POETRY HarperOne
Good Grief Brianna Pastor 9th May, hb, £12.99, 9780063359659 Expanded edition with more than 40 new works.
Harvill Secker
All the Good Things You Deserve Elaine Feeney 18th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781787304529 Feeney’s moving novel How to Build a Boat was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023.
Headline
Lvoe Ii Atticus 3rd May, hb, £16.99, 9781472293862 Astonishing follow-up to Lvoe.
Hodder Catalyst
I Wanted to Quit Too Hussain Manawer 19th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399705806 New poetry anthology from Sunday Times bestselling poet, mental health campaigner, performer and producer.
Hot Key
We Have Everything We Need to Start Again Koleka Putuma, Adriana Bellet (illus) 20th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781471413322 Groundbreaking collection for young people from an exceptional emerging talent. The perfect gift for fans of Rupi Kaur, Nikita Gill and Elizabeth Acevedo.
Liveright
The Diaspora Sonnets Oliver de la Paz 5th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781324095170 For fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang a corruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America.
Liverpool University Press
The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White Tim Fulford (ed) 1st April, hb, eb, £125, 9781802074703 First ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling poets of the 19th century.
SERIES Pavilion Poetry Matador
The Very Now Poems Jane Michelson Vuglar 28th February, pb, £7.99, 9781805141419 The Very Now Poems are exactly that: war in Ukraine, global warming, the cost-of-living crisis, a visit to A&E, stress, insomnia.
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Twofold Edward Carson 15th May, pb, eb, £15.99, 9780228020097 Negotiating surprising twinning combinations, comparisons and outcomes, these poems explore love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry and artificial intelligence.
1st April, pb, eb, £10.99, 97818020747 Seeks to publish the very best in contemporary poetry. 2024 marks our 10th year of the series with new collections added. Feeling All the Kills Helen Calcutt vol 3 27 Lapwing Hannah Copley vol 1 58 QuickFire, Slow Burning Janette Ayachi vol 2 72
Macmillan Collector’s Library
A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse Lennox Robinson (ed) 15th February, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035026579 Captivating and wide- ranging anthology of Irish poetry.
Poems to Swipe Right to Charlie Castelletti (ed) 23rd May, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035020492 Charming collection of poetry encapsulating the nuances of modern dating.
Poems on Nature Helen Macdonald, Gaby Morgan (ed) 9th May, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035026760 Delightful compendium centred on the natural world.
Poems for Travellers Paul Theroux, Gaby Morgan (ed) 9th May, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035026777 Classic travel poems introduced by novelist and prize-winning travel writer.
Whiny Baby Julie Paul 15th April, pb, eb, £15.99, 9780228020745 Inquisitive poems that stomp, giggle, throw a tantrum, embrace and wail.
Bridestones Miranda Pearson 15th April, pb, eb, £15.99, 9780228020776 Collection that builds and coheres to forge its own world: elegiac and symbolist, these poems contemplate death, art, desire and historical trauma.
Metromorphoses John Reibetanz 15th April, pb, eb, £15.99, 9780228020912 Poems that explore the changes that have affected Toronto’s people and places from the first Indigenous settlements to the present.
Mica Press
Tierce Vaughan Pilikian 20th March, pb, £10, 9781869848347 Lyric poetry by the documentary film maker (“Flight”) and author of Book of Days (Mica, 2018). “His poems are haunting, mysterious and memorable. They deserve to be sung”—Carol Satyamurti.
Speaking for Myself Margaret Eddershaw 20th March, pb, £8, 9781869848361 The poems in this pamphlet draw primarily on the words of patients and staff at the Royal Albert Psychiatric Hospital and of adults with learning difficulties who are living in the community.
Poundlandia AC Bevan 20th March, pb, £10, 9781869848378 From the founding of the city through subur- ban mock revival to the pastoral idyll of the countryside beyond, this is a pilgrimage to the dark heart of modern- day Britain.
NYRB Poets
Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire, George Dillon 19th March, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781681378282 Seminal, inspired translations of one of the greatest poets of all time, by Edna St Vincent Millay and George Dillon, now
available in a sleek new edition.
Three by Tsvetaeva Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrew Davis 9th April, pb, £14.99, 9781681378329 The cream of the legendary Russian dissident writer’s poems, two autobiographical and one based on a Russian folktale, now in an invigorating English translation.
Out-Spoken Press
Boiled Owls Azad Ashim Sharma 18th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781738412594 Sharma delves into the kaleidoscopic terrain of cocaine addiction to explore the strain it puts on his speaker’s interior, as well as family and those in close proximity.
Oxford University Press
Collected Poems Paul Valéry, Paul Ryan 4th July, vol 1, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780198820321 New translations bring together the most extensive collection of Valéry’s verse, from his adolescent years to the three great works of maturity to later verse.
Palavro
A Collection of Wildflowers Charly White 25th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912092291 Poems, thoughts, questions and simple words, written in random corners dotted about the world, that invite the reader to connect with nature.
Parthian
This Common Uncommon Rae Howells 4th April, pb, eb, £10, 9781914595905 When a local common is threatened with development one poet explores its secrets and discovers extraordinary natural treasures and the wonderful people fighting to defend them.
Picador
What John Cooper Clarke 8th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781035033164 Astonishing new collection from the Poet Laureate of Punk and the Bard of Salford.
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PREVIEWER’S PERSPECTIVE Previewer’s perspective
Spring 2024 looks set for a smorgasbord of fantastic fiction
There are plenty of big fiction titles to look forward to in the next six months including offerings from Costa Novel Award winner Colm Tóibín and prolific US author Percival Everett
Alice O’Keeffe Books editor
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elcome to the next six months in books! If I were to pick out just one “event” title from this preview, it would be Long Island (Picador),
the sequel to Colm Tóibín’s Costa Novel Award-winning Brooklyn. Based on the sales of the first book, which also benefited from the film adaptation starring Saoirse Ronan as Eilis Lacey, Long Island looks set to be that rare thing, a genuine literary bestseller. Another Irish writer surely destined for great things
is Kevin Barry with his fourth novel, The Heart in Winter (Canongate), a rebellious love story set in Bute, Montana, in 1891.
Expect a lot of fanfare to accompany the publication
of Percival Everet’s James (Picador), the US author’s 24th (yes, 24th!) novel, a retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the enslaved Jim. Pan Mac is in the process of publishing Everet’s key backlist titles on the Picador imprint, six titles will land just ahead of James. There’s a new state-of-the-nation opus from Andrew O’Hagan, Caledonian Road (Faber), and the wonderful David Nicholls is back with second-chance romance You Are Here (Sceptre). Also look out for sophomore novels from Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite (W&N), and Costa First Novel Award winner Ingrid Persaud who returns with The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh (Faber). To crime, and while the cosy end of things shows no sign of slowing sales—see the Reverend Richard Coles whose bestselling Canon Clement Mystery series continues with Murder at the Monastery (W&N)—there is also high-concept crime in the form of Stuart Turton’s The Last Murder at the End of the World (Raven Books), historical crime featuring Victorian con artists in Elizabeth Macneal’s The Burial Plot (Picador), and fans of Peter James’ long-running DS Roy Grace series will be intrigued by the standalone They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy’s Story (Macmillan). Will the disappearance of Mrs Grace finally be explained?
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Lastly, to paperbacks. And there are more than usual in this particular preview. I try very hard to pick out only the truly unmissable so perhaps I have failed to be discerning enough—or are there just loads of great ones? Among those to pile high: Eleanor Caton’s Birnam Wood (Granta), Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren (Vintage), Ann Patchet’s Tom Lake (Bloomsbury), Daniel Mason’s North Woods (JMP), which really deserves a big reader- ship in paperback, Curtis Sitenfeld’s Romantic Comedy (Penguin) and not forgeting Jilly Cooper’s glorious Tackle! (Penguin). Happy bookselling!
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