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“Patrick McGuinness’s Blood Feather is a profound work of elegy, principally for the author’s mother, but also for the objects and places overtaken by time, for dynamited cooling towers and villages replaced by shopping centres, for the way one language replaces another. McGuinness is a brilliant ‘connoisseur of the noises things make when they leave.’” Read more...
Notable Poetry Books of 2024: The Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist
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Our most recommended books
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
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Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor) -
William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor) -
The World’s Wife
by Carol Ann Duffy -
Willam Blake: Selected Poetry
by William Blake -
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry
by Rita Dove
