POETRY
collection that asks how to express the fullness of identity and desire in the face of a hostile state.
Nicholas Kay The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry Dover, 31st March, pb, £5.49, 9780486849287 Selections from classic to contemporary authors including Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Emily Dick- inson, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Yeats and others.
Lisa Kelly The House of the Interpreter Carcanet Poetry, 27th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800173125 This second collection is a plea for a broader understanding of how we communicate and embrace diversity and explores how oppres- sion of those considered “other” has parallels with rising fascism.
Majella Kelly The Speculations of Country People Penguin, 6th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781802061727 Astonishing poetry début exploring hidden histo- ries, mythical landscapes and self-discovery in the face of limits on women’s bodily autonomy.
John Kinsella The Pastoraclasm Salt, 15th March, pb, £10.99, 9781784632847 Departing from Virgil’s Eclogues, The Pastora- clasm is an urgent envi- ronmental address to humans, nature and vege- table gardens.
Nick Laird Up Late Faber & Faber, 1st June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571378678 Powerful new collection from one of our lead- ing contemporary poets reflects the strange and chaotic times we live in.
Vanessa Lampert Say It With Me Seren, 24th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727010 This wry, candid voice highlights remarkable stories of modern domes- tic life concerning love, parenthood, loss, memory and family.
VR Lang, Rosa Campbell (ed) Selected Poems Carcanet Classics, 27th July, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800173378 The dramatic, eccentric,
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startling poetry of VR “Bunny” Lang, Frank O’Hara’s contemporary and friend, is rediscovered and in print for the first time since 1975.
Iona Lee The Past is Just a Tale We Tell Polygon, 6th July, pb, eb, £10, 9781846976322 Lee’s début collec- tion playfully toys with thematic devices and charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood in this entertaining poetic exploration.
Yang Lian, Brian Holton A Tower Built Downwards Bloodaxe Books, 23rd March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781780376431 Yang Lian’s book is rooted in his experience of the historical retrogression of Hong Kong, the disaster of Covid-19, and the global spiritual crisis. With an Ai Weiwei cover.
Adam Lowe Patterflash Peepal Tree Press,, 1st June, pb, £9.99, 9781845235598 Connects Lowe as a wry, humane observer of Manchester’s gay scene, as actor in and narrator of his own dramas, perform- ing, exulting and suffering in a range of guises.
Eli Mandel The Grid Carcanet Poetry, 27th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800173293 In poems and translations, this début from poet and psychoanalyst in training tells a highly unusual set of stories about the end of the world, ancient and modern.
Cynthia Manick No Sweet Without Brine Amistad, 25th May, pb, £12.99, 9780063244306 Invoking the enduring qualities of Rita Dove’s poetry with breathtaking lyricism that personifies a narrator’s love for them- selves and their culture through fresh observa- tions and bitter truths.
Juan Martinez Extended Stay Te University of Arizona Press, 1st February, pb, £23.95, 9780816547975 Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the undocu- mented Latinx experience and capitalism.
HJ Massingham Poems About Birds
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
Macmillan Collector’s Library, 30th March, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529096262 Annotated gift edition of the 1922 avian anthology.
Airea D Matthews Bread and Circus Picador, 8th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035000821 Virtuosic, formally adept and often deeply affecting memoir-in-verse from a winner of the prestigious Yale Younger Poet’s Prize.
Karen McCarthy Woolf (ed), Mona Arshi (ed) Nature Matters Faber & Faber, 15th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571370283 Vital anthology redefines what a nature poem can and should be.
Patrick McGuinness Blood Feather Jonathan Cape, 4th May, pb, eb, £12, 9780224098311 Clear-sighted, intimate collection from the author of Other People’s Coun- tries and Throw me to the Wolves.
Ana McLaughlin The Book of Tree Poems Laurence King, 6th April, hb, £14.99, 9781399609098 The 60 poems in this beautifully illustrated anthology celebrate our connection to the trees that we encounter every day. The perfect gift for nature lovers.
Andrew McMillan (ed), Mary Jean Chan (ed), Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest et al 100 Queer Poems Vintage, 1st June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529115338 Luminous anthology of 100 queer poems curated by two prize-winning stars.
Jane McMorland Hunter A Nature Poem for Every Spring Evening Batsford, 16th February, hb, £14.99, 9781849948173 Sublime bedside compan- ion to enjoy as the frost melts and the days grow longer. Featuring 91 invigorating nature poems from some of our most popular poets.
Momtaza Mehri Bad Diaspora Poems Jonathan Cape, 6th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781787334373 Dazzling and much- awaited début collection from a remarkable voice.
Rose Milligan, Hayley Wells (illus) Dust If You Must Souvenir Press, 2nd March, hb, eb, £7.99, 9781800814868
Lovely illustrated poetry gift book about making the most of the time we have.
Maggie Millner Couplets Faber & Faber, 2nd March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780571376711 Electrifying love story about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of- age, and coming-undone.
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Accordion Books Jackie Morris Unbound, 13th April, fold- out, £12.99, 97818001820 Exciting new series of illustrated folding gift books. Fox 42 Otter 59
Andrew Motion New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 Faber & Faber, 18th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571338559 From an extraordinary poetic career, these works offer intimate reflections on memory and the cost of human experience.
Eileen Myles A Working Life Grove Press, 1st June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781804710333 The latest collection from Myles.
Daljit Nagra Indiom Faber & Faber, 4th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571372256 East-meets-West hybrid work combines playful cavorting with serious comment.
Morgan Harper Nichols You Are Only Just Beginning Zondervan Gift Books, 30th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780310460749 From bestselling author and artist, this illustrated collection empowers read- ers to embrace their next adventure with confidence and grace.
Barney Norris Ghost Music Salamander Street, 4th April, pb, £8.99, 9781914228803 Landscape and memory interweave in this compendium that skims like a stone over Wales and England, loss and tragedy, family and time.
MD Herter Norton (tr), Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet WW Norton & Co, 23rd June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781324050728 Norton Centenary Edition brings Rilke’s enduring wisdom about life, love
and art to a new genera- tion in the translation that first introduced him to the English-speaking world.
Gilles Ortlieb, Patrick McGuinness (tr), Stephen Romer (tr) Selected Poems Arc, 1st April, pb, £11.99, 9781911469513 Moroccan poet Ortlieb’s work is enigmatic, rest- less, preoccupied with the world of the imagination and full of contradictions. Is the world a mirror or a lamp?
Ovid, Stephanie McCarter (tr) Metamorphoses Penguin Classics, 2nd February, hb, £32, 9780525505990 Bold, transformative new translation of Ovid’s classic.
Ness Owen Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim Parthian Books, 3rd April, pb, £9, 9781913640972 Owen’s second collec- tion explores what it is to subsist with whatever the tides bring, poems that journey from family to politics, womanhood and language.
Geoffrey Philp Archipelagos Peepal Tree Press,, 16th March, pb, £9.99, 9781845235505 Philp’s powerful and elegant poems search for a response to the climate crisis embedded in the struggles for social justice and overcoming the malignancies of empire and capitalism.
Jacob Polley Material Properties Picador, 16th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035000081 A searching and philo- sophical collection from the TS Eliot Prize-winning author of Jackself.
Maya Popa Wound is the Origin of Wonder Picador, 8th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035017386 Major new young US poet joins the Picador Poetry imprint.
Fabio Pusterla, Will Schutt (tr, ed) Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems Princeton University Press, 11th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780691245096 Award-winning new trans- lations of a major contem- porary Italian poet.
Claudia Rankine Plot
Penguin, 30th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781802062540 Breathtakingly original exploration of preg- nancy and childbirth by the acclaimed author of Citizen.
Vidyan Ravinthiran (ed), Seni Seneviratne (ed), Shash Trevett (ed) Out of Sri Lanka Bloodaxe Books, 22nd June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781780376738 First ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry features more than 100 poets writing in English, or in trans- lation from Tamil and Sinhala. Highlights a long-neglected national literature.
Yvonne Reddick Burning Season Bloodaxe Books, 25th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781780376455 About fire and survival, climate change and nature’s defiance. Reddick’s début combines poems with nature diaries and lyric essays tracing an intriguing family history in the oil industry.
Christopher Reid Toys / Tricks / Traps Faber & Faber, 2nd Febru- ary, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571376605 Costa Award-winning poet’s ingenious new collection is an investiga- tion and test of Word- sworth’s famous adage, “the child is father of the man”.
Nick Ripatrazone The Habit of Poetry Fortress Press,U.S., 9th May, hb, eb, £19.99, 9781506471129 Brings together the work of mid-20th-century American nuns to reveal a notable Catholic liter- ary renaissance of women religious poets.
Toby Martinez de las Rivas Floodmeadow Faber & Faber, 6th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571376438 New collection from Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, an original, distinc- tive voice who stands comparison to the great visionaries of the past.
Antony Rowland Caldebroc Arc, 1st February, pb, £10.99, 9781911469315 Drawing on the myths and magic of the Yorkshire and Lancashire of his youth, Rowland weaves a series of poems that are both intriguing and compelling.
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