With poems culled from a period of 20 years, this compilation brings together the works of English poet Peter Sansom. Having made the local and familiar his own resonant territory, Sansom explores the common ground of modern life, such as supermarkets, darts matches, life with teenagers, and family funerals. Including revised versions of previously published poems, this collection is sure to enthrall poetry lovers as well as fans of Sansom.

'On First Hearing Careless Whisper' is one of several poems in this compelling new collection that put time on pause to look at life through art, whether 1980s pop, or painting, or a congeries of writers including Emily Brontë, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, D.H. Lawrence, Alice Munro, Fernando Pessoa, and the New York Poets...and several of Sansom's beloved contemporaries. But keenly-observed family life is at the centre of this warm, witty, and moving book by one of our best-loved poets and te...

A tender exploration of memory, loss, and the beauty of everyday life.Careful What You Wish For, Peter Sansom's latest collection, is a clear-eyed and tender exploration of modern life. Winter mornings are lit by the tame volcano of a lava lamp, and Camus, St-Exupéry, and Ken Dodd are all present. This collection is full of bewilderment by what life is and does.Sansom reflects on family, love, and even tennis, with poems set in Yorkshire, at the Re...

An anthology celebrating the 40th anniversary of The North poetry magazine, featuring favourite poems from over the years, selected by readers of The North, as well as by editors Ann and Peter Sansom.The Poems includes stand-out work by: Simon Armitage, Liz Berry, Eavan Boland, David Constantine, Maura Dooley, Safia Khan, Hannah Lowe, Andrew McMillan, Ian McMillan, Kim Moore, Graham Mort, Helen Mort, Gboyega Odubanjo, Sharon Olds,...

A groundbreaking anthology of new work from five varied and distinctive poets.All five poets are alumni of The Writing Squad, a community of artists who make new work together and support each other's development. Their free two-year programme of workshops and 1-1 support has helped to develop over 270 writers aged 16-22 since 2001.

This unique and vivid collection brings to life Dove Cottage and Grasmere through the eyes of twenty-five of our finest poets. Written from so many brilliantly-imagined angles, it allows the reader to experience the day-to-day as it was and is in 'the loveliest spot that Man hath ever found'.William and Dorothy Wordsworth's own writing has pride of place alongside more recent Dove Cottage poets including Fleur Adcock, Simon Armitage, Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy, Paul Farley, To...

Openinga Different Window: A Poetry and Illness Anthology is a collection of poetrywritten by people with experience of chronic illness. Inspiring, challengingand sometimes funny this anthology can't fail to move you.

Drawing on his extensive experience of poetry workshops and courses, Peter Sansom shows you not how to write but how to write better, how to write authentically, how to say genuinely what you genuinely mean to say. This practical guide is illustrated with many examples. Peter Sansom covers such areas as submitting to magazines; the small presses; analysing poems; writing techniques and procedures;and drafting. He includes brief resumes and discussions of literary history and literar...

A Scottish detective investigates a suspicious death with ties to a wind farm in this mystery by the author of Blood in the Water.When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Alice Rice finds herself hunting his killer. The search leads her to an unfamiliar world where wind-farm developers with millions of pounds at stake and protesters face each other with daggers drawn. Just as Alice ...

THE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD MEGA COLLECTION includes more than twenty novels and short stories by Roaring Twenties author F. Scott Fitzgerald, including his Jazz Age novels THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE and his famous short story, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, among other works.Novels• This Side of Paradise• The Beautiful and the DamnedShort Stories• Winter Dreams• The Offshore Pirate• The Ice Palace Speaker...

Mike Engleby has a secret...This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns into a mystery of gripping power. Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has ever written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the deepest shade of black.

Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humorous, and accessible approach, Crystal charts the battles past and present, illustrating the characters and attitudes involved from a wide range of written sources. He combines a chronological...