POETRY


Alice Oswald, Kathleen Jamie, Seamus Heaney, Robert Macfarlane, Sinead Morrisey et al Archipelago Anthology Te Lilliput Press, 9th September, pb, £22, 9781843517825 Collection gathers poetry, prose and visual art in clusters grouped around the Irish and British archipelago.


Caleb Parkin This Fruiting Body Nine Arches Press, 14th October, pb, £9.99, 9781913437251 Parkin was awarded Arts Council England DYCP funding to explore queer ecopoetry in this first collection.


David Perman Collected and New Poems Rockingham Press, 4th October, pb, £16.99, 9781904851837 Poems about childhood— Pushing a Harmonium up Balls Pond Road—travel, nature, love, loss and the Covid lockdown.


Muneera Pilgrim That Day She’ll Relate Her Chronicles Burning Eye Books, 21st October, pb, £9.99, 9781913958060 Début collection explores belonging, spirituality, gender, race and identity as well as themes of girl- hood, pop culture, familial bonds and crushes.


Joseph Ponthus, Stephanie Smee On the Line Apollo, 11th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800243972 Novel in verse that captures the mundane, the beautiful and the strange in poignant contrast with the blood and sweat of the factory floor.


Cherry Potts (ed) Words From the Brink Arachne Press, 16th December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665517 Stories and poems that address the climate crisis and species on the brink of extinction.


Ai Qing, Robert Dorsett (tr), Ai Weiwei Selected Poems Vintage Classics, 2nd November, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781784877668 Timeless, visionary collec- tion of poems from one of China’s most acclaimed poets, now available in English for the first time in a generation.


Salvatore Quasimodo, Jack Bevan (tr) Complete Poems Carcanet Classics, 26th


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August, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781800171084 The bestselling Complete Poems from the Nobel Prize winner, reissued as a Carcanet Classic.


Padraig Regan Some Integrity Carcanet Poetry, 27th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781800172081 Much-anticipated first collection heralds the arrival of a significant new poet whose gripping poems are as original as they are honest.


Rainer Maria Rilke, Vita Sackville-West (tr), Edward Sackville-West (tr) Duino Elegies Pushkin Press, 2nd December, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781782277798 Reissue of Vita and Edward Sackville-West’s translation of poems by Rilke, with a new introduction by Lesley Chamberlain.


Robin Robertson The Long Take Picador, 6th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529017281 Reissue of the powerful genre-defying work which follows a D-Day veteran as he goes in search of freedom and repair in postwar America.


Robin Robertson Grimoire Picador, 6th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529051230 Haunting collection of “new Scottish folk tales” featuring beautiful draw- ings throughout and an introduction by Val McDermid.


SERIES


Macmillan Collector’s Library Jancis Robinson, Gaby Morgan (ed) 300: Happy Hour Macmillan Collector’s Library, 30th September, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529045628 Wonderful celebration of poetry about drink, drink- ers and drinking places, with an introduction by Robinson.


Lloyd Robson Cardiff Cut Parthian Books, 1st September, pb, eb, £9, 9781913640439 Twentieth-anniversary edition with a foreword by Peter Finch. A witty, obscene, defiant, anarchic monologue steeped in the city of Cardiff.


Deanna Rodger His Fingers Have Left Burning Eye Books, 4th November, pb, £6.99, 9781913958121 Five new poems, each


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inspired by one of Kevin Elyot’s plays: Coming Clean, Forty Winks, And Then There Were None, Perfect Moment and Twilight Song.


Selina Rodrigues Ferocious Smokestack Books, 2nd August, pb, £7.99, 9781838198855 “A captivating début from a unique voice”—Hannah Lowe.


Christina Rossetti, Georgie McAusland, Kirsty Gunn Goblin Market Batsford, 11th November, hb, £12.99, 9781849946940 Fully illustrated volume of the classic Rossetti poem, which resonates still today and is the most beautiful book for any poetry lover.


Anne Ryland Unruled Journal Valley Press, 1st October, pb, £10.99, 9781912436620 Collection which begins and ends with the human body, honouring its traumas, mysteries and miracles.


SERIES


Macmillan Collector’s Library Ana Sampson, Gaby Morgan (ed) 299: Poems for Stillness Macmillan Collector’s Library, 30th September, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529045642 Beautiful collection of classic poetry to calm, console and uplift.


Ana Sampson, Sarah Maycock The Book of Dog Poems Laurence King, 2nd September, hb, £12.99, 9781786279439 Sometimes funny, some- times moving, the poems in this beautifully illus- trated anthology are a true celebration of the dog. Perfect gift for dog lovers.


Ana Sampson, Sarah Maycock The Book of Cat Poems Laurence King, 2nd September, hb, £12.99, 9781786279446 For lovers of cats everywhere.


Stephen Sexton Cheryl’s Destinies Penguin, 26th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780141997520 Highly anticipated follow- up to the Forward Prize- winning If All The World and Love Were Young, a fantastical exploration of history and the present.


Asta Fanney Sigurdardottir Forevernoon Partus Press, 22nd August, pb, £10, 9781913196059


Début collection by a lead- ing figure in a new genera- tion of Icelandic poets.


Fiona Sinclair Greedy Cow Smokestack Books, 2nd August, pb, £7.99, 9781838198879 Book about new lovers and old habits, first dates and second chances, in which riding pillion is a metaphor for the risks of desire in middle-age.


Daniel Sluman Single Window Nine Arches Press, 30th September, pb, £9.99, 9781913437237 Sluman is a 34-year-old poet and disability rights activist. Single Window is about living with disability and chronic pain. His third collection.


Sophie Stone (ed), Lisa Kelly (ed) What Meets the Eye? Arachne Press, 30th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913665487


Selection of poetry and short stories from deaf and hard of hearing writ- ers, inspired by the theme of movement.


Stephanie Sy-Quia Amnion Granta Books, 4th November, PB, £10.99, 9781783787746 An extraordinary debut, book-length poem from a significant young thinker on migratory histories, race and colonialism.


Kay Syrad What is Near Cinnamon Press, 6th September, pb, £9.99, 9781788641135 Subtle eco-poetry explor- ing the interconnectedness of the human and other- than-human world.


George Szirtes Fresh Out of the Sky Bloodaxe Books, 21st October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780375847 Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian upris- ing. These poems relate to arrival in England as a child, and to identity, memory, war, upheaval and coronavirus.


SERIES


Te Emma Press Picks Lisabelle Tay 15: Pilgrim Te Emma Press, 17th September, Pamphlet, eb, £5, 9781912915859 Illustrated poetry pamphlet. Working through Classical, English, and Chinese mythologies before finally approaching local and familial histories,


the author attempts to understand her post-colo- nial inner world.


M Wynn Thomas The History of Wales in Twelve Poems University of Wales Press, 15th September, hb, eb, £8.99, 9781786837660 Offers a new way of view- ing the Welsh past, show- ing how some aspects of it are best accessed through the words of its renowned poets.


Katharine Towers Oak Picador, 25th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529078428 Fascinating collection concerning the life cycle of the oak tree, from the winner of the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize.


Various The Poetry of Horses Profile Books, 7th October, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781788166041 Poems about horses by the world’s greatest poets.


Stephen Wade Stretch Smokestack Books, 1st September, pb, £7.99, 9781838198893 True-crime writer tells the stories of some of the men he has met in prison: cons and screws, librarians and listeners, ex-squaddies and storybook dads.


James Ward The Latest Noel Cool Millennium, 27th August, hb, eb, £6.99, 9781913851439 Collection on subjects as diverse as British Summer Time, car boot sales and the 20th century thinker Georges Bataille.


James Ward Metals of the Future Cool Millennium, 27th August, hb, eb, £6.99, 9781913851446 Twenty-five poems cover- ing subjects such as the difference between cow parsley and hogweed, the ghosts of Pevensey Castle, school exams, the history of flies etc, etc.


Crystal Wilkinson, Nikky Finney, Ronald W Davis Perfect Black Te University Press of Kentucky, 3rd August, hb, £23, 9780813151151 Acclaimed author Wilkin- son’s country roots and passion for language combine in this collection of lyrics and prose about blackness, racism and political awareness.


Rowan Williams Collected Poems


Carcanet Poetry, 25th November, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781800171091 Contains the previously published poetry of Williams together with a significant body of new work.


Andy Willoughby Black River Sonnets Smokestack Books, 1st September, pb, £7.99, 9781916012189 Inspired by Trout Fishing in America Willoughby crosses the River Tees and the black river of the underworld in search of a literary form that will make sense of death.


Christian Wiman Home: 100 Poems Yale University Press, 11th January, hb, eb, £20, 9780300253450 Evocative poems and prose fragments about home selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time.


Gerard Woodward The Vulture Picador, 6th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529027709 New collection from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize short- listed author.


Lexy Wren-Sillevis Womxn: Sticks and Stones Pyramid, 5th August, hb, £10, 9780753734537 Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words need never hurt you. A tool for transfor- mation and resilience for womxn.


WB Yeats The Poetry of WB Yeats Arcturus, 1st November, hb, £17.99, 9781789502244 Beautiful silk-bound hardback contains the complete poetic works of Yeats in a stylish slipcase. This deluxe gift edition features gold foil emboss- ing and elegant full-colour illustrations.


WB Yeats WB Yeats Selected Poetry Flame Tree Collectable Clas- sics, 14th September, hb, £9.99, 9781839642197 Gorgeous edition of Collectable Classics with deluxe covers, ribbon markers, luxury endpa- pers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a glos- sary of Victorian and liter- ary terms.


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