POETRY
our vulnerability so often at stake, learning to be very soft becomes vital.
Ahren Warner The Sea is Spread and Cleaved and Furled Prototype Publishing, 20th April, pb, £12, 9781916052093 Interdisciplinary book and film-work by poet and visual artist Ahren Warner. It is a sequence of lyric poems, a narrative, voice- over and a compendium of notes-to-the-self.
NORTHERN ALCHEMY
Shetlandic poems with versions in English
CHRISTINE DE LUCA
NORTHERN ALCHEMY
Shetlandic poems with versions in English
CHRISTINE DE LUCA
”De Luca's voice is distinctive and different... a valuable and vigorous addition to the varied gene pool of contemporary British poetry.” Andrew McCulloch, Times Literary Supplement
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74 The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Rory Waterman Sweet Nothings Carcanet Poetry, 28th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784109394 Popular poet, critic and performer’s third and most adventurous collection tackles absences: how they tempt us and sometimes what they make us do.
Rebecca Watts Red Gloves Carcanet Poetry, 25th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784109554 Following her acclaimed debut, Watts presents an unflinching, lyri- cal examination of how human nature nurtures and damages us and the world.
Matthew Welton Squid Squad Carcanet Poetry, 30th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784109356 Award-winning poet Matthew Welton’s new collection combines highly inventive and experimental poetry with the poet’s first foray into fiction in verse form.
Ali Whitelock
And My Heart Crumples Like a Coke Can Birlinn, 9th April, pb, £8.99, 9781846975196 Humourous, accessible collection explores a diverse range of themes: death, infidelity, politics, homesickness, racism and humanity.
Christel Wiinblad, Malene Engelund My Little Brother: A Morning in Heaven, At Least in Green Valley Press, 28th February, pb, £7.99, 9781912436354 A Poetry Book Society translation choice. Autobiographical poetry exploring the author’s brother’s attempted suicide.
Christie Williamson Doors Tae Naewye Luath Press, 15th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913025427
Selected for the Scot- tish Book Trust’s Scots Language Grant, Doors Tae Naewye is a new poetry collection by one of Shetland’s finest poets. Written mostly in Shetlandic Scots.
Jennifer Wong Letters Home Nine Arches Press, 27th February, pb, £9.99, 9781911027874 Bold, graceful and moving third collection of poems which explores life between places, languages and cultures.
William Wordsworth Wordsworth: Lakeland Poetry Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £9.99, 9781839641626 Wordsworth’s lyrical works deal with such topics as morality, grief and appreciation of nature. This new selection gathers around 50 of his best-loved odes, ballads and sonnets.
Luke Wright The Remains of Logan Dankworth Penned in the Margins, 3rd February, pb, £9.99, 9781908058690 The UK’s best polemicist has fallen out of love with words. Before his final stage performance he tells the truth to his dressing room mirror.
Jay G Ying Katabasis Smith/Doorstop Books, 1st June, pb, £5, 9781912196302 This mythopoetic and experimental sequence of poems, texts and transla- tions links the Descent of Inanna, the story of Sche- herazade, and neo-colo- nial violence as a conse- quence of contemporary military occupation.
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