POETRY
Another book on the musical icon, produced in collaboration with key Bowie stakehold- ers, contains previously unseen images and revealing new text.
White Owl
REM Album by Album Max Pilley 30th March, hb, £20, 9781399017626 Comprehensive break- down and analysis of the band’s 31-year career.
White Rabbit
Buzzin’: The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday Bez 8th June, pb, £9.99, 9781399605083 Chief maraca-shaker and undisputed national treasure puts pen to paper.
Curepedia Simon Price 27th July, hb, £30, 9781474619325 Playful literary biography of the Cure in the form of an A-Z of the band. For trainspotters and casual fans alike.
Roots, Routes and Revolutions Vivien Goldman 22nd June, hb, £22, 9781399601740 No information at time of going to press.
This Woman’s Work Various 2nd March, pb, £9.99, 9781474621496 A collection of essays about the female experi- ence in music by some of the most intelligent and famous writers of the moment.
Ten Thousand Apologies Adelle Stripe, Lias Saoudi 23rd February, pb, £10.99, 9781474617857 The story of one of the most controversial cult bands of the moment, Fat White Family, championed and reviled in equal measure.
Lightning Striking Lenny Kaye 11th May, pb, £12.99, 9781474615099 Insider’s take on the evolution and enduring legacy of the music that rocked the 20th century.
Wayward Vashti Bunyan 6th April, pb, £9.99, 9781474621953 The life story of the young musician who gave up everything and everybody in a journey that would
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lead to her 1970 album Just Another Diamond Day.
Paper Cuts Ted Kessler 20th July, pb, £10.99, 9781474625548 The story of Britpop and its aftermath, told through the eyes of a music editor.
Access All Areas Barbara Charone 25th May, pb, £9.99, 9781474622271 Memoir of the writer and music PR legend.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Foundations of Modern Harmony Karel Janecek, Jana Skarecky (tr), Anne Hall (tr) 1st February, pb, £57, 9781771124706 First published in 1965, Janecek’s work, translated into English for the first time, presents a theory of chord quality in atonal context.
The Contemporary Leonard Cohen Joel Deshaye (ed), Kait Pinder (ed) 1st February, hb, £85, 9781771125611 Essay collection on Cohen’s work organised by the concept of “the contemporary” which helps to explain Cohen’s staying power and existential depth.
Yale University Press
Schubert Lorraine B Bodley 11th July, hb, eb, £30, 9780300204087 Insightful biography of the great composer reveals his complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius.
A Little History of Music Robert Philip 11th April, hb, eb, £15.99, 9780300257748 Lively guide to music around the world from prehistory to the present.
Y Lolfa
Braids of Song Mari Morgan 30th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800993372 Memoir of four musicians who left Wales for the US: Joseph Parry, Daniel Protheroe, Marie Novello and the author. What is it to be a creative immigrant in America?
Poetry
Sam Adams Letters From Wales Parthian Books, 3rd April, pb, eb, £15, 9781914595073 Landmark volume collects 25 years of letters on poets and poetry written by Adams to PN Review. Introduced by Jonathan Edwards, foreword by Michael Schmidt.
Kaveh Akbar (ed) The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse Penguin Classics, 25th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780241391594 Exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, writ- ten by poets around the world from antiquity to the present.
AJ Akoto Unmothered Arachne Press, 25th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665807 Exploring the mythology and realities of maternal influence, this début collection from Black British poet asks: when is a mother a myth and when is she a monster?
Jane Aldous More Patina Than Gleam Arachne Press, 30th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665784 Seventy poems to mark Aldous’ 70th year. This moving collection reflects on her personal history alongside wider LGBT+ experience. Firmly rooted in Edinburgh and inspired by life there.
Jason Allen-Paisant Self-portrait as Othello Carcanet Poetry, 30th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800173101 Second collection from the 2022 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize winner reimagines Shakespeare’s “Othello” for the modern age, intertwining the identities of ‘immigrant’ and ‘Black’.
Deborah Alma Nature Poems HarperCollins, 13th April, pb, £9.99, 9780008596026 In excess of 100 poems about Britain’s nature in a beautifully illustrated National Trust book to treasure.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
Anastacia-Renee Side Notes From the Archivist Amistad, 27th April, pb, £12.99, 9780063221710 Visual and textual record of the expansiveness of Black femme lives in a five-part retrospective that traverses time, space and reality, solidifying her as a funkadelic and formi- dable feminist voice.
Antonella Anedda, Susan Stewart (tr), Patrizio Ceccagnoli (tr) Historiae NYRB Poets, 16th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781681376967 Prize-winning collection of new poems drawn between natural and human history, private life and death, and about the crises of our century. From an acclaimed Italian poet.
Simon Avery (ed) Hand in Hand With Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry Macmillan Collector’s Library, 25th May, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529092660 Electrifying selection through the ages, edited by a specialist in queer history and culture.
Megan Barker Kit Cheerio, 6th July, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781800816459 A story of loss, friend- ship and love told in swirling, impressionistic prose-poetry.
Charles Baudelaire, Richard Sieburth Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed Yale University Press, 14th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780300270495 The first English collec- tion of the late poetry and prose fragments of liter- ary icon.
Julia Bell Hymnal Parthian Books, 3rd April, pb, eb, £9, 9781914595110 Visiting Aberaeron in the 1960s, Bell’s father heard a voice directing him to minister to the Welsh. This unique memoir in verse tells a story of religion, sexuality and family.
Liz Berry
The Home Child Chatto & Windus, 2nd March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781784742683 Inspired by a true story, a beautiful portrait of a child far from home.
Joe Bishop Indie Rock
University of Alberta Press, 16th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772126785 Candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician’s life in Newfoundland and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD and trauma. An artist’s honest and contempo- rary coming-of-age story steeped in musicality.
Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe Nomenclature Penguin Classics, 1st June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780241639795 Trenchant, lyrical and breathtaking in its cine- matic sweep, the first UK poetry publication by a Canadian national treasure.
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Twelve Words for Moss Allen Lane, 27th April, pb, eb, £16.99, 9780241556832 Moving tale of recovery and reconnection and an immersive journey through British wetlands.
CAConrad The Book of Frank Penguin, 25th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781802062304 Visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetry.
CA Conrad You Don’t Have What It Takes to Be My Nemesis Penguin, 25th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781802062458 Captivating, original call for creative freedom from one of the most singular poets of our time.
Rachel Carney Octopus Mind Seren, 3rd July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727102 Beautifully written and carefully observed, Octo- pus Mind explores the desire to understand and be understood by ourselves and others in a complex world.
Zakia Carpenter-Hall Into the Same Sound Twice Seren, 24th April, pamphlet, £6, 9781781727058 With vivid and resonant imagery, Carpenter-Hall considers how human beings interact with nature and celebrates human resilience.
Christopher Childers (ed) The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse Penguin Classics, 4th May, hb, eb, £40, 9780241567449 Newly translated accord- ing to a scheme of stag- gering ambition, an
anthology unlike any now available.
Jane Clarke
A Change in the Air Bloodaxe Books, 25th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780376592 Clarke’s third collection is far-reaching yet precisely rooted in time and place, exploring how people, landscape and culture shape us. These are love poems to our beautiful, fragile world.
John Clarke Boy Thing Arc, 1st April, pb, £7, 9781911469339 Intimate account of the poet’s childhood in Cornwall, its pains, plea- sures and experiments described with a clarity that remains with the reader long after the book is closed.
Lucille Clifton Blessing the Boats Penguin Classics, 2nd March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780241609019 Award-winning collec- tion from one of Ameri- ca’s most distinguished 20th-century poets.
Rachael Clyne You’ll Never Be Anyone Else Seren, 24th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727034 Explores Jewish and lesbian identity, tracing coming-of-age through to the experiences of ageing.
Charly Cox Nobody Asked for This HQ, 2nd February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008591601 Gorgeous collection bring- ing together the collected works of bestselling poet for the very first time.
Aimé Césaire, John Berger (tr), Anna Bostock (tr) Return to My Native Land Penguin Classics, 29th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780241535394 “The undisputed master- piece of negritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism”—the Guardian.
Lucy Rose
Cunningham (illus), Anthony Barnett (tr), Osip Mandelstam Whoever Has Found a Horseshoe Allardyce, Barnett, 31st March, pb, £15, 9780907954675 Centenary presentation of a long poem published in Moscow in 1923. Part of the proceeds from sales is given to TrueRussia. org in support of Russians
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