POETRY
against the war and Ukrainian refugees.
Mary-Alice Daniel, Rae Armantrout Mass for Shut-ins Yale University Press, 6th May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780300267990 hb, £30, 9780300268003 Dreamwork distilling the conflicting cultures, languages and religions that have made Daniel the writer she is.
Melissa Davies The Arctic Diaries Arachne Press, 27th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665746 A poetic project of pres- ervation and sense of place. Rich imagery and language dive deep into the lives of coastal communities in the far north of Norway. A début collection.
Ned Denny Ventriloquise Carcanet Poetry, 27th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800173316 Provocative, assured collection of voices and visions from the author of Unearthly Toys and B (After Dante).
Antero De Quental The Sonnets and Selected Poems University of Massachusetts Press, 1st February, pb, £15.95, 9781951470142 Grappling with metaphys- ical questions of suffer- ing, death and infinity, De Quental’s sonnets have been widely celebrated by writers and intellectuals around the world.
Maura Dooley Five Fifty-five Bloodaxe Books, 27th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780376578 A book of quizzical poems concerned with time and mortality that asks fundamental ques- tions about our lives. It is her sixth collection and her first since The Silvering.
Rita Dove Playlist for the Apocalypse WW Norton & Co, 28th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781324050438 At turns audaciously playful and grave, these are alternating poignant meditations on mortality and observations of injus- tice. Dove takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to failures of the human soul.
Carol Ann Duffy Grey: Elegies Picador, 2nd February, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529096880
Carol Ann Duffy Red: Politics 2nd March, 9781529096910 Carol Ann Duffy Green: Natural World 2nd March, 9781529096941 Carol Ann Duffy Violet: Love 2nd February, 9781529096972 Anthologies of moving poems collated by Duffy from her own archives.
Quraishiyah Durbarry I Was Born From a 3-D Printer Arc, 1st April, pb, £7, 9781911469360 Sequence of poems by Mauritian poet is a hard-hitting comment on the life and society of this so-called paradise island.
Glyn Edwards In Orbit Seren, 27th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781726945 On receiving news of a beloved teacher’s death, a man struggles with the loss of a relationship sustained by deep admi- ration and love.
Charlotte Eichler Swimming Between Islands Carcanet Poetry, 23rd February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800171374 Début collection ventures into northern islands to find new ways of talking about connection, silences and belonging. From a scholar of Old Norse and Viking literature.
Akwaeke Emezi Content Warning: Everything Bloomsbury Poetry, 16th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526658678 Fiercely contemporary collection renegotiates the contract between poet and reader in the light of this moment in human history.
Rowan Evans A Method, a Path Bloomsbury Poetry, 8th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526651228 Explodes the notion of translation, showing us the poem in a supple, malleable form.
Kit Fan
The Ink Cloud Reader Carcanet Poetry, 27th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800173149 Winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize explores illness, mortality and gay marriage, set against the larger chaos of Hong Kong and our broken planet.
Kate Foley Saved to Cloud Arachne Press, 23rd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665760
Poems about memory and looking back on a long life from the perspective of concern for the planet and the idea of giving up on traditional religion alto- gether. LGBT+ interest.
Michael Foley The Whole Thing Mica Press, 21st April, pb, £12, 9781869848323 Book-length poem on the perennial themes of time, mortality, love and mean- ing. By turns lyrical, apho- ristic, erotic and witty but always driving forward with characteristic energy and exuberance.
Zuzanna Ginczanka, Alissa Valles (tr) Firebird NYRB Poets, 18th July, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781681377308 Collected in English for the first time, these ener- getic, audacious poems by a recently rediscov- ered Polish writer, who was executed by the Nazis aged 27, are shin- ing examples of art as resistance.
Rebecca Goss Latch Carcanet Poetry, 25th May, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800173217 Exploration of what the Suffolk countryside means to one woman as she renavigates the landscape of her childhood, offering a unique set of encounters with the natural world.
Jorie Graham To 2040 Carcanet Poetry, 27th April, pb, £14.99, 9781800173163 Graham’s latest collection continues her urgent attention to climate change in an open letter to the future where 2040 is both the future and the event-horizon.
Sonja Ruth Greckol Monitoring Station University of Alberta Press, 16th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772126792 Greckol engages in a dense kind of thinking about belonging and responsibility to people and place. Her feminist, experimental lyric poetry embodies the passage of a damaged world across generations.
John Greening, Kevin J Gardner The Interpretation of Owls: Selected Poems, 1977-2022
Baylor University Press, 1st March, hb, £32.95, 9781481317344 Presents a representa- tive selection of one of the UK’s most prolific and respected poets.
Will Harris Brother Poem Granta Poetry, 2nd March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781915051042 Speculative-poetic work from the Forward Prize- winning, TS Eliot- short- listed author of Rendang.
David Harsent, Yannis Ritsos A Broken Man in Flower Bloodaxe Books, 23rd March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780376493 Versions of Yannis Ritsos (1909-90), one of the most significant Greek poets of the 20th century. Harsent’s selection covers poems written while Ritsos was in prison or under house arrest.
Sophus Helle Enheduana Yale University Press, 23rd May, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780300264173 The first complete transla- tion of the collected works of Enheduana, the earli- est known author in the history of world literature.
Selima Hill Women in Comfortable Shoes Bloodaxe Books, 23rd June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780376677 Hot on the heels of her previous book, Men Who Feed Pigeons, Hill’s 21st collection presents 11 contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women.
Matthew Hollis Earth House Bloodaxe Books, 27th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781780375625 Hollis evokes the land- scape, language and ecol- ogy of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life.
Nigel Jenkins Selected Poems Parthian Books, 5th June, pb, eb, £12, 9781914595226 Politics, sex, culture, litera- ture, society, education and love: the poems of a distinctive voice in a fully edited edition selected by Patrick McGuinness.
Meena Kandasamy Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You Atlantic Books, 4th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781838959029 Fierce but tender political
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