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Off the shelf : a celebration of bookshops in verse / edited by Carol Ann Duffy.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2016.
©2016
Description
57 pages ; 21 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR1228 .O34 2016
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Bookstores
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Poetry
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Duffy, Carol Ann
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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poetry
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Series
Shore to shore
Summary note
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 ofb the local bokstore to the last bookshop standing in a post-apocalyptic world, these are poems that pay tribute to the places and volumes that house the stories we treasure."--Back cover.
Notes
"Shore to Shore"--Front book cover.
"This anthology of new work by some of our best contemporary poets was published to coincide with the Poet Laureate's [Duffy] Shore to Shore tour of independent bookshops in June 2016."--page 58.
Contents
Last bookshop in Britain / Patience Agbabi
Book learning / Jo Bell
Open book / Rachel Boast
Notes on Bookbarn International after a visit: with a questionnaire answered by O and I. / Sean Borodale
In defence of old men dozing in bookshops / Colette Bryce
In a Cardiff arcade, 1952 / Gillian Clarke
MacNaughton's Bookshop / Peter davidson
Beware the books / Imtiaz Dharker
Without prejudice / Edward Doegar
At the Minster Gate Bookshop / Maura Dooley
In the drowned bookshop / Carol Ann Duffy
Gathering / Ian Duhig
The bookshop at the end of the world / Vicki Feaver
Lockyer's / Paul Henry
Apotheosis at the signing table / Clive James
G. & A. Bowden / Alan Jenkins
Silver moon / Jackie Kay
Goodbye, bargain basement / Neetha Kumaratnam
The wardrobe / Zaffar Kumial
We lay down a story / Liz Lefroy
Note taking / Liz Lochhead
Bookshops / Michael Longley
What happens next / Helen Mort
Booked / Daljit Nagra
The tilt / Mark Pajak
Bookshop / Don Paterson
The girl who ate books / Jean Sprackland
The elements of reading / James Sutherland-Smith
The future of books / Michael Symmons Roberts
Bookeries / Kit Wright.
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ISBN
9781509827589 ((hbk.))
1509827587 ((hbk.))
LCCN
2018411206
OCLC
968806429
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