POETRY


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Poetry


Abdullah Adekola Nigrescence Burning Eye Books, 9th September, pb, £9.99, 9781913958091 Breakthrough début collection of poems by Leeds-based poet.


Sandra A Agard (ed), Laila Sumpton (ed) Where We Find Ourselves Arachne Press, 28th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665449


Selection of poetry and short stories from the UK’s BAME and Traveller communities.


Kaveh Akbar (ed) The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse Penguin Classics, 4th November, hb, eb, £20, 9780241391587 Exciting collection explores faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present.


Fadhil al-Azzawi, Farouk Yousif,


Hannah Somerville (tr) Fadhil Al-Azzawi’s Beautiful Creatures Banipal Books, 9th September, pb, £9.99, 9781913043100 First edition in English translation of a book that details a timeline of Iraqi experience in the 1960s. The acclaimed Arabic orig- inal was published in 1969.


Will Alexander Refractive Africa Granta Books, 6th January, pb, £10.99, 9781783788309 A career-defining collec- tion from one of America’s most significant poets, never before published in the UK.


Dante Alighieri, DM Black (tr) Purgatorio NYRB Classics, 14th September, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781681376059 New translation that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy.


Morag Anderson Sin is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s Fly on the Wall Press, 20th August, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781913211592 Scottish poet explores relationships and the


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Raymond Antrobus All the Names Given Picador, 2nd September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529059502 Building on his award- winning début The Perse- verance, this is a collection of poems flickering with gods and ghosts, lineage and inheritance.


Sarah Arvio Cry Back My Sea Random House, 10th August, hb, £22.50, 9780593319505 Stirring poems of obses- sion, loss and the desire for a renewed self from the award-winning poet and translator of Lorca.


Claire Askew How to Burn a Woman Bloodaxe Books, 21st October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375724 The poems in Askew’s electrifying second collec- tion concern witches, outsiders and women who don’t fit into society.


Polly Atkin Much With Body Seren, 18th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781726457 Atkin’s second collec- tion revolves around key themes of location and dislocation, contemporary rural life, and living with chronic pain and disability.


Annemarie Austin Shall We Go? Bloodaxe Books, 21st October, pb, £9.95, 9781780375533 Austin’s imaginative poems explore other worlds and lives, drawing upon her memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature.


Kate Baer


I Hope This Finds You Well Orion Spring, 11th November, hb, £14.99, 9781398706781 The author of What Kind of Woman returns with a collection of found poems created from notes she received from followers, supporters and detractors.


Kathleen Balma Undelivered Notes From Birds of Passage Eyewear Publishing, 6th September, pb, £10.99, 9781913606886 Poems that answer meta- physical questions with a balance of comedy, weight and formal invention, and take naturalist jaunts with elusive species while performing breathtaking linguistic gymnastics.


John Barnie Report to Alpha Centauri


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Cinnamon Press, 6th September, pb, £9.99, 9781788641128 Much-anticipated collec- tion from essayist, poet and blues musician.


Sheri Benning Field Requiem Carcanet Poetry, 26th August, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800171510 New “contemporary prai- rie gothic” collection from Canadian poet, a lead poet from Carcanet’s bestselling anthology New Poetries V.


Julia Bird Is, Thinks Pearl Te Emma Press, 15th October, pb, £6.50, 9781912915873 Bird works for the Poetry Society and as an independent literature producer and promoter at Jaybird Live Literature. She has previously been published by Salt.


Ana Blandiana, Paul Scott Derrick (tr), Viorica Patea (tr) Five Books Bloodaxe Books, 11th November, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781780375380 Blandiana is one of Roma- nia’s foremost poets and a former leading dissi- dent. This new translation combines five books of protest poems from the 1980s and two collections of love poetry.


Alexandra Bülcher (tr/ed), Kateřina Rudčenková Kateřina Rudčenková: The Selected Poems Parthian Books, 4th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913640545 Chosen from her four poetry books. Büchler will also write an introduction.


Szilárd Borbély, Ottilie Mulzet (tr) In a Bucolic Land NYRB Poets, 30th November, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781681375915 Moving, posthumous collection of elegies and ecologues that meditate on nature, landscape and history by a great Hungar- ian poet.


Jane Burn Be Feared Nine Arches Press, 11th November, pb, £9.99, 9781913437275 Début collection from a widely anthologised poet based in the North East of England.


Miles Burrows Take Us the Little Foxes: Collected Poems Carcanet Poetry, 26th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800171398 Cuts and stumbles through


the self-contradictions, self-deceptions, and absurdities of life.


Vahni Capildeo Like a Tree Walking Carcanet Poetry, 25th November, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800171954 Fresh departure, even for this famously innova- tive poet, draws on their interest in ecopoetics and silence. A book defined by how it writes love.


David Caplan American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction Oxford Univeristy Press, 25th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780190640194 Leading critic explains what makes American poetry—a vast genre—so distinctive.


Anthony Carelli The New World Princeton University Press, 19th October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780691218793 From an “uncommonly fluent” and “rewarding” poet (the Observer), a collection of miniature epics that asks: can grace be found amid disarray?


John Carey 100 Poets:


A Little Anthology Yale University Press, 14th September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780300258011 Wonderfully readable selection of our great- est poetry chosen by the author of A Little History of Poetry.


Kate Clanchy Friend Picador, 30th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529083996 Anthology by young people, edited by award- winning writer and teacher.


John Cooper Clarke The Luckiest Guy Alive Picador, 16th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781509896066 Outstanding long-awaited collection by the inimitable Bard of Salford, the origi- nal punk poet.


Billy Collins Whale Day Picador, 30th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529064537 Brings together more than 50 poems and showcases Collins’s deft mixing of the playful and the serious.


David Cooke Sicilian Elephants Two Rivers Press, 22nd November, pb, £9.99, 9781909747913 Cooke’s most wide- ranging and ambitious collection to date explores notions of home and the way humans aspire to


define their space and achieve a life of ease.


AE De Vaul Cosmonaut Valley Press, 2nd Septem- ber, Pamphlet, £6.99, 9781912436675 A literal and figurative journey, shielded and distanced from the world by the glass of the cosmo- naut’s helmet.


Jeremy Dixon A Voice Coming From Then Arachne Press, 26th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665401 Emerging from Dixon’s teenage suicide attempt and expanding to encom- pass themes of bullying, queerphobia, acceptance and support with humour, magic, discotheques and appearances from Victo- rian demon, Spring-heeled Jack.


Carol Ann Duffy Christmas Poems Picador, 11th November, hb, £20, 9781529038743 Beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Duffy’s celebrated festive poems.


Ian Duhig New and Selected Poems Picador, 11th November, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529070804 Retrospective with the addition of a couple of new pieces, including an elegy for the late Ciaran Carson.


Frank Dullaghan In the Coming of Winter Cinnamon Press, 6th September, pb, £9.99, 9781788641111 Latest from this well- respected Irish poet finds bittersweet joys in even the darkest times.


Jane Duran The Clarity of Distant Things Carcanet Poetry, 30th September, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800171596 The first Carcanet collec- tion by Cuban-American poet touches on themes of art, life, loss, displacement and exile.


K Eltinaé The Moral Judgement of Butterflies Eyewear Publishing, 6th September, pb, £10.99, 9781913606879 Touching on more than 20 years of work on the immi- grant experience, hope emanates with universal empathy from the nadir of Eltinaé’s layered struggles as a citizen of somewhere/ everywhere/nowhere.


Tua Forsström,


David McDuff (tr) I Walked on into the Forest Bloodaxe Books, 11th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375823 Forsström is one of Finland’s best-loved Swed- ish-language poets. Her new book focuses acutely on death and grief..


Alice Frecknall Somewhere


Something is Burning Out-Spoken Press, 10th November, pb, £10, 9781838021191 Début collection from a poet and short story writer.


Kevin Gardner (ed), John Greening (ed) Hollow Palaces Liverpool University Press, 1st August, hb, eb, £19.99, 9781800856745 Collection of country house poems by modern and contemporary poets, from Hardy to Armitage.


Carolyn Gavin (illus), Julie Sutherland (illus) Bright Poems for Dark Days Frances Lincoln, 5th October, hb, £12.99, 9780711266810 Illustrated anthology of uplifting poetry, from William Blake to Warsan Shire.


Gloria Gervitz, Mark Schafer Migrations: Poem, 1976-2020 NYRB Poets, 21st Septem- ber, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781681375700


Epic, single-poem tribute to the spirit of women, this is the first complete and final translation of the great Mexican poet’s magnum opus.


Nikki Giovanni Make Me Rain William Morrow Paper- backs, 28th October, pb, £9.99, 9780062995292 Powerful collection from one of America’s most celebrated poets.


Louise Glück Averno Penguin Classics, 26th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241526002 Widely revered collection from the Nobel prize- winning poet, publishing in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.


Louise Glück Poems: 1962–2020 Penguin Classics, 26th August, hb, eb, £30, 9780241526071 Career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet.


Louise Glück


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