POETRY


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Poetry


Casey Bailey Please Do Not Touch Burning Eye Books, 3rd June, pb, £9.99, 9781913958053 Asks important questions about things, places and society.


The RHS Book of Garden Verse Frances Lincoln, 16th February, hb, £9.99, 9780711256514 From the Royal Horticultural Society comes this celebration of the garden through poetry, illustrated with botanical prints, engravings and watercolour drawings from the world-famous Lindley Library.


Fleur Adcock The Mermaid’s Purse Bloodaxe Books, 25th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375700 Adcock began writing this book when she was 82, drawing on times in New Zealand and Britain over the decades plus flirtations and family memories.


Lillian Allen, Ronald Cummings Make the World New Wilfrid Laurier Univer- sity Press, 30th April, pb, £16.95, 9781771124959 One of the leading creative black feminist voices in Canada. This volume brings together some of the highlights of her work.


Abeer Ameer Inhale/Exile Seren, 8th February, pb, £9.99, 9781781726105 Ameer writes of her forebears in her début and celebrates the resilience of the “holders of these stories”—her extended family in Baghdad and around the world.


John Ashbery, Emily Skillings (ed) Parallel Movement of the Hands Carcanet Classics, 29th April, pb, £19.99, 9781800170933 Collection of six long serial poems which the American master left unfinished.


Tiffany Atkinson Lumen Bloodaxe Books, 25th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375304 Explores how poetry speaks for the body in illness, work and love when pain resists language and pays homage to the


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Chrissy Banks Frank Smith|Doorstop, 1st May, pamphlet, eb, £6.50, 9781912196838 From Frank, who “spits words straight from the seam”, to the schoolgirl who “has buried so much for so long” these poems explore how we negotiate our inner lives.


Richard Barnett Wherever We Are When We Come to the End Valley Press, 20th May, pb, £8.99, 9781912436583 Poetic experiment digs into the form and language of the Tractatus, and follows Wittgenstein through war and his own conflicts with language and silence, violence and grief, time and eternity.


Charles Bernstein Topsy-Turvy University of Chicago Press, 19th April, pb, eb, £20, 9780226783604 Presents an original and capacious collection of poems that speak to a world turned upside-down by this time of “covidity”.


Rachael Boast Hotel Raphael Picador, 13th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529037531 Boast’s new collection inspired by the patron saint of travellers.


Benjamin Bollig Music for Unknown Journeys by Cristian Aliaga Liverpool University Press, 1st February, hb, eb, £90, 9781800348097 New collection from Argentine poet in Spanish- English translation.


Charles Boyle, Christopher Reid (ed) The Disguise Carcanet Poetry, 25th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800170285 Essential selected poems drawing on Boyle’s writing from four collections published by Carcanet and Faber.


Ben Bransfield Judder Men Smith|Doorstop, 1st April, pamphlet, eb, £6, 9781912196548 Compressed, oddly


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lucid poems of men who are real and imagined, monsters and heroes, loved and reviled, fathered and childless, afraid and brave, dead and unborn, sinned against and sinning.


SERIES


Macmillan Collector’s Library Becky Brown (ed), Various 271: Wedding Readings and Poems Macmillan Collector’s Library, 1st April, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781529052596 Offering indispensable inspiration for wedding readings, this gorgeous compilation of writing on love and marriage is also the ideal gift for couples and wedding guests alike.


Chris ML Burleigh Intersecting Lines Beercott Books, 26th June, pb, £8.99, 9781916395374 Collection follows Burleigh’s underlying theme that although life is often serious it is also full of joy and fun.


Dom Bury Rite of Passage Bloodaxe Books, 22nd April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375496 Bury’s début is an initiation into what it means to be alive on a planet threatened with exinction and a journey into the shadow of man’s distorted relationship with the earth.


Moya Cannon Collected Poems Carcanet Poetry, 25th February, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781800170322 One of Ireland’s leading writers collects her five major books into a single volume.


SERIES


Robert Kroetsch Series


Aidan Chafe 36: Gospel Drunk University of Alberta Press, 15th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772125467 A poet’s struggle for identity and salvation in the face of religious dogma and alcoholism. Chafe explores some of our darkest, strongest belief systems and dismantles them with wit and wisdom.


John Challis The Resurrectionists Bloodaxe Books, 27th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375519 The living and the dead work side by side in Challis’ dramatic début


from London’s veg and meat markets to the Dartford Crossing to the edge of the Western world.


Jenna Clake Museum of Ice Cream Bloodaxe Books, 22nd April, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781780375458 Uncanny examination of objects, scenes and flavours. Poems explore how food can connect or divide, or can feel isolating or terrifying, and what it means to have a secret.


Gillian Clarke The Gododdin Faber & Faber, 6th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571352111 First English translation by a poet of one of Britain’s oldest cultural treasures captures its compelling ‘word-music’.


John Cooper Clarke The Luckiest Guy Alive Picador, 8th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781509896066 Original punk poet, now a national treasure, presents a long-awaited collection.


Wanda Coleman, Terrance Hayes (ed) Wicked Enchantment Penguin, 1st April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780141995830 A voice for justice, anti- racism and equality—here is the greatest and most powerful work of the LA Blueswoman.


Confucius, James Trapp Book of Songs (Shi-jing) Amber Books, 14th April, hb, £19.99, 9781782749448 Allegedly compiled by Confucius and produced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques this newly translated dual-language edition is a selected anthology of 25 classic poems.


Jane Cooper (ed), Lilias Fraser (ed), Kate Hendry (ed) To Learn the Future Polygon, 6th May, pb, £6.99, 9781846975547 Offers poems for teachers’ resilience, compassion and wellbeing. Poems are grouped into five themes designed to help young teachers.


Meg Cox A Tin of Sardines Smith|Doorstop, 1st July, pamphlet, eb, £6.50, 9781912196852 Eclectic pamphlet ranges through a delightful mixture of subjects, including Tibet, ornithology and the author’s own personal history.


James Crews How to Love the World Storey, 4th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781635863864 Offers readers uplifting, deeply felt and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life.


Najwan Darwish, Kareem James Abu-Zeid Exhausted on the Cross NYRB Poets, 23rd February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781681375526 Peer of Gabriel García Marquez and Octavio Paz, Álvaro Mutis is one of the greatest Latin American authors of the 20th century. This collection presents some of his best work.


SERIES


Robert Kroetsch Series Jennifer Bowering Delisle 38: Deriving University of Alberta Press, 15th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772125474 Bowering explores infertility, motherhood, and family along with troubling colonial legacies of language and Canadian identity. Poignant and lyrical meditation on longing, place, embodiment and, ultimately, the miracle of life.


Ned Denny B (after Dante) Carcanet Poetry, 27th May, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781784109592 Dante’s Divine Comedy reborn, the follow-up to Denny’s 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning début Unearthly Toys.


Desree


I Find My Strength in Simple Things Burning Eye Books, 6th May, pb, £6.99, 9781913958039 Second edition of spoken word artist’s début pamphlet talks of growth, chaos and relationships.


Tishani Doshi A God At the Door Bloodaxe Books, 22nd April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780375779 Exquisite collection from India’s Tishani Doshi, A God at the Door spans time and space and draws on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised.


Carol Ann Duffy (ed) Empty Nest Picador, 18th February, hb, £14.99, 9781529028683 Anthology on that special bond between parent and child through life features some of our most popular poets.


Rosalind Easton Black Mascara (Waterproof) Smith|Doorstop, 1st February, pamphlet, eb, £6, 9781912196418 Glamorous and lively début exploring relationships, queer experience, popular culture and the enduring power of teenage memories.


TS Eliot Collected Poems 1909-1962 Faber & Faber, 15th July, pb, eb, £15.99, 9780571336593 Newly reset and revised and faithful to the last text Eliot left behind.


Kristian Evans (ed), Zoe Brigley (ed) 100 Poems to Save the Planet Seren, 28th June, pb, £12.99, 9781781726242 The 100 poems selected for this anthology represent a positive and determined movement to change for the better how human beings interact with the natural environment.


Martina Evans American Mules Carcanet Poetry, 29th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800170896 Highly anticipated collection from the author of 2018’s acclaimed Now We Can Talk Openly About Men.


Paul Evans (ed) Poetry Rebellion Batsford, 4th March, hb, £12.99, 9781849946384 Inspired collection of powerful poems to stir the soul and provoke change. Features poems and spoken words from some of today’s most influential figures.


Parwana Fayyaz Forty Names Carcanet Poetry, 29th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781800171077 First collection from the Forward Prize-winning poet.


Peter Filkins Water / Music Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st June, pb, eb, £15, 9781421440088 Diverse display of formal dexterity, narrative power and lyrical resonance, Filkins’ latest collection explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and the human.


Sheree Fitch Because We Love, We Cry Nimbus, 1st April, pb, £7.99, 9781771089463


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