Sunday Times Bestseller The brand new collection of verse from the nation's favourite poet, Pam Ayres. With the same magic that has enchanted her fans for more than four decades, Pam's new collection is by turns hilarious, reflective and profound.

A powerful new collection from one of our leading contemporary poets, reflecting the strange and chaotic times we live in.

Poetry collection from award-winning Irish poet and short story writer.

Yet his territory extends much further afield than those of the past - through Kashmir, where his father was born and now lives, to the Midlands of his mother's birth, and further north to ancestors in Orkney, as well as through language, memory and time.

Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. Channel Four's film of v. won the Royal Television Society's Best Original Programme Award and prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the book's second edition.

In the numbness of grief I felt certain I would never write poems again," Bolger claims in his prefatory note. But his readers will be glad that he has done so... (in)... what is ultimately a book of celebration...unflinching and sad - and beautiful.' - Times Literary Supplement