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A Cumberland Christmas

Compiled by Alan Cleaver
�6.00

Some of the delightful Christmas stories from Cumbria of old including the legend of the tall ship Betsey Jane whose 'ghost' attempts to land at Whitehaven each Christmas with its cargo of West Indian treasures including rum and spices.

Publisher :	Alan Cleaver and Lesley Park
Published :	2016
Pages :	35p
Format :	Hardback; 128 x 136mm

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A Whole Day Through From Waking

Jacci Bulman
�8.99

Jacci Bulman's first poetry collection is about love, of many kinds. She writes as a poet for whom 'a mortal smack has shaken every perspective', through her experiences of dealing with a brain tumour whilst studying at Oxford University, and recently skin cancer.

Publisher :	Cinnamon Press
Published :	June 2016
Pages :	73p
Format :	Paperback; 216 x 160mm

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Anchoring the Light

Victoria Bennett
�5.99

Victoria Bennetts poetry peels back the layers of memory in the pursuit of honesty. Threading its way through the half-remembered childhood land of myth, magic and fairytale, this book - her first full-length publication - charts the journey from

Publisher :	Wild Women Press
Published :	1999
Pages :	50
Format :	Paperback.

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Back O' Skiddaw

Brian Campbell
�10.00

A diverse collection of poems by Brian Campbell, including reflections on locations such as Mull, Florida and Bewcastle

Publisher :	Bookends/ Williow End Publications
Published :	October 2015
Pages :	28p
Format :	A4 Paperback

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Barren Stories for Moonlit Mannequins

Mark G Pennington
�7.00

Mark G Pennington is a writer based in Kendal, Cumbria and is the author of Barren Stories for Moonlit Mannequins, his debut book of poems published by Dempsey and Windle (2018). He has recently been nominated for The Pushcart Prize for poetry.

Publisher :	Dempsey and Windle
Published :	June 2018
Pages :	35p
Format :	Paperback; 203 x 143mm

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Black and White

William Scammell
�7.50

In 2000 Scammell began compiling a collection of new poems for Flambard Press, but did not complete this before his unexpected and premature death in November of that year. This book is divided into two sections.

Publisher :	Flambard Press
Published :	2002
Pages :	72
Format :	Paperback.

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Bleeding Heart Yard

William Scammell
�7.95

In his argument with himself and others he highlights the street credibility of the eternal verities in poems of remarkably sensuous beauty.

Publisher :	Peterloo Poets
Published :	1992
Pages :	63
Format :	Paperback.

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Breccia

Malcolm Carson
�8.95

Sense of place is strong in Malcolm Carson's poetry - Ireland where some of his roots are, flat Lincolnshire from which he moved to hilly Cumbria. His landscapes are explicitly emotional and he has the wide-angle vision of the land and it's inhabitants that is anything but parochial.

Publisher :	Shoestring Press
Published :	June 2007
Pages :	64
Format :	148 x 210mm paperback

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Casserole

Brian Campbell
�10.00

A collection of illustrated poems by local poet and artist Brian Campbell.

Publisher :	Willow End Publication
Published :	November 2012
Pages :	20p.
Format :	Paperback; 300 x 210mm.

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Christopher at the Lakes : Volume One - The Lake Poems of John Wilson

Penny Bradshaw
�12.00

John Wilson (1785-1854) came to be best known in Romantic contextsfor his role as contributor to the notorious Blackwood's Magazine, but was also closely involved with Lakes literary circles.

Publisher :	BOOKCASE
Published :	February 2012
Pages :	212
Format :	150mm x 210mm paperback

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Cleethorpes Comes to Paris

Malcolm Carson
�5.00

Cleethorpes Comes to Paris is a sequence of poems recounting and recalling the first trip to not just a foreign country but to a culture that held compelling images and philosophies for a generation.

Publisher :	Shoestring Press
Published :	May 2014
Pages :	11p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 145mm

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Coming Ready or Not

Christopher Pilling
�15.00

'Coming Ready or Not' includes all the poems from Christopher Pilling's first two books, which are now out of print, and many from the other collections.

Publisher :	BOOKCASE
Published :	April 2010
Pages :	300
Format :	148mm x 210mm paperback

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Dorothy Wordsworth - An Anthology

�6.50

This is a pocket-sized anthology produced by the Wordsworth Trust and sure to bring enjoyment to anyone interested in Dorothy Wordsworth's life and times.

Publisher :	Wordsworth Trust
Published :	April 2007
Pages :	96
Format :	100mm x 142mm hardback

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Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday

Carol Ann Duffy
�6.99

Following Bethlehem, Wenceslas, The Christmas Truce, Another Night Before Christmas and Mrs Scrooge, the Poet Laureate offers another delightful and original Christmas poem.

Publisher :	Picador
Published :	December 2014
Pages :	38p
Format :	Small Hardback; 138mm x127mm

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Eden Valley - Into the Threshold Light

Alan Daltrey
�12.00

These poems, alongside photographs - and paintings by Nick Jones - have been written over a number of years whilst the author lived in and explored the Eden Valley. Taken together, they offer a meditation upon the people who have settled over millennia and left their memorials in cairns, henges, standing stones, hogbacks, settlements, churches, castles, railways and bridges. They celebrate as well the wildlife, trees and flowers which grow alongside the valleys and waterways of Eden.

Publisher :	CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Published :	March 2016
Pages :	102p
Format :	Paperback; 216 x 279mm

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Eldorado

William Scammell
�7.95

In this collection Scammell deepens and extends his range, moving easily between free verse and strict form. Whether writing of his travels in America, or exploring the pleasures and pains of youth, he never fails to interest, amuse and enlighten.

Publisher :	Peterloo Poets
Published :	1987
Pages :	71
Format :	Paperback.

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Eoliths

Peter Rafferty
�6.95

A collection of poems by Carlisle poet Peter Rafferty.

Publisher :	Arrowhead Press
Published :	2002
Pages :	76
Format :	Paperback.

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From the Heart - A Collection of Short Philosophical Verse

John D Wells
�14.50

The magic of nature and reality of life, with added verse and lines by well-known poets and writers.

Publisher :	John D Wells
Published :	December 2008
Pages :	120
Format :	170mm x 245mm paperback

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From the Mines to the Mountains: John Dalton's 'Descriptive Poem' of 1755 and Contemporary Accounts of Cumberland and Westmorland

Edited and introduced by Christopher Donaldson and Stephen Matthews
�10.00

Includes an A3 print of 'Matthias Read: A Birds-Eye View of Whitehaven (c.1735)

John Dalton's 'Descriptive Poem' of 1755 affords a unique glimpse of the undersea mines at Whitehaven and the scenery of Borrowdale and Lowther.

Dalton's descriptions enticed his contemporaries to visit the industry and the sublime scenery of Georgian Cumberland and Westmorland. They were followed by the 'early tourists' and the Romantic poets.

Publisher :	Bookcase
Published :	July 2018
Pages :	200p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 147mm

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Give or Take

Bernard Landreth
�6.99

Cumbrian writer Bernard Landreth's first collection of poetry is full of surprises. Just when you've got a handle on his voice he surprises you with a lurch in mood or a twist in tone.

Publisher :	Red Squirrel Press
Published :	2007
Pages :	66
Format :	135mm x 210mm paperback

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Haiku: Poems Beyond the Mountain

John Chambers
�4.99

These brief three line poems are mostly inspired by nature. Some follow the way of traditional Haiku: others take a different route. The author employs his own individual style, while retaining the basic structure of 17 syllables.

Publisher :	John Chambers Publishing
Published :	February 2018
Pages :	128p
Format :	Paperback; 149 x 106mm

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Honey & Stone

Alison Barr
�8.00

A collection of poetry from Lake District based poet Alison Barr winner of the 2015 Cumbrian Literary Group poetry prize and the 2015 Mungrisdale Poetry Competition.

Publisher :	Alison Barr
Published :	March 2017
Pages :	101p
Format :	Paperback; 210 x 150mm

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How Hall - Poems and Memories, A Passion For Ennerdale

Tom Rawling
�7.50

Tom Rawling was born in 1916 in Ennerdale, then Cumberland and now Cumbria.

Publisher :	Lamplugh & District Heritage Society
Published :	September 2009
Pages :	90
Format :	164mm x 242mm paperback

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How Hall - Selected Poems of Ennerdale Poet Tom Rawling - Read by the Author - CD

Jane Rawling & Sue Slater
�8.00

Tom Rawling was born at How Hall, Ennerdale, in 1916.

Publisher :	LDHS
Published :	September 2009
Pages :
Format :	CD ROM

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Ident

Alan John Stubbs
�9.75

In this new collection of playfully disturbing and provocative poems Alan John Stubbs, an established master of risky, inventive poetics, turns his critical eye towards the notion of identity, skipping effortlessly between vivid childhood memories, bright, impressionistic flashbacks from his international travels, and laments for the sorry state of the contemporary United Kingdom.

Publisher :	Onslaught Press
Published :	February 2017
Pages :	129p
Format :	Paperback; 215 x 140mm

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