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The Lamplighter
** Signed copies available (while stocks available) **"The Lamplighter" takes us on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. It is both a radio and stage play and a multi-layered epic poem. This e...
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Feminine Gospels
This title draws on women's experience - both personal and historical - to entertain and challenge in poems which celebrate, elegise and eroticise the female condition. With longer poems on beauty, id...
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Word Warriors: 25 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution
A fantastic and huge (over 400 pages!) all-women anthology of the spoken word, also known as slam poetry. Includes a foreword by feminist Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues.
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Darling: New and Selected Poems
Humour. Gender. Sexuality. Sensuality. Identity. Racism. Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation.
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Red Cherry Red
A wonderful new collection of poems to read and listen to, from award-winning Scottish poet Jackie Kay.
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Verses
With a poet's precision and a citizen's take, DiFranco finds the meeting places of intimacy and politics, of self and country, of resolve and compromise, and of the fickle and magnificent capacities o...
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Now in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens of "last poems" that were never publis...
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Sorry, Tree
"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature-honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."- Dennis Cooper
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Under The Fig Tree
"The poetry in Under the Fig Tree can be summed up in three words: imbued with passion. ...each verse vibrates with an underlying current that stirs your blood until you feel an intense rhythm thrummi...
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Poetry from the Featherbed
"...From rollicking ballads to quiet love sonnets, the book has a little something for everyone, especially the rhyme-and-meter crowd who've been wondering when the next Longfellow is gonna show up." ...
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