POETRY
1st February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804471425 Mew’s final, most powerful, verse in one volume. Love, nature and religion intermingle to paint pictures of pain, hope and a deep love of the natural world.
Sensitise Adam Lambe 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804471456 Astounding collection that maps out a city—and a self—being explored for the first time. Sensitise is honest, personal and vividly real.
A High Calling John Greening 21st May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804471494 Sharing what he has learnt during half a century of creative work, Greening gives insight into the life of a poet, playwright, editor, reviewer, teacher and performer.
Salt
A Full-on Basso Profondo Ken Evans 3rd February, pb, £10.99, 9781784633356 Addresses shared, topical challenges such as identity, gender roles, belonging and family at a time of shifting uncertainty.
Everything is Present Anna Woodford 12th May, pb, £10.99, 9781784633509 Mediation on the non-linear nature of time. A midlife coming-of-age tale, told in a topsy-turvy way, exploring sex, beginnings and ending with affirmative poems about life.
Seren Books
Cling Film Bethany Handley 24th February, pamphlet, £6, 9781781727683 Handley’s début explores existing as a young disabled woman in an ableist and inaccessible world. Challenging myths about disability, these formally inventive poems are striking, astute and devastatingly exact.
I Sing to the Greenhearts Maggie Harris 17th February, pb, £10.99, 9781781727713 Haunted by ghosts of colonial history, these poems challenge the dullness of pastoral with wild nature, presenting a world where both
ecological crisis and justice are at stake.
Significant Wow Emily Cotterill 17th February, pb, £10.99, 9781781727720 Delivered with dry wit and fizzing with inventiveness. Inhabiting urban, post- industrial spaces, Cotterill is a millennial voice laced with neo-punk spikiness.
Hotel Amour Deryn Rees-Jones 14th July, pb, £10.99, 9781781727843 Keenly anticipated follow-up to TS Eliot- shortlisted collection Erato. Beautifully written, original and experimental, this new collection is a tour-de-force.
Skein Press
The Oasis Charles Lang 25th February, pb, eb, £10, 9781915017161 Powerful portrait of the intersecting complexities of social class, masculinity and selfhood that interrogates the rural- urban divide in the face of ecological crisis. An uncompromising, fiercely authentic new voice.
Spidling
Life is a Rollercoaster John Eaton 5th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781915376954 Explores the human spirit to capture the raw and unfiltered emotions of life, loss, war and peace. These poems reflect on our existence and remind us of our capacity to endure.
Storey
The Gift of Animals Alison Hawthorne Deming, Robin Wall Kimmerer 24th April, hb, £20, 9781635868562 Unique collection of poems offers a range of perspectives on humans’ complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic.
The 87 Press
Self-mythology Saba Keramati 20th March, pb, £12.99, 9781068644665 Début explores multiraciality and the legacy of exile alongside the poet’s uniquely American origin as the only
child of political refugees from China and Iran.
Gestalt Karenjit Sandhu 13th February, pb, £12.99, 9781068644672 Poetic enquiry of the Panchayat, a collective of South Asian and Black artists and practitioners involved in communal archiving, artmaking and activism in Britain from 1988-2015.
Maafa Harmony Holiday 10th April, pb, £14.99, 9781068644696 Epic poem about reparations and the female body, undoing the erasure of trauma and of black femininity.
The Emma Press
Daughter of the Sun Rachel Spence 13th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781915628343 Collection of poems in two sections reimagining the Greek myth of Medea and personal sonnets exploring the author’s time caring for her mother.
Mate Arias Lewis Buxton 10th July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781915628404 A pamphlet of poems on male friendship.
The Irish Pages Press
Scotland Kathleen Jamie (ed), Don Paterson (ed) 1st April, pb, £14, 9781739090203 Another essential issue from Irish Pages, the island’s leading literary journal.
Tuttle
Soseki Natsume’s Collected Haiku Soseki Natsume, Erik Lofgren (tr) 15th May, hb, £16.99, 9784805318454 One thousand haiku collected in one volume for the first time.
Ugly Duckling Presse
Notes of the Phantom Woman John O’Kane (tr), Ekaterina Petrova (tr), Iana Boukova 15th April, pb, £20, 9781946433008 With a near-compulsive insistence, Notes of the Phantom Woman addresses the question of what reality is and how we construct it.
Mongrel Kampung Mikael Johani 15th April, pb, £20, 9781946433794 Mixed, mutated utterances of a heteroglossic headspace, a home at once familiar and foreign, backwards and forwards.
The Glass Clouding Abby Ryder-Huth (tr), Masaoka Shiki 15th April, pb, £20, 9781946604156 Wrestles with the limits of translation, using experimental forms, image, parallel texts and prose to question what trans- lation can and cannot make visible.
SERIES
Señal 15th April, pb,£14, 9781946604
Chapbook series for contemporary Latin American poetry in translation, troubling received ideas around what “Latin America” might represent. Against the Regime of the Fluent Rebeca Alderete Baca (tr), Natasha Tiniacos vol 23 224 Lemonade: A Paranormal Investigation Juliana Borrero (tr), Catalina Vargas vol 24 323
Black Box Named Like to Me Cal Paule (tr), Diana Garza Islas 15th April, pb, £20, 9781946604248 Challenges the limits of syntax and touches on questions of motherhood, the future, memory and the acquisition of language.
My Love is Water Rob Macaisa Colgate 1st May, pb, eb, £20, 9781946604347 In My Love is Water, a house party is the stage for the melodrama of unrequited love. An examination of how race and disability challenge our inclinations towards care.
University of Alberta Press
Python Love Shannon Arntfield 13th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772127959 Free verse poetry weaving together experiences of childhood abuse and birth trauma from the perspective of a medical doctor who is also a mother.
When Whales Went Back to the Water Lisa Baird 13th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772127966 Baird’s poems traverse joy, loss, parenting, domestic violence and isolation. Steely, tender, and sensual, this collection creates a reverent container for a broken world.
This Sweet Rupture Omar Ramadan 4th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772127973 Explores family secrets, diaspora, food culture and war’s impact on personal narratives while navigating cultural identity as a first-generation Lebanese Canadian.
Vintage Classics
Verbal Riddim Various, Oku Onuora, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, James Berry, Benjamin Zephaniah 5th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784878276 This is dub poetry: bold and musical, funny and furious. This collection brings together the work of nine inventive poets who defined and drove the dub poetry genre.
Wesleyan University Press
Ars Poeticas Juliana Spahr 4th February, hb, £19.50, 9780819501523 Lyrical meditations on writing poetry in a ime of ecological crisis and right-wing populism. Spahr writes of dark times, coral, the pop song’s possible liberation and the love of comrades.
The Museum of Unnatural Histories Annie Wenstrup 25th March, pb, £12.50, 9780819501820 Début poetry collection parses personal history in the space of an imagined museum, weaving together the lived experiences of an Alaskan Native person and the histories of colonial violence.
Five-paragraph Essay on the Body-mind Problem Rachel Trousdale 25th March, pb, £11.95, 9780819501851 This 2024 Cardinal Poetry Prizewinner explores how the interplay between the mind and body illuminates our most important relationships with other
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humans, wild spaces or works of art.
William Morrow
Poems of Parenting Loryn Brantz 10th April, hb, eb, £9.99, 9780063426436 Illustrated collection of tender, funny, radically honest poems about parenthood, based on a series of popular Instagram posts.
WW Norton
The Darkest Pastoral John Kinsella, Marjorie Perloff 13th May, hb, eb, £22.99, 9781324089292 One of Australia’s most treasured poets draws on the past to reckon with the perils of the present.
Yale University Press
Horace Peter Stothard 22nd July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780300256581 Biography of one of the most popular poets from antiquity reveals the little- known man behind the famous lines.
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