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Anthologization Jo Shapcott
JS was, with Helen Dunmore , U. A. Fanthorpe , and Elizabeth Jennings , one of the four poets featured in no. 5 of the audio-cassette series The Poetry Quartets, issued today by the...
Anthologization Eavan Boland
EB published poems in US, English, and Irish journals: among them the New Yorker, the Paris Review, American Poetry Review, the Atlantic, the Partisan Review, the Kenyon Review, the...
Dedications Jackie Kay
The collection, dedicated to JK 's adoptive mother, was published by Bloodaxe Books in Newcastle upon Tyne, with a photograph of human chromosomes on the cover.
Kay, Jackie. The Adoption Papers. Bloodaxe Books, 1991.
prelims
Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books, 1998.
back cover
BBC Radio 3 had broadcast...
Publishing Kathleen Jamie
For her second book of poems, A Flame in Your Heart, KJ teamed up with Andrew Greig and published with Bloodaxe Books of Newcastle, who became her regular publishers.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Publishing Ruth Fainlight
RF 's poetry volume Sugar-Paper Blue, published by Bloodaxe at Newcastle upon Tyne, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Publishing Fleur Adcock
FA 's poetry volume Hoard was published by Bloodaxe .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Bloodaxe Books. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/.
Publishing Medbh McGuckian
It was reprinted the next year in the UK by Bloodaxe Books , and in the United States by Wake Forest University Press . All editions were in paperback.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Publishing Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
It appeared in the USA (at Winston-Salem, North Carolina), the same year, and was reprinted in Ireland and the UK in 1986. The UK edition, from Bloodaxe Books , was titled The Second Voyage...
Publishing Carol Rumens
In August 1997 there appeared from Bloodaxe BooksCR 's volume of light verse, The Miracle Diet: Poems, on which Rumens collaborated with cartoonist Viv Quillin .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Rumens, Carol. Poems 1968-2004. Bloodaxe Books, 2004.
prelims
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Publishing Selima Hill
With this volume, SH switched to publishing with Bloodaxe Books .
Publishing Jeni Couzyn
JC issued through Bloodaxe a revised and expanded edition of Life by Drowning: Selected Poems (which had been published in Toronto in 1983).
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Publishing Frances Horovitz
Bloodaxe reprinted the volume in 1989, and in 2000 Chadwyck-Healey made it available at its Literature Online website.
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
HD published with Bloodaxe BooksShort Days, Long Nights: New and Selected Poems.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Kathleen Jamie
JL's third book of poems, The Way We Live, again published by Bloodaxe Books , was her first major collection.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Kathleen Jamie”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, 1 Mar. 2001– 2025, pp. 39-40.
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Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE published with Bloodaxe Books an expanded version of her verse novel Lara, which she had revised to be longer by a third.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Texts

Adcock, Fleur. Below Loughrigg. Bloodaxe Books, 1979.
Adcock, Fleur. Dragon Talk. Bloodaxe Books, 2010.
Adcock, Fleur. Poems: 1960-2000. Bloodaxe Books, 2000.
The Virgin and the Nightingale. Translator Adcock, Fleur, Bloodaxe Books, 1983.
Allnutt, Gillian. Blackthorn. Bloodaxe Books, 1994.
Allnutt, Gillian. Nantucket and The Angel. Bloodaxe Books, 1997.
Anderson, Linda. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 7-11.
Anderson, Linda. “The Story of the Eye: Elizabeth Bishop and the Limits of the Visual”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 159-74.
Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 175-00.
Astley, Neil, editor. Staying Alive. Bloodaxe Books, 2002.
Boland, Eavan. “The Wrong Way”. Strong Words, edited by W. N. Herbert and Matthew Hollis, Bloodaxe Books, 2000, pp. 215-18.
Breeze, Jean Binta. On the Edge of An Island. Bloodaxe Books, 1997.
Breeze, Jean Binta. The Arrival of Brighteye and Other Poems. Bloodaxe Books, 2000.
Breeze, Jean Binta. The Fifth Figure. Bloodaxe Books, 2006.
Breeze, Jean Binta. The Verandah Poems. Bloodaxe Books, 2016.
Breeze, Jean Binta. Third World Girl. Bloodaxe Books, 2011.
Couzyn, Jeni. In the Skin House. Bloodaxe Books, 1993.
Couzyn, Jeni. Life by Drowning. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
Deane, Nichola. “’Everything a Poet Should Be’: Elizabeth Bishop in Her Letters”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 143-58.
Donaghy, Michael. “The Exile’s Accent”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 119-22.
Dunmore, Helen. Bestiary. Bloodaxe Books, 1997.
Dunmore, Helen. Out of the Blue. Bloodaxe Books, 2001.
Dunmore, Helen. Recovering a Body. Bloodaxe Books, 1994.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991.