John’s Christmas Guide
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From the publisher:
My Destination, Daisy Fried's fifth book, explores renewal amid great loss - a struggle as common as rain. As full of lived life as ever, as formally various, and as wide-ranging in both subject and tone, these poems are sophisticated and…
Recommended by John
A joy to see the wellsprings of what would become the early masterpieces; generously edited, also including essays and letters.
From the publisher:
A three-part collection of songs recalled and misremembered; of singing or / as stilled life.
From the publisher:
A collection of poems and a selection of field notes by the late Daphne Astor: artist, farmer, poet, environmentalist, philanthropist and founder of Poetry in Aldeburgh and Hazel Press.The dog barks, pasts unfurlit is time to accept there…
Recommended by John
Not just an account of two remote Scottish islands and their inhabitants but so much else: Kociejowski’s scope, depth and empathy are unparalleled, and also he writes like an angel.
Recommended by John
A book that will change the way you read poetry.
From the publisher:
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…
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