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.So begins translator David Larsen?s introduction for the Book of Rain by ancient Arabic linguist and hadith narrator Abu Zayd Sa''id ibn Aws al-A? ri. While far from a definitive list, The Book of Rain is the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words. In Larsen''s translation, Abu Zayd''s lexicography of rain is simultaneously an academic, archival, and poetic pursuit.These rich, extensive lists provide detailed descriptions of ?The Dribble,? ?The Discharge,? ?The Flat,? ?The Beetle-Brow,? and ?The Nebuline??all specific types of rain?as well as words for frosts, dews, thunder, lightning, clouds, and, of course, the various and plentiful words for waters. Coupled with Larsen?s introduction, The Book of Rain is a source of endless interdisciplinary inquiry which is sure to fascinate readers for years (if not centuries) to come.
Soon It Will Be Sunday
With care and vulnerability, novelist and poet Lang Leav explores what it means to live a purpose-filled life as a woman in search of fulfillment and visibility. Through poetry, micro-essays, and ruminations, Soon It Will Be Sunday delves into the purpose and impact of the interpersonal attachments that women form during different stages of their lives. Internationally bestselling author Lang Leav reflects on the perilous and winding road of being a woman, contending with the conflicting messages we receive from society, and the choices we make that ultimately define us, while also addressing the narrowing options women face with the passing of time. Deeply personal and all too relatable, Soon It Will Be Sunday aims to provide a mirror for women to see and be seen no matter which era of womanhood you are currently navigating.
Poems to Night
'A gorgeous collection of odes to the night and darkness' ExBerlinerIn 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to Night. This evocative sequence of poems, which echoes some of the great themes of German romanticism, is now thought to represent one of the key stages in the creative breakthrough and spiritual evolution of the preeminent European poet of the twentieth century.This translation was the first to bring all the poems together in English and is enhanced by the translator's valuable introduction and a rich selection of further poems Rilke dedicated to night at various stages of his life.Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.Translated by Will Stone.Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the greatest German-language writers to have ever lived. He published his first collection of verse, Leben und Lieder (Life and Songs), in 1894, while he was still at school, and continued to write poetry and prose throughout his life, becoming a master of both. He is perhaps best known for his Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke died in Switzerland in 1926, after being diagnosed with leukaemia, and was buried in the churchyard of Raron. His chosen epitaph was 'Rose, oh pure contradiction, to be no-one's sleep under so many lids.'Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His translations for Pushkin Press include a series of titles by Stefan Zweig, and the books Rilke in Paris and Conversations with Rilke. His essays, reviews and poems have appeared in a range of publications including the TLS, the London Magazine and the Spectator.
Euphoria
"In the quiet moments, love speaks its loudest truths." Euphoria is a tender journey through love’s resilience and the beauty of fleeting moments.In Euphoria, bestselling poet F.S. Yousaf—author of Sincerely and Serenity—offers an expanded, intimate journey through the landscapes of love, faith, and the fragile beauty of fleeting moments. With a tender and profound voice, Yousaf’s poems touch on life’s most delicate experiences, tracing the quiet resilience that sustains us and the connections that give us strength.Each verse invites you to pause, to linger in emotions that feel both personal and universal. With a following that spans millions, Yousaf’s work resonates as a gentle reminder of the ways we hold each other and find grace in the everyday. Euphoria is a companion for the heart, a softly lit path through love’s highs and lows, and a celebration of the moments that shape us.
Pulling Faces: Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize for Poetry 2026
Pulling Faces yanks you by the collar and talks like your favourite, wayward cousin. Fresh and vivid, these poems are equal turns cheeky and world weary, defiant and mournful. Speaking of and to the Somali community, Zakariye eschews the romanticised cliches of the diasporic experience. Instead, he embraces the ugly, the strange, the mundane and the magical in all its simultaneity. It is never quite clear what is truth and what is myth or where the line between love and fear is drawn, and this very ambiguity is this pamphlet's biggest strength. This is a gut-lead work that speaks just as loud in its omissions as its well chosen words. 'Generosity, craft and bite. These words share a voice fully connected to what it notices and clearly burning with more to say. Wicked.' Steven 'Polarbear' Camden'This pamphlet is a stunning meditation on growing up, the continual and often fractious journey to becoming, on learning to grieve and to live. Zakariye writes family, brotherhood, friendship, community and coming of age with such style, energy, technique and precision. Cinematic, joyful, tender. It will make you smile. It will break your heart.' Cecilia Knapp'Zakariye has an amazing ability to capture the world around him in its fullness. He manages to find the hope in darkness, the cold perspective that accompanies joy and the reality hiding in every dream. He does this with skill and clarity, allowing you to really feel the emotion that sits behind the work in a beautiful way.' Casey Bailey
Bakandamiya
Covering more than five hundred years of cultural transformation, Bakandamiya: An Elegy is a book-length epic poem set in Northern Nigeria. The poem moves from passages of mythic power to elegant lyricism with remarkable skill, subverting the legend of Bayajidda, a prince from Baghdad whose arrival reshaped the outlook of the Hausas, a Native ethnic group in West Africa. Told in part from a Bori spirit’s point of view and in part through personal lyrics, part prayer and part praise song, Bakandamiya decries the loss of culture and spirituality due to colonization from both the West and the East. Even as it subverts myths and popular beliefs and addresses some of the events that led to the Nigerian civil war, it tackles the lingering question of nationhood. In this work of lyric and poetic ambition, Saddiq Dzukogi blends the personal with the mythical, expanding the griot tradition of Bakandamiya, a poetic form from Northern Nigeria popularized by Mamman Shata. Here the form travels from orature to contemporary poetics for the first time, taking its place at the vanguard of contemporary poetry.
The Naming
The Naming explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern individual, connecting these experiences to ancestry. The poems in this collection examine the various ways one remains tied to their ancestors by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures. Through this exploration, the collection seeks to rebuild a world that doesn’t merely replicate realities but reinvents, enshrines, and restories them. Chi? Ezenwa-?haeto’s poems offer a vital contribution to African cultural studies through their focus on Igbo heritage and ancestry.
Príbeh vody
Zuzana Šeligová predstavuje svoju novú zbierku poézie „Príbeh vody“, ktorá zachytáva citlivé vnímanie sveta a plynutie života cez osobitý autorský pohľad. Kniha je charakteristická aj svojím výtvarným a grafickým spracovaním a je určená milovníkom poézie, ktorí sa k nej budú radi vracať.
Grafický dizajn: Tomáš Paulen
Lazarus Species
From the celebrated author of Philomath, an astonishingly inventive collection of poems illuminating human, planetary, and personal survival.Traversing historical, terrestrial, and discursive limits, Devon Walker-Figueroa brings a chorus of perspectives, eras, idioms, and ideals into novel if not turbulent dialogue. In this dazzling second collection, bursting with detailed case studies, obscure natural phenomena, and flagrant apocrypha, these poems calculate the debilitating and contorting costs of survival. “You find your family, / your whole phyla & future, buried / in some encyclopedia & glean / how small the risk of eternity,” she imagines, addressing the consciousness of a “Lazarus species”—creatures thought vanished, even while they live.Here, classical poetic forms meet postmodern notations and aerospace architecture meets Babylonian hymns, all of them wrestling with the aberrant existence we yield to in life, and wield against other lives. We read into the worlds of a tormented Lawrence of Arabia, our special ancestor Australopithecus, Tesla’s space dummy Starman, and other brilliantly posed figures and sagas in indelible spaces like “The Euthanasia Coaster,” a “Desert Theater,” and “Paradise Lust.” Conceptually driven and blooming with a lyricism at once tender and razor-sharp, Lazarus Species knows no bounds in the exploration of an evolutionary, archeological, and interstellar vision.
Vrstva
Sbírka Vrstva je výběrem z dosavadní tvorby Terezy Horváthové (1996) a ačkoli básně nejsou řazeny v časové posloupnosti, pozorný čtenář si může všimnout určitého rozpětí mezi texty jednoznačně inspirovanými surrealismem až po básně sevřené, kompaktní, téměř strohé. Tereza Horváthová je velmi pečlivou pozorovatelkou předmětného světa, její texty s okolním světem navazují vztah vždy nový a neočekávatelný.
Soubor čítá 58 textů, miniatur, ve kterých se rozehrávají události, jež dokáží rozčeřit čtenářské vnímání. Některé z nich se hned po prvním přečtení vpisují do paměti.
Jin a young
Jin a jang (černá a bílá) jsou podle čínské filozofie dva protichůdné elementy vesmíru, které bez sebe nemohou existovat, každý má v sobě zárodek toho druhého, a proto se vzájemně sváří a proměňují, aby se udržely v rovnováze. Young ovšem znamená mladý, ale také nezkušený. Neměnná podstata světa se střetává s našimi individuálními životy, které se chtějí odtrhnout od své podstaty, a o tom jsou básně Dušana Spáčila.
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.
Hľadáte niečo špeciálne? Možno zbierate zaujímavosti či pátrate po darčeku pre blízkeho. Skúste zbierky poézie od známeho režiséra Tima Burtona alebo beatlesáka Johna Lennona. Pre skalných fanúšikov ako stvorené.
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