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The Forgetting and Remembering of Air
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SynopsisIn this, her third collection, Sue Hubbard meditates on art and the natural world. By going to the extreme edge of western Ireland, to a Cornish beach, to the rim...
The Fool and the Physician
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SynopsisExploding with Carnivalesque and antic energy, The Fool and the Physician shows the formal range and wit of Andy Brown’s poetry, from traditional lyric forms such as pantoums, sonnets and...
The Flowering of Flint
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Synopsis“I believe the work of the poet should be existentially grounded. Being a poet is an interior vocation, not a selected career ...”“Part of the exacting work of the poet...
The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry
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SynopsisHow modern is modern? How does the new come to be the surface which makes the personality visible? How does an offset become a peak? One of the key differences...
The Devil’s Bookshop
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SynopsisWhat does the Devil like to read? In the title poem of David Kennedy’s new collection he delights in books that describe the ease with which people lose things, care...
The Brand New Dark
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SynopsisPoetry Bank Choice. Mark Waldron’s debut collection The Brand New Dark is a book about sex, eyes, eggs, dogs, death and sausages. It is a book concerned with our loss...
The Blue Butterfly
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SynopsisThe Blue Butterfly has two points of departure. The first is a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. On 21 October 1941, seven thousand men and boys from Kragujevac, a town...
The Angel of Salonika
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SynopsisThe Angel of Salonika is a haunting, multi-layered book about place, language and remembrance, and the way they make us who we are. Winner of the Crashaw Prize, it is...
The Ambulance Box
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and The Aldeburgh First Collection Prize The Ambulance Box heralds the arrival of a strong and passionate new voice. Striking a fine balance...
Stations of the Heart
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SynopsisPowerful and evocative poems of love, loss, and memory which range from contemporary England to a Scottish childhood, from the State of England to the pieties and pressures of growing...
Speed & Other Liberties
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SynopsisSpace travel likened to a dream, pursued refugees, bikes ‘ridden in a free-form dance with cars’, Olympian exertion, and a crime whose solution involves global flight – these are some...
Speed
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SynopsisWhen action is everything and thoughts little more than waste product, it’s hard to justify time spent revelling in thinking for it’s own sake… The poems in this collection do,...
Snow Calling
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SynopsisSnow Calling is Agnieszka Studzinska’s debut collection, examining the fractures, the breaches of things, bringing a narrative meditation on the entity of displacement, whether in a relationship, ancestry or with...
Sister Morphine
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SynopsisMasterful, darkly comic and unputdownably brilliant, this first novel by Catherine Eisner is an instant 21st-century classic. Sister Morphine tackles themes of suicidality, sibling murder, child abuse, morbid self-harm, guilt,...
Sins of the Leopard
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial PrizeThis remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires...
Sheer Detachment
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SynopsisHoward 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. The perpetrators of these...
Self-Portrait as Ruth
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SynopsisSelf-Portrait as Ruth is a provocative collection exploring the subject of Israel-Palestine in sharp, accessible poems that eschew the conventional language or orientation of either Zionist or Palestinian solidarity. Rooted...
Selected Poems
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Synopsis‘This superb selection of Fiona Pitt-Kethley’s much celebrated poetry portrays an unusual life but also celebrates the things that all women, and all human beings, have in common (mainly sex)....
Rubber Orchestras
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SynopsisTaking its name from a poem by American surrealist Ted Joans, Rubber Orchestras is an energetic, sensuous and intriguing collection of poems, written over a period of four years with...
Rothko’s Red
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SynopsisRothko’s Red is a collection of ten stories, subtly linked by painting and art, about the lives of women: their hopes, fears, failures and challenges. They reveal the choices and...
Restricted View
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SynopsisLike craning your neck from a seat in a theatre, looking at the glittering night city from a skyscraper, or watching Woody Allen filming across the street, Restricted View, sees...
Poets in View
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SynopsisHear the voice of the Bard,Who present, past, and future, sees;Whose ears have heardThe Holy WordThat walk'd among the ancient trees —William BlakeThis unique full-colour anthology gathers together for the...
Poetry Wars
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SynopsisPoetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over...
Only by Failure
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SynopsisOnly by creativity and the risk of failure can one succeed. This book is the first attempt to trace the life of Terence Gray, a man who always wanted to...
Ode to Psyche and Other Poems
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SynopsisJohn Keats has come to be regarded as one of the most significant poets of the Romantic movement. His work has had a lasting impact on all those who came...
Next to Nothing
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SynopsisNext to Nothing records the years following the death of a beloved child in 2001. Though bereft of belief in the poetic outcome compared to the apocalypse of the loss...
Milk Fever
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SynopsisMilk Fever is a prize-winning first collection from a new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poet’s former career as a television scriptwriter for young adults is evident in the...
Luxe
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SynopsisLuxe is a magnificent spree in a bric-a-brac shop. A haul of pre-loved and glittering objets – pralines in a crystal bowl, a handful of tame ladybirds, a portrait in...
Los Alamos Mon Amour
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SynopsisShortlisted for The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Forward Poetry Prizes 2008‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ explodes in the heart of the desert and unleashes a chain reaction of...
Living with the Earth
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SynopsisThis book is about the relationship between humans and the earth, people and place, culture and nature. It argues that the concepts and categories of natural history, scientific ecology, landscape...
Letters to the Sky
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SynopsisLetters to the Sky is a collection of poems examining themes of friendship, nostalgia, identity, self-adornment, self-protection, sadness, hope and change. These ethereal, romantic, and feminine poems draw on the...
It Comes With a Bit of Song
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SynopsisThis is a book about voices; voices of people and places and how we live our lives. It is also about silences and things we do not say. The voices...
In a Time of Drought
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SynopsisSet in the crumbling ruins of Yugoslavia, In a Time of Drought explores the images and realities of war, destruction and dictatorship, and of fertility, nurture and peace. The key...
Iain Sinclair
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SynopsisThis study represents the first comprehensive study of Iain Sinclair’s writing, covering his key texts from the early 1970s to the present. It features individual chapters analyzing Lud Heat, White...
I Con
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SynopsisI Con: New and Selected Poems represents the best examples of poetry from the career of Tim Thorne, a career spanning over forty years and a dozen collections. It contains...
I Am a Magenta Stick
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SynopsisStaring at 8MM bar in Berlin, this collection wonders what it’s like to spend your entire life on the M62. Playful, risqué and plain funny, these poems always tackle the...
How To Build A City
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SynopsisHow 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, drawing on the...
Horse Whispering in the Military Industrial Complex
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SynopsisHorse Whispering is the introduction to a poetic renaissance – it rocks the boat of poetry and yet rocks the cradle of song like a forgotten lullaby. Its revelatory, musical...
Hannah and the Monk
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SynopsisReading Julia Bird's debut collection is like sorting out the contents of an up-ended jewellery box. Crafted formal poems tangle with the rhinestone razzle of looser, noiiser lyrics. What price...
Habeas Corpus
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SynopsisSacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, and Aileen Wuornos. A witch, a pirate, a slave who poisoned her master. A serial killer, a Quaker, a case of mistaken identity. The earliest...
Goblin Market and Other Poems
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SynopsisChristina Rossetti’s poetry was largely ignored in the early part of the twentieth century, during the Modernist movement’s backlash against much Victorian writing. However, by the 1970s Rossetti was rescued...
Glaciation
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SynopsisWinner Glen Dimplex Poetry Award 2008 ‘Sometimes you read collections that in their ambition and concerns alert the mind to the possibility of obtaining a new perspective on what else...
Ghost & Other Sonnets
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SynopsisGhost & Other Sonnets will disturb and delight. Divided into three sections the sequence begins with the Ghost Sonnets. Using traditional ghost narratives Monk condenses them into the tightly controlled...
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism
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SynopsisThis book is not another critical biography, but an interpretive essay investigating what we feel is the cultural and historical importance of Zappa and Beefheart in the context of a...
Fragments from a Paper Witch
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SynopsisWhy Fragments from a Paper Witch? Through paper encounters we can ignite, meld, metamorphose returning utterly altered. These pieces are about the struggle to resist crippling expectations and cultural framings,...
For the Living
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SynopsisThis revised first volume of Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten consists of longer poems written between 1965 and 2000, in Greece, Italy, England and Yugoslavia. While some poems, like ‘Avebury’...
Folklore
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SynopsisStretching from Anglo-Saxon fragments, through the Shakespeare of Midsummer Night’s Dream, the ecstatic lyrics of John Clare, elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, and contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill Folklore is...
Fade Street
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SynopsisThe title poem in Mark Granier’s third collection, Fade Street, is based on a photograph taken in Dublin in 1878. Positioning itself behind the camera, it sets the photographer’s obsession,...
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