POETRY
borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo and Madame de Stael.
Poetry
Abbeville Press Haiku
Ornella Civardi, Kaori Yamaguchi (illus) 30th March, hb, £19.95, 9780789215062 Savour the changing seasons with this attractively illustrated collection of classic haiku. Perhaps no poetic form evokes nature so effectively as the haiku.
And Other Stories
Hardly War Don Mee Choi 6th March, pb, £14.99, 9781916751231 The author uses artefacts from her father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, combining memoir, image and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage.
DMZ Colony Don Mee Choi 3rd April, pb, £14.99, 9781916751248 Winner of the National Book Award in the US, Choi’s DMZ Colony explores the history of South Korea and the United States through innovative deployments of voice, story and poetics.
Mirror Nation Don Mee Choi 2nd May, pb, £14.99, 9781916751255 The South Korean military’s massacre of students in the 1980 Gwangju uprising inspires a poetry of grief.
Autobiography of Death Hyesoon Kim, Don Mee Choi (tr) 3rd June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781916751286 Kim’s most compelling work to date re-enacts trauma and narrates death—how we die and how we survive within “the structure of death, that we remain living in”.
Anthem Press
The European Byron Jonathan Gross 8th April, hb, eb, £80, 9781839991424 Considers Byron’s
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Anthology of New Woman Poetry Patricia Murphy 3rd June, hb, eb, £80, 9781839994098 Women poets of the late Victorian period created much fascinating verse from the stand- point of the independent and advanced New Woman, a profoundly important figure.
Arachne Press
Naming the Trees Ness Owen 27th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665951 A dive into the human relationship with trees and how trees have shaped folklore and literature. Sparked by a campaign to save the ancient forest of Penrhos, on Ynys Mon.
Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers / Cerddi Afonydd Cymru Ness Owen (ed), Sian Northey (ed) 29th May, pb, eb, £12, 9781913665975 Fifty poems and their translations in an entirely bilingual Welsh/ English anthology in praise of Welsh rivers.
Arc
The Conjurer Pedro Serrano, Anna Crowe (tr) 3rd February, pb, £10.99, 9781911469780 Passionate and full of music, these poems explore the natural and our place in it, and also confront the passing of time, decay and change.
Collected Poems, 1972-2024 Kevin Crossley-Holland 31st March, pb, £19.99, 9781911469827 Crossley-Holland has been described by Philip Pullman as “a master, a magician and commander of the language”, a view this eagerly awaited anthology will support.
Nightsongs for Gaia James Byrne 31st March, Book, £13.99, 9781911469841 The poet writes: “I’m always interested in the possibilities of change, moving through forms and aesthetic modes, and I’d like to think this epitomises these kinds of shifts.”
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction Atlantic Books
Find Me as the Creature I Am Emily Jungmin Yoon 3rd April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781805461418 Luminous collection of wonder, wildness and the capabilities of love in the face of destruction from one of poetry’s sharpest up-and-coming voices.
Bad Betty
Altar Desree 25th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913268725 Début exploring the multifaceted dimensions of sacrifice, challenging its heroism and examining its ties to servility. Through reflections on Black British identity, belonging, place and consent, Altar reclaims narratives long marginalised.
Arcturus SERIES
Ornate Classics hb, £8.99, 9781398851 Good-looking pocket hardbacks of iconic literary works, presented with striking foil cover embossing, gilded page edges and deluxe ivory paper. Best Loved Poems John Boyes 1st July, vol 68 054 The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire, Cyril Scott (tr) 1st June, vol 69 160
nature poetry to enjoy on those long summer evenings, with one poem for every day of the season.
100 Poems to Help You Heal Liz Ison 8th May, vol 3, hb, £12.99, 9781849949620 Soothing collection of hopeful and therap- eutic poems to reach for in moments of grief and sadness.
Favourite Poems of London
Jane McMorland Hunter 5th June, hb, £12.99, 9781849949651 Compendium of poems celebrating life in England’s capital with verses from much- loved poets such as William Wordsworth and William Blake. Illustrated with iconic Tube posters.
The Poetry of Flowers Samuel Carr 3rd July, hb, £12.99, 9781849949668 Rich collection of poetry that celebrates the beauty and symbolism of the humble flower through classic verse.
Bedford Square
Things My Children Think I’m Wrong About Nic Aubury 22nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835011249 “Memorable, musical, witty and just brilliant in every way. Nic is hands down the best new poet to emerge in the last 20 years”—Sophie Hannah.
Bloodaxe Books
Why I am Not a Bus Driver Ashley Hickson-Lovence 24th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913268749 Moving and musical début collection exploring grief, love and the power of community from the author of The 392, Your Show and Wild East.
Batsford
A Nature Poem for Every Summer Evening Jane McMorland Hunter 8th May, hb, £14.99, 9781849948616 Sublime anthology of
Avidya Vidyan Ravinthiran 24th April, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377407 Drawing on a migrant sensibility, this political and spiritual collection was shaped by myth and philosophy, by Sri Lankan as well as global crises, that emerged from personally significant journeys.
The Shadow of Words Ana Blandiana, Paul Derrick (tr), Viorica Patea (tr) 20th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781780375403 Selection by one of Romania’s foremost poets covers Blandiana’s early collections published from 1964 to 1981, completing Bloodaxe’s presentation of her collected poems to date in English translation.
The Inside of a Stone Charlotte Van den Broeck, David Colmer (tr) 20th February, pb, £12, 9781780377025 The key sequence of this book, translated from Dutch, concentrates on desert landscapes and womanhood and the emotional resonance between the two while reconceptualising their metaphorical relationship.
My Secret Life Krisztina Tóth, George Szirtes (tr) 20th February, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377032 Tóth is one of the leading Hungarian poets of the generation who began publishing in the late 1980s. This is the first book of her poetry in English translation.
Pretenders Kate Potts 27th March, pb, £12.99, 9781780377308 What is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? asks Pott in this poetic exploration of imposter syndrome.
Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets Rachael Boast 22nd May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781780377315 Eclectic anthology brings together poets from across the international arena, from emerging voices to world-renowned authors, and offers an urgent redress to unpick misapprehensions and misrepresentations.
First Rain in Paradise Gwyneth Lewis 27th March, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377339 Lewis’ highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved from the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through subsequent chronic ill health and towards a hard-won resurrection.
Beast Pascale Petit 24th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377377 Mythic and familial beasts roam wild landscapes here. These spirits haunt forests in India and the Amazon as well as parts of France and Cornwall.
The Gallery of Upside Down Women Arundhathi Subramaniam 27th March, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377438 Subramaniam’s poems map a wobbling world trying to find its axis in a
season of change. Fabrics tear, lands splinter, stances harden, loved ones die, names dissolve.
Dis Poetry Benjamin Zephaniah 15th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377414 Collects poems from the much-mourned Zephaniah’s four collections, along with previously unpublished poetry and lyrics from recordings not included in earlier books.
Calon
The Art of Losing M Wynn Thomas 6th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781837600236 Explores how poets have expressed and attempted to come to some kind of understanding of grief.
Canongate Books
Poyums Len Pennie 20th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781837260218 From a performance poet comes an electric début collection about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving. A Sunday Times bestseller.
Carcanet Classics
Dante’s Inferno Lorna Goodison 24th April, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781800174665 This new Jamaican Dante is as much a transformation as it is translation. This is the work of one of the most celebrated Caribbean writers of our time and a former poet laureate of Jamaica.
Fower Pessoas Colin Bramwell, Fernando Pessoa 27th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800174641 Bold reimagining of Pessoa’s four main poetic personae into a mixed dialect of Scots and English by an exciting next-generation Scottish poet.
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