Poor similar books
-
C+nto and Othered Poems
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021.
Buy this book on Amazon
The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of characters from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests these wom… -
The World's Wife
Be terrified.
Buy this book on Amazon
It's you I love,
perfect man,
Greek God, my own;
but I know you'll go,
betray me, stray
from home.
So better by far for
me if you were stone.
—from "Medusa"
Stunningly original and haunting… -
-
Voyage in the Dark
'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Work…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
Come Rain or Come Shine
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
Buy this book on Amazon
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie a… -
-
Hunchback
Buy this book on Amazon -
Love in Exile
‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’
Buy this book on Amazon
Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic lo… -
-
-
The Good Immigrant
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?
Buy this book on Amazon
Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does… -
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.
Buy this book on Amazon
Penguin Modern: fifty new books… -
England's Green
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so that we see them in…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Fundamentally
A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following an academic who flees from heartbreak and lands in Iraq with an insane job offer—only to be forced to do the work of confronting herself.
Buy this book on Amazon
When Dr. N… -
Don't Call Us Dead
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an af…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire.
Buy this book on Amazon
Mama, I made it
out of you… -
-
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuali…
Buy this book on Amazon -