Poetry
First UK publication of a key work of Hindi late Modernist poetry, this elusive, dreamlike and prophetic epic walks us through the ruins of history to question the future.
Arachne Press
Home is a Place That Visits Me Hannah Hull
25th September, pb, eb, £12, 9781917692007
Poetic narrative of the home, childhood, trauma and family through poems and monoprints, chosen for their often crude impression to indicate the effects of trauma.
August Series
100 Poems Liz Ison (ed) hb, £12.99, 97818373300 100 Poems to Help You Relax 9th October, 27 Soothing anthology of poems to reach for in stressful moments. 100 Poems to Grow Your Confidence Liz Ison (ed) 8th January, 34 Upbeat and empowering.
Bedside Companion to Folklore and Magic Jane McMorland Hunter (ed) 11th September, hb, £25, 9781849944984
A world of enchantment presented in poetry, prose, fact and fiction.
Baylor University Press
New Poems Rainer Maria Rilke, John Greening (tr) 15th November, pb, £25.99, 9781481323543
Poems that look both inward and outward and demonstrate a considerable variety. Tour-de-force works as well as simple pieces.
Good, Occasionally Rhyming Kathy Clugston, Rob Stepney
28th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781835983300
Selected poetry and writing about the Shipping Forecast on the 100th anniversary of the first BBC Broadcast.
Bad Betty
Woman: Plant: Language Agata Maslowska 25th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913268763
Dazzling debut that plays on the borders of language, landscape and life in all its forms.
Suburban Locust Antosh Wojcik 23rd October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913268787
Wojcik’s long- anticipated debut is an apocalyptic journey into the broken heart of familial dysfunction.
Batsford
An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year Jane McMorland Hunter
9th October, hb, £25, 9781837330010
Featuring everything from well-known classics to modern fresh takes.
138 Black and White
Burns for Every Day of the Year Pauline Mackay
6th November, hb, eb, £25, 9781785308598
Robert Burns on a wide-ranging journey of poetry, prose and song.
Blink
Joy Chose You Donna Ashworth 2nd October, hb, eb, £20, 9781785308451
Beautiful, colour- illustrated collection of best-loved poems of Sunday Times bestseller of Wild Hope.
Bloodaxe Books
Mute Tracey Herd 25th September, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377353
Traumatised voices are silenced or haunted in a stifling, claustrophobic place in Mute. Follows Not in This World, a PBS Choice shortlisted for the TS. Eliot Prize.
Lives of the Female Poets Clare Pollard 25th September, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377476
In these revealing portraits of women poets through the ages Pollard cocks a snook at
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
Dr Johnson’s all-male Lives of the Poets, chronicling her own life and theirs.
New Arcana Jessica Traynor 25th September, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377490
Irish poet’s fourth collection explores grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the tarot and Tim Burton movies.
A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus Selima Hill
23rd October, pb, eb, £14, 9781780377520
Hill’s 22nd collection presents 10 sequences of short poems, prose poems and short pieces on relationships and doings between people, animals and the world at large. Dogs especially.
Parch
Menna Elfyn 23rd October, pb, £12.99, 9781780377544
Translations from Welsh and poems written in English explores the many ways in which our world can so often feel parched of simple kindnesses.
The Grove of the Eumenides Tomas Venclova, Ellen Hinsey (ed), Ellen Hinsey (tr), Diana Senechal (tr), Rimas Uzgiris (tr)
20th November, pb, eb, £14, 9781780377599
Lithuanian affirms his place as one of Europe’s greatest living poets, the heir to Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Miłosz.
The Taste of Lightning Ivan V Lalic, Francis R. Jones (tr)
20th November, pb, eb, £14, 9781780377612
Lalic was one of 20th-century Yugo- slavia’s most crucial poets. His poetry is alive with seeing and feeling the world—a world of sun and wind, water and fire.
The Sight of Light The Sound of Clouds The Touch of Skin Pia Tafdrup, David McDuff (tr) 20th November, pb, £14.99, 9781780377629
Danish poet’s latest sequence of themed collections is a series of five books on the human senses, her Senses Quintet (2014-22). This compilation covers the last three parts.
Jug Band Jag Kit Wright
23rd October, pb, £12, 9781780377636
Wright’s vision of the world blends the sharply realistic with a distinctive brand of surrealism in this wonderfully spirited bout of poetry-making whose forms and themes are markedly diverse.
The Sky Around My Father Emilie Jelinek 25th September, Pamphlet, £7.50, 9781780377803
Work that charts the estrangement between a daughter and her charismatic and often terrifying father. Winner of the 2024 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition judged by Imtiaz Dharker.
Bloomsbury Continuum
How to Think Like a Poet Dai George 29th January, pb, £10.99, 9781399408318
How history’s most influential and inspiring poets, from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O’Hara,– can teach us to better understand the world.
Bloomsbury Poetry
Under the Blue Suzannah V Evans 11th September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781526677723 From the multi- award-winning poet a new collection of soaring lyricism and desire, exploring the act of care and the consequences of loving.
Maryville Joelle Taylor 6th November, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526680488
TS Eliot and Polari Prize- winning author of C+NTO & Othered Poems delivers an innovative collection exploring the scars, hopes, and potentialities of dyke counterculture and queer underground.
Bridge Logos
All Things Broken and Beautiful Julia Zwayne
1st October, pb, £13.99, 9781610369183
Collection of poems written for the broken-hearted.
Calder
Hometown and Other Poems Lyman Andrews
24th October, hb, £12.99, 9780714550978 Published here for the first
time, alongside the rest of his poetry, including some uncollected pieces.
Canongate Books
Poyums Annaw Len Pennie 25th September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781837263288
Fiercely honest collection from Sunday Times bestselling author and performance poet.
Castle Books
Our Hearts Entwined Agnes Hollyhock 22nd January, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781577155676
Love poems and quotes that explore the depths of love and longing through the words of gothic couples from literature and film.
Chartwell Books
The Odyssey Homer 7th August, hb, £14.99, 9780785846949
One of the greatest adventure tales in history, The Odyssey— Odysseus’s journey home after The Trojan War—is still a must- read. Newly designed, faux-leather edition.
Clemson University Press
Charles Reznikoff’s Verse (1894-1976) Xavier Kalck (ed), Naomi Toth (ed), Fiona McMahon (ed)
31st December, hb, eb, £110, 9781638041917
Decades of poetry across the 20th century that illustrate Reznikoff’s transnational significance.
Curbstone Press
Vulnerability Index Elizabeth Robinson 15th November, pb, £16.99, 9780810149205
Spare yet richly empathetic, these poems work to implicate the reader’s own vulnerability on every page.
Eye Books
Door to Door Poet Rowan McCabe 18th September, hb, £14.99, 9781785634345
Writing rhymes for strangers on any subject they choose, as featured on BBC Radio 4.
Faber & Faber
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, Bernard O’Donoghue (ed),
Dr Rosie Lavan (ed), Matthew Hollis (ed) 9th October, hb, eb, £40, 9780571340385
Definitive edition with illuminating critical notes, uncollected poems and a selection of previously unseen material.
New Cemetery Simon Armitage 25th September, hb, £14.99, 9780571357338
Fresh anthology by Poet Laureate.
Scanty Plot of Ground Paul Muldoon 11th September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571373444
Evergreen treasures and standout contemporary poems.
The Green Month Matthew Francis 23rd October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571394548
New versions of great Welsh medieval poet Dafydd ap Gwilym’s lyrics—intimate, urgent and timeless.
Dream Latitudes Alia Kobuszko 29th January, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571395446
Outstanding collection from an emerging poet unlike any other, this debut arrives with the clarity and immediacy of a lucid dream.
Namanlagh Tom Paulin 6th November, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571395842
Poet of Northern Ireland captures poignant memories and persistent histories.
So What Frederick Seidel 14th August, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571395958
Bristling collection from eminent American poet, hurtling into the 10th decade of his life and the sixth decade of an extraordinary career.
Stop All the Clocks WH Auden 20th November, hb, eb, £10, 9780571396825
The consummate poet of love and heartbreak. A selection of Auden’s best-known poems that give shape and expression to our strongest emotions.
Fitzcarraldo Goatsong
Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden (tr) 6th November, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804271896
Spanning 15 years of composition, Goatsong
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