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  • Diary of a Bipolar Explorer

    by Lucy Newlyn ...
    In 2002 Lucy Newlyn found herself incarcerated in a mental hospital in Leeds. She had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as a danger to herself and others during a psychotic episode after several nights without sleep. The psychosis was triggered by nearly three years of grieving for a dead sister, followed by a vigil at her father’s deathbed during which she hallucinated that his hospital ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vital Stream

    by Lucy Newlyn ...
    A work of historical fiction, an experiment in life writing and a verse drama designed to be read aloud. Vital Stream takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in 1802 - a threshold year for William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Parted when they were very young, the siblings had eventually set up home together in the Lake District, where they were to remain for the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • William and Dorothy Wordsworth

    'All in each other'

    by Lucy Newlyn ...
    William Wordsworth's creative collaboration with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years, from their first reunion in 1787 until her premature decline in 1835. Rumours of incest have surrounded the siblings since the 19th century, but Lucy Newlyn sees their cohabitation as an expression of deep emotional need, arising from circumstances peculiar to their family history. Born in Cockermouth ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

    Edited by Lucy Newlyn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most influential, as well as one of the most enigmatic, of all Romantic figures. The possessor of a precocious talent, he dazzled contemporaries with his poetry, journalism, philosophy and oratory without ever quite living up to his early promise, or overcoming problems of dependence and drug addiction. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge does full justice to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Craft of Poetry

    A Primer in Verse

    by Lucy Newlyn ...
    A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry—itself written entirely in verseHow does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse. Each poem exemplifies an aspect of poetic craft—but read together they suggest how ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Jog On

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  • The Oxford History of English

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  • Literature

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  • Rapture

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    Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose TremainThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy's verse have made her our most admired and best-loved contemporary poet. Rapture, her seventh collection, is a book-length love-poem, and a moving act of personal testimony ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth

    by Emma Mason ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged with the political, social and religious upheavals of his time than his reputation as a 'nature poet' might suggest. Outlining a series of contexts - biographical, historical and literary - as well as critical approaches to Wordsworth, this ... Read more

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