 | Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.67 gritty, disturbing and inspirational, book that made her name
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 | Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £1.99 not as surreal as plath, more concrete, but still delves brilliantly into the unconscious
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 | The Fat Black Woman's Poems (Virago Poets) by Grace Nichols
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £3.11 colourful and expressive
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 | Iona: Poems by Kenneth C. Steven
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.56 beautiful and spiritual
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 | Drowning Up the Blue End by Siriol Troup
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £3.99 great use of language and even a brilliant poem about brocolli, deserves to be better known
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 | Drink the Green Fairy by Brian Whittingham
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.66 great debut from the glasgow poet, interesting section of poems about painters mainly impressionist ones
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 | Pip Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century: Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain, 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets v.3: Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain, 20 Contemporary Brazilian Poets Vol 3
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £8.85 wonderfully vibrant and inventive 20th century brazilian poetry
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 | Seasons of the Heart by Alan Spence
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.91 the seasons beautifully evoked through haiku, try also "Glasgow Zen" and "Clear Light" by the same author
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 | Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides by Kevin MacNeil
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £3.49 another great scottish poet with a sense of spirit about him
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 | From the Devil's Pulpit by John Agard
Buy used from: £0.90 married to the aforementioned Grace Nichols this is an often funny book giving a devil's eye view of the world
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 | Open World: Collected Poems 1960 - 2000 by Kenneth White
Buy new: £13.50 / Used from: £9.05 great collection from this often eastern influenced poet
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 | Selected Poems (Cape Poetry) by Michael Longley
Buy used from: £16.96 a contemporary of seamus heaney, deserves to be as well known as him
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 | Arcanum 17 (Green Integer) by Andre Breton
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £5.37 great innovative surrealist poetry from Breton
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