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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi Rumi Illustrated Amber Books, 14th June, hb, £29.99, 9781838863074 Rumi (1207-73) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theolo- gian and Sufi mystic. This handbound volume offers a selection of his poems.
Declan Ryan Crisis Actor Faber & Faber, 6th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780571371273 Long-awaited début collection from Faber New Poet.
Nellie Sachs,
Jean Boase-Beier (tr) Poems Arc, 1st April, pb, £7, 9781911469391 The German poet Nhas been much translated but this new version pres- ents a selection of her poems in a fresh light through contextualising notes and an informative introduction.
Ana Sampson Night Feeds and Morning Songs Trapeze, 2nd March, pb, £9.99, 9781398702417 Beautiful collection of poems about motherhood from acclaimed antholo- gist. The perfect gift for a pregnant friend or first- time mum.
Carole Satyamurti The Hopeful Hat Bloodaxe Books, 23rd February, pb, £10.99, 9781780376530 Final collection by one of Britain’s most respected poets. Satyamurti was preparing these poems for publication at the time of her death.
Tristram Fane Saunders Before We Go Any Further Carcanet Poetry, 29th June, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800173255 This first collection by New Poetries poet and Telegraph poetry editor is at once brilliantly witty in language and formal ambition and wryly dark in its themes.
Laura Scott The Fourth Sister Carcanet Poetry, 23rd February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800173057 Winner of the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize’s second collection opens joyfully, some- times painfully, to people, memory, other writers, the natural world and above all to love.
Faruk Sehic, SD Curtis (tr) My Rivers
Istros Books, 15th April, pb, £10.99, 9781912545339 An event in four cycles— the Loire, the Spree, the Drina and Beyond the River—using different poetic forms, from long narrative poems to free verse.
Solmaz Sharif Customs Bloomsbury Poetry, 27th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526655295 Devastating second collection by Sauthor of Look, a National Book Award finalist.
Ndaba Sibanda When Wealth Dissipated Like the Morning Dew Palavro, 31st July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912092444 Poetry that tackles topi- cal issues such as climate change, suicide, Covid and education. It also explores the art of writing, the concept of destiny and the experiences of struggle and victory.
Anne Stevenson Collected Poems Bloodaxe Books, 23rd February, pb, eb, £25, 9781780376516 Posthumous anthology is a remaking of Steven- son’s Poems 1955-2005 expanded to cover her final three books, Stone Milk, Astonishment and Completing the Circle.
Brian Swann Imago Johns Hopkins University Press, 23rd May, pb, eb, £16, 9781421445670 Exuberant collection of poems celebrating art, nature and humanity. In rich language and sharp detail it spans rural and urban, country and town, and foreign and domestic.
Kae Tempest Divisible by Itself and One Picador, 27th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529073119 Strong collection of poems from one of the UK’s most dynamic performers.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o The Perfect Nine Vintage, 8th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781784706784 Dazzling novel in verse reimagining the origin story of the Gikuyu people of Kenya from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls “one of the greatest writers of our time”.
Tayi Tibble Rangikura Penguin, 27th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781802060652 Maori mythology and endless summers: the
sparkling second collec- tion from a daring, new poetic voice.
Elizabeth Torres Lotería University of Arizona Press, 28th February, pb, £19.50, 9780816549603 Collection of deeply evocative coming-of- age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate expe- riences of displacement.
Paul Tran All the Flowers Kneeling Penguin, 4th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781802060072 Virtuosic début on rein- vention and rebuilding the self, on pain and triumph, on storytelling as survival.
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike There’s More University of Alberta Press, 16th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772126808 Umezurike navigates immigrant life with a multifaceted awareness of joy, melancholia, loss and hope, giving voice to marginalised citizens and seeing home as “anywhere we find some- thing to love”.
Michael Vince Back to Life Mica Press, 21st April, pb, £11, 9781869848330 Collection in three parts explores lockdown, bring- ing back to life lost inhab- itants of Greenwich, and recalling experiences of the poet’s years living in Greece.
Ocean Vuong Time is a Mother Jonathan Cape, 8th June, pb, eb, £12, 9781787333703 Highly anticipated collec- tion of poems from award-winning writer.
Damian Walford Davies Viva Bartali! Seren, 3rd July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727089 Inspired by the lyrical, mythic mode of Italian sports journalism from the 1930s to the ’50s, Viva Bartali! is a biography-in- verse of the iconic Italian cyclist Gino Bartali.
Charlotte Wetton Accessioning Emma Press, 12th June, pamphlet, eb, £7, 9781915628138 Pamphlet of poems about the stories we tell ourselves, the memories we construct and the ways we assign value to people and objects alike.
Lakdhas Wikkramasinha, Aparna Halpe (ed),
Michael Ondaatje (ed) Selected Poems NYRB Poets, 27th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781681377346 Bold and original poetry from a leading figure of an under-represented anglo- phone tradition. Wikkra- masinha is considered to be among Sri Lanka’s foremost 20th-century poets, fearlessly political and influential.
Nerys Williams Republic Seren, 27th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781726969 Tells the story of a young Welsh woman growing up in the 1980s and ’90s and maps the boom in in Welsh politics, culture and Cŵl Cymru.
Waldo Williams, Tony Conran (tr) The Peacemakers Y Lolfa, 28th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912631414 New edition includes some of Williams’ most celebrated poems. It comprises the Welsh- language originals plus parallel English translations.
William Carlos Williams, Christopher MacGowan (ed) Paterson Carcanet Classics, 30th March, pb, £20, 9781800173613 Widely regarded as a masterpiece of modern American poetry, Paterson is reissued as a Carcanet Classic.
William Scott Wilson, Steven Heine A Beginner’s Guide to Japanese Haiku Tuttle, 28th March, hb, £14.99, 9784805316870 Comprehensive introduc- tion to Japan’s best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. With free online audio.
Nicolai Zabalotsky, Dmitri Marin (tr) Columns Arc, 15th March, pb, £10.99, 9781911469155 Zabaltosky took the literary world of 1920s Russia by storm with his startlingly original poetry collection, Columns, which takes the reader on a strange circuit of the city of Leningrad.
Najwa Zebian Welcome Home Yellow Kite, 8th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529336535 From the celebrated poet, speaker and educa- tor comes a powerful blueprint for healing by building a home within yourself.
Emily Zobel Marshall Bath of Herbs Peepal Tree Press,, 6th July, pb, £9.99, 9781845235574 Poems that deal frankly with the fragilities of life and the possibilities of healing.
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Abbeville Press
A Humanist Vision Nina Rosenblum, Lisa Rosenblum 13th March, hb, £49.95, 9780789214607 First-ever publication of Naomi Rosenblum’s outstanding photography is both a fitting tribute to a pathbreaking scholar and a contribution to the photographic literature in its own right.
Abrams
Gray Malin: Coastal Gray Malin 25th May, hb, £35, 9781419764738 Malin’s freshest collection of aerial beach photogra- phy, highlighting coastal locations around the world.
Chronorama The Pinault Collection, Condé Nast Archive, Anna Wintour 30th March, hb, £60, 9781419766626 Unprecedented volume of photography from the Condé Nast archive, illustrating the history, art and fashion of its famous magazine brands.
ACC Art Books
Farmer Pang Xiaowei 8th May, hb, £45, 9781788841542 Curated selection of 160 images from Pang’s project celebrating China’s agricultural workforce.
Prince: Icon Iconic Images (ed), Steve Parke (ed) 10th April, hb, £50, 9781788841818 Sumptuous compilation of photographs of legend- ary singer-songwriter with portraits, album covers, performance and rehearsal shots, and rarely seen private moments.
Being Bardot 13th March, hb, £50, 9781788842013 Dedicated to the legendary actress and singer and includes many rare and unpublished photos from the archives of Douglas Kirkland and Terry O’Neill.
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