Off the shelf : a celebration of bookshops in verse / edited by Carol Ann Duffy.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
57 pages ; 21 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781509827589 ((hbk.))
    • 1509827587 ((hbk.))
    LCCN
    2018411206
    OCLC
    968806429
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