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Death Magazine
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SynopsisLonglisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2020Death Magazine is a neutropian vision of our soundbite, snippet-obsessed, digital and print magazine culture. It employs the Dadaist technique of cut-up to...
The Night Jar
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SynopsisDynamic first collection from this popular Scottish poet, The Night Jar lifts the lid on a fizzing range of personas, dramas and states of mind – presenting them for our...
The Ophelia Letters
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SynopsisThe poems in the first half of The Ophelia Letters explore the interaction between self and place in ways both strange and loaded with magic: journeying to the Arctic with...
The Book of Revelation
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SynopsisThe Book of Revelation serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time. With a nod to Mark E. Smith – late lead singer of The Fall and...
The Somnambulist Cookbook
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SynopsisLyrical and at times unsettling, The Somnambulist Cookbook explores the quality of disappearance, slowly breaking down as the poems swing from rogue sonnets to fractured prose poems, reminiscent of Larkin,...
natural histories
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SynopsisNature is not so much the subject as an unavoidable force in these poems, providing space and fodder for meditations on our knowledge of self and other. Here, the small...
Never Never Never Come Back
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Synopsis Don’t go over the hill, or look too long into the well, or go carousing with strangers, or you’ll never never never never come back. With the haunting quality...
The Well at Winter Solstice
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Synopsis These are the voices of those who are silent: in the graveyards, holy wells, the river, the changing tides. A ghostly choir of lost children, hermits, lovers and rough...
The Frost Fairs
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SynopsisWinner of the 2012 Polari PrizeA Book of the Year for The Independent and The Poetry SchoolHoliday Read in The ObserverThe Frost Fairs is a compassionate book with a global...
Heat Wave
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SynopsisHeat Wave is a form of poetic cabaret,‘What good is sitting, alone in your room?/ come hear the music play!’ If a cabaret is full of high jinks it can...
School of Forgery
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Synopsis PBS Recommendation. The school of forgery is a singular institution, whose principal teachings concern the volatile relationship between fakery and invention. Both you and I are its alumni, and...
Where Grown Men Go
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Synopsis Michael Brown’s poems have been widely-published in magazines such as The North, Southword and The Rialto, as well as in two pamphlets. In this debut full-length collection, we find...
Birdhouse
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SynopsisFrom diamonds hidden in a grandmother’s pantry to a peahen’s shout of ecstasy, from the voice of a deranged bridesmaid to that of a nun teaching a sex education lesson,...
Bones & Breath
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Synopsis Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of The Year Award Winner 2014 People want pleasure from poetry, and in Bones & Breath – this masterly collection from Alexander Hutchison –...
Antler
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SynopsisEric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors...
The Burning
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Synopsis‘The lyric poem works both to slow down our world, teasing out the many disparate elements of our experience, and to reorient it, by exposing an entire universe of instincts,...
Hawthorn City
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Synopsis Gardens, grotesqueries, historical landscapes, destruction and darkness, all collide in Tony Williams’ explosive new collection Tony Williams is roaming the earth. The poems in Hawthorn City record the tales...
Some Bright Elegance
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SynopsisSome Bright Elegance is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning...
My Tin Watermelon
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Synopsis In this collection, Peter Daniels looks at his life as an older gay man, his London neighbourhood, his furniture, other people’s gardens and London’s creatures. His distinctive voice ranges...
Then Spree
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SynopsisThe poems in Then spree take language for a ride bare-backed through fringe-worlds: through the backwoods of forgotten histories to the watery edges of landmasses, from the sunken, frayed psyche...
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...
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...
Low-Tide Lottery
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SynopsisLow-Tide Lottery is an introduction to the work of upcoming poet Claire Trévien. This is an exuberant collection that rummages in the rust of the everyday in search of beauty....
Tomorrow, We Will Live Here
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SynopsisThis is a terse, tough début by an award-winning American poet with punch in the language. What you find here is the grist of life – death, love, sex, departure...
Erec & Enide
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SynopsisErec & Enide is a bold and unashamedly intimate work that delights in the theatrical, communicative powers of language, and by turns gives way to a quiet sadness. Writing out...
Sweet Shop
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Synopsis Ranging over place, memory and history, Amit Chaudhuri’s new collection of poems makes a fresh, spiritual accommodation with the world. The poems often take their themes from sweets named...
The Itchy Sea
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SynopsisThe Itchy Sea is an extraordinarily vivid collection of poems which are, above all, entertaining. The poems each have a kind of freshness and cut-through that will hold the reader’s...
Appearances in the Bentinck Hotel
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SynopsisShortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book AwardsReading these poems there is a sense that, through ‘the sneakiness of words’, their tantalising truths are continuing partly to elude us –...
The Private Parts of Girls
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Synopsis The Private Parts of Girls follows Alice down the rabbit hole, Kassandra onto Agamemnon’s boat, and Red Riding Hood into the forest: it conjures the most mysterious landscape of...
Egg Printing Explained
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SynopsisIn a world where everything has more possible explanations than ever before, where no experience seems real unless it is refracted, this book examines love, loss, and time itself under...
Zam Bonk Dip
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SynopsisJonty Tiplady’s prizewinning first collection Zam Bonk Dip is a must read for anyone keeping up with contemporary poetry. Awarded the 2009 Crashaw Prize, this book brings together “At the...
The Departure
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Synopsis Shortlisted for the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards At the centre of Emery’s third collection are a series of narrative poems that reveal an astonishing range of personas, from...
Cracked Skull Cinema
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Synopsis Poetry Wales: Poetry Books of 2019 Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections...
Love Me Do
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Synopsis ‘Love Me Do’ offers a fresh and distinctive look at how we live our lives. Lydia Macpherson’s poems are closely observed, tender, witty and often intensely personal, with subjects...
Year of the Lion
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Synopsis Andrew Pidoux’s Year of the Lion is at once accessible and strange, like a public dream. In the title poem, a society is gripped by a sudden craze for...
Unexpected Weather
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Synopsis Abi Curtis 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 Rapture
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SynopsisWe live in an age of terror, literally and metaphorically. Old dependables have been shaken loose and to free us from the terror comes the poetry of The Rapture —...
The Snowboy
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SynopsisMark Burnhope's poems present a generous but moral quizzing of the world. Peering out over disability, faith and the host of prejudices that spring from such ground, they negotiate a...
The Dumb Messengers
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SynopsisThis book collects shorter and lyrical poems Goodland has written over the last ten years. During this period he started a family, and many of the poems reveal an attitude...
Room of Thieves
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SynopsisA six toed cat skeleton, a lesson in boxing technique and a poem in the shape of a phallus. These are just some of the things you can expect from...
Shapeshifting for Beginners
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Synopsis ‘Emma Simon’s wide-ranging, work explores how strange and surreal the everyday can be and how real life and stories tend to bleed into one another. These poems – mysterious,...
Between a Drowning Man
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SynopsisMartyn Crucefix’s new collection of poems trace the forensic unfolding of two landscapes – contemporary Britain post-2016 and the countryside of the Marche in central, eastern Italy. Both places are...
Robbergirls
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SynopsisWritten during a residency with The Polar Museum in Cambridge, Robbergirls reimagines The Snow Queen as a Sapphic rite of passage. Offered in seven sections that echo the fairy tale’s...
White Noise Machine
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SynopsisWhere Richard Skinner’s previous pamphlets, Invisible Sun and Dream into Play, were primarily concerned with the play of light and playfulness respectively, White Noise Machine is mainly concerned with sound....
Woof! Woof! Woof!
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SynopsisIn a radical departure in style and tone, Rob A. Mackenzie’s new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary. From the murk of political engagement in...
my name is abilene
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Synopsis‘Sennitt Clough’s twisty fen-Gothic narratives are filled with macabre imagery and sexual violence. imagine a monstrous fair that has arrived in deepest Cambridgshire, only to discover that the inhabitants are...
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 Good News
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Synopsis“Today you turn up five habits to quit for happiness:criticism, control, complaint, excuses, expectations, without which you’d be happy, bland and unbearable.” (from ‘Thirteen’)Is the attempt to secure happiness worth...
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