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perspectives are inter- spersed with unexpected and absorbing vignettes, creating an imagina- tive collection which plays expertly with structure, perception and the poetic form.


Christopher Reid, Elliot Elam Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs Faber & Faber, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571334117 “I’ve rounded up a rowdy assembly/ Of my own Consequential Dogs/As counterparts to Eliot’s mogs./Mine are a rough and ready bunch:/You wouldn’t take them out to lunch.”


Lili Reinhart Swimming Lessons HarperCollins, 14th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008365677 Début collection from the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity.


Robin Robertson The Long Take Picador, 9th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529017281 Powerful genre-defying work from an award- winning poet which follows a D-Day veteran as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America. Shortlisted for the 2018 Booker.


Jeremy Robson The Heartless Trafffic Smokestack Books, 1st February, pb, £9.99, 9781916139220 After breaking a 35-year writer’s block with two books in quick succes- sion, Robson selects the best of his poems from a long life in poetry.


Christina Rossetti, Rachel Mann (ed) New Selected Poems Carcanet Classics, 26th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781784109066 The first Rossetti Selected to take seriously recent feminist, queer and religious re-readings of her poetry.


Ana Sampson Poems to Learn by Heart Michael O’Mara Books, 20th February, pb, £8.99, 9781789292152 Anthology to warm the coldest heart or charm the least romantic soul, these poems are not only memorable, but lend themselves to being learned by heart.


Angeline Schellenberg Fields of Light and Stone University of Alberta


Press, 16th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772125115 Memory and reality, homeland and settlement, life and death-uncovering sacrifices, secrets and forgiveness.


Robert Seatter The Museum of Everything: Poems Inspired by the Sir John Soane Museum Seren, 29th June, pb, £9.99, 9781781725856 Universally captivat- ing, the Sir John Soane Museum is a labyrinth of evocation and imagina- tion. Seatter conjures it up in a personal and poetic trail that captures its true essence.


Kim Seung-Hee, Brother Anthony (tr) Hope is Lonely Arc, 8th May, pb, £9.99, 9781911469766 Brother Anthony of Taizé’s fine translation of poems from two books, Hope is Lonely and A Croaker on a Chopping Board, by the highly-regarded Korean poet Kim Seung-Hee.


Lisa Sewell (ed), Kazim Ali (ed) North American Women Poets in the 21st Century Wesleyan University Press, 24th March, pb, £23, 9780819579423 Important addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. With a companion audio website.


Charles Simic Come Closer and Listen ECCO Press, 28th May, pb, £12.99, 9780062908476 Irreverent and sly, observant and keenly imagined, Come Closer and Listen is the insightful and haunting new collection from a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.


Emma Simon The Odds Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st February, pb, £6, 9781912196807 Examines how we are all juggling with fate, luck and chance, both good and bad—and sometimes grab the wrong end of the lighted torch.


Charlie Smith Demo WW Norton & Co, 8th May, pb, £11.99, 9781324005070 Dazzling volume that gushes with the rhythms of life and language, from an award-winning poet.


Danez Smith Homie Chatto & Windus, 20th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781784743055


Highly anticipated collection from 2018 Forward Prize winner and poetic star.


Celia A Sorhaindo Guabancex Papillote Press, 29th February, pb, eb, £6, 9781999776879 On 18 September, 2017, a category 5 hurricane hit the Caribbean island of Dominica. Gaubancex explores the complex mix of experiences and emotions both during and after the event.


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Te Emma Press Picks Rachel Spence, Emma Dai’an Wright (illus) Vol 12: Call and Response Te Emma Press, 19th March, pamphlet, £5, 9781912915484 Sequence of sonnets from the perspective of a daughter addressed to her mother during her mother’s illness. Hard- edged yet tender, the poems explore the darker side of familial bonds.


Julian Stannard Heat Wave Salt, 15th June, pb, £9.99, 9781784632182 Known for writing the anti-poetic, poems which somehow escape the straitjacketing of the well-behaved crafted poem, Stannard attempts to write poems which surprise themselves.


Katherine Stansfield We Could Be Anywhere by Now Seren, 20th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725672 Second collection by the poet and novelist featur- ing poems characteristi- cally wry and funny.


Anne Stevenson Completing the Circle Bloodaxe Books, 27th February, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781780374987 Stevenson’s swansong collection of moving elegies and celebrations written in her 80s is her third collection since her Poems 1955-2005, and follows two other late collections, Stone Milk and Astonishment.


Gerda Stevenson Quines: Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland Luath Press, 15th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913025502 New edition of Waterstone’s best-selling poetry collection of 2018 in Scotland. Contains unique poems giving voice to those historically unheard. Featured on The List’s Hot 100 2018.


Phoebe Stuckes Platinum Blonde Bloodaxe Books, 21st May, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781780375021 Stuckes’ lively début collection features a wise- cracking party girl inhab- iting a world of dance- floors and bathrooms, but these are self-questioning poems about self-belief, self-image, vulnerabil- ity, insecurity, loneliness, trauma and survival.


Arundhathi Subramaniam Love Without a Story Bloodaxe Books, 21st May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375168 Subramaniam’s latest collection celebrates an expanding kinship of passion and friend- ship, mythic quest and modern-day longing in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium and silence.


Alfred Tennyson The Poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson Arcturus, 1st April, pb, £6.99, 9781789509656 Features over 40 of Tennyson’s most beloved poems, including the iconic The Charge of the Light Brigade, the heartfelt Ulysses and the dream-like The Lady of Shalot.


Christine Thatcher How to Carry Fire Parthian Books, 1st April, pb, eb, £9, 9781912681488 This was born from the ashes of family addiction. Thatcher explores how fire can both destroy and cleanse.


Marvin Thompson Road Trip Peepal Tree Press, 20th March, pb, £9.99, 9781845234607 A Poetry Book Society recommendation, Road Trip is a striking first collection by an accomplished poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell.


Alan Titchmarsh Marigolds,


Myrtle and Moles Hodder & Stoughton, 5th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529311150 Hilarious and touching poems on gardening by the nation’s favourite gardener and presenter of ITV’s Love Your Garden, Channel 5’s Secrets of the National Trust and his own Classic FM show.


Agnes Torok All the Days We Don’t Revolt Burning Eye Books, 1st March, pb, £9.99, 9781911570714 Poetry about all the


things we do on all those days when we aren’t campaigning, marching or petitioning. About how we love, how we care, how we create.


Ian Vannoey Stupid Poems 15 Matador, 28th February, pb, £8.99, 9781838592783 Once again Stupid Poems addresses the main issues of today. Something for anyone who enjoys a deft touch of silliness.


Various Last Words Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £9.99, 9781839641633 Collection brings together a wide variety of writ- ings on death, grieving and healing by Chris- tina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson and John Keats among others.


Various Pride Parade Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £9.99, 9781839641619 Comprehensive collection of poetry and quotes celebrates the LGBT experience in all its varied, complex forms with writings by Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and more.


Various The Essential Poetry Collection Arcturus, 1st February, Boxedpack, £59.99, 9781789508581 Beautiful paperback boxset contains anthologies of poems by 10 of the best-known poets from across the ages. The perfect gift for all poetry lovers.


Danielle Vogel Edges & Fray Wesleyan University Press, 4th February, pb, £16.50, 9780819579218 Vogel brings the reader into commu- nion with language as a mode of presence.


Sidney Wade Deep Gossip Johns Hopkins University Press, 8th June, pb, eb, £15, 9781421437873 A great and frequently subversive book by a lyric poet at the height of her craft.


Callan Waldron-Hall Learning to Be Very Soft Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st June, pb, £5, 9781912196296 Poems grapple with childhood shame and the hard exteriors we build as we age. With


The AQI David Tait


978-1-910367-91-9 | October 2018 Smith|Doorstop | £9.95


The AQI is a collection about living, Working and breathing in China. Confronting urgent issues of air pollution and environmental


change, the complexities of cultural differences,


and LGBTQ+ rights, these are poems about day-to- day life, and love.


“Poems at once both intimate and global;


David Tait gives us precise, arresting imagery in


perfectly craſted poems. Te central long poem ‘Aſter


Orlando’ is a heartbreaking elegy to the dead and an angry stand against homophobia. “Like this we go in living, through the cold and the smog” Tait writes in one poem, we should join him there, in


this wonderful collection.” – Andrew McMillan


“Political poems that are


dazzling in their scope, yet which lose nothing of Tait’s poignancy. Here is a writer braving new ground ... Highly recommended.”


– John McCullough


“a watchful and intelligent collection”


– London Grip on The AQI


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