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Product Description: A collection of poems set in three continents - Asia, Africa and Europe - evoking the peopled landscapes. Music is a central feature in the poems, which travel in time and space. The poems are also set at home in a world of disorderly domesticity with cats and ponies.

By Alison Brackenbury

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9781857541229 | Carcanet Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems set in three continents - Asia, Africa and Europe - evoking the peopled landscapes.

3 Songs of Home

Product Description: Tony Curtis writes, even on complex matters, with disarming ease. In this new collection he has pared his work down to the bone, achieving, in many of these poems, the strength and mystery of myth and fable. The poet journeys into the high Himalayas where he faces his own mortality...read more

By Tony Curtis

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9781901233155 | Dedalus Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Tony Curtis writes, even on complex matters, with disarming ease.

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9781901233148 | Dedalus Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $14.95

The Address Book: Poems

Product Description: The Address Book is a collection of beautifully crafted poems of love and loss. They are united by bitter complaint and grief, feelings that are only fought off by music and intelligence. Elegiac, angry, tender, and brazenly heart-felt, the poems achieve their effect through total immersion in the rich palette of human emotions, and a willingness to tap into "This whim / against what drifts to dark...read more

By Steve Heighton

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9780887846984 | House of Anansi Pr, May 10, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Address Book is a collection of beautifully crafted poems of love and loss.

The Adoption Papers

By Jackie Kay

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9781852241568 | Dufour Editions, May 1, 1992, cover price $24.00

Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits

By Adrian Mitchell

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9781852241643 | Dufour Editions, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.95

Affirmations: Poems in Scots and English

By Evelyn E. Gavin (editor) and M. S. Lumsden

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9780080409290 | Aberdeen Univ Pr, February 1, 1991, cover price $17.00

After Seymours Funeral

By Roy McFadden

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9780856404344 | Blackstaff Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $13.95

After the Ball

By Breda Sullivan

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9781897648339 | Salmon Poetry, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95

After the War: Poems

Product Description: After the War is Lily Brett's third book of poetry. Taken with her first two highly successful volumes, The Auschwitz Poems and Poland, it completes what is effectively a trilogy.

By Lily Brett

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9780522844153 | Melbourne Univ Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: After the War is Lily Brett's third book of poetry.

Air for Sleeping Fish

Product Description: Gillian Ferguson's poems draw on her intense but dislocated encounters with the natural world to interpret a variety of subjects. A city-dweller, but also a wildlife artist, her imagination is rooted in the country, using a painter's palette of vivid, unexpected color and her own personal yet unsentimental symbolism of flowers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gillian Ferguson

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9781852244163 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, September 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Gillian Ferguson's poems draw on her intense but dislocated encounters with the natural world to interpret a variety of subjects.

Akhenaten

Product Description: This is a recreation of the life of Akhenaten, Nefertiti's husband, which tells the story of his reign from 1378 to 1362 BC. In spite of attempts to eradicate all traces of his reign, enough exists to tell a story of incest, heresy, androgyny and a massive cult of personality.

By Dorothy Porter

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9781852426194 | Serpents Tail, August 1, 1999, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This is a recreation of the life of Akhenaten, Nefertiti's husband, which tells the story of his reign from 1378 to 1362 BC.

9780702223679 | Univ of Queensland Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is a recreation of the life of Akhenaten, Nefertiti's husband, which tells the story of his reign from 1378 to 1362 BC.

Alice in Wormland: Selected Poems

By Dorothy Hewett

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9781852241254 | Dufour Editions, April 1, 1991, cover price $15.95

All Alcoholics Are Charmers

Product Description: Martina Evans's new collection mines the rich seam running between rural Ireland and urban England, between personal and folk memory, and between fiction and reality. These are poems that simultaneously engage with the real world, while keeping a line open to myth and history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Martina Evans

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9780856463044 | Carcanet Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Martina Evans's new collection mines the rich seam running between rural Ireland and urban England, between personal and folk memory, and between fiction and reality.

All-Steel Traveller: New & Selected Poems

By Pamela Gillilan

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9781852243005 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, September 1, 1995, cover price $21.95

Almanacs

By Jen Hadfield

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9781852246877 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, August 15, 2005, cover price $21.95

Almost

A new collection of love poems from Oliver Reynolds celebrates the stylistic genius of the author while also paying tribute to other romantic formslike the French troubadours. Original. (view table of contents)

By Oliver Reynolds

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9780571197477 | Faber & Faber, December 1, 1999, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems dealing with love in all its forms, including 'A Piece of Him,' 'The Almost,' 'Wishes?

Ancestor Worship

By Michael S. Begnal

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9781903392546 | Salmon Poetry, January 15, 2008, cover price $21.95

Angel

By Ruth Padel

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9781852242787 | Bloodaxe Books Ltd, June 1, 1994, cover price $14.95

Angels and Mermaids

Product Description: Where hope lies next to strangers, Where angels fly free, And mermaids go wild. Where faith leeps through The breadth of time And they smile to the Tunes of the stars. Where charity blossoms beneath the palm, And grows forth to the End of the tide...read more

By Gemma Alphie

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9780805932805 | Dorrance Pub Co, December 1, 1992, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Where hope lies next to strangers, Where angels fly free, And mermaids go wild.

Anteros: Opus Alchymicum on Friendship

By Som P. Ranchan

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9788122002669 | Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division, March 1, 1992, cover price $15.95

Antipodes

Product Description: This collection of poems is lucid and simple. They are short poems with a variety of settings, including Australia, Sudan, Turkey and New Zealand. The author writes of brief incidents or sudden memories which pose paradoxes or flash illuminations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Jackson

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9781869401580 | Auckland Univ Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This collection of poems is lucid and simple.

Apostrophe

Product Description: you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome / you are a man / you are a little confused / you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome ...read more

By Bill Kennedy (compiler)

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9781550227222 | E C W Pr, April 28, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome / you are a man / you are a little confused / you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome .

Miscellaneous:

9781554907229 | E C W Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $9.95

Arab Work

By Landeg White

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9781905762019 | Parthian Books, April 15, 2007, cover price $12.95

The Arches

Poems by Welsh poet Tony Curtis illustrating the 25 surreal collages by Jon Digby.

By Tony Curtis and John Digby

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9781854112361 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, March 1, 1999, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Poems by Welsh poet Tony Curtis illustrating the 25 surreal collages by Jon Digby.

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9781854112453 | Pap/com edition (Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, March 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Twenty-five surreal colleges by Long Island artist John Digby, set in an ornate arch from the Alhambra, suggest a multiplicity of narratives and provide provocative starting points for poet Tony Curtis.

9781854112378 | Seren Books/Poetry Wales Pr Ltd, March 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Poems by Welsh poet Tony Curtis illustrating the 25 surreal collages by Jon Digby.

The Ark

By Peter Scupham

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9780192823373 | Carcanet Pr, July 1, 1994, cover price $11.95

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