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'So far as the young were concerned,' Orwell wrote of Britain in the years after the Great War, 'the official beliefs were dissolving like sandcast...
View full detailsSimon Armitage's new collection is by turns a voice and a chorus: a hyper-vivid array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales. ...
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View full detailsThis is a new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Austral...
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View full detailsAnd what does sorry mean? Nothing really. It's just a word. It's what people say when it's too late. It's a sorry little stick of a word. Slick wit...
View full details- What were you in life? - In life, as you put it, I was a schoolmaster. The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town on th...
View full detailsElectric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification ...
View full details"Down at the Front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man....
View full detailsProduct Description This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major conte...
View full detailsShortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry The Noise of a Fly is the first collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first sin...
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View full detailsThis collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today. I...
View full detailsPaul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since "Hay" (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the apple-heavy County Arma...
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View full detailsFrom his grave in the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral, Dallas Sweetman is called to give account. He tells a story of love and death, jealousy an...
View full detailsPaul Muldoon's new book, his twelfth collection of poems, is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heed...
View full detailsLachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), ...
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View full detailsThis volume contains two imaginative plays for young people. Philip Ridley's Brokenville is set in the ruins of a city destroyed by disaster. A gro...
View full detailsIn a period when nations are retracting within their borders, the vivid and intricate poems of Jamie McKendrick's new collection Anomaly are especi...
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View full detailsPoetry runs through the generations of the ancient Douglas line. There was Gavin Douglas, a sixteenth-century bishop and one of Scotland's most fam...
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View full detailsGeorge Szirtes came to England as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising. His two Bloodaxe selections The Budapest File and An Engl...
View full detailsYi Sha is the most controversial Chinese poet of the past 20 years, a member of the extreme avant-garde whose work has changed the face of Chinese ...
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View full detailsCanada's Priscila Uppal has gained an international reputation for her boldly provocative poetry in just a dozen years, since publishing her first ...
View full details"Inner Voices" gathers for the first time, poems from Richard Howard's twelve published collections, presenting a representative selection of the w...
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