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Rhian Edwards The Estate Agent’s Daughter Seren, 8th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725832 Eagerly awaited second full collection from a multi-prizewinning poet and Welsh performer.
Peter Finch
The Machineries of Joy Seren, 17th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725658 Anthology of work by popular performance poet, experimenter and renowned Cardiff psychogeographer.
Carolyn Forche In the Lateness of the World Bloodaxe Books, 26th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781852249649 Forché’s first new collection for 15 years is a dark book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders, but also between the present and the past, life and death.
Laura Fusco Liminal Smokestack Books, 1st April, pb, £7.99, 9781916139251 An attempt by the poet and activist to record the voices of refugees, especially the women she has met in camps in France and in Italy.
Alan Gillis The Readiness Picador, 9th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529037661 Individual and drily witty collection by one of the most brilliant poetic voices from Ireland.
Peter Gizzi Sky Burial Carcanet Poetry, 27th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781784108229 European début of a well-loved American poet and editor, a writer who celebrates the vernacular. Includes previously uncollected work.
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Te Emma Press Picks Roz Goddard Vol 13: Lost City Te Emma Press, 9th July, pamphlet, £5, 9781912915460 From the president’s wife to the lipstick seller, Lost City leads the reader through crum- bling streets that are bustling with stories.
Ian Gregson
The Slasher and the Vampire As Role Models Cinnamon Press, 2nd March, pb, £9.99, 9781788640688 Shows Gregson at the height of his linguistic
dexterity as a poet with something real to say.
Andrew Greig Later That Day Birlinn, 5th March, pb, £8.99, 9781846975189 New collection of recent work, these poems celebrate places of awakening, friends living and dead, and embrace life lived later in the day.
Daniel Hardisty Rose With Harm Salt, 15th June, pb, £9.99, 9781784632175 Long-awaited début shows off his excep- tional lyric gifts to thrillling effect. Poised and poignant, Hardisty’s confessional poems offer love’s realisations, threats and transgressions.
Will Harris Rendang Granta Books, 6th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781783785599 Rising star of contempo- rary British poetry reflects on race, culture, memory and identity in his first full-length collection.
Jane Hirshfield Ledger Bloodaxe Books, 26th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375120 Hirshfield’s urgent new poems of personal, ecological and political reckoning focus on our time’s dilemmas, making a call to action on climate change, social justice and the plight of refugees.
Wayne Holloway-Smith Love Minus Love Bloodaxe Books, 21st May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375083 Second collection is an internal universe, frag- mented and glued back together with uncanny logic, and challenging the seemingly fixed boundar- ies of masculinity, family, trauma and mental health.
Homer, Ian Johnston (ed) The Odyssey: Selections Broadview Press, 28th February, pb, £14.95, 9781554814268 Features numerous explanatory footnotes, a wide-ranging intro- duction and a range of background materials that help set Homer’s classic in its historical and literary context.
Ranjit Hoskote The Atlas of Lost Beliefs Arc, 17th February, pb, £10.99, 9781911469636 Hoskote’s latest collection of poems is a meditation on water moving from the ocean to the Ganges to
Marine Drive waterfront in Mumbai. A beautiful book.
Ian House Just a Moment Two Rivers Press, 21st April, pb, £9.99, 9781909747586 Poems probing the transformations wrought by ageing and creation range from Wallace Stevens’ guitar to a child drawing, a medieval monk cataloguing saints’ bones to Ovid’s violent Metamorphoses.
In-Q Inquire Within HarperOne, 16th April, hb, £15.99, 9780062954701 In this powerful and innovative book, award- winning spoken-word poet, songwriter, and performer IN-Q shares poetry and wisdom that inspires readers to ques- tion everything in order to find what matters most.
Robert Alan Jamieson A Hundir Inboos Till a Diein Leid Luath Press, 15th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781910745540 This is a collection of Jamieson’s original Shetlandic poetry along with poetry in transla- tion for many of the marginal or disappear- ing languages of the world, including Catalan.
Brian Johnstone Marks on the Map Arc, 5th March, pb, £9.99, 9781910345351 In his latest collection, this popular Scottish poet remembers his childhood, and looks back even further into the past. This is Johnson at his best.
George Jowett The Gypsy and the Candy Floss Queen Smokestack Books, 1st February, pb, £7.99, 9781916139206 A poetic murder-mystery set on Teesside.
Ziba Karbassi, Stephen Watts Lemon Sun Arc, 16th March, pb, £10.99, 9781911469407 Karbassi explores an array of issues relating to personal trauma and political violence in poems of explosive emotional intensity and virtuosic use of language and rhythm.
Gerður Kristný, Rory McTurk (tr) Reykjavik Requiem Arc, 15th July, pb, £10.99, 9781910345016 Kristný is one of Iceland’s most popular poets and a powerful voice against sexual violence. “The
book is brilliantly crafted and leaves no reader untouched”—Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson.
Theophilus Kwek Moving House Carcanet Poetry, 25th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784109639 Début collection journeys from Singapore to Europe and back again, exploring the individual and the collective stories that become history.
Emma Lee The Significance of a Dress Arachne Press, 27th February, pb, £8.99, 9781909208834 Poems informed by and immersed in politics. Everything has a significance beyond the surface. Beautiful, hair- raising words and form, utterly from the heart.
Li-Young Lee The Undressing WW Norton & Co, 24th March, pb, £11.99, 9780393357875 “Potent and mysterious . . . Countless gorgeous details provide, in poem after poem, distinct delights”—New Yorker.
Ali Lewis Hotel Verve Poetry Press, 19th March, pb, £9.99, 9781912565290 Highly anticipated début pamphlet from Eric Gregory award- winning poet.
Henry W Longfellow The Poetry of Longfellow Arcturus, 1st April, pb, £6.99, 9781789509670 Longfellow’s poetry has become part of the essential foundations of American literary culture. This classic collection features his greatest works, including Paul Revere’s Ride and A Psalm of Life.
Christine De Luca Northern Alchemy: Shetlandic Poems With Versions in English Patrician Press, 5th March, pb, £9, 9781999703080 Bilingual collection of 40 poems.
Lucretius, Emma Gee (tr) De Rerum Natura Arc, 10th June, pb, £10.99, 9781908376077 The Roman poet Lucretius, writing in around 55 BCE, wrote his poem about the universe, with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience.
Rob A Mackenzie The Book of Revelation
Salt, 15th June, pb, £9.99, 9781784632151 Enters today’s world of disingenuous politics and attempts to reflect on power, lies and fakery.
Andre Mangeot Blood Rain Seren, 17th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725627 Mangeot’s vibrant collection confronts the degradation of the planet and presents individual lives and choices with a steely, lyrical grace.
Donna Masini 4:30 Movie: Poems WW Norton & Co, 11th February, pb, £11.99, 9780393357004 “Urgent, varied poems, playful, surprising and sad by turns, or meditative”—Elizabeth Lund, Washington Post.
Valerie Mason-John, George Elliott Clarke I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin University of Alberta Press, 14th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772125108 Strong, voice-driven poetry explores the broader experience of the African diaspora and taboos within taboos.
Trista Mateer Honeybee Hero, 10th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781789559439 A memoir in verse, a story written by one of today’s most confessional poets.
Alexander McCall Smith (ed) A Gathering: A Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems Birlinn, 9th April, pb, £9.99, 9781846975158 Accessible anthol- ogy gathers together Scotland’s best loved poetry, grouped together under themes—islands, friendship, love and marriage, war and conflict, secrets, and joy.
Campbell McGrath Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems ECCO Press, 28th April, pb, £14.99, 9780062854155 Major new collection from one of America’s best- loved, most celebrated and original poets.
Hilary Menos Human Tissue Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st February, pb, £6, 9781912196784 Exploring the tension between our need for spiritual comfort and the stark realities of science, Human Tissue tells of
The Equilibrium Line poems inspired by climbing
David Wilson
978-1-912196-74-6 | July 2019 Smith|Doorstop | £9.95
Winner of the 2019 BANFF Mountain Fiction and Poetry Award.
Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.
“Beautifully-craſted,
heartfelt, and extremely relatable. Each poem is like a first climb – full of fear and joy and gratitude.”
– Helen Mort, Book
Competition Jury, Banff Mountain Poetry and Fiction Award 2019
“An outstanding second collection examining ambition, failure, risk and where to draw the line in settings ranging
from the gritstone crags to the Alps and further afield.”
– Roger Hubank, Chair of Judges, Boardman
Tasker Prize for Moun- tain Literature 2019
“David Wilson weighs each line, balancing risk against love in these
technically-adept and moving poems. A tre- mendous debut.”
– Ian Duhig
Shortlisted for the 2019 Boardman
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