POETRY
Haymarket Books
Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry George Abraham (ed), Noor Hindi (ed) 13th May, pb, £19.99, 9798888903650 A love letter to Palestinian ancestors. The poems collected here bridge borders, languages and generations to forge new conversations around resistance and liberation.
Haywood Books
Interlude LJ Ireton 15th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804471531 Profound collection that explores nature and the magic of the in-between, Interlude considers how humans connect with their landscapes and the creatures with whom we share the planet.
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Things No One Else Can Teach Us Humble the Poet 13th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780008636852 Create your own silver linings.
Independent Thinking Press
Bloodlines Juliet Robertson 31st March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781781354322 Bestselling author of Dirty Teaching and Messy Maths shares a collection of poems documenting her journey with cancer.
JM Originals
No Obvious Distress Amanda Quaid 3rd July, eb, £14.99, 9781399824569 From the Bridport Prize for Poetry winner, a shocking, witty and wise memoir-in-verse about womanhood, desire and family and how a life- changing diagnosis turned everything on its head.
Johns Hopkins University Press
The Khayyam Suite Charles Martin 4th March, pb, eb, £16.50, 9781421450711 Rich anthology inspired by the Persian lyric tradition. Includes a study of the Rubaiyat, the renowned poem cycle attributed to the Persian poet Omar Khayyam.
148 Liberalis
The Oak Tree and the Branch
Nicholas Hagger 27th May, pb, £22.99, 9781785358494 Poems on apparent conflicts (Brexit, coronavirus and war) and the underlying unity of nature and the universe.
Liverpool University Press
Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde Eibhear Walshe, Eleanor Fitzsimons 28th February, hb, eb, £115, 9781836240372 The first contemporary edition of the poems of the 19th-century Irish writer.
SERIES
Pavilion Poetry 28th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 978183624 Seeks to publish the very best in contemporary poetry. 2024 marks our 10th year. Archivum Theresa Munoz 3014 The Lives of Z Olivia McCannon 3045 The Ishtar Gate Sarah Corbett 4578
Lucent Dreaming
Imagine We Trade Bodies With Sheep Duke Al Durham 13th February, pb, £12, 9781739660970 Are you ready to remove the wool from your eyes? Humans now have the bodies of sheep. This satirical, surreal collection explores race, religion, politics and mental health.
Macmillan SERIES
Poetry Pharmacy Deborah Alma hb, eb, £10, 9781035061 Collectable poetry books with a focus on wellbeing. Becoming 3rd April, vol 3, 495 Wild Remedy 3rd April, vol 4, 471 First Aid 10th July, vol 5, 457 Inspiration 10th July, vol 6, 570
Macmillan Collector’s Library
The Mahabharata Arshia Sattar, Romesh C Dutt (tr), Vyasa 26th June, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035048533 A grand saga of divine
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wisdom, epic battles and the eternal quest for justice distilled into the lives of warriors and deities across the vast expanse of ancient India.
The Ramayana Arshia Sattar, Romesh C Dutt (tr), Valmiki 26th June, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035048519 The epic story of Rama, hero and prince, who must battle for justice and righteousness against the forces of chaos and evil.
Major Books
The Tale of Kieu Du Nguyen, Binh Nguyen (tr), Dusse Bui (illus) 8th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781917233040 Breathtaking translation of Vietnam’s national epic, a timeless tale of love, loss and redemption that has captivated readers for over two centuries.
Mica Press
Safe Ground Rosie Johnston 25th March, pb, £10, 9781869848408 Poetic chronicles of a girl with a bullying mother and philandering father, who left the beaches of Ireland to mend her splintered heart on other shores.
Meeting Places Sally Festing 20th May, pb, £10, 9781869848415 Love, linked lives, history, art, ageing, tolerance and death centred in place in this acute collection from a seasoned north Norfolk author.
Naxos AudioBooks
Satires Juvenal 1st May, audiobook, £11, 9781781985649 The poet Juvenal was the greatest satirist of Imperial Rome. His 16 satires attack the immorality, abuses and hypocrisy of the Romans of his day. Deftly performed by David Timson.
New Directions
Love is a Dangerous Word Essex Hemphill, John Keene (ed), Robert F Reid-Pharr (ed) 4th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780811232340 Incendiary, sensual poems of Hemphill in a new, landmark selection.
NYRB Classics
Paradiso Dante Alighieri, DM Black (tr) 8th July, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781681379432 A new translation of the final part of Dante’s Divine Comedy by a poet and psychoanalyst praised for his previous translation of Dante’s Purgatorio.
NYRB Poets
Pink Dust Ron Padgett 11th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781681379081 Wry and poignant reflection on ageing from one of America’s finest, most admired poets. Pulitzer Prize finalist Padgett has moved generations with his ability to instill wonder in the world.
Four Lectures Stephen Rodefer 25th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781681379326 Originally published in the 1980s, Rodferer’s four long poems are milestones in American avant-garde poetry. After more than 50 years out of print, the master’s magnum opus is available again.
O’Brien Press
Best-loved Irish Love Poems 3rd February, hb, £13.99, 9781788495585 Let Irish poets guide you through the longing of love unanswered, the joy of love won and the grief of love that is no more.
Parthian Books
Breaking a Mare Christina Thatcher 3rd April, pb, £10, 9781917140249 An investigation of silence, goodness and girlhood, Thatcher’s third collection invites readers into the barn, the sawdust mill, the rodeo arena and asks what breaks us and what makes us stronger?
Bathing on the Roof Tracey Rhys 3rd April, pb, £10, 9781917140485 Lively début from a winner in the Poetry Archive’s Now! WordView competition. Rhys’ first pamphlet, Teaching a Bird to Sing, was a judge’s favourite in the Michael Marks Awards.
Peepal Tree Press
The Beginning of a Journey Earl Lovelace 3rd April, pb, £10.99, 9781845235901 New collection draws together early poems written between 1956 and 1966. Readers will delight in Lovelace’s acute sense of poetry’s rhythms, and his stunning visual and aural imagery.
Picador
What John Cooper Clarke 13th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035033195 Astonishing selection from the Poet Laureate of Punk and the Bard of Salford.
But & Though Jake Hawkey 27th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035048106 Scintillating first outing meditating on love, parental addiction and loss.
Say Something Back and Time Lived, Without Its Flow Denise Riley 6th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035061105 Exacting meditations on loss, grief and life thereafter published together for the first time.
Orlam PJ Harvey 17th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529063127 Coming-of-age novel in verse voiced in the Dorset dialect and written by one of the most talented songwriters in Britain today.
When it Rained for a Million Years Paul Farley 13th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781035068678 Vibrant and alert collection from two- time winner of the Forward Prize.
Selected Poems Jen Hadfield 3rd April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781035032853 Career retrospective from one of Britain’s finest poets of the natural world.
Wellwater Karen Solie 24th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035048182 Sublime and urgent anthology from a premier voice in world poetry.
Water, Water Billy Collins
8th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035068708 Wondrous compendium focused on the joy and mystery of daily life from former US poet laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love.
Pippa Rann Books
Nissim Ezekiel: Poet & Father Kavita Ezekiel Mendosa, Vinita Agrawai (ed) 25th March, hb, £40, 9781913738235 For his birth centenary Ezekiel’s daughter presents memoirs and poems by a range of significant Indian poets.
Poems and Pictures
Listen Up Christina Gabbitas 21st March, pb, £8.99, 9781738507290, Poems by young people, created as part of a national initiative led by Gabbitas that addresses county lines exploitation and knife crime.
Polygon
Holy Boys Andrés Ordorica 3rd April, pb, £10.99, 9781846976889 Seeks to address the echoes of adolescence and the pains of living a life in the shadows.
Princeton University Press
Paradise Lost: A Biography Alan Jacobs 22nd July, hb, eb, £20, 9780691238579 The life and times of Milton’s epic poem about Satan’s revolt against God and humanity’s expulsion from paradise.
Poetry’s Data Meredith Martin 22nd April, pb, eb, £30, 9780691254678 Why literary studies must confront digital mediation.
Quercus
Climate Whitney Hanson 8th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529442243 Poems that explore change and the world around us from the author of Home and Harmony.
Renard Press
The Rambling Sailor Charlotte Mew
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