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Collections and pamphlets by poets who perform. A mixture of spoken word / performance poets and some page poet crossover artists' work.
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Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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After The Formalities
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Verses of a Poet Who Didn't Know It
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The Half-God of Rainfall
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Surge
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My Darling from the Lions
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The Air Year
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You Better Be Lightning
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A Portable Paradise
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The Perseverance
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Rendang
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Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen
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Burgerz
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Hold Your Own
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Louder than Words
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Still Falling
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Take Hair
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Fat Girls Don't Dance
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Essex Girl
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Alright, Girl?
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Requite
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Thalassic
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The Fire Eater's Lover
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4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Other Woman
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In Heaven the Onions Make You Laugh
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Petrol Honey
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The Sunshine Kid
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My Name Is Why
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To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful
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Our Deathbeds Will Be Thirsty
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A Bruise On Light
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Give Me A God I Can Relate To
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Autopsy
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A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters
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Clatter
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Black Movie
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Homie
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Deaf Republic
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The Future
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Our Numbered Days
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If My Body Could Speak
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Lord of the Butterflies
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Date & Time
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New American Best Friend
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It All Radiates Outwards: The Verve Anthology of City Poems
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Adjusted
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I Am Not From Here
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This dress has pockets
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Mute Men
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Ache
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Unspoken
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Postcolonial Banter
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Playground
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Unorthodox
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Brave Faces & Other Smiles
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On Connection
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Don't Call Us Dead
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bury it
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My Cloth-Eared Heart
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Lasagne
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Playtime
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Spoke: New Queer Voices
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Physical
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Brand New Ancients: A Poem
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
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Girl
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Breadfruit
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Your Family, Your Body
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Pepper Seed
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The Black Flamingo
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Slug
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Cherry Pie
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Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
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Cosmocartography
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...and then she ate him
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Blackish
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Totally Cultured
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Applied Mathematics
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Dogtooth
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Zebra
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Jam is for Girls
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To Sweeten Bitter
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