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...

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.

In Careful What You Wish For, one of the country's best-loved poets writes with a new formal range and candour. Moving between past and present, tenderness and the surreal, Matlock and London, his poems live in the in-betweens, marked by the author's wit and energy, a generous saudade. His subjects range from rare teapots and games of tennis with Ken Dodd, to the letters of Robert Lowell and the French of St Exupéry. The undertone hums with the soundtrack of 70s Britain, How would I know? ...

'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...

Peter Sansom's Selected Poems brings together twenty years of quintessential Sansom, a poet who has made the local and familiar his own resonant territory. Supermarkets and darts matches, life with teenagers and family funerals, the common ground of modern life, make up the fabric of poems that capture the distinctiveness of the ordinary with a robust and sharp-eyed tenderness. Selected Poems includes revised versions of poems from Peter Sansom's four Carcanet collections, with poems from ...

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...

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 thinks an answer is beginning to emerge, the sheriff's lover is killed in an apparent hit-and-run accident.An unlikely coincidence or, as the se...

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...