books for 2011
Our Mutual Friend (Two Rivers Press)
In celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens comes an anthology of new poems by
contemporary writers including Moniza Alvi, Ian Duhig, Elaine Feinstein, Paul Muldoon, Sean
O’Brien, and Carol Rumens.
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Pearl (Carcanet) Trans: Jane Draycott
In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: ‘my pearl, my girl’.
One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl translated by Jane Draycott.
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Reading Poetry (Two Rivers Press) Various
Bringing together the work of some of Reading's best, including Jane Draycott, Adrian Blamires, Lesley Saunders, Susan Utting, Ian House, Jean Watkins and Wendy Klein.
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The Agister's Experiement (Two Rivers Press) Gill Learner
What is striking about The Agister’s Experiment is the way poems lift off from a base of precise knowledge into
the imagination, the life or work of an individual. Myra Schneider
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books for 2010
Pang Valley (Two Rivers Press) Adrian Blamires
Landscape and memory are central to Adrian Blamires’ second collection of poems, revisiting places
of shared pleasure and pain. Whether the subject is love, war or poetry itself, the pangs of conscience
and desire are felt throughout.
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Miming Happiness (Smith/Doorstop) Allison McVety
Her poems have appeared in such as the Times and PN Review and have been broadcast on Radio 3. Allison has an MA in Poetry and was shortlisted for the inaugural MMU Poetry Prize 2008.
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English Nettles (Two Rivers Press) Peter Robinson
Twenty-two new works, evocatively illustrated by the artist Sally Castle, show Robinson's ability to
catch at fleeting landscapes...
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No Doves (Mulfran Press) Lesley Saunders
... Lesley Saunders’distinctive blend of wonder and intellectual curiosity emerges in No Doves
at full power ... truly a devotion of noticing. - Jane Draycott
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Flood (Two Rivers Press) A F Harrold
These poems are the real thing: serious about being human and being at home in the world. - Bernard O'Donoghue
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Read a poem from the collection here ...