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 How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, peopled by ghosts of London’s past as well as the distinctly modern spectres of international terrorism, spam email and the credit crunch.
 Abi
Curtis’s first collection, Unexpected
Weather, makes the familiar extraordinary,
and the supernatural everyday. In poems
about animals and clouds, scientists
and circus performers, about love and
bean-pods, about bruises and myths and
the moments before death, her deft use
and playful subversions of form give
her verse an exquisite poise between
gravity and lightness.
 The
Bible of Lost Pets is the debut
collection of one of America’s celebrated
up-and-coming practitioners of the
prose poem. Jamey Dunham artfully
combines vivid, surreal imagery with
a fresh, distinctive style. The result
is a collection that, “establishes
[Dunham] as one of the accomplished
prose poets of the new century.”
 Comprised
of lyrics, mock journal entries,
prose portraits and odes, Book
Made of Forest answers the
“summons and challenge” of
being both human and animal, urban
and rural, cultured and philistine,
formal and ruinous, willful and
acted-upon. Jared Stanley strikes
at the absurd thingness of things,
rings out their histories, traces
their loss in the 6th extinction,
figures his voluminous overhearing
into poems rhetorical and fragmented,
mournful and comedic.
Anne Berkeley confronts the Cold
War, a neglected period but increasingly
relevant to us all
 In
a ruined garden children play cowboys
and Indians while their fathers fight
the Cold War. The children grow up
and discover the enemy are also people.
The Empire shrinks to an opera audience.
The Royal Family is reduced to waxworks.
A mediaeval university town finally
gets its ecological mass transportation
system.
Lisa Dart’s debut tackles universally
appealing themes: love, time, light,
language, and memory
 Lisa
Dart’s debut collection The
Linguistics of Light journeys
from the north Norfolk coast of England
across a vast emotional landscape to
Greece and beyond. America is one of
the imaginative and physical locations
for some of the poems whilst others
roam through the ancient world and
travel through theories of the universe,
but return to the comforting location
of Einstein’s kitchen on a rainy
day.
Gittins has been described by Jane
Yeh as “A true original”
 What
undercuts these evocations of vivid
living is the certain knowledge of
death. These poems try to replace what
is lost, or about to be lost, with
the laying down of memory etched with
the imagination. At once unflinching,
sensual, delicate and elegiac, these
poems inhabit the fluid spaces left
between the present and the past.
Tender is a highly readable
literary work with a broad appeal to
both adults and teenagers
 Tender
is the story of the Dax family. Or
the stories of the Dax family. When
Ali and Bill meet it’s 1974,
she’s a physiotherapist with
a broken heart, he’s a cycle
courier who dreams of writing a Hollywood
film. In the next story it’s
their first wedding anniversary, in
the next Ali’s pregnant, and
so we go on, revisiting the family
on key occasions over thirty years,
watching relationships develop, children
grow up, big moments occur, as life
unfolds in its normal, and sometimes
far from normal, way. Just an ordinary
family, then, trying to cope with life,
and each other. A family with a history
that develops in front of your eyes.
A family with stories to tell.
“No other poet now writing
is more alert from word to word or
registers the world with Michael O’Brien’s
oblique precision. Sills is
a large event: our first comprehensive
look at a neglected American master”
—August Kleinzahler
 Sills gathers
together poems from four of O’Brien’s
early books and combines them with
later work, forming a selection from
1960-1999. O’Brien writes, “The
poems dance their dance of stillness
and motion. The issue is a quiet, patterned
music, animated, disciplined, ecstatic;
not closure, but recognition.”
This new edition provides the reader
with the best introduction to O’Brien’s
work, a poet hailed as a modern master
of the lyric form and a poet of genuine
significance in the American canon.
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Whether laugh-out-loud funny or investigating
much deeper tensions beneath his subjects
Phil Bowen’s poems resonate with
these strange times in which we live.
 Whether
laugh-out-loud funny or staring straight
into the abyss, Phil Bowen’s
highly distinctive poems are written
with great originality, rhythm and
nerve. Here are poems that pass ‘the
spelling test’ – casting
a spell that in turn creates a distinct
world whose landscape readers can inhabit
for the poems’ duration.
Gelman is one of the greatest living
poets in the Spanish language, as well
as being one of the most read and influential
 This
translation offers to English readers
for the first time the splendid verse
of imaginary American author Sidney
West, created by Juan Gelman, one of
the greatest living poets of the Hispanic
world. These laments question Western
assumptions surrounding death, erase
boundaries between poetry and narrative,
privilege the magical as a vital aspect
of reality and seek the transformation
of the lyric persona.
People turn to poetry in emotional
extremes – they need it to look
back at them unflinchingly, to meet
their feelings eye-to-eye. This book
dares to meet the eye of the grief-stricken,
rejected and ashamed
 POETRY
BANK CHOICE and POETRY
BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION. In
2006 ‘The Send-Off’, an elegy for
a lost child, was broadcast on Woman’s
Hour on BBC Radio 4 and the issues
it raised — ante-natal testing, grief,
guilt, the family, women’s lives — raged
on for weeks in blogs and notice
boards. But no one wondered what
the poem was about. It was crystal
clear. The poems in Sian Hughes debut
collection, The Missing are
direct and emotional. They do not
hide behind imagery. They deal head
on with the heart of shame, with
parenting, illness, loss, regret
and falling in love with the wrong
people.
This is another sensational collection
from Kennard packed with humour and
his heady mix of mad narrators and
surreal mise-en-scène
 A
combination of verse and prose poetry, ‘The
Migraine Hotel’ is Luke Kennard’s
third collection and very much a sequel
to ‘The Harbour Beyond the Movie’.
The voices continue to explore the
territory opened up by Harbour, at
once satiric, stricken, sincere and
bitingly sarcastic, combined with a
kaleidoscopic range of ways of engaging
with a poem as a reader. The prose
poems are prose poems in the tradition
of Baudelaire, which is to say they
read more like grouchy comic monologues
with unreliable narrators than prose-verse
characterised by excessive lyricism.
Like This ranges from the
Australian outback to London suburban
life and the odd – creatures,
people and places of the imagination
 Like
This ranges over a number of
subjects and uses a variety of forms.
There are poems about a childhood
in the Australian outback, visual
art, London suburban life and about
the unexpected – creatures, people
and places of the imagination written
in ways that are inventive and accessible.
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