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New poetry
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The
Migraine Hotel
by Luke Kennard
Trade Paperback
- Third collection
from the youngest ever nominee for the Forward
Prize for Best Collection.
- The return of the
wolf – as featured in the Guardian
Review
Price: £8.99
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The
Oppostive of Cabbage
by Rob A. Mackenzie
Trade Hardback
- This book is entertaining,
humorous, unflinching when faced with difficult
experience, and rooted in contemporary life.
- Mackenzie views the
world from unconventional angles and finds
insight in things that are often left unnoticed
or unheralded.
Price: £12.99
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The
Ambulance Box
by Andrew Philip
Trade Hardback
- Although there is
much poetry on grief and loss, the perspective
of a bereaved parent is unusual in contemporary
writing.
- There is a strong
human interest element to the collection,
which will appeal to people beyond the normal
poetry audience.
Price: £12.99
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Like
This
by Diana Pooley
Trade Paperback
- Like
This ranges
over a number of subjects and uses a variety
of forms. There are poems about the Australian
outback, visual art, London suburban life
and the odd – creatures, people and
places of the imagination
Price: £8.99
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New titles
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Voyaging Out
by Peter Abbs
Trade Hardback
- A collection of poems
which range from the experience of love to
memories of childhood, from philosophical
reflections on art and poetry to the dramatic
re-telling of other lives.
Price: £12.99
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Next
to Nothing
by Chris Agee
Trade Hardback
- Next
to Nothing is
a unique, spare, delicate and deeply moving
record of the years following the death of
a beloved child in 2001.
Price: £12.99
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The
Word for Sorrow
by Josephine Balmer
Trade Hardback
- This new work for
Josephine Balmer is a detective tale in verse
offering innovative, engaging and moving
poetry with a strong narrative drive
Price: £12.99
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Sheer
Detachment
by Howard Barker
Trade Hardback
- Howard Barker’s
catastophic vision is clearly visible in
the sinister twilight of his new collection
of poems. His world is filled with violence,
conspiracy and transgression.
Price: £12.99
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New poetry
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A
Brief History of Time
by Shaindel Beers
Trade Paperback
- A
Brief History of Time, Beers’ first
collection of poetry, is at once an exploration
of what it is to grow up in rural America
and a treatise for social justice. These
poems, many of them award-winning, span a
wide range of styles—from plainsong
free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works.
Price: £8.99
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The
Men from Praga
by Anne Berkeley
Trade Paperback
- Confronts Cold War,
a neglected period but increasingly relevant.
- Explores place as
memory, combining the skills of the performance
poet with the depth of serious work.
Price: £8.99
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Nowhere’s
Far: New and Selected Poems 1990-2008
by Phil Bowen
Trade Paperback
- 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.
Price: £9.99
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The
Linguistics of Light
by Lisa Dart
Trade Hardback
- The
Linguistics of Light journeys from the north
Norfolk coast of England across a vast emotional
landscape to Greece and beyond.
Price: £12.99
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New poetry
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Resurrecting
Knives
by Vincent De Souza
Trade Hardback
- New experimental
poetry which develops the cut-up technique
ideas of the American Beats.
- Poetry including
the high energy themes of motorcycle gang
culture and rock ’n’ roll music.
Price: £12.99
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The
Bible of Lost Pets
by Jamey Dunham
Trade Paperback
- Award-winning debut
collection (Crashaw Prize-2008)
- The Bible of Lost
Pets is a fresh, surprising collection in
the vein of contemporary favourites James
Tate, Russell Edson and Charles Simic.
Price: £12.99
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The
Poems of Sidney West
by Juan Gelman (translated by Katherine M Hedeen
and Víctor Rodíiguez-Núñez
Trade Paperback
- Gelman is one of
the greatest living poets in the Spanish
language, as well as being one of the most
read and influential.
Price: £9.99
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I’ll
Dress One Night as You
by Chrissie Gittins
Trade Paperback
- 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.
Price: £8.99
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New releases
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Effigies:
An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing,
Pacific Rim, 2009
Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Trade Paperback
- dg nanouk okpik,
Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall,
and Mahealani Perez-Wendt are four exceptional
emerging poets.
Price: £9.99
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The
Missing
by Siân Hughes
Trade Hardback
- POETRY BOOK SOCIETY
RECOMMENDATION
- 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.
Price: £12.99
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Tender
by Mark Illis
Trade Paperback
- Tender is a highly
readable literary work with a broad appeal
to both adults and teenagers. It’s
been read many times to school groups who
particularly love the stories about Rosa,
the schoolgirl, while adults respond to these
as well as to the stories concerning her
parents.
Price: £8.99
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Bird
Head Son
by Anthony Joseph
Trade Hardback
- Written over a 5
year period, the autobiographical poems in ‘Bird
Head Son’ cover the poet’s ‘1st
life’ in Trinidad, beginning with his
departure from Trinidad to the UK in 1989,
and moving back to his childhood in 1970s
Trinidad. Anthony Joseph’s last book
was the critically acclaimed ‘The African
Origins of UFOs’, this is his first
collection of poetry since 1997’s ‘black
surrealist manifesto’ Teragaton.
Price: £12.99
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