13th June 2025


Matt Sewell A Little Bird Told Me: An Illustrated Compendium of Avian Idioms


HarperNorth, 12th March, £12.99, HB, 9780008781590


Both linguistic curio and art book, identifying 100 curious figures of speech invoking the avian world, illustrated by 52 of Sewell’s trademark quirky watercolour drawings.


Poetry Polly Atkin


Emergency Dream Seren, 16th March, £10.99, PB, 9781781727959


Lake District-based Atkin’s third collection finds the poet tackling the interconnectivity of human and non-human lives, visionary states, climate justice, disability justice, collective responsibility, a community of care, disabled oracles and the odd slow worm.


Billy-Ray Belcourt The Idea of an Entire Life Carcanet Poetry, 9th September, £14.99, PB, 9781800174917


New collection from the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, exploring queer Indigenous life, love, history and political possibility in lyric verse, sonnets, field notes and fragments.


Miles Burrows Slow Puncture Carcanet Poetry, 27th November, £12.99, PB, 9781800175150


Doctor-poet Burrows explores sickness and ageing worldwide with subject matter ranging from a moorland pony stuck in a bog to a shamanic ceremony.


John Challis The Green Parcel Bloodaxe Books, 24th June, £12.99, PB, 9781780377698


North Shields-based Challis’ second collection, steeped in rural terrain, exploring history, class, work and our relationship to the natural world.


Polly Clark Afterlife: New & Selected Poems


Bloodaxe Books, 26th February, £14.99, PB, 9781780373720


Selected poems spanning a 25-year career from Clark’s debut Kiss (2000) to brand new work.


Thomas A Clark Thrums Carcanet Poetry, 30th October, £12.99, PB, 9781800175204


New collection hot on the heels of Clark’s celebrated collected poems, That Which Appears, published last year by Carcanet.


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Hal Coase Eccolo: Poems Carcanet Poetry, 31st July, £11.99, PB, 9781800174955


Debut collection from University of Manchester graduate Coase,


exploring the spaces between history and the now, home and afar, human and animal.


John F Deane Jonah and Me Carcanet Poetry, 11th December, £12.99, PB, 9781800175242


New collection, following Deane’s Selected and New Poems (2023). Includes a sequence on Easter’s rituals and landscape poems, including many focusing on Achill Island.


Carol Ann Duffy A Christmas Eve Ghost Story


Macmillan, 6th November, £12.99, HB, 9781529083972


On Christmas Eve, in London’s financial district, a billionaire is visited by the ghost of a grief-stricken nun. A new illustrated Christmas poem from Duffy in the popular series. Illustrator to be confirmed.


Chris Gutkind Rackets & Batteries KFS, 2nd March, £9, PB, 9781916590151


Librarian-poet Gutkind’s new collection examines existence, memory and societal observations.


Selima Hill A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus


Bloodaxe Books, 23rd October, £14, PB, 9781780377520


Acclaimed poet Hill’s 22nd collection. Ten sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals (dogs in particular) and the world at large.


Daniel Huws Debris Carcanet Poetry, 25th September, £12.99, PB, 9781800175228


Collected poems from Huws’ first two collections, Noth (Secker, 1972) and The Quarry (Faber, 1999), and includes a selection of new poems and translations.


Evan Jones Men of the Same Name Carcanet Poetry, 30th October, £12.99, PB, 9781800175136


Third Carcanet collection from Toronto-born Greek-Canadian poet, critic, anthologist and translator Jones, who teaches at the University of Bolton.


Steve Malmude, Miles Champion (ed) Red Carpet


Carcanet Poetry, 31st July, £14.99, PB, 9781800174979


Selections from six and a half decades’ of Malmude’s poetry, stemming from the New York School’s second generation.


violence towards women and girls.


Stav Poleg The Banquet Carcanet Poetry, 30th October, £12.99, PB, 9781800175112


Poleg’s second collection follows Dante’s works, “exploring the links between love, language and longing”.


Clare Pollard Lives of the Female Poets Bloodaxe Books, 25th September, £12, PB, 9781780377476


Emily Zobel Marshall Other Wild Peepal Tree Press, 2nd October, £10.99, PB, 9781845236045


Poems on finding new ways to reflect, adapt and inhabit the natural world. Second collection from Marshall, who is a reader in cultural studies at Leeds Beckett University.


Alice Meynell, Alex Wong (ed) Selected Poems and Essays


Carcanet Classics, 28th August, £16.99, PB, 9781800175013


More than a century after her death, an anthology of verse and prose by writer, critic and suffragist Meynell, the first to be published for more than 75 years. Preface by Laura Mulvey.


Joseph Minden Answerland Carcanet Poetry, 27th November, £12.99, PB, 9781800175174


Second collection from schoolteacher and poet Minden, structured around the school year, examining how to connect with young people and the pressures of the contemporary education system.


Robert Minhinnick Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh


Carcanet Poetry, 25th September, £15.99, PB, 9781800175037


A dual-language collection representing the Welsh language poetry scene, featuring Minhinnick’s translations of Menna Elfyn, Llyr Gwyn, Iwan Llwyd, Sian Northey, Karen Owen and Iestyn Tyne.


Kim Moore The House of Broken Things


Corsair, 7th May, £12.99, HB, 9781472160485


Hebden Bridge-based Moore’s third collection draws on life as a new mother and her hopes and terrors for a daughter growing up in a world of


Pollard’s sixth collection spans Enheduanna, Wanda Coleman, Anne Locke, LEL and Emily Brontë in poems that are “portraits, self- portraits and poems in conversation with female poets across the ages”.


Lynette Roberts, Charles Mundye, Patrick McGuinness (ed) A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems


Carcanet Classics, 30th October, £20, PB, 9781800175051


Update of Carcanet’s 2005 edition, adding major work from the archive. Welsh-modernist Roberts was championed by TS Eliot at Faber, which published her Poems (1944) and Gods with Stainless Ears (1951).


SuAndi Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems


Carcanet Poetry, 28th August, £16.99, PB, 9781800174993


First selected works by acclaimed Manchester- born poet SuAndi, recent winner of the RSL Benson Medal Award.


Jessica Traynor New Arcana Bloodaxe Books, 25th September, £12, PB, 9781780377490


Traynor’s fourth collection of poems explores “grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies”. Striking cover by comic book artist Lisa Sterle, in the style of her Modern Witch Tarot.


Lydia Unsworth Stay Awhile KFS, 2nd February, £TBC, PB, 9781916590175


Poems navigating the post-industrial urban environments, reflecting on encounters between people and buildings from Sunderland to Morecambe, Halifax to the legendary Pennine tower at Forton.


Various authors The Lake Poets: An Anthology


Shrikant Verma, Rahul Soni (trans) Magadh


And Other Stories, 7th October, £14.99, PB, 9781916751330


A classic of modern Indian poetry, telling of the rise and fall of ancient cities and kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent, first published in Hindi in 1984.


Sport


Wayne Barton Manchester United After Munich: How Tragedy Forged One of the World’s Greatest Football Clubs


Bloomsbury Sport, 4th November, £20, HB, 9781399413848


How Manchester United revived and rejuvenated in the five years following the 1958 Munich Air Crash.


Alan McDougall Dreams and Songs to Sing: A People’s History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp


Cambridge Uni Press, 7th August, £22, HB, 9781009340236


Fans and eyewitness accounts shine a light on the triumphs and tragedies experienced by Liverpool FC.


Andy Mitten Bring on United: Ferguson’s Golden Generation in Their Own Words


HarperNorth, 6th November, £10.99, PB, 9780008726119


Interviews with former players tell of Manchester United’s successes more than 15 years ago, between 2000 and 2010. Foreword by Ruud van Nistelrooy.


National Football Museum A History of Football in 100 Objects


HarperNorth, 11th September, £20, HB, 9780008729141


From George Best’s boots to Bukayo Saka’s iconic inflatable unicorn, a history of football told through merchandise, memorabilia and other objects in the National Football Museum collection.


Alastair Bonnett Extraordinary Islands: An Atlas of Unlikely Places


Ivy Press, 16th October, £20, HB, 9781836005773


A guide to the world’s most mysterious and elusive islands by Bonnett, Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University.


Eleanor Bruce, Lucilla Gray Found: A Metal Detecting Journey Through Britain


HarperNorth, 9th April, £16.99, HB, 9780008737603


Metal detectorist cousins Ellie and Lucie dig into their hobby, history and their own life stories.


Tom Chesshyre Wild Peaks: A Journey on Foot Through England’s First National Park


HarperNorth, 12th March, £20, HB, 9780008733469


Consummate travel writer Chesshyre takes on the 555 square miles of the Peak District, examining its myths, legends and history, bound up in an escape from the industrial centres of Manchester and Sheffield.


Notting Hill Editions, 4th November, £15.99, HB, 9781912559701


Hill farmer, environmentalist and memoirist James Rebanks introduces a selection of classic poetry depicting Lakeland.


James Pearce Walk On: How Arne Slot led Liverpool to Premier League Glory


HarperNorth, 6th November, £20, HB, 9780008774721


An account of Arne Slot’s first season in charge at Liverpool FC and their journey to become Premier League champions.


Joe Shooman The Little(r) Book of Darts Zaffre, 9th October, £12.99, HB, 9781785128295


A guide to “the working man’s javelin”, shaped by the recent success of Warrington’s teenage darts sensation and current world champion, Luke Littler.


Sherin Aminossehe 200 Years of Britain’s Railways in 14 Journeys


Frances Lincoln, 25th September, £35, HB, 9781836004837


A beautifully hand- illustrated guide to Britain’s varied railway network, from the world’s first public railway, the Stockton & Darlington Railway via stations and viaducts to the people and personalities associated with them.


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