POETRY Poetry


9781911570707 Having established themselves in the world of comedy-rap- jazz duos, words have always been important to Harry and Chris.


Louisa May Alcott The Poetry of Louisa May Alcott Arcturus, 1st March, pb, £6.99, 9781789509700 Unique anthology collects over 100 poems by the. author of Little Women. One of her only collections in print, it provides invaluable insights into a lesser-known aspect of her literary life.


Simon Armitage (ed) Brotherton Prize Anthology Carcanet Poetry, 26th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781784109233 Celebrating the winner, shortlisted entrants and other contributors to the inaugural Brotherton Poetry Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre.


Sean Ashton Sampler Valley Press, 16th April, pb, £12, 9781912436392 Selection of entries from an encyclopaedia written entirely by poets.


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Te Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets Simone Atangana Bekono, David Colmer (tr) Vol 22: How the First Sparks Became Visible Te Emma Press, 9th July, pamphlet, £6.50, 9781912915552 Poems that address the social stigmatisation of race and gender invoke empathy and the human connection in a voice that is both confident and innovative. Translated from Dutch.


Jan Baeke, Antoinette Fawcett (tr) Bigger Than the Facts Arc, 15th February, pb, £10.99, 9781911469575 There is tension and intrigue in Baeke’s fourth collection as the poet takes us to a sun-drenched but oppressive Mediter- ranean town where all is not as it seems.


Harry Baker The Words Behind the Songs Behind the Boys Who Song the Songs Burning Eye Books, 3rd March, pb, £9.99,


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Jane Beal (ed) Pearl: Text and Translation Broadview Press, 28th February, pb, £19.95, 9781554814589 Provides the original Middle English poem with a facing-page modern English translation. It also includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas.


Chris Beckett (ed), Alemu Tebeje (ed) Songs We Learn From Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry Carcanet Classics, 28th May, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781784109479 First anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful country and its language.


Jeffrey Bernstein, Tom Phillips (illus) The Oresteia of Aeschylus Carcanet Classics, 30th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781784108731 Brilliant new verse trans- lation preserves the artistry of the original while deploying clear speech that addresses a 21st-century tempera- ment, with illustra- tions by Tom Phillips.


Caroline Bird The Air Year Carcanet Poetry, 27th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784109028 The sixth collection from an award-winning poet is a time of flight, transition and suspension.


Angus D Birditt, Lilly Hedley Our Isles Pavilion, 24th February, hb, £9.99, 9781911641353 Celebration of Britain’s cultural heritage and a simpler rural lifestyle through 20 poems with accompanying black and white linocut prints.


Maria Bloshteyn (ed) Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War Smokestack Books, 1st May, pb, £13.99, 9781916012110 Fifty Russian poets writing in Russia during the Second World War.


Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault, Charlotte Mandell Magnetic Fields NYRB Poets, 12th May, pb,


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£11.99, 9781681374604 Indispensable classic of French poetry, a new translation of Breton and Soupault’s experi- ment with automatic writing, and the first known work of liter- ary surrealism. Includes original French text.


Robert Browning The Poetry of Robert Browning Arcturus, 1st May, pb, £6.99, 9781789509717 Brings together Brown- ing’s most celebrated works, from his master- ful dramatic monologue My Last Duchess to his renowned narrative poem The Pied Piper of Hamlin.


Colette Bryce The m Pages Picador, 19th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529037500 A stirring poetry collection exploring family and grief from one of the most exciting Irish poets at work today.


Graham Burchell, Rosie Jackson Two Girls and a Beehive Two Rivers Press, 21st April, pb, £9.99, 9781909747593 Offers a minutely observed exploration in poetry of the life and work of Stanley Spencer and his two wives, Hilda Carline and Patricia Preece.


Robert Burns Burns for Every Day of the Year Black & White Publishing, 16th April, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781785302985


Beautiful gift anthology of Robert Burns’s poetry to inspire, invigorate and amuse through the year.


Lord Byron The Poetry of Lord Byron Arcturus, 1st May, pb, £6.99, 9781789509694 Byron was the quintessential romantic poet—flamboyant, tragic and exceptionally gifted. This classic collection includes such favourites as She Walks in Beauty, Darkness, and To Woman.


Kat Cameron Ghosts Still Linger University of Alberta Press, 10th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772125092 Wry, poignant poems conjure ghosts, prairie history and grief while questioning modern environmental impacts.


Makenzie Campbell 2am Thoughts Hero, 5th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781789559460 Unique collection from the American Instagram poet


describe the roller-coaster feelings of love and loss.


Lewis Carroll The Poetry of Lewis Carroll Arcturus, 1st April, pb, £6.99, 9781789509687 Brings together Carroll’s most best-loved nonsense verse, including Jabberwocky, The Walrus and the Carpenter and The Hunting of the Snark among other delights.


Genevieve Carver A Beautiful Way to Be Crazy and Selected Poems Verve Poetry Press, 20th February, pb, £9.99, 9781912565351 A tale of growing up and finding a voice that sees Sheffield poet Carver take her incredible perfor- mance poetry on tour with the band The Unsung.


Patrick Chamoiseau, Matt Reeck French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony Wesleyan University Press, 7th April, pb, £12.50, 9780819579300 Translated for the first time and accompanied by over 60 photographs.


Nancy Charley How Death Came into the World Smokestack Books, 1st April, pb, £7.99, 9781916139244 Collection explores the anthropology of death in European folk culture.


George Elliott Clarke Portia White: A Portrait in Words Nimbus Publishing, 9th February, hb, £12.99, 9781771086974 Stirring, epic poem vibrating with energy and music.


Natalia Clarke Soul Land: Nature ~ Scotland ~ Love Matador, 28th April, pb, £9.99, 9781838593339 Collection is a result of the author’s spiritual journey and a powerful personal account through a deep and profound connection to Scotland.


Elisha Cohn (ed), George Meredith Modern Love Broadview Press, 28th February, pb, £15.95, 9781554814831 Depicts isolated scenes in an unhappy marriage as both partners take lovers. Provides a range of back- ground materials to help set the work in its histori- cal and literary context.


Jo Colley Sleeper


Smokestack Books, 1st February, pb, £7.95, 9781916139213 A book about secrets and lies, divided loyalties and double lives, about waiting to come in from the cold.


Loretta Collins- Klobah (ed)


The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El Mar No Necesita Ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology Peepal Tree Press, 18th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781845234737 This Pen translation award-winner features women poets from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Anglophone Caribbean islands and the diaspora. Most have not been previously translated.


David Constantine Belongings Bloodaxe Books, 25th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375205 Constantine’s title signals his concern with our possessions and what possesses us, where we belong and our relation- ship with the planet.


Julia Copus (ed) Life Support Head of Zeus, 5th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781788542845 Anthology of poems to make us sit up and listen and to reawaken the senses: poems that offer new ways of looking at and reconnecting with the world around us.


Tim Cresswell Plastiglomerate Penned in the Margins, 1st June, pb, £9.99, 9781908058768 Third in a trilogy by acclaimed poet-geog- rapher Cresswell, Plasti- glomerate explores the impact of mankind on the environment. This is a poet for the Anthropocene age.


Emily Critchley Alphabet Poem: For Kids! Prototype Publishing, 20th February, hb, £12, 9781916052031 For children seeking their first book of poetry, or adults looking to rediscover a language they have lost, this playful reimagining of an ABC book is for all ages.


Adam Crothers The Culture of My Stuff Carcanet Poetry, 28th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784109516 Second collection by Seamus Heaney Prize- winning poet Crothers includes sonnets and


prose poems, anxiety and swagger, confes- sion and nonsense.


Rishi Dastidar Saffron Jack Nine Arches Press, 26th March, pb, £9.99, 9781911027898 Boldly updates Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King to confront the question how can we live together in peace if we exile the most vulner- able in our societies?


Ned Denny B: Divine Comedy Carcanet Classics, 25th June, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781784109592 A companion to his Seamus Heaney Prize- winning début, Unearthly Toys, this scrupulously unfaithful take on Dante’s Divine Comedy is full of conscious expansions, explications, compres- sions and distortions.


Cath Drake


The Shaking City Seren, 20th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725757 Artful and edgy début poetry collection features tales that shift from Australia to Drake’s adopted city of London.


Emily Drumsta (tr), Nazik al-Mala’ika Revolt Against the Sun: The Selected Poetry of Nazik Al-mala’ika: A Bilingual Reader Saqi Books, 9th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780863563171 First study a pioneer of Arab modernist poetry.


Afshan D’souza-Lodhi Re: Desire Burning Eye Books, 1st May, pb, £9.99, 9781911570851 Début poetry collection explores the yearning to love, be loved and belong from a desi (South Asian) perspective.


Ella Duffy New Hunger Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st May, pb, £5, 9781912196319


Mythology and biology give rise to new perspectives that link our human bodies to the natural world in both celebration and anxiety, as the spaces around us shift dangerously.


Sasha Dugdale The Welfare Handbook Carcanet Poetry, 30th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781784108984 New collection deals with women’s experience of domestic and sexual abuse, emigration, displacement and changed identity.


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