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The NPL team have picked their favourite winter reads from the library's eloan collection - perfect inspiration for the 70-Poet Challenge.
After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath, edited by Sarah Corbett and Ian Humphries
After Sylvia is an anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Sylvia Plath. the book honours the 90th anniversary of Plath's birth through a range of poems and essays by leading and up-and-coming poets and scholars from the UK and beyond.
— Chosen by Lorraine Mariner
The Lascaux Notebooks, Jean-Luc Champerrett, edited and translated by Philip Perry
This Carcanet Classic collects the oldest poetry yet discovered, as written down or runed in the Ice Age in Lascaux and other caves in the Dordogne, and now translated into English for the first time.
— Chosen by Will Rene
Earth House by Matthew Hollis
Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life.
— Chosen by Russell Thompson, Library Assistant
More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 A The Irish Times Book of the Year More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction and domestic violence shape a life.
— Chosen by Troy Cabida, Library Assistant
The Neighbourhood by Hannah Lowe
In this themed collection, Hannah Lowe focuses on the urban places she knows and loves, and finds a rich complexity of neighbourliness under the extreme pressure.
— Chosen by Elspeth Walker, Library Assistant
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place by bell hooks
A collection of poems inspired by bell hooks' childhood in the isolated hills and hidden hollows of Kentucky.
— Chosen by Emily Wood, Library Assistant