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Following on from the success of Unashamed (Burning Eye, 2022), Harry Baker combines the insight of a mathematician and the vulnerability of the poet to find wonder in the little things that make life so precious. From a poem about wellies becoming an exploration of masculinity, a poem planning his own funeral inspiring thousands around the world to do the same, or a poem about his favourite German wheat-beer literally just being a poem about his favourite German wheat-beer, The combination of grief and joy in recent poems has led to Harry being described as the Barbenheimer of the poetry world (by himself, but he is hoping it catches on).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBurning Eye\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Eye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48636399452434,"sku":"9781913958497","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1331\/9925\/files\/HarryBakerWonderful.png?v=1712825210"},{"product_id":"wonder-by-chris-emery","title":"Wonder by Chris Emery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished 3rd November 2025.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection about time, absence, and belonging\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his fifth collection of poems, Chris Emery explores the nature of wonder in its various forms of awe, reflection, and the marvellous. The poems range from the absurd, to the historical, the comic and fantastical - dropping us into stories and places we never quite expect. The collection considers where and how we live: in the city, in the country, on the coast, or elsewhere - and the strange lives we endure in often disparate communities, connected to each other through history and nature, and sometimes separated by it. As with Emery's previous work, the poems reveal the intimate and fleeting in human experience, and can delve into the mundane, reverie or dreamscape, each lyric serving to illustrate the joy of common experience, all expressed in musical and arresting language that never avoids the freight of emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Previous Work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Emery instinctively knows that language can never be that precise and ambiguity lurks even in seemingly the most transparent utterance. 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