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Complete Twentieth Century Blues is the definitive edition of a network of texts written and assembled as a time-based project between 1989 and the end of the last century. At its heart is an alternative history of the twentieth century. This long-awaited volume is revised throughout, fully indexed, and with many previously unpublished texts.

The Ophelia Letters explores the interaction between self and place, and the way the normal can become strange and freighted with magic.

'Selby's ringing titles evoke not just a subject but a sensibility, and her versatile forms and deftly run-on lines very persuasively re-enact the thrill of sense experience and the shape of thought.' Chandrahas Choudhury

Letters to the Sky examines themes of friendship, nostalgia, sadness, self-adornment, identity, hope and change. Ethereal, romantic and feminine, the poems draw on the aesthetic beauty of nature to convey emotional intimacies. Deeply visual, filled with colour and decorativeness, this collection celebrates the poet's love of London, fashion and art.

People want pleasure from poetry, and in Bones & Breath, this masterly new collection from Alexander Hutchison, they can find it in many forms and registers. Power and beauty, mischief and humour. Longer poems mix satire with tender affection. Others offer everything from solar loops to red-throated divers.

This stunning debut finds poetry in the dark underbelly of history and explores what it means to trust and to betray, to belong and be lost, to love and to remember. A courageous take on the violence and beauty of life past and present, this book celebrates what really endures: the lure of power and solace of home.

Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg's poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.

A unique and indispensable guide to writing the short story. A collection of 26 specially commissioned essays from well-published short story writers who are also prize winners in the toughest short story competitions in the English language.

Aaron McCollough's Double Venus meditates on social politics, personal politics, and the exchange between them. It concerns itself with the many manifestations of desire circulating within cultures of plenty. In doing so, Double Venus also adds to a tradition committed to socio-ethical practice based, in the final instance, on love.

The Wildflowers of Baltimore is a collection of stories about young men on desperate searches both physical-for a missing child in the woods, for a loved one at the end of the world--and spiritual-for meaning, for understanding of how to be a man, how to live.

Sills gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999. O'Brien writes, "The poems dance their dance of stillness and motion. The issue is a quiet, patterned music, animated, disciplined, ecstatic; not closure, but recognition."

Richard Hamilton had just graduated from Oxford University with first class honours when he joined the 1935-36 Oxford University Arctic Expedition to North East Land (Nordhauslandet) in the Svalbard archipelago.

In this first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn continues her explorations of power, persecution and loss. Mendelssohn's work shows the intense relationship between agency and structure in the modern world. Her magical, weaving and at times painful lyric poetry draws us into an ecstatic vision of our own dependencies, dreams and desires.

This unique collection features chefs on poetry and poets on food. Contributors include top UK poets, chefs and food writers. Designed to celebrate the theme of 'food',as part of `National Poetry Day', it would work very well as a gift for any occasion. Perfectly appropriate for armchair or kitchen.

This collection of poems is notable for its variety: both traditional and experimental, it covers ground from academic satire to the history of industrialization to David Bowie. It will appeal to audiences across the spectrum, from academics to fans of poetry slams.

A collection of 10 years' work, in part lineated or syllabic but mostly in clustered prose, which investigates ontological echoes of the environmental condition of new scarcity, amid a wealth of inroads. The hoped-for terrain is where its own scarcity on the ground can set seed.

Mahmutovic offers a unique view of the Balkan crisis and the history of displacement through the eyes of the most marginal and neglected of war victims.

Jill McDonough's frank, funny, and tender second book offers each day fresh with the gift of it. Fierce/nose-sting of tears, quick breath out of nowhere. In love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes, from a hundred parties, five prisons, and three beloved bars, McDonough helps you better see Where You Live.

Intensely musical with daring use of image and idea, this debut introduces a poet charting her own path through language.

Prepare to enter a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where elephants squat in living rooms, plastic ducks fall from the skies and even the rabbits are vicious. Jonathan Pinnock's unashamedly entertaining fictions explore what happens when the macabre and the absurd crash headlong into everyday life.

Some Bright Elegance captures those moments of transformation when people, places or objects take on new significances. In the book this is explored in relation to bereavement, the transcendental qualities of music and the search for understanding between people.

Effigies II is a road trip through Indian Country with five American Indian women poets who bring it all back home.

The book Leans completes the poet's twenty-three year project Gravity as a consequence of shape started in 1982. The work continues and extends the poet's concern for how we know anything and what vocabulary humans use to describe it. The poems encourage the reader's confidence and surprise.

The title of this book is taken from the genres of punk and electronic music and forms the way Aaron Fagan experienced these poems as he wrote them over the course of the past ten years - also as if they were, taken together, a kind of working purgatory, a garage as a place of trial and error where invention and failure are indistinguishable.

This is a poetically charged work of autobiographical retrospection, speculative memory and an artistic alternative to common constructions of identity. The influences include traditional songs, ceremonial undercurrents, disparate landscapes, chemical vapors, relative longings and belief in the possibility of healing again, even after death.

A pivotal book for Bernstein, The Sophist demonstrated his great range of subject matter, style, and genre. By contrasting wildly different approaches to poetry, Bernstein not only questions the intrinsic value of any given form but also provides a model for his later heterogeneous books.

Thaxton does not find easy solace for her terrible wife, but instead lets her confusion and weaknesses clink and jangle like wind chimes in an approaching storm. Thaxton's poems are as compelling as a lifetime of snapshots spilled on the floor, discovered in a box that, moments ago, one didn't know existed.

This isn't a one-volume history of post-War British poetry. Given the mass of writing about the post-War period, Duncan says, "Generally, if you read ten books on recent literary history you do find that they do all say the same things. I intend to bang on until you complain about me including too much."

Between the Crackups is a frolicking romp through the abandoned factories, overcrowded highways, and forgotten rural landscapes of America. Part serious meditation and part carnival fun house, these poems will make the reader chortle, chuckle, snort, and maybe even blush.

A haunting blend of romance and realism, these stripped-back narratives of human experience are the perfect read for anyone who has read their child a bedtime fairy story, and wondered who ever said these were stories meant for children.