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An updated selection of Roger McGough's finest, best-loved verse. The complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millennium, is represented. 'McGough's trademarks: the craft worn as lightly as the crown, the jokes that are something more, the underlying heartache, the acute sense...

This is a first collection of poems by a poet based in Saltdean on the South Coast of the United Kingdom.

Liz Lochhead has built an impressive reputation as poet, playwright and performer attracting a large and admiring public. Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems stands as a monument to her early work: four collections Memo for Spring (1972), Islands (1978) and Grimm Sisters (1981) and the title...

This collection of poems by Jill Martin offers impressions and reactions to the ordinary as well as the extraordinary. Subjects range from death to the January Sales, from nature's beauty to party wear. The deceptively clever use of language makes for a blend of easily absorbed verses that entertain and, maybe, open a few avenues of thought in the process.

Dr. Regan's second book of poetry is a journey to his childhood roots both mentally and spiritually. It reflects his experience in the time of pre and post Celtic Tiger Ireland on his return to Irlenad from the USA.

A collection of poems on life, love and observations in our everyday world.

Pebbles in My Pocket is a collection of observations, passing thoughts, and snippets of verse and prose - both serious and silly, deep and fleeting - reflecting the author’s journey through the practice of discovering mindfulness. What is mindfulness? In this sense it is taking a moment...

The Alexandra Sequence looks at contemporary life through the suggestive prism of the mummer's play. Against the background of a city recovering from a long period of decline, much of the book adopts a ‘street's-eye view' of the world. The opening sequence, for instance, takes its title from an...

Death Rattle is an honest kaleidoscopic portrayal of the isolation, joy and abandonment that beats within the city’s restless heart. It is a trilogy comprising of poems, narratives, lyrics and aphorisms, where the duality of the city and the rural, which have historically been the idealized backcloth...

A joint collaborative effort to produce eloquent, stylised and evolving poetry. Woven together by **Sumeyya, J. **and Afsan, H. as they bring together themes of depression, heartbreak, the evolving world, life, loss and questions of existence together in an evolving book that changes the common conventions of structured poetry.  

Author Bio: Shamsud Ahmed was born in Assam, India, grew up in the forest of Kaziranga Wild Life Sanctuary - Assam, and is living in Mumbai since 2009.He has been writing Poems and Short stories for local Journals and newspapers and have published his first collection of Poetry I Am Dirty; I Need...

BEOWULF (Anglo-Saxon, "bee wolf" i.e. bear) is an epic heroic poem set in Scandinavia and composed originally in Anglo-Saxon.  It is considered to be one of the key works of Anglo-Saxon literature.  Probably composed between the 8th and 11th centuries, the story follows the hero...

Poet, celebrity, and revolutionary, Lord (George Gordon) Byron was one of the most influential and controversial figures of the first half of the nineteenth century, his distinctive, deeply felt work comprising one of the enduring high points of Romantic literature. From “Manfred,” with its evocation...

The Poetry Of John Clare Shepherds Calendar. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual...