Poetry
centuries of poetic tradition and firmly establishes darío as one of Mexico’s most daring poets.
My Love Is Water Rob Macaisa Colgate 1st November, hb, £20, 9781946604347
Judas Goat Gabrielle Bates 24th October, pb, £14.99, 9781068751523
Bates’ electrifying début questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. Collection wrestles with betrayal, forced obedience, violence and young womanhood.
Something About Living Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 4th December, pb, £14.99, 9781068751561
Winner of the 2024 US National Book Award for Poetry explores Palestinian life through the lens of American language to reveal a legacy of obfuscation and erasure.
The Emma Press
Masters Mark Ward 9th October, pamphlet, £7.99, 9781915628442
Poems written in response to the paintings of dead male queer painters.
Troubador
Pausing With a Poem Claire-Louise Price 28th September, pb, £8.99, 9781836284482
Saints of Little Faith Megan Pinto 28th November, pb, £14.99, 9781068751547
Meditative trans- formations engage with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence and mental illness.
From the author of Walking with Angels, written to encourage reflection on the fleeting moments of magic within our lives.
Tuttle
One Hundred Poems From Old Japan Michael Freiling (tr), Fujiwara no Teika 26th September, hb, £16.99, 9784805319239
Japan’s most celebrated anthology of poetry in a new translation of the Hyakunin Isshu.
Ugly Duckling Presse
Footprints Es Lv 1st November, hb, £20, 9781946433954
The Nightmare Sequence Omar Sakr, Safdar Ahmed (illus), George Abraham
31st October, pb, £14.99, 9781068751554
Searing response to the atrocities in Gaza. Heartbreaking and humane, this is an insightful work that also considers how art is complicit in empire.
Autumn/Winter 2025
Methodical, restrained and intimate, Es Lv’s Footprints is an account of worlds that have existed and worlds we can write into existence.
Lantana or, the Indissoluble Exhalation Kit Schluter (tr), bruno darío
1st November, hb, £22, 9781946604163
Kaleidoscopic assemblage of texts that experiments with
At a house party with as many antipsychotics as party drugs Danilo— schizophrenic and heartbroken—is tracing the disintegration of a recent relationship.
Phantom Limbs
Jein Han (tr), Lee Min-ha 1st November, hb, £20, 9781946604354
Critically lauded for its visceral imagery and world-building through wordplay, this collection of surreal poems reminds readers that poems are spells and incantations.
The Utopians Grace Nissan 1st November, hb, £20, 9781946604361
Built around language from Thomas More’s Utopia, this invents a new world from the pieces of the old one to formally explore the contradictions of liberation.
Exercises 1950–1960 Spring Ulmer (tr), Yannis Ritsos
1st November, hb, £20, 9781946604422
Ritsos wrote this after being tortured during the Greek Civil War. Incredibly, the poems are filled not with bitterness but with amazement.
The Hand of the Hand Laura Vazquez, Lénaïg Cariou (tr), Shira Abramovich (tr)
1st November, hb, £20, 9781946604453
By turns lyrical and absurd, The Hand of the Hand explores the mystery and strangeness of what it means to be both speech and body, tongue and dirt.
University of Hawai’i Press
Kani Ka ‘Opala: How Can Garbage Sing? Benjamin Fairfield 30th September, hb, £21.99, 9798880700615
Hands-on exploration of music made from rubbish.
University of Pittsburgh Press
The Same Man Bobby Elliott 9th September, pb, £16, 9780822967491
Explores love, memory and fatherhood through poems that confront past wounds and the complexities of new life.
Wayne State University Press
The Collected Works of Ruth Whitman Ruth Whitman, Jennifer Kronovet, David Houghton (ed)
2nd December, hb, £84, 9780814351246
Firmly positions Whitman as a necessary and radical voice within the American poetry canon.
Wellfleet Press
The Heart of Rumi Rumi, Nader Khalili (tr) 20th November, hb, £20, 9781577155508
Gorgeous collection of over 250 poems from the catalogue of Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi.
Wesleyan University Press
Poasis II Pierre Joris 5th August, pb, £18.50, 9780819501950
Shape-shifting poems range widely across time, place and culture as they address subjects ranging from 20th-century disaster to the meditations of 10th-century revolutionary poet.
Lola the Interpreter Lyn Hejinian 14th October, pb, £13.95, 9780819501974
Prose poem in which an ‘I’ and a series of quasi-characters interpret one another and their lives.
I Ask My Mother to Sing Li-Young Lee, Oliver Egger (ed)
19th August, pb, £5.95, 9780819502032
Five decades of poetry about Lee’s mother and the many meanings of motherhood.
To See Yourself as You Vanish Andrea Werblin Reid
9th September, hb, £19.95, 9780819502070
Unsparingly brave poems about Reid’s experience of ovarian cancer.
Soon and Wholly Idra Novey 5th August, pb, £12.50, 9780819502117
First collection in a decade. Brings a lyric intimacy to the extremes of our era.
Room Swept Home Remica Bingham-Risher 26th August, pb, £13.50, 9780819502131
A magnifying glass to the line between the private and public, the investigative and the generative, the self and those who came before us.
William Morrow
The New Book Nikki Giovanni 9th October, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780063447523
Extraordinary final collection and a landmark of American literature speaks to the fury of our current political moment while reflecting on the tragedies and triumphs of Giovanni’s early life.
WW Norton
The Innocents of Florence Joseph Luzzi 28th November, hb, eb, £23, 9781324065784
How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionised childhood education amid the splendor of Renaissance art.
Razzle Dazzle Major Jackson 5th September, pb, £13.99, 9781324105138
“The whole world is in these poems”—David Kirby, New York Times Book Review. Exuberant collection of two decades of Jackson’s poetry.
Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly Stanley Plumly, David Baker (ed), Michael Collier (ed)
26th September, hb, eb, £29.99, 9781324105930
One of the most celebrated poets of his generation and a master of the lyric poem in its richest, most flexible registers.
Life on Earth Dorianne Laux 1st August, pb, £12.99, 9781324110354
Pulitzer Prize finalist returns with a com- passionate volume that celebrates the imperfect miracle of humanity.
Yale University Press
Stolen Flower Irma Pineda, Wendy Call (tr)
27th January, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780300282481
From a trailblazing poet a trilingual narrative in verse that bears witness
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to a devastating crime and testifies to the power of collective defiance.
Catullus: Selected Poems Gaius Valerius Catullus, Stephen Mitchell (tr)
6th January, pb, £12.99, 9780300285475
Musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries.
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