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Five Fifty-Five is a book of quizzical poems concerned with time and mortality which ask fundamental questions about our lives, such as Where have you gone? and Who were you anyway? In her first new collection since The Silvering (2016), Maura Dooley tries to find out through conversations with, among others, Louisa M. Alcott, Hokusai, Jane Austen, Buzz Aldrin, Anne Tyler and the Great Uncle and Grandfather she never knew. There are poems, to...

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Dooley's first new collection since her Eliot-shortlisted Life Under Water (2008). Poems on looking in, looking out, looking through, on shifting light and what it reveals, reflects or conceals - and what remains.

Presents a comprehensive selection of poetry, including work for explaining magnetism and kissing a bone.

These new poems take in the physical landscape, family and friendship, as well as the transience of both folklore and politics. In part an attempt to speak of what is submerged, they welcome that 'splash of cold water to the face' that tells us we're alive.

With over 325 poems by as many poets from around the world, from Shakespeare to Collins, from Szymborska to Neruda to Li Po, this extensive anthology celebrates love in all its many guises. Here are poems of romantic love, the ideal of love, the hurt of love, lost or unrequited. Here are poems of friendship, surprise, celebration, and consolation. Here together are well-known, much-loved verse and little-known surprises.