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"In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation--material, emotional, sexual--but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a derelict housing estate. An expectant mother's worst fears about her husband's entanglement with a teenage girl are confirmed. A sister...
3) Café Culture
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Cafe Culture' is profound and absurd, heavy and light, serious and funny. Whatever it is, it is immediate, honest and fascinating. It's content ranges from a metaphysical conceit on an egg-timer, 'The Sands of Time', to a comic ballad on breaking wind, 'There's no Point in Farting.' But be careful, even the seemingly irreverent might get you thinking!
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She wasn't born a killer, she was just an ordinary girl planning to go on holiday with her boyfriend who had paid and organised a welcome break from the monotonous routine of life, only that she had also planned to kick her boyfriend out of her life as soon as they returned home. What could possibly go wrong ?It took just one little decision to transform our cute little teenager into a bloody notorious serial killer, even though she did not understand...
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Six years on from a failed marriage and with her son Ben now enjoying University life, Cassie finds herself at an inevitable crossroads and struggling to work out what her purpose is. Counting Ben as her only successful achievement in her life so far doesn't give her a great track record; but it also means she has nothing to lose by putting everything into a move to Brighton. Actively encouraged by Ben and her closest friend Lucy she goes looking...
6) Wine Not?
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Fifteen poems about a wild night out drinking and getting merry Alcohol has the amazing ability to bring about changes in a person. So many of us feel the urge to drink it and become more fearless, hyperactive and daring. The main character in Wine Not? craves alcohol and likens it to rocket fuel. His desire to get drunk is strong and he's always excited about nights out. All he wants is to let loose and have the best time ever. However, he has to...
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Alan Amos' comprehensive collection of poems represents a lyrical journey where emotions find release through the potent power of words.
Years of Poetry chronicles the unexpected voyage of an ordinary individual who finds solace and escape in crafting poems, never anticipating the profound impact they would wield. Trapped in the enigmatic interplay between reality and dreamlike states, the poet explores heartache, joy, and the indomitable spirit that...
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Edición bilingüe traducido por Violeta Gil. "Que se coman el caos" es un canto a la actual generación perdida, personalizado por varios personajes situados en Londres que sufren las consecuencias de la globalización, el cambio climático y otros problemas actuales como la falta de oportunidades laborales. Kae Tempest siempre encuentra algo absolutamente magnético en su trabajo híbrido, que le habla al corazón y a la conciencia y a las condiciones...
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Sea-Fever' remains one of the most popular poems of the last century, and John Masefield one of the most popular poets, a superb spinner of yarns and ballads of tall ships, exotic seas, of the deep-rooted life of rural England, and of the great narratives of Troy and Arthurian legend. This book includes his most popular poems and a few previously uncollected rarities. All share Masefield's love of particular lives: he draws the reader into his stories...
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Enter a world of dream and reality. Where the afterlife and our world meet. Where the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. Where death, horror, the surreal, reality and pain meet. Gothic and surreal overtones are just some of the ideas that permeate this collection of poems.
Pretty Flowers in the Snow is the second book of the 'Poppy' trilogy, revealing that the world Lilith entered is full of flowers, smothered by snow. The flowers...
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As a fairly quiet person, I find it easier to express myself through poetry. My poetry is generally about life events and God as a huge part in my life, as I turned to him many times. They are short poems but straight to the point. I hope they are uplifting to you as they uplift me.'
Beverley Deeming
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PTSD is a 4 Letter Word. Actually it's an acronym but it's also quite the life sentence, a curse in its own right. PTSD is a 4 Letter Word is a poetry collection about mental health, about what it is like to live with depression, PTSD, intrusive thoughts, eating disorders and dissociation. There are three parts. My Head is a Battlefield, My Scars and My Fixes. My Fixes is at the last and is more hopeful, more outward looking.This is a dark poetry...
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It is a few weeks before Christmas and everyone except Catherine seems to be gearing up for the big day with excitement. Catherine is a single mum, struggling to bring up her five year old daughter, she has little time for romance, and when she learns she has lost her job and her flat is deemed unliveable, she wonders just what else life is about to fling at her. Where or to whom can she turn to for help? Kismet in the shape of handsome, bachelor,...
14) Child Ballad
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A Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation 2023In Child Ballad, David Wheatley's sixth collection, he explores a world transformed by the experience of parenthood. Conducting his children through landscapes of Northern Scotland, he follows pathways laid down by departed Irish missionaries and by wolves. He maps a rich territory of rivers, trees and mountains. Also present are histories, some evidenced, some no longer visible and yet to be inferred.Stylistically,...
15) I Walk the Fens
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This collection of poems was written by Susan Sansby during 2022 inspired by her recent move to Ely.
She was born in the Fens but moved to London when she was sixteen returning to live in the Fens in her seventies. The poems are descriptions of places visited, feeling aroused by her surroundings and reflections on past and present events.
The themes that run through the poems are our relationship with nature and history and the importance of preserving...
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The title poem of this collection, Robert Wells's first since the Collected Poems and Translations of 2009, revisits in memory the site of the once great Etruscan city of Veii. In 'The Coin Cabinet' they are conjured in their variety by means of a series of epithetic evocations, so that one does not doubt their reality, or the complex mythology they evoke and the economy rooted in long traditions and rich in known, shared narratives.
17) Sweet and Sour
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Poems from the heart about love and relationships A collection of romance poems that isn't always blissful and lovey-dovey. The pieces of poetry are arranged into three sections: – 'Single'. Poems about the hope for a significant other and being jealous of those who are already with someone.– 'Taken'. Poems about being happy in a relationship and fear of a collapse coming.– 'Single Again'. Poems about the delight of being free and feeling lonely....
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The Butterfly wings are ready to fly but Matilda Fellowes, recently divorced from her narcissistic husband, has to heal from her narcissistic marriage that has left her emotionally and mentally broken from the abuse she has endured over the last 35 years. Based on real events, follow Tilly's journey as she sets out to conquer and heal herself to find her true authentic self again which has been covered by layers of insidious gaslighting, emotional...
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Step into the hauntingly beautiful and thought-provoking world of "A Tribute to Love, Horror, Death and The Crumbling Mind," a mesmerizing collection of dark and introspective poems penned by the brilliant wordsmith, David War.
Within the pages of this poetry book, David War weaves a tapestry of emotions, delving deep into the human psyche to explore the essence of love, the chilling grasp of horror, the enigmatic dance with death, and the fragility...
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Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical skills of any living poet', the work of 'one who is not afraid of big subjects, whose enthusiastic gaze is directed outward with energy and gladness'. Then Auden and the Romantics lighted his way. To those influences are now added the challenges of a Modernist style, drawing on Marianne Moore, T.S....
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