{"title":"Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoems touching on gothic and goth-ish themes and imagery\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"goblin-market-and-other-poems","title":"Goblin Market and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoblin Market and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e was Christina Rossetti's first full volume of poetry, published in 1862. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe collection received widespread critical praise and established Rossetti as the foremost female poet of her time. The title poem 'Goblin Market' is arguably her most famous, a fairy tale entwining themes of sisterhood, temptation and sexuality. An essential pre-Raphaelite poetry collection with Victorian sensibility and dark folkloric themes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis collection also includes 'Up-hill', an allegorical dialogue on life and death and 'Maude Clare', a ballad of a woman scorned.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christina Rossetti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54510563230035,"sku":"9780241303061","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/6997\/2563\/files\/9780241303061.jpg?v=1786108063"},{"product_id":"new-cemetery","title":"New Cemetery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for \u003cem\u003eNew Cemetery\u003c\/em\u003e. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese luminous and wry poems - composed in short-lined tercets - reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland. As seasons come and go and the cemetery fills up with new 'residents', Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"With his signature Yorkshire vernacular, [Armitage] brings precise locality and light-heartedness to death and grief... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe poems of \u003cem\u003eNew Cemetery\u003c\/em\u003e tap into deeply personal material while drawing on the laureate's public persona\", \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Simon Armitage","offers":[{"title":"Signed by the author","offer_id":55335314391379,"sku":"9780571357338Sig","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Regular unsigned copy","offer_id":55335314424147,"sku":"9780571357338","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/6997\/2563\/files\/9780571357338.jpg?v=1788106120"},{"product_id":"midden-witch","title":"Midden Witch","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/laurel-prize-for-nature-poetry-longlist-revealed\"\u003eLaurel Prize 2026\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her thrilling fourth collection, \u003cem\u003eMidden Witch\u003c\/em\u003e, Fiona Benson enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge-magic and focuses on the persistent superstition – the fear and false knowledge – that was witchcraft. Telling tales of imagined transformations and spell-casting, these poems present a litany of artists, dreamers and outcasts and a study of their ostracisation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poet looks at how gifted, sometimes troubled, individuals – generally healers, artists, prodigies and almost always women – became scapegoats, victims of societal paranoia and persecution, and were hounded for centuries, often to a gratuitously violent public execution. In Midden Witch, these women speak back to us with dark humour, insight and real herbal knowledge. Reckoning with middle age, marginalisation, perimenopause and a steady, unstoppable vanishing, this troubled codex of remedies, spells and stories speaks to human fear in the face of the unknown, and a drive to protect our loved ones that transcends all rational thought.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt play in the language of archival accounts of witchcraft, this is a dark, eclectic spell-book that witnesses the end-days of magic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Benson is one of the finest English poets writing today\", Blake Morrison\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Fiona Benson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54608715383123,"sku":"9781787335240","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1071\/6997\/2563\/files\/9781787335240.jpg?v=1786962615"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.vanitaspress.co.uk\/collections\/poetry.oembed","provider":"Vanitas Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}