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3 Books in poetry (Q)


Quicksand Beach

Kate Bingham
£7.99 Paperback

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE 2006

 

Kate Bingham’s second collection, Quicksand Beach, will please fans of her fiction and of her first book of poems, Cohabitation. She has a beautifully poised natural tone composed of intelligence and a slightly subversive sense of humour, and captures her subjects with precision and grace.

 


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Quiver

Deryn Rees-Jones
£9.99 Hardback (ISBN:1854113542)

Intended to be read from beginning to end, Quiver is a book-length poem - a murder-mystery - which explores the nature of creativity. Fay Thomas, a poet with writer’s block, becomes a murder suspect after...
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Qwerty

Paul Groves
£7.99 Paperback (ISBN:978-1-85411-459-4)

´Paul Groves is a deft storyteller, genial ironist, and brilliant portraitist. His poems are superb.´  William Oxley

This fresh collection contains not only the type of ironic, sly, and coolly witty poems we have come to expect from this writer but also material with quirky turns, melancholic hints, and playful flourishes. This book will delight existing fans and recruit many new ones …
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