Off the Shelf by Carol Ann Duffy Mary O'malley brilliantly diverse contemporary poetry from

brilliantly diverse contemporary poetry from around the world

antanaclasis

in the literal sense – these are poems we can feel

The Insomnia Poems is Grace Nichols's first new collection since Picasso

Always concerned with what happens in the margins

Off the Shelf by Carol Ann Duffy Mary O'malley brilliantly diverse contemporary poetry fromIn Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke. From a basement of forgotten books to the shelves of a cramped Welsh arcade, from the poetry corner of the local bookstore to the last bookshop standing in a post