POETRY
one family’s experience of kidney donation.
Melissa Monroe Medusa Beach NYRB Poets, 21st July, pb, £11.99, 9781681374581 New collection from one of the most exciting voices in American poetry, this is formally adventurous yet rigorous, disconcertingly comic and deeply strange. The work of a true American original.
Sinéad Morrissey Found Architecture: Selected Poems Carcanet Poetry, 30th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781784109318 From Belfast’s first Poet Laureate and the Forward Prize and TS Eliot Prize-winning poet, this anthology charts Morrissey’s career from 1996 to 2017.
Katrina Naomi Wild Persistence Seren, 8th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725818 Naomi’s third full collection of poems. Her voice is confident, challenging and thoroughly contemporary.
Molly Naylor Stop Trying to Be Fantastic Burning Eye Books, 30th April, pb, £9.99, 9781911570844 Second poetry collection by Naylor. “Molly makes me laugh and her poetry makes my heart grow plumper and more confident. I love her words and her honesty”—Sara Pascoe.
Abbie Neale Threadbare Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st June, pb, £5, 9781912196272 Threadbare is about witnessing and experi- encing sexual violence against women from a young age, and how we manage, time and time again, to stitch ourselves back together.
Grace Nichols Passport to Here and There Bloodaxe Books, 23rd April, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781780375328 One of Britain’s most popular Caribbean poets traces a journey from recollections of a Guyana childhood to life in her adoptive Sussex home, turning the ordinary into something vividly memorable.
Michael Nilsen Shadows Merely Indicate Matador, 28th February, pb, £9.99, 9781838592912
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Unique collection of writing evinces a fertile mind with a myriad of influences. If there were a general theme, the poems examine what it means to be human.
Sean O’Brien It Says Here Picador, 14th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781509840427 New collection in two halves from an award-winner.
Julie O’Callaghan Magnum Mysterium Bloodaxe Books, 23rd April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375144 Known for her comic wit, O’Callaghan here writes poems of heartache on the death of her husband, poet Dennis O’Driscoll, but never loses her ear for absurdities of modern life.
Nick On Zhou Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st February, pb, £6, 9781912196791 Weaving together allusions and illusions, Zhou is an imaginative recovery of a grandfather, a dialogue between figures from China and the West, and a search for a cultural identity.
Wilfred Owen The Poetry of Wilfred Owen Arcturus, 1st May, pb, £6.99, 9781789509724 The poems of Owen have shaped our remembrance of World War I. This collection showcases his remarkable and moving poetry, from Dulce et Decorum Est to Strange Meeting.
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Art Squares Cheryl Pearson Vol 5: Menagerie Te Emma Press, 11th June, pamphlet, £10, 9781912915385 Collection about animals, divided by water, earth and air. From the all- knowing seahorse to the dissected giraffe, these poems reveal animals in a new and eerie light.
Michael Pedersen (ed), Kevin Williamson (ed) #untitledthree: Neu! Reekie! Birlinn, 7th May, pb, £12.99, 9781846975400 Third acclaimed anthology boasting some of the UK’s most exciting voices who have all shared the Neu! Reekie! bill, from old favourites to rising stars.
Pascale Petit Tiger Girl
Bloodaxe Books, 25th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375267 Marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of Petit’s previous work to explore both her grand- mother’s Indian heritage and the endangered predators she encoun- tered in central India.
Edgar Allan Poe The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe Arcturus, 1st March, pb, £6.99, 9781789509663 Features mysterious, lyrical and often terri- fying poetry from the undisputed master of Gothic horror.
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Te Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets Maarja Pärtna, Jayde Will (tr) Vol 21: Vivarium Te Emma Press, 20th February, pamphlet, £6.50, 9781912915422 A pamphlet about strangers and intimacy. These poems speak to a generation concerned about biodiversity loss and global warming. Translated from Estonian.
Alexander Pushkin Pushkin Lyrics Vol 3 (1824-30) Alma Classics, 25th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781847497338 Part of a four-volume collection and presented in a dual-language edition, enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin’s life and works.
James Rainsford We Cast Pale Shadows Matador, 28th February, pb, £9.99, 9781838592608 Selection of poems that reflect Rainsford’s thoughts and feelings during years of observing the world and the follies, foibles and fortunes of its varied and enter- taining inhabitants.
Srinivas Rayaprol, Graziano Krätli (ed), Vidyan Ravinthiran Angular Desire: Selected Poems and Prose Carcanet Classics, 26th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781784109257 Collects all the poems published by a great Indian writer and a selection of his transla- tions of published and unpublished prose.
Ben Ray
The Kindness of the Eel Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st June, pb, £5, 9781912196289 Tender, thought-provoking
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