Poetry Society Books

 

 The Healing Word (1999)
 by Fiona Sampson
 A practical guide to poetry and personal    development activities – information, step by step approaches, and guidelines to setting up poetry projects in a therapeutic setting.
£6.45  ISBN: 190077125 X
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Poetry on a Plate (second edition, 2006)
This new expanded edition of Poetry on a Plate offers a unique collection of chefs on poetry and poets on food. A book to celebrate the 2004 theme of 'food' as part of the Poetry Society's annual National Poetry Day festivities, this unique feast is garnished with poems selected by the Poetry Society which relate to the ingredients or composition of each recipe. 

For every sale of this book £1 is donated to National Poetry Day.

Contributors include:
Fleur Adcock, John Agard, Mary Berry, Frances Bissell, Mary Contini, Jane Duran, Anton Edelmann, Ruth Fainlight, John Fuller, Roz Goddard, David Harsent, John Hegley, Selima Hill, Peter Howard, Mimi Khalvati, Prue Leith OBE, Roger McGough, Jamie McKendrick, Ian McKerracher, Valeria Melchioretto, Ian McMillan, John Mole, Michael Murphy, Neil Rollinson, Carol Rumens, Lawrence Sail, Robert Seatter, Henry Shukman, Tony Singh, Vivek Singh, Lemn Sissay, Delia Smith, Simon Smith, Flossie Squires, Matthew Sweeney, Sarah Wardle.

Order your copy from Salt Publishing: www.saltpublishing.com 



Machinery of GraceMachinery of Grace (2005)
various, in memory of Michael Donaghy
This pamphlet was commissioned to honour the poet Michael Donaghy, who died in 2004, and to celebrate the tradition of craftsmanship everywhere evident in St Mary's Church, Beverley, and Beverley Minster. Includes an introduction by Ruth Padel, poems by Simon Armitage, Ian Duhig, Vicki Feaver, Lavinia Greenlaw and an essay and poem by Michael Donaghy For every copy sold, £5 will be donated to a fund opened for Michael Donaghy's son, Ruairi.
£8.00  ISBN: 1900771470
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A Green Thought in a Green Shade (2000)
Sarah Maguire, editor 
A collection of essays by poets Sarah Maguire, Gerry Loose, Alice Oswald and Eleanor Cooke, who have all worked in a garden environment and here explore the relationship between poetry and gardens.
£6.45  ISBN: 1900771268
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Cover of Opening SpacesOpening Spaces (2000)
poetry as public art
by Sue Hubbard
Can poetry be public art? Does putting poems in public place, such the Underground or on buses, automatically transform them into public art? In this thoughtful, rigorous and wide-ranging essay, Sue Hubbard, Public Art Poet for the Poetry Society from 1998-1999, argues that the transition from private to public is more complex: that poetry, if it is genuinely to blur the boundaries with 'public art', needs to engage with the visual and develop a conceptual, spatial dynamic to echo its musicality. Includes the text of Eurydice, Sue Hubbard's poem which was written for the underpass at Waterloo Station.
£2.99
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Wallflowers (1999)
by Michael Donaghy 
'A lecture on poetry with misplaced notes and additional heckling' - Michael Donaghy's residency essay during his time as the Poetry Society's Creative Reader in Residence.
£5.45 ISBN 1900771144
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The Message (1999)
Roddy Lumsden and Stephen Troussé, editors
A gallimaufry of essays, poems, cover version and top tens from musicians, poets, critics and academics.
£5.45  ISBN: 1900771187
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