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  • Best British Short Stories 2019

    by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, Elizabeth Baines, Naomi Booth, Ruby Cowling, Kieran Devaney, Vicky Grut, Nigel Humphreys, Sally Jubb, John Lanchester, Sophie Mackintosh, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Paul McQuade, Vesna Main, Robert Mason, Ann Quin, Stephen Sharp, Sam Thompson, Melissa Wan, Ren Watson, Adam Welch ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature Matters

    Vital Poems from the Global Majority

    by Mona Arshi, Karen McCarthy Woolf ...
    The rise of nature writing as a cultural phenomenon is nothing new. Yet it has stirred questions relating to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and writers.In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance. Their genre-defining anthology considers nature poetry from its historical roots to ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Seasonal Disturbances

    by Karen McCarthy Woolf ...
    Longlisted for the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Set against a backdrop of ecological, political and emotional turbulence, Seasonal Disturbances is a charged yet meditative exploration of the relationship between nature, the city and the self in the 21st century. An interrupted zuihitsu written on board a Dutch barge on the Thames explores the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unwritten

    Caribbean Poems After the First World War

    Edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf ...
    With contributions from Jay Bernard, Malika Booker, Kat Francois, Jay T. John, Anthony Joseph, Ishion Hutchinson, Charnell Lucien, Vladimir Lucien, Rachel Manley, Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf.What does it mean to fight for a 'mother country' that refuses to accept you as one of its own? Britain's First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on ... Read more

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  • An Aviary of Small Birds

    by Karen McCarthy Woolf ...
    An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labor and an emergency caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For the mother, her body flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by an intense and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten

    poets of the new generation

    by Karen McCarthy Woolf ...
    Ten: poets of the new generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets founded by the writer Bernardine Evaristo in 2007. Already making a big impact on the British poetry scene, poets from the series have included Sarah ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Ten

    the new wave

    by Karen McCarthy Woolf ...
    Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. These ten poets were selected for The Complete Works 2 mentoring project, a groundbreaking initiative to promote diversity and quality in British poetry, initiated by the writer Bernardine Evaristo. The poets follow on from the first group to take part in this scheme, whose work was published in Bernardine ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Mapping the Future

    The Complete Works

    by Bernardine Evaristo ...
    Mapping the Future offers new work by all 30 writers supported by The Complete Works project**, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode and Karen McCarthy Woolf.**In 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020 it was over 20%. The ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

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  • Magma 59: Breaks

    by Roberta James, Alex Pryce ...
    Series series Magma Poetry
    Magma poetry magazine’s summer 2014 issue, Magma 59, is on the theme of breaks.Editors Roberta James and Alex Price have selected over 65 new poems that reach in to bring a new look on a familiar scene, take us to places we have not been before, or show us new ways to be in our sometimes broken but beautiful world. After poems of great delicacy and eggshells came others of metal and grind. Poems ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Of Mutability

    by Jo Shapcott ...
    Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Strike/Slip

    by Don McKay ...
    In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and gneiss, and attends to the songs of ravens and thrushes and to the clamour of the industrialized bush. Behind these poems lies the urge to engage the tectonics of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • These Mothers of Gods

    by Rachel Bower ...
    Rachel Bower's accomplished debut collection seeks to recover the lived experiences of women who have often appeared only fleetingly in official histories. The poems push towards a more expansive concept of motherhood, including our collective responsibilities for lives, environments and natural worlds.With heartfelt lyricism, Bower weaves stories of labour and love. In moments of fear and ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD