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The Moon on my Tongue: an anthology of Maori poetry in English

ed. Ben Styles

The Moon on my Tongue: an anthology of Maori poetry in English

From both revered, established writers and exciting contemporary poets, the work in this anthology offers a broad picture of Māori poetry written in English.

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Atlantic Drift: an Anthology of Poetry and Poetics

ed. James Byrne

Atlantic Drift: an Anthology of Poetry and Poetics

Atlantic Drift publishes twenty-four poets from the UK, Ireland, USA and Canada in an exciting partnership between Arc Publications and Edge Hill University Press. This anthology seeks to highlight new and existing writing and to define/redefine the discussions between poets from both sides of 'the pond'.

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The Herring Lass

Michelle Cahill

The Herring Lass

A woman's experience of fragmentation, exile, divorce, motherhood, is an undercurrent to these poems, her words wrestling with the consequence of these events.

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Until the Lions

Karthika Naïr

Until the Lions

Karthika Nair's epic poem Until the Lions is conceived as an echo of its great Sanskrit forerunner,the Mahabharata. It is an echo in which women drive the narrative and are its main characters, a vivid and compelling retelling from a female perspective of many of the stories from one of the world's most venerated books.

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The Yellow Buoy

C. K. Stead

The Yellow Buoy

The Yellow Buoy is CK Stead's fifteenth collection of poetry, in which the writer journeys in time and space from Croatia and Colombia to Karekare and the Côte d'Azur.

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When the Barbarians Arrive

Alvin Pang

When the Barbarians Arrive

This is a new and selected works, with some poems taken from Alvin Pang's previous three collections. The selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing; here are poems that are wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, are generous and beautiful, full of paradoxes, logic and illogicality, and are at once recognizably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edgy energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore.

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Fast Talking PI

Selina Tusitala Marsh

Fast Talking PI

Fast Talking PI (pronounced pee-eye) reflects the poet's focus on issues affecting Pacific communities in New Zealand, and indigenous peoples around the world including the challenges and triumphs of being afakasi [mixed race]. The book is structured in three sections, Tusitala (personal), Talkback (political and historical) and Fast Talking PIs (dialogue). She writes as a calabash breaker, smashing stereotypes and challenging historic injustices; also exploring the idea of the calabash as the honoured vessel for identity and story. Her aesthetics and indigenous politics meld marvellously together.

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Dreams that Spell the Light

Shanta Acharya

Dreams that Spell the Light

Shanta Acharya's fifth full-length collection is gentle, poignant and unpretentious. She writes about real concerns with a directness and a linguistic tension which registers her Indian origins without being merely exotic.

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The Skiers

Jill Bialosky

The Skiers

Jill Bialosky's three collections of poetry have met with great acclaim in the USA. The Skiers draws together work from each of these collections for her first volume of poetry to be published in the UK - a book that is moving, intimate, powerful and, above all, memorable.

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Quarantine :: Contagion

Brian Henry

Quarantine :: Contagion

'Quarantine', the first long poem in this book, explores sexuality, subjectivity and the narrative process. Lying in a field beside his dead wife and son, the narrator describes events leading to their deaths (his own included) from the bubonic plague in 1665. A second long poem, 'Contagion', follows, mirroring and distorting the earlier narrative.

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