Christmas 2026: Poetry
Selected by the Bookshop
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A vital and vivid poetry collection about place, time, illness and recovery'This is a profound, enduring collection' Guardian, Best New PoetryEach of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements…
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Lily Blacksell’s writing showcases the expansiveness of language, but also its failures. Communication builds up and breaks down, geese honk, hangovers linger in poems where observation is balanced with insouciance.‘Riotous,…
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The definitive selection of John Burnside‘s extraordinary and vibrant poems, taken from across decades but always stirring, curious, alert to the natural world and the people in it.Over thirty-five years and seventeen collections,…
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In Sleep Gate, Sylvia Legris descends into biological dreaming itself: the sleep beneath sleep, where ‘the dream under the dream / is the dream of plants’. Taking up Inger Christensen’s summons to ‘dream our way…
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The timeless and compelling 'word-music' of one of Britain's oldest cultural treasures is captured in this new bilingual edition.…
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Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his unique Sycorax typeface and replete with compelling images and photographs, Equinox contains poems…
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Rooted in religion, grounded and earthy, the debut collection from the Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times delivers frank and humorous poems about mortality, desire, and the joys and griefs of fatherhood.In Dirt Rich,…
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The rural terrain of John Challis's second collection provides a new lens for exploring history, class and work, our relationship to the natural world, and cycles of growth and decay. Much of his debut collection The Resurrectionists…
Recommended by John
A book that will change the way you read poetry.
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