Africa Book Centre
Address Preston Park Business Centre, 36 Robertson Road, Brighton BN1 5NL
Tel 01273 560 474
Email orders@africabookcentre.com
Website www.africabookcentre.com
Poetry for children? Yes
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? No
Mail order service? Yes
"Specialist bookshop, mail order and website providing remote ordering facilities. Please visit www.africabookcentre.com."
Audiobook Store
36 Baker Street, London W1U 3EU
Phone 020 7486 7040
Fax 020 7486 7050
Email frances@audiobooks.co.uk
Website www.audiobooks.co.uk
Poetry for children? Yes
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? Yes
Mail order service? Yes
"The Audiobook Store has the most comprehensive stock of poetry on tape and CD. Famous poets reading their work e.g. Betjeman, Eliot, Hughes, Auden. Celebrated readers giving their own individual interpretations of favourite poems. We have a yearly catalogue, an efficient mail-order service and an exciting internet site with sound bites!"
Blackwells Oxford
Address 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ
Tel 01865 792 792
Fax 01865 794 143
Email oxford@blackwell.co.uk
Website www.blackwell.co.uk
"Offering the widest possible selection of poetry, the Literature Department is truly at the pulse of the poetry scene. The Department also benefits from a comprehensive range of poetry magazines, and spoken word, whilst second-hand titles are also available. Poetry and other library event readings also take place throughout the year. Orders can be place by telephone, fax, or Internet."
Bookshop at Queens
Address 91 University Road, Belfast BT7 1NL
Tel 02890 666 302/662 552
Fax 02890 666 099
Email enq@queensbookshop.co.uk
Website www.queensbookshop.co.uk
Poetry for children? Yes
"From Nuala Archer to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Bookshop at Queen's, Belfast's last independent general and academic bookshop, carries a varied selection of British, Irish and international poetry. Signed editions of local poets such as Michael Longley, Adrian Rice etc. frequently in stock. A mail order service is available."
City Books
Address 23 Western Road, Hove BN3 1AF
Tel 01273 725306
Opening hours 9.30- 6.00 Mon-Sat, 11.00- 4.30 Sundays
Website www.city-books.co.uk
Email info@citybookshove.co.uk
Poetry for children? Small range
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? Snall range
Mail order service? Yes
"City Books is one of the best general bookshops in the South. A good range of poetry is stocked. Contemporary and classics. Poetry in translation. Famous and popular poets as well as more obscure. The aim is to keep a balanced and interesting selection, which is constantly evolving."
Foyles at Royal Festival Hall
Address Southbank Centre, Riverside, London
SE1 8XX
Tel 020 7440 3212
Fax 020 7981 9739
Email rfh@foyles.co.uk
Website www.foyles.co.uk
"Opened in June 2005 our Royal Festival Hall branch sits right on the riverside in the heart of the Southbank Centre. Open from 10am-10pm every day, it offers the perfect destination whether you're attending a concert or event, or simply enjoying the delights of the area. We stock a broad range of subjects from fiction, literature and poetry to philosophy, biography, science, cookery, health, graphics, art, travel, London guides and children's titles. In the summer months you can while away the hours lounging in a deckchair on our lawn, reading your favourite book or just watching the world go by. We also run a bookstall at all the Southbank Centre's Literary events and frequently have available signed copies by many of the authors appearing , as well as holding our own signings in-store, with recent authors ranging from Michael Palin to Terry Pratchett and Ngugi wa Thiong'o."
Heffers Booksellers
Address 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TY
Tel 01223 568 568
Fax 01223 568 591
Email orders@heffers.co.uk
Website www.heffers.co.uk
"Our Poetry Department currently has over 1000 titles in stock covering contemporary poetry from all over the world, along with criticism and biographies. We also have a comprehensive range of anthologies. Visit the website to find out what is available."
Hellenic Bookservice
Address 49-51, Fortess Road, London NW5 1AG
Tel 020 7627 9499
Fax 020 7627 9498
Email info@hellenicbookservice.com
Website www.hellenicbookservice.com
Opening hours Monday to Friday 9.30-18.00 and Saturday 10.00-17.00
"The Hellenic Bookservice specialises in the poetry of three distinguished cultures: Greek, ancient and modern including 2 Nobel Prize winners, Seferis and Elytis, and Roman. One can trace the origins of poetry back to the epics of Homer or the lyrics of Sappho, from a period when prose didn't exist as a written form and verse was the normal mode of expression. We run a shop and mail-order service."
Lion and Unicorn Bookshop
Address 19 King Street, Richmond, Surrey TW9 1ND
Tel 020 8940 0483
Email services@lionunicornbooks.co.uk
Website www.lionunicornbooks.co.uk
"We are a specialist independent children's bookshop and stock a wide range if poetry and verse."
Loch Croispol Bookshop & Restaurant
Address 17c Balnakeil, Durness, Sutherland IV27 4PT
Tel 01971 511 777
Email lochcroispol@btopenworld.com
Website www.scottish-books.net
Poetry for children? Yes
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? Only by special order
Mail order service? Yes
"We stock poetry from around the world, but specialise in Scottish poetry classic and contemporary. We sell on-line, offer a mail order service, and a book search service for hard to find titles. Licensed restaurant on site. Most North-westerly bookshop on UK mainland. Car park. Disabled access."
London Review Bookshop
Address 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL
Tel 020 7269 9030
Fax 020 7269 9033
Website www.lrb.co.uk/lrbshop
Poetry for children? Very few titles
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? Some titles
Mail order service? Yes
"We stock a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, with particular strengths in contemporary European and American verse. We also host regular poetry readings and other events."
Owl Bookshop
Address 209 Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2JU
Tel 020 7485 7793
Fax 020 7267 7765
Email owlbookshop1@btconnect.com
"The Owl Bookshop organises regular literary events. Poetry readings have included Margaret Atwood, John Hegley and Tobias Hill. We stock books for all ages and are pleased to supply books by mail order. As well as any British book in print, we can also order American books."
Palmers Green Bookshop
Address 379 Green Lanes, London N13 4JE
Poetry for children? Yes
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? Children's poetry
Mail order service? Yes
"We have good links with local poets Katherine Gallagher and Myra Schneider. In 2002 we held a 10 day festival to celebrate Stevie Smith's centenary. We have a yearly poetry day. We have regular readings and a resident poet working in the shop."
Stock includes output of small publishers.
Poetry Book Society
Address Fourth Floor 2 Tavistock Place London WC1H 9RA
Tel 020 7833 9247
Fax 020 7833 5990
Email info@poetrybooks.co.uk
Websites www.poetrybooks.co.uk www.poetrybookshoponline.com and www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk
"Founded by T S Eliot in 1953, the Poetry Book Society is an international book club focusing on the latest new poetry from the UK and Ireland. Each quarter the Poet Selectors make their Choice of the best new book from submissions from all UK poetry publishers. This is sent to members with the Bulletin, featuring articles from the poets and the Selectors. The PBS offers Education membership with teaching tips for secondary schools and Charter membership for libraries. The Children's Poetry Bookshelf for 7-11 year-olds offers the best new children?s poetry, with memberships for schools, libraries and parents.
The PBS?s Poetry Bookshop Online is a niche bookshop offering nearly 90,000 poetry titles which are available in the UK."
Saltaire Bookshop
Address 217 Bingley Rd, Saltaire BD18 4DH West Yorkshire
Tel 01274 589144
Opening hours Mon-Sat 10-5
Website www.saltairebookshop.com
Poetry for children? Yes
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? Yes
Mail order service? Yes
"We are a new and second hand bookshop, with a very large stock of second hand books and a fast efficient ordering service for both new and s/h books. We also sell cards, dvds and records. We organise regular author events and invite people to come and join us. These gatherings range from poetry readings to events based around local interest books. We also have regular adult and childrens reading groups."
Sharston Books
Address Unit 15 Wearlee Works, Longley Lane, Sharston, Manchester M22 4WT
Tel 0161 945 8604
Website www.sharstonbooks.com
Poetry for children? Some titles
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? A few titles
Mail order service? Yes
"We have been established 15 years and occupy modern warehouse premises in South Manchester in the UK. We have a committed staff all keen to respond to you particular requirement. There is a considerable book list in category and alphabetical order, of which only a percentage currently feature on our website, so do feel free to enquire if you cannot see your particular book itemised; we might just have it hidden away."
Sky-Lark
Address The Needlemakers, West Street, Lewes, BN7 2NZ
Tel/Fax 01273 479418
Opening hours 10-5.30 Mon - Sat
E-mail mattbirch24@fsmail.net
"Our range of poetry books includes a good selection of titles by local contemparary poets including Catherine Smith, Janet Sutherland, Judith Kazantzis, Peter Abbs and Anna Adams."
Soma Books
Address 38 Kennington Lane, London SE11 4LS
Tel 020 7735 2101
Fax 020 7735 3076
Email books@somabooks.co.uk
Website www.childrens-books.uk.com
"Soma specialises in books from South Asia (including Urdu poetry with English translations), and children's books from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Selection of poetry for children and adults. Imports from USA, Indian subcontinent etc."
The Poetry Bookshop
Address Ice House, Brook Street, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5BQ
Tel 01497 821 812
Email info@poetrybookshop.co.uk
Website www.poetrybookshop.co.uk
Opening hours Mon-Sat 11am-5pm
Poetry for children? Yes
Poetry on CD and audio-cassette? Yes
Sell secondhand books from the shop and online but can order new titles upon request.
Mail order service? Offer mail order and also a free no obligation booksearch service
"The only bookshop devoted entirely to Poetry ? We cover every aspect of our speciality from the antiquarian and the scholarly to contemporary work: supplying rare, out of print, new and used poetry books - The most comprehensive collection of poetry available for purchase anywhere in the UK."
Waterstone's Gower Street
Address 82 Gower Street, London WC1E 6EQ
Tel 020 7636 1577
Fax 020 7580 7680
"We stock work by outstanding contemporary and classical poets, men and women, from every continent, in tranlation, bilingual editions, and original English. Our anthologies section ranges from African to Zen School. We also stock Poetry Journals, Audiobooks, Secondhand/Out of Print, Poetry Criticism and Creative Writing. Full mail order service."
