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Troupers
Laureate's Choice 2018
Av Keith Hutson
Häftad, 2018
104 kr
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Troupers pays tribute to not only the stars of Music Hall and Variety, but also the forgotten artistes who were beloved, in their time, by the nation. Acts like Macauley’s Leaping Infants, The Bryn Pugh Sponge Dancers, Willy Netta’s Singing Jockeys and many more are revived to be celebrated again. …
Day of the Flying Ants
Laureate's Choice 2019 II
Häftad, 2019
26 kr
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The Day of the Flying Ants is about home and leaving home. Much of this entertaining pamphlet focuses on finding, losing, and loving a sense of place. Ants fly when they’re compelled to leave home, when they’ve grown up, when there’s no place in the nest anymore. Whether in Derbyshire or Wales, …
Schist
Laureate's Choice 2019 I
Av Karen Smith
Häftad, 2019
107 kr
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Schist is the lovechild of emotion and geology, the product of a childhood with a schizophrenic mother and an anorexic father on a council estate in Croydon. These poems travel to where the land gives way to the sea and family stability is eroded by illness and death.
Laureate's Choice 2019 Bound Collection 1
Laureate's Choice 2019 I
Av Greg Gilbert, Karen Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
244 kr
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The Laureate’s Choice is an annual pamphlet publication project from The Poetry Business working in collaboration with the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy . This boxed set contains all four pamphlets selected by Carol Ann Duffy for 2019: Greg Gilbert, Love Makes a Mess of Dying - Examining the …
Soft Touch
Laureate's Choice 2019 I
Häftad, 2019
93 kr
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Sharp and observant, Louise G. Cole’s poems use wry humour to balance the pathos arising from picking holes in life’s day-to-day dramas. She often finds poetry in the mundane, twisting fantasy and truth with a memorable resonance.
Sleeping Through
Laureate's Choice 2019 II
Häftad, 2019
103 kr
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Heavenly lidos, the siren call of the Doctor Who theme tune, the tender melancholy of early motherhood – all these feature in a collection of poems which listen for connections: bringing ham sandwiches together with the idea of the afterlife, bees with improbability, and which describe different …
Mechanics of Love
Laureate's Choice 2019 II
Häftad, 2019
103 kr
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The Mechanics of Love explores the impact of medicine on personal experiences and the human condition. As both biochemist and poet, Victoria Gatehouse is uniquely positioned to examine everything from mechanical heart valves and folklore to her experiences of an 80s childhood and being a mother …
Aunts Come Armed with Welsh Cakes
Laureate's Choice 2019 II
Av Thirza Clout
Häftad, 2019
93 kr
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In this moreish collection Welsh cakes come to represent secrets and things which remain unsaid in an atmosphere of dark domesticity. Nevertheless, Thirza Clout finds humour and delight in the absurdities of ‘normal life’.
Urban Drift
Laureate's Choice 2018
Häftad, 2018
107 kr
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This first pamphlet by the West Midlands poet Natalie Burdett explores the delicate negotiations through which we relate to place and those around us. ‘Bobhowler’ highlights the power of language in unearthing forgotten experience. These tender but insightful poems explore what it means to be …
Another Hunger
Laureate's Choice 2018
Häftad, 2018
107 kr
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Rich and haunting poems that contemplate the risks and chances taken in life and love. Memories of a London-Irish childhood, explorations of the past, regret and loss, even stark confrontations with pain and mortality, celebrate and affirm through their alchemy of language and wit.
Love Makes a Mess of Dying
Laureate's Choice 2019 I
Av Greg Gilbert
Häftad, 2019
107 kr
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Examining the collision between tragedy and hope, these poems follow the struggle to make sense of the prognosis and treatment of a life-threatening disease whilst surrounded by the love and support of friends and family.
Spikenard
Laureate's Choice 2019 I
Häftad, 2019
107 kr
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Spikenard smoulders with lust and loss. These are poems of separation, assault and revenge, with violence lurking in their margins.
Laureate's Choice 2019 Bound Collection 2
Laureate's Choice 2019 II
Av Faith Lawrence, Thirza Clout m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
244 kr
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The Laureate’s Choice is an annual pamphlet publication project from The Poetry Business working in collaboration with the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. This boxed set contains all four of a set of pamphlets selected by Carol Ann Duffy for 2019:. Victoria Gatehouse, The Mechanics of Love - …
Laureate's Choice Anthology
Av Mark Pajak, Emily Cotterill m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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The Laureate’s Choice Anthology brings together substantial selections from each of the 20 poets chosen by Carol Ann Duffy during her time as Poet Laureate. As Carol Ann concludes her hugely successful 10-year tenure we celebrate these exciting and eclectic new voices in contemporary verse.
