POETRY
photographic record of an often misunderstood country and its people.
V&A
Fragile Beauty Duncan Forbes (ed), Newell Harbin (ed), Lydia Caston (ed), Elton John, David Furnish 25th April, hb, £40, 9781838510466 From Goldin to
Mapplethorpe and Warhol this book showcases 150 incredible photographs collected by Elton John and David Furnish. With an afterword from Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Verso
Civil Imagination Ariella Aisha Azoulay 19th March, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781804292594 The Copernican Revolution in studying photography brings to light how images can both reinforce and resist power regimes.
Walther Konig
Robby Muller: Polaroid Andrea Muller, Bianca Stigter 22nd February, hb, £29.95, 9783753305271 Small-format, two-volume beauty, themed Exterior and Interior.
Workman Adult
Force of Nature Kate T Parker 21st March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781523505524 From the creator of Strong is the New Pretty this collection of photographs celebrates girls and women finding, using and amplifying their voices to empower themselves and the people around them.
Y Lolfa
Coal and Community in Wales Richard Williams, Amanda Powell 2nd February, pb, £14.99, 9781800995031 Press photographer Williams’ striking images and journalist Powell’s text provide an in-depth look at life in the South Wales coalfield before and after the 1984–85 miners’ strike.
Zuleika Monsieur
Patrick O’Higgins 16th May, hb, £75, 9781739821296 O’Higgins was best known for his memoir about Helena Rubinstein. Here
his lost photographs are reproduced and include many famous sitters in postwar Europe.
Poetry
28th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913268565 Mazey’s playful text art sequence follows Ghost through a hyperreal metropolis of both corpo- rate and eschatological peril.
Batsford Anthem Press
Sexual Violence and Literary Art Peter Robinson 4th June, hb, eb, £80, 9781785278853 Addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented and its creative transformations by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philo- sophical responses to them.
Apollo
Tiger Work Ben Okri 4th July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781804545447 Inspired by environmental activism, this new collec- tion blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.
Arachne Press
Byways Cherry Potts (ed) 20th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665876
Anthology of poetry and short fiction inspired by the places you can only reach on foot. Forty-four writers explore secret paths, ancient trackways, open ground and well- trodden urban shortcuts.
Joy//Us Jeremy Dixon (ed), Cherry Potts (ed) 17th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665890 LGBTQ+ poets celebrate queer joy, from big celebrations to small moments, sharing all that is best about their communities and lives.
Bad Betty Press
Are You There Samantha Fain 25th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913268541 Indiana poet’s début collection refracts contemporary melancho- lia into iridescent lyricism. In Fain’s haunting poetics, pop culture, faith, quan- tum physics and digital relationships collide in startling new language.
Ghost Lives Alex Mazey
100 Happy Poems Jane McMorland Hunter (ed) 9th May, hb, £12.99, 9781849948869 Joyful and diverse collec- tion of 100 poems provide a dose of happiness.
Black and White
The Book of Truths James Mooney 25th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781785305696 Captures the essence of what the Wandering Paddy has learned. This collection will inspire readers to find new ways to appreciate the beauty and fragility of life.
Bloodaxe
The Asking Jane Hirshfield 21st March, pb, £14.99, 9781780376790 Visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human, revealing complex truths in language luminous and precise.
Collected Poems Fleur Adcock 10th February, pb, £25, 9781780376837 Published on her 90th birthday, this first complete edition of Adcock’s poetry super- sedes her Poems 1960- 2000, with the addition of five later collections and 20 new poems.
Broadlands Matt Howard 27th June, pb, eb, £12, 9781780376882 Conservationist’s words are grounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of the Norfolk Broads, closely and thrillingly observed from real encounters by a former RSPB fieldworker.
Poems 2016-2024 JH Prynne 21st June, pb, £25, 9781780376929 Effectively volume two of Prynne’s retrospective Poems (2015) brings together the complete texts of 34 collections from the late and most productive period of his writing.
Holy Winter 20/21
Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale (tr) 21st March, pb, eb, £12, 9781780376950 Stepanova’s book-length poem was written in a frenzy during the pandemic in Russia and speaks of winter and war, of banishment and exile, of social isolation and existential abandonment.
Crystal Ellen Cranitch 25th April, pb, eb, £12, 9781780376974 Crystal traces the arc of Cranitch’s experience after discovering that her partner was addicted to crystal meth. It shows the devastating impact of living with a loved one who has utterly changed.
Soul Feast Neil Astley (ed), Pamela Robertson-Pearce (ed) 21st March, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377063 Companion anthology to Soul Food offers up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark times.
Tanya Brenda Shaughnessy 25th April, pb, £12.99, 9781780377087 America’s Shaughnessy weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors circling mysteries of friendship, love, art and loss.
Shadow Reader Imtiaz Dharker 23rd May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377094 Shot through with the dark thread of an unwel- come prophecy. The poems bind this looming curse to the colonisation of countries, the earth and its creatures.
Rhizodont Katrina Porteous 21st June, pb, eb, £12, 9781780377131 Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, Porteous explores social and environmental change, technological revolution, autonomous systems, AI and climate change in the Antarctic.
Bloomsbury Academic
Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament Victor H Mair (ed), Zhenjun Zhang (ed)
30th May, pb, eb, £21.99, 9781350337213 The first English anthology in the field includes annotated translations of 100 essential works.
Bloomsbury Poetry
Content Warning: Everything Akwaeke Emezi 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526661616 Fiercely contemporary collection renegotiates the contract between poet and reader in the light of this moment in human history. From the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji.
Girls That Never Die Safia Elhillo 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526665546 Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these threats might look like. By the author of The January Children.
I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It Sanah Ahsan 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526665867 Much-anticipated début collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize. A tender meditation on queerness and Islam.
Unsafe Karen McCarthy Woolf 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526666994 Third collection from firebrand poet, essayist and editor.
Bonnier
Every Day is a Fresh Beginning Aoibhin Garrihy 29th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804181317 Encouraging collection of poetry that inspires, delights and comforts.
Calon
Poems From the Soul M Wynn Thomas 29th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781837600113 Bringing together 12 of Wales’ best-loved hymns from the 18th to the 20th century. Poems from the Soul reveals the heart of a people’s poetry.
Canongate
With Love, Grief and Fury Salena Godden 2nd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805300267
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