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Take your time and enjoy browsing our selection of poetry books, new and old, including poetry anthologies and classic poetry. From Shakespeare plays to Sylvia Plath's poetry, you'll also find books on popular plays and drama books as well as books on literary theory and criticism.

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The Lyrics
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Paul McCartney
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Pandora's Jar
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Natalie Haynes
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Mythos
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Stephen Fry
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Four Thousand Weeks
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Oliver Burkeman
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Milk and Honey
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Rupi Kaur
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
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Amy Jeffs
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Heroes
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Stephen Fry
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
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Rupi Kaur
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PRIVATE EYE
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Adam Macqueen
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Home Body
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Rupi Kaur
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Notes on Grief
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Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Odyssey
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Homer
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
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The Nature of Middle-earth
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J. R. R. Tolkien
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Conversations on Love
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Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz
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Misfits
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Misfits
Michaela Coel
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Four Thousand Weeks
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Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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Pam Ayres on Animals
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Pam Ayres on Animals
Pam Ayres
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Call Us What We Carry
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Call Us What We Carry
Amanda Gorman
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Fear Stalks the Land!
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Fear Stalks the Land!
Thom Yorke
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These Precious Days
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These Precious Days
Ann Patchett
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
John Cooper Clarke
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Allegorizings
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Jan Morris
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100 Poets
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100 Poets
John Carey
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Misfits
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Michaela Coel
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East Side Voices
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East Side Voices
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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Fran Lebowitz
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The Young H.G. Wells
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The Young H.G. Wells
Claire Tomalin
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Love is Enough
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Love is Enough
Andrea Zanatelli
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
Patricia Highsmith
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Something Out of Place
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Something Out of Place
Eimear McBride
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Christmas Poems
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Christmas Poems
Carol Ann Duffy
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The Heart of Things
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The Heart of Things
Richard Holloway
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Pandora's Jar
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Natalie Haynes
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Funny Weather
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Funny Weather
Olivia Laing
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Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
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Some Things I Still Can't Tell You
Misha Collins
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
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Pandora Sykes
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Antlers of Water
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Kathleen Jamie
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All The Names Given
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Raymond Antrobus
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Dear Reader
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Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink
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The Netanyahus
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The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
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A Ghost In The Throat
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A Ghost In The Throat
Doireann Ni Ghriofa
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Just Us
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Just Us
Claudia Rankine
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Things Are Against Us
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Things Are Against Us
Lucy Ellmann
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Out of Time
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Out of Time
Kate Simpson
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Constellations
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Constellations
Nick Payne
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Paradise
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Kae Tempest
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pandemonium
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Andrew McMillan
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The Story
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Victoria Hislop
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The Wild Fox of Yemen
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Threa Almontaser
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The Lyrics
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Paul McCartney
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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William Sieghart
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Mythology
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Edith Hamilton
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Henry Eliot
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
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Allie Esiri
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On Cats
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Margaret Atwood
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Black Joy
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Decadence
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Decadence
Jon Crabb
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Collected Poems
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Clive James
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The Art of the Glimpse
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The Art of the Glimpse
Sinead Gleeson
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John Sutherland
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Orlam
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Burning Questions
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Bittersweet
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Time is a Mother
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Africa Is Not A Country
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The Fire People
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This Woman's Work
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My Moment
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Rooms of Their Own
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Alex Johnson
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Circus of Dreams
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Love and Other Poems
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Alex Dimitrov
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Rebecca Walker
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Fear Stalks the Land!
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The Flame
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Leonard Cohen
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Useless Magic
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I'll Be Your Mirror
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The Complete Lyrics
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A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics
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One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
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Neil Tennant
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Keep 'Er Lit
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Van Morrison
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Scott Walker
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Milk and Honey
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Rupi Kaur
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Home Body
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Rupi Kaur
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Pandemonium
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Pam Ayres on Animals
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Pam Ayres
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C+nto
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
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Inferno
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Inferno
Dante
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Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
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Call Us What We Carry
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Call Us What We Carry
Amanda Gorman
£14.99
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The Lost Spells
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The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane
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Fear Stalks the Land!
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Fear Stalks the Land!
Thom Yorke
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The Prophet
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
£6.99
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The Kids
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The Kids
Hannah Lowe
£10.99
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The Iliad
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The Iliad
Homer
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Complete Poems
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Complete Poems
Emily Dickinson
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Cat Poems
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Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
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Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
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John Cooper Clarke
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Our Best Literary Criticism & Essays

Notes on Grief
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Trick Mirror
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Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
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Intimations
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Intimations
Zadie Smith
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The Fire Next Time
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
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Why I Write
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Why I Write
George Orwell
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
Pandora Sykes
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In The Kitchen
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In The Kitchen
Yemisi Aribisala
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Books v. Cigarettes
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Books v. Cigarettes
George Orwell
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This Is Shakespeare
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This Is Shakespeare
Emma Smith
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12 Bytes
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Jeanette Winterson
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Daemon Voices
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Philip Pullman
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At the Pond
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At the Pond
Margaret Drabble
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Notes to Self
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Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
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A Little History of Poetry
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A Little History of Poetry
John Carey
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Strangers
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Strangers
Rebecca Tamas
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Pandora's Jar
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Natalie Haynes
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Mantel Pieces
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Hilary Mantel
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Our Best Drama Books

An Inspector Calls
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J.B Priestley
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Paradise
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Kae Tempest
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Tennessee Williams
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Othello
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William Shakespeare
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Hamlet
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
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Death of a Salesman
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
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The Crucible
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller
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Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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Blood Brothers
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Blood Brothers
Willy Russell
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Waiting for Godot
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
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Leopoldstadt
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Leopoldstadt
Tom Stoppard
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
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A View from the Bridge
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Arthur Miller
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Book of Longing
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Leonard Cohen
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On Writing
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Stephen King
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Sister Outsider
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Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
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The Opposite of Loneliness
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Bill Bryson
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Pablo Neruda
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
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Alan Bennett
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The Peace of Wild Things
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Wendell Berry
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The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy
Clive James
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The Ode Less Travelled
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Stephen Fry
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Colm Toibin
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Essays
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George Orwell
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On Writers and Writing
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1606
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James Shapiro
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Alain de Botton
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