POETRY Carcanet Poetry
Father’s Father’s Father Dane Holt 27th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174689 Début collection confronts class, grief and the self-dramatising of masculinity in the aftermath of tragedy.
Plenitude Thomas McCarthy 27th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174108 Following McCarthy’s Pandemonium (2016) and Prophecy (2019), Plenitude is a collection of formal, lyrical poems of family, politics and memory.
The Idea of an Entire Life Billy-Ray Belcourt 26th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800174917 Exploration of queer Indigenous life as it is shaped by history but pulled towards a future filled with possibility. From the youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Commonwealth Theophilus Kwek 29th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800174832 Kwek’s second Carcanet collection excavates histories of displacement, decolonisation and development buried within Commonwealth, one of Singapore’s oldest neighbourhoods.
Passion
David Morley 29th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800174818 Glorious, supercharged anthology focusing on love, nature and Romany Traveller life.
Bunting’s Honey Moya Cannon 26th June, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174894 A book of wonderings and wanderings meditating on cultural boundaries, the persistent horrors of war, lost friends and light.
Heirloom Catherine-Esther Cowie 24th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174795 This first collection from a Caribbean-born writer examines how violence shapes four generations of women and how each generation resists the dysfunction, tyranny,and terror inherited from the previous one.
Small Pointed Things Erica McAlpine 24th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174771 McAlpine’s first Carcanet
collection explores marriage, motherhood and family life, distilling everyday occurrences into moments of self-discovery.
Pattern-book Éireann Lorsung 29th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800174856 Words on grief, time, art, friendship and the ways that language can and cannot hold what we lose.
Fourth and Walnut Jeremy Over 27th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800174603 Over’s fourth Carcanet collection is an exuberant book of experimental poetry tracking the movements of a happily wandering mind with a sense of humour, whimsy and melancholy.
Deep Vellum
Carapace Dancer Natalia Toledo, Clare Sullivan (tr) 6th March, pb, £12.99, 9781646053551 Toledo revisits some themes from her collection The Black Flower and Other Zapotec Poems.
Everyman’s Library
Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker 1st May, hb, £12, 9781841598345 Irresistible hardcover collection of the popular humorist’s poems that range from light- hearted satire to gleeful dark comedy.
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Frank
Diane Seuss 13th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781804271575 Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, this is Diane Seuss’s most personal work to date, capturing the magnitude of a life lived honestly.
Modern Poetry Diane Seuss 13th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781804271599 Follow-up to Frank is an experimental-scholarly life in poems.
Flapjack Press
Now and Then Leigh Lawson 10th March, pb, eb, £12, 9781068605239 Début collection from renowned actor and director.
Thick Richard the Third Thick Richard 23rd June, pb, £10, 9781068605246 Third selection of acerbic, cynical, lyrical, humorous and well-crafted poetry.
The First Spark Has Led to This Blaze Henry Normal, Pete Ramskill (illus) 24th March, hb, £16.95, 9781068605253 No details at time of going to press.
Meanwhile Henry Normal 24th March, pb, eb, £10, 9781068605260 Premature book of posthumous poems.
Flood Editions
Ark Ronald Johnson, Peter O’Leary (ed) 5th March, pb, £18.95, 9798985787474 New edition of Johnson’s masterpiece. “Ark is a metaphysical poem that could only have been written in our time, of which it displays a new vision”—Guy Davenport.
Goat Star Books
Mystery Languages Rafael Penas Cruz 28th February, pb, £15, 9781919651736 Exploration of the connection between brain and soul using poetry and artworks by three Sheffield-based artists.
Grove Press
Dream Work Mary Oliver 6th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781804710937 Newly repackaged, this is an “astonishing” book of poetry from “one of our very best poets” (New York Times Book Review).
Hawkwood Books
Looking Back Rhymesmiff 20th March, pb, £9.99, 9781068710308 Rhymes for the politically incorrect, passionate lefty and chronically nostalgic.
Being Human Levi Tafari 1st May, pb, £9.99, 9781068710315 Poignant poems embracing the core of what being human is, coupled with the innate tendencies to judge and prioritise each other’s significance as human beings.
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