Poetry

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Sonnets for a Missing Key

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and some others Author of the instant national bestsellers James and Erasure, the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, Sonnets for a Missing...
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Sharks in the Rivers

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The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The...
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Adam

$26.99
The debut collection of poetry by Gboyega Odubanjo. 'On 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London,...
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Oaths

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The poems within Oaths contain a promise made to oneself for a better future. Read with all the hope you can muster. A stunning and emotional follow-up to 2022’s Serenity,...
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Ask the Brindled: Poems

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Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life—the body, a people,...
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Bluff

$36.99
A searing new collection from the Forward Prize-winning American poet about the year that the world's gaze turned to Minneapolis - Smith's own home.Written after two years of artistic silence,...
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The Prodigal

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A debut poetry collection by the acclaimed writer Suneeta Peres da Costa, author of the Prime Minister's Literary Award-shortlisted novel Saudade. In the title poem of Suneeta Peres da Costa's debut...
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Hopurangi | Song Catcher

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Poems from the Maramataka After rejoining social media, Robert Sullivan wrote and posted a poem a day over two and a half months - the poems collected in Hopurangi-Songcatcher. Inspired...
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Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere

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In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of Side Notes from the Archivist explores what happens when god is a Black...
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Grand Tour

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Poems A stunning debut poetry collection from one of America's rising literary stars- 'A mesmerizing book, deeply original, one of the most profound reading experiences I've had in years' (Louise...
In The Back of My Throat

In The Back of My Throat

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In The Back of My Throat is an anthology about queer Indonesian experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Edited by Tatevik Sargsyan and Norman Erikson Pasaribu....
The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough

The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough

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The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough is an anthology about queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Edited by Tatevik Sargsyan, with a foreword by Mary Jean...
Quiet Fires

Quiet Fires

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Quiet Fires, the debut poetry collection from andriniki mattis, queries the everpresent questions of Black lives. Be it in a bakery in Brixton, London, at a corner on Malcolm X...
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Inheritance

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“For a long time I wondered what English meant, if it was worth its weight in enlightenment.” - from Bolaño Blued Taylor Johnson’s debut poetry collection, Inheritance, explores the complexities and limitations...
Sweat and Saltwater

Sweat and Saltwater

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Selected Works On 21 March 2017, Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa passed away at the age of forty-eight. News of Teaiwa's death precipitated an extraordinary outpouring of grief unmatched in...
if this is the end

if this is the end

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A fearless and honest exploration of queer First Nations identity, and a vibrant celebration of imperfection and personal growth, if this is the end is a stunning exploration of what...
Reborn

Reborn

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Delve into actor Abraham Rodriguez's raw journey of intimacy, sexual identity, religion, and self-discovery through captivating visuals and bilingual verse.Step into the vivid world of Reborn, the second collection of poems...
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mixed feelings

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"my feelings are mixed through my love and painthese are the parts of mei wish i didn't seeand other partsi'm proud to beall my feelingsall of mehere for you to seecome...
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The Singer and Other Poems

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**Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry** In this new collection by a seasoned master, Kim Cheng Boey moves between Singapore and Australia, youth and middle...
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The Universe, All at Once

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Selected Poems A collection showcasing the latest poems of the Kurdish-Syrian maestro of Arabic style. Salim Barakat, the captivating Kurdish-Syrian poet and novelist known for his mastery of Arabic style,...
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Chrome Valley

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Best Books of 2023: TIME, Electric Literature From Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection that intricately mines the experience of being a Black woman in America. Boldly lyrical...
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ngayawanj bagan-nggul, ngayawanj barra barra-nggul | We belong to the land, We belong to the sea

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ngayawanj bagan-nggul, ngayawanj barra barra-nggul is a collection of poems and stories in Dhurga and English, by students from Vincentia High School. The accompanying artwork, created by the students for...
Kalokalo

Kalokalo

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Kalokalo, meaning stars in Vosa vakaViti, is Arieta Rika’s first published collection of poems, spanning themes of motherhood, romance, friendship, grief, anger, healing, love. Published by Rarama Ink in collaboration...
Blindness and Rage

Blindness and Rage

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Winner of the 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry Suffering from a fatal disease, Lucien Gracq travels to Paris to complete the epic poem he is writing and live...
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Return to My Native Land

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'The undisputed masterpiece of negritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism' Guardian'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement...
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With My Back to the World

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2024 'Chang has liberated the Ekphrastic form to new lyric heights and depths. Inventive, meditative, audacious, strange and soulful. A marvel of a...
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Silver

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A work that reminds us of the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.Silver is a collection that shines with a guiding principle, that poetry: 'part physics, part...
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Somewhere We Are Human

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Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings Introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen A unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and...
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Wild East

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A soaring debut YA verse-novel by novelist, poet, and former secondary school teacher Ashley Hickson-Lovence. A perfect next read for fans of Dean Atta and Manjeet Mann.When fourteen-year-old Ronny's life...
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Mirror Nation

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Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award–winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020)....
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The Beautiful Immunity

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A collection of poems that blesses the reader with a spirit of hope, solace, and inspiration in their own seasons of adversity. The Beautiful Immunity asks how we create good...
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The Diaspora Sonnets

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino...
Inferno

Inferno

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 — We listen to the disorganisation of organisation, where form becomes force. It was through this music that I came to the Hindu music of my maternal line. One collective chant...
rock flight

rock flight

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A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people. rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose...
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With Love, Grief and Fury

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A collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from one of the powerhouses of British poetry and award-winning novelist Salena Godden With Love, Grief and Fury contains love poems,...
Refugia

Refugia

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'in ember and ash / the heart of the Noongar Nation beats buried...' Refugia is an unparalleled work of vision and political fury from Noongar and Yawuru poet and scholar...
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The Lantern and the Night Moths

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Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation the lantern light seems to have written a poem;they feel lonesome since i won’t read them.—“lantern” by Fei Ming The work of...
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mark the dawn

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A dazzling and impressive follow-up to Money's highly acclaimed debut, how to make a basket. We gather marks. Our bodies, our stories, our histories and our world are made of...
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When I die slingshot my ashes onto the surface of the moon

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'Poetry is / can / be anything … everything,' says When I die slingshot my ashes onto the surface of the moon. She is sleepy, but they cannot sleep. It is...
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The Year of Blue Water

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Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize “Weaves together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a queer...
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We Have Everything We Need To Start Again

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Illustrated by Adriana Bellet Press both feet to the ground.Place your hand on your heart.You are brave and capable.It will always be your time.An empowering and uplifting collection of poems...
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Tossed Up By the Beak of a Cormorant

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Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant is a poetic collaboration between award-winning poet Nandi Chinna and Aboriginal elder Professor Anne Poelina. It explores the politics and the culture of...
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I cannot be good until you say it

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The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize- a tender meditation on queerness and Islam'Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds...
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how to make a basket

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A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.the end of the world was marked with beautiful light we should have knownSimmering with protest...
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Smoke Encrypted Whispers

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Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Tony Birch, Smoke Encrypted Whispers is a stunning collection of exhilarating poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties that have become...
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Dreaming in the Urban Areas

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Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Kirli Saunders, Dreaming in the Urban Areas is an unforgettable work of Indigenous poetry.Lisa Bellear (1961-2006) was a Goenpul woman...
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Rifqa

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In Rifqa, El-Kurd tightropes between statelessness and uncertainty, still one thing remains clear: "Jerusalem is ours! / The biggest punchline of all time." Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd's debut collection of...
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Girls That Never Die

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'Incredibly moving ... Every single poem is stellar' Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women and Hunger____________________________________________In Girls That Never Die, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the...
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Manorism

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Caravaggio and code-switching- the T. S. Eliot and Folio Prize-shortlisted poetry debut exploring Nigerian-British diaspora experienceIn poems exploring family, survival, generational trauma and the complexities of belonging, Manorism is an examination of the...
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Katuivei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand

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To write poetry in New Zealand as a Pacific migrant is an act of wayfinding, a creative process of discovery and negotiation between cultural spaces. This collection of 137 poems by...