Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

""Poetry is language at play. In New Songs of Innocence S.J. Hodson is hard at work in this playground teasing us...  Read More >>

In this companion volume to Animals in theAmerican Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen...  Read More >>

Inspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books...  Read More >>

Now that all of our couples are married ans starting families, let's sit down and see how life is treating them....  Read More >>

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin,...  Read More >>

George Eliot thought of herself as a teacher, as did her contemporaries. Their view that her writing was a deliberate...  Read More >>

First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: “This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991, this elegantly written book offers new readers a useful approach to the work of Evelyn...  Read More >>

The invention of the locomotive changed landscapes, cityscapes, social relations, sensibilities prophesied by Hans...  Read More >>

Alice Kinsella's The Ethics of Cats is an incisive, unflinching interrogation of memory, survival, and inheritance,...  Read More >>

A luminous poetic response to Julian of Norwich's mystical vision through contemporary contemplative verse.  Read More >>

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This book takes readers on a tour of Florida through the writing of Al Burt, longtime reporter for the Miami Herald,...  Read More >>

The 'A Poetry Archive' series traces a poet's development and the evolution of a unique 'voice'. Volume 6 incorporates...  Read More >>

Jim Goar's Iron Lung is a recursive, disorienting interrogation of language, ideology, and the mechanisms of control...  Read More >>

Kit Ingram's X Coranto is a layered, formally inventive work that reanimates the history of a single South London...  Read More >>

Eva Aldea's Forced Swimming Test is a fiercely intelligent, unflinchingly honest meditation on mental health, neurodivergence,...  Read More >>

Read My Lips is a bold, sensual collection of sapphic poetry that captures the electric intimacy between women....  Read More >>

A collection of poetry exploring love, loss, healing, survival, and the fire that stays burning inside even the...  Read More >>

Of Spice and Stone is a macabre collection of writing about creation, destruction, inheritance and kinship. Hamant...  Read More >>

Sue Vickerman's a suitcaseful of dog is a sharp, darkly funny, and unsentimentally lyrical collection that captures...  Read More >>

With a voice both vulnerable and fierce, whether confronting the harsh reality of cancer or celebrating the simple,...  Read More >>

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Although it was my profession for decades, I was always reluctant to tell people that I was a lawyer because I could...  Read More >>

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