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Sidetracked


A bittersweet tale of war, survival, and the movies… With great wit and warmth, Alexander Voloshin’s Sidetracked provides unique insight into one of the major human dramas of the twentieth century: the escape of some two million refugees from the collapsing Russian Empire in the wake of the revolutions of 1917. A former officer in the White Army, Voloshin spent the late 1920s and 1930s struggling to make a living in Hollywood as an extra. His lively yet poignant poem follows his countrymen as they resist the Bolsheviks in Ukraine, suffer crushing defeat, and take flight—first to Europe, then to New York, and, eventually, to Los Angeles. The chapters devoted to the lives of émigrés in Hollywood, which Voloshin knew so well, are a priceless document of the town’s Golden Age, as viewed from the bottom up.
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25,49 €

Paper America


Paper america: New & Selected Poems gathers the poetic vision of Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez, a voice rooted in the landscapes and communities of the Texas–Mexico border. Drawing from her acclaimed collections Solstice and With the River on Our Face, alongside powerful new work, Pérez offers poems that confront the realities of immigration, border walls, cultural invisibility, and violence, while celebrating resilience, motherhood, and the enduring ties of family and heritage. Writing from McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley, Pérez continues the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa and Chicana/Latina writers who turned la frontera into a literary ground of strength and survival. Whether she is memorializing the children of Uvalde, reflecting on the river that sustains border communities, or capturing everyday encounters in classrooms and neighborhoods, her lines of poetry are precious—each one crafted with compassion, clarity, and urgency. With Whitmanesque scope yet firmly grounded in Mexican American identity and borderlands experience, Pérez’s poetry bridges the personal and the political, reminding readers of the power of words to bear witness, resist injustice, and cultivate hope. Paper america is both an introduction to one of Texas’s most vital poets and a career-spanning testament to the necessity of art in difficult times.
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29,99 €

The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets


This wise and touching exploration of the relationship between poetry and suicide offers new insights for those struggling with grief. ‘A nuanced and deeply insightful book.’ – Emilie Pine, author of Notes to Self ‘A bold and truly vital work.’ – Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits ‘Essential reading.’ – Anne Whitehead, author of Relating Suicide Following the loss of his twin sister, J. T. Welsch found himself drawn to the stories of poets who took their own lives. In The poetry of suicide, he interweaves these stories with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be?’, he delves into the work of Sylvia Plath, Marina Tsvetaeva and others, asking what it can teach us about suicide’s messy reality. He also explores recent controversies involving suicide, including the response to the Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why and Logan Paul’s notorious visit to Aokigahara, Japan's ‘suicide forest’. Suicide is more like poetry than we realise, Welsch argues. Both are filled with ambiguities, contradictions and unknowable intentions. Both demand and resist interpretation. Recovering the personal dimension often lost in our sanitised public discourse, Welsch finds practical ways of confronting suicide’s poem-like difficulties.
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27,99 €

Arriving Barefooted


In this bilingual collection, Arriving Barefooted—Two Rough Journeys/Glanio’n Droednoeth—Dwy Daith Arw, Gwen Williams traces the journey of the Welsh settlers in Patagonia and a journey in their footsteps. The first settlers arrived at Bahia Nueva in an old tea schooner, The Mimosa, in 1865. They had few farming or engineering skills and met with immediate hardship, sleeping in caves, shooting birds for food — metaphorically barefooted. But they were escaping oppression in their homeland, much like many modern-day migrants, and the determination to preserve their language and culture drove them on. In 2015, the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Y Wladfa, the poet travelled to Patagonia, welcomed by the descendants of the settlers. She carried a sketchbook and journal, discovering that her modern group of Welsh travellers were much less stoical than those first settlers, despite, or perhaps, because of modern advantages. The bilingual poems — they had to be in Welsh as well as English and would have been in Spanish too if Williams could have managed it — convey the essence of Chubut, its characters and rugged nature. Ranging from a Celtic festival on the banks of Afon Fawr to the noisy visitors showing off, Gogs and Hwntws (North and South Walians) competing to impress with their singing, these poems, by turns moving and filled with wit and warmth, immerse us in a unique place and culture. And along the way we might even meet the shy Patagonian Killer Bunny.
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13,49 €

August, September, October


August, September, October is a deep, vulnerable meditation on fatherhood, time passing, and survival in a world reshaped by crisis. In two long, diaristic poems and a constellation of lyrical reflections that accrue into a day book of sorts, this collection traces the daily experiences of a poet—someone very much, though not exactly, like Craig Morgan Teicher—through the emotional and existential terrain of caregiving during the COVID-19 lockdown. In the title poem, “August September October,” the speaker tends to his medically fragile son during a harrowing stretch of illness and hospitalization while pondering the deathbed book of Irish poet Ciaran Carson. The second extended poem, "Midsummer Days,” takes off from Bernadette Mayer’s classic Midwinter Day, following the speaker as he fails to write a memoir and climbs his way back to poetry and toward faith in a world overwhelmed by upheaval. Surrounding these central poems are shorter poems that meditate on grim games, the music of Sonny Rollins, memories of being a young writer, the tyranny of TV screens, and the insane politics of our time. August, September, October offers a profoundly human snapshot of a family navigating disability, grief, and fleeting hope, all while trying to keep the imagination alive in an age of catastrophe.
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19,49 €

Pomona's Orchard


Pomona’s Orchard, Adrian Blamires’ third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great-aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, the enlightened schoolmaster to an orphaned John Keats, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard. Miracles of love and healing are conjured in the face of violence and rapacity. Lament and dissent are sounded, alongside poems of witty, sensual profusion. The collection closes with a Tudor-themed sequence which presents pressing encounters – highly politicized, highly eroticized – between the Virgin Queen and her subjects. Drawing on Elizabethan lyric, symbolism, realia and innuendo, the poet offers a tragicomic vision of queen and country, a resonant blend of history and myth.
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17,99 €

Bytí je troufalé


Sbírka Bytí je troufalé je jemnou oslavou života a všeho, co nám přináší. Básně vyprávějí o spojení člověka s přírodou, o odvaze být součástí světa a o křehkosti, která se toho dotýká. Jsou prostoupeny emocemi, láskou k životu a hledají lehkost v těžkých chvílích. Autorka nechává promlouvat svět kolem sebe v jeho nejobyčejnějších i nejkouzelnějších podobách — od šepotu větru ve vrbách až po nekonečný proud řeky. Stačí se zastavit a nechat se unášet čistou melodií.
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11,49 €

Cynefin


Reimagine our relationship with the natural world through the Welsh poetic tradition. At a time of biodiversity loss and climate grief, we need to reset our relationship with the natural world. Cynefin helps us hear the voices of people down the centuries who have, through poetry, expressed a different way of connecting with the living world around us. Carwyn Graves explores how the Welsh poetic tradition offers a different view of nature and connecting to our place in the world, and demonstrates its power to help us address the challenges we face. Find fresh perspectives from themes of grief and loss mediated through snow and the cuckoo’s song, to ecological sensibilities in medieval poems and the generosity of the water that drives the water wheel. In a thousand years of poetry we see the natural world portrayed not as a pristine realm but a human home; bittersweet as well as welcoming. Above all Carwyn invites us through these poems, to encounter the living world - in seagulls and sheepflocks, a lake or wheatfield - not in the abstract but in all its sparkling specificity
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25,49 €

How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside


Why do we write poetr? ho should write i? nd where do you even star? ell, Brian Bilston, one of the UK’s most hilarious and best-loved poets, is here to take us through the hows, whys and whats of reading, writing and enjoying poetry every day. With his characteristic wit and charm, Bilston accompanies us through the jungle of imagination to the source of inspiration, takes us under the bonnet of a sonnet and over the fear of literary devices. He gives us a whirlwind tour through the history of verse, and shows us why human poetry will always triumph over any attempts by AI. Showcasing over a hundred brand new poems, and including practical critiques of some of his greatest hits, every page is an immensely pleasurable deep-dive into the life-affirming craft of poetry and a passionate argument for why we should all pick up a pen. How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside is for anyone who loves words and all the things they can do.
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22,99 €

Coal


‘I am Black because I come from the earth’s insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.’ Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplicity. Mournful, celebratory, politically conscious, this early collection faithfully captures the complex interiority of the self. With insight and great feeling, these poems explore racial and sexual politics, liberation and love; they are strongly autobiographical (including poems about Lorde’s children, her sister and her parents, as well as an elegy for a dear childhood friend). These timeless poems resonate down the years.
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13,49 € 14,49€

Glitchwork


Glitchwork tracks the uneven lineages of Central India, building on modernist legacies and reckoning with the spectres of the 1984 Bhopal disaster. Mantra Mukim’s debut poetry collection is situated in a timeless, forested grid, poised on the verge of industrial erasure. This grid, a restless site of extraction and production, also brims with potential for lushness, fey ambience, and petite clearings. Its three long poems consist of fragments on a mysterious Cold War ‘plant’, remixes of Surdas (the medieval-Braj poet), notes on palaeolithic hands, philology of the line, anomalies in a lunar-roving vehicle, and the origin myths of Raipur.
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22,99 €

Let the Quiet Ones Rise


A collection of instinctual poetry from the deepest part of a neurodivergent heart, considering the sadness of being alone, but also the happiness of finding people who empower you.
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16,99 €

Goyle, Chert, Mire


A vital and vivid poetry collection about place, time, illness and recovery'This is a profound, enduring collection' Guardian, Best New PoetryEach of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements characteristic of the Blackdown Hills – a little-known, sparsely populated area straddling the border between Somerset and Devon – and in particular the remote springline valley where the author lives. In this unique landscape, relatively unchanged over the centuries, the past is so evident that it can come to seem indistinguishable from the present. Illness causes a similar slippage in an individual’s sense of time. The poems trace an overlapping narrative of meningitis and the cognitive symptoms – at once distorting and revelatory – that came in its aftermath. In company with Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes and Pauline Stainer, Goyle, Chert, Mire employs a tough lyricism and taut line to scrutinise the natural world through historical and personal lenses. Alert to texture and temperature, humanity and history, time passing and time standing still, these poems are a deep examination of landscape, body and mind. 'Jean Sprackland’s poems are an uncommon pleasure to read' Observer‘Accessible but worth close reading, she is among the best of her generation’ Herald'She reinvents experience for us, while putting us in closer touch with it' George Szirtes
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18,49 €

Amphibian


Exploring queerness, belonging, and the meaning of home through the lens of a Filipino American How does a queer brown body move through the American panorama? In Amphibian, Joseph O. Legaspi explores the metaphor of "amphibious living"—adapting, surviving, and flourishing in varying geographies—as it pertains to immigrants and to queerness. These poems draw on the natural world to illuminate personal experiences and, in turn, closely examine cultural, environmental, and societal constructs and concerns. Legaspi searches in nature for evidence of the validity of his own existence, determined to declare his belonging. Dwelling in landscape as a guide into the interior, Amphibian journeys not only between earth, water, and air, but also into the past, cataloging an immigrant's departures, arrivals, and returns to native soil. This moving collection is at every turn liberating, fraught, and altered.
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19,49 €

We Are Scottish Football


Here’s to the players who wear the shirt, thank you for giving us something worth rallying behind, and here’s to the supporters who kept believing even when we were out in the wilderness. 28 years of heartbreak are over, Scotland are back in the World Cup. With a pen dipped in passion, McNeill explores the emotional landscape of football, bringing to life the highs and lows, triumphs and tribulations that define the beautiful game in Scotland.
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13,49 €

Jég


,,Beletesznek a háborúba, a grabancunknál fogva beemelnek a harcba, és kérik: ne legyen arcunk, jég legyen a szívünk, egy kézzé olvadjon mindannyiunk keze." Különös könyv, olvasható regényként és olvasható versek gyűjteményeként, amelyből történetek bontakoznak ki. Hat szereplő lírai monológjai, halljuk és látni véljük őket, oratórium a színpadon. Az üres tér magánya, mindegyikük maga elé beszél, csak az arcok világítanak, mint pontszerű fények a sötétben. Verssorokba tört mondatok, fájdalomszilánkok: a Délvidék tragikus történései 1920-tól 2020-ig, száz év, szétfutnak és egymásba érnek. Változó országhatárok és örök hontalanság, idegenné vált saját és sajáttá vált idegen. Kegyetlenség és kiszolgáltatottság, szépség és szomorúság, erőszak és szerelem. Történeti olvasókönyv, melyből a kisebbségi lét fájdalma szól, annak az embernek a hangján, akinek saját országában sem adatik meg, hogy otthon érezze magát.
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14,08 €

Kivétel nincs


Ezer alakot ölt a lélek, ezer alakot ölt nő és férfi, ezer alakban lélegzik, szenved, gyászol, túlél. Mintha ezek a finom fonállal szőtt szavak összekötnék az ember lelkét állattal, növénnyel – indák növik be a verseket, állatok szuszognak a sorok között, és együtt rajzolják ki az életet, adnak hangot a megszólaltathatatlannak. Általuk válik elmesélhetővé, kihordhatóvá mindaz, ami nehéz, ami fájdalmas. És ott lüktet minden vers mélyén gyengéd szavakba burkolva a magára hagyott, elfeledett gyermek, és a nő, akivé vált. A nő, aki cipel, a nő, aki kihord, a nő, aki keres, aki emlékszik, aki továbblép. A nő, aki meg akarja érteni, el akarja mesélni mindazt, amit az élet az ölébe csöppentett. Rendet rak, helyet teremt. A nő ezer színét látjuk meg, a nő ezer mozdulata válik mondattá Szabó Imola Julianna érzékenyen megírt verseiben. Terék Anna Borítóterv és illusztráció: Szabó Imola Julianna
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8,45 €

Motýla jsem tu neviděl


Upravené vydání přináší výběr autentických básní a kreseb židovských dětí z ghetta Terezín, doplněných o nově zjištěná historická fakta. Grafické zpracování klade zvláštní důraz na větší a kvalitnější reprodukce dětských kreseb.
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10,49 €

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