POETRY
May Day Jackie Kay 25th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781509864836 Long-awaited collection from one of Britain’s finest living poets and a chronicle of activism in the UK over six decades.
Them!
Harry Josephine Giles 16th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035025213 Timely and innovative poetry collection from the winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award 2022.
Hold Your Own Kae Tempest 11th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035039173 Ambitious, multivoiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. Reissued as part of the Picador Collection, this is a riveting tale of youth, love, wealth, poverty and community.
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Feminine Gospels Carol Ann Duffy 8th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035038565 Dazzling, dashing collection from the former Poet Laureate, reissued in the Picador Collection.
Orlam PJ Harvey 18th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529063127 Remarkable coming-of- age tale by restless songwriter and poet and the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades.
Polygon
In a Time of Distance Alexander McCall Smith 7th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781846976605 Captivating celebration of place and people, animals and books. McCall Smith explores themes of friendship and love.
Princeton University Press
The Shield of Achilles WH Auden, Alan Jacobs (ed) 2nd July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780691218656 Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award– winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers.
Pushkin Press SERIES
Pushkin Classics pb, eb, £12.99, 9781 Outstanding classic poetry from around the
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world in a stylishly original series design. Change Your Life Rainer Maria Rilke, Martyn Crucefix (tr) 28th March, vol 2 782278580 Out of Chaos Comes Bliss Dylan Thomas, Cerys Matthews (ed) 1st February, vol 1 805331193
Quercus
Poems As Friends Michael Shaeffer, Fiona Bennett 9th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529432459 Nourishing collection of poems that have acted as friends to their readers.
Renard Press
The Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu 26th June, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781804471005 Although her legacy as a politician is more
enduring than as a poet, Naidu’s verse was highly acclaimed upon publication.
Blue Med
Simon Mundy 26th July, pb, eb, £10, 9781804471012 Monumental collection that brings together work published in five collections across five decades.
Salt
The Odyssey Complex and Other Poems David Briggs 15th July, pb, £10.99, 9781784633301 Midlife corollary to the Oedipus complex explores family, nostalgia and retreat, ageing and mortality, acts of memo- rial and the impulse towards hospitality.
Old Men Peter Daniels 15th April, pb, £10.99, 9781784633172 Explores gay liaisons and relationships as well as ageing and mortality. This is a dazzling collection filled with wit, humanity and unflinching scrutiny.
Seagull
In a Cabin, in the Woods Michael Kruger, Karen Leeder (tr) 7th March, hb, £14.99, 9781803093307 Poetic meditations and messages on nature and the nature of self, dispatched from quaran- tine. They originally appeared in the
Leaving the Hills Tony Curtis 15th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781781727423 From the Welsh moun- tains to Los Angeles a collection telling stories from everywhere. A great Welsh poet at his best.
A Darker Way Grahame Davies 15th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781781727515 Poems and songs that trace a hard-won but redemptive path between idealism and irony, failure and faith.
Smokestack
The Infinite Town Mark Robinson 1st February, pb, £7.99, 9781739173081 Exploring history, home, hurt and hope, Robinson’s search for the infinite possibilities of the every- day, of empathy and soli- darity, leads to his most intricately structured and musical collection yet.
Unselected Poems WN Herbert 1st February, pb, £7.99, 9781739473402 Uncollected poems by WN Herbert collated for the first time. An invitation to consider the less-travelled tracks, whether as writers or readers.
Love and War: Contemporary Kurdish Women Poets
The Lilliput Press
Under the Metal Man Joseph M Hassett 28th March, pb, £8, 9781843518846 Handsome volume pres- ents more than 20 images of book covers, poems and other works that reflect Sligo’s presence in the work of WB Yeats and his family.
The University Press of Kentucky
Makeshift Altar Amy M Alvarez 1st March, pb, £20, 9780813199030 The cultural, spiritual and place-based experiences of Afro-Caribbean and African American diasporic peoples explored in this haunting and emotionally charged collection.
Troubador
Forms From Chaos Ian Enters 28th March, pb, £9, 9781805143017 Potted and useful history of the sonnet which explores and demon- strates the structure of various verse forms.
University of Alberta Press
Northerny Dawn Macdonald
Süddeutsche Zeitung during the Covid pandemic.
Semiotext
Stubble Archipelago Wayne Koestenbaum 19th March, pb, £14.99, 9781635902068 Wild new adventures in word-infatuated flânerie from a celebrated literary provocateur.
Seren
East of the Sun, West of the Moon Taz Rahman 26th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727348 Rahman’s work contem- plates the contingencies of language as a structure through which we seek to know the world.
Cormorant Elizabeth Parker 26th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727362 Explores the image of the cormorant to tell stories about human and natural worlds, their losses and felicities.
Alan Dent (tr), Maram al-Masri (ed) 1st April, pb, £9.99, 9781739473426 Feminist, radical and internationalist, the poets in this collection draw on oral tradition and on song to articulate and cele- brate the lives of Kurdish women as daughters, mothers and fighters.
The Emma Press
In the Name of Red ZR Ghani 24th April, pb, eb, £7, 9781915628220 Début pamphlet of poems.
Makeover Laurie Bolger 14th February, pb, eb, £7, 9781915628244 Poems on girlhood, the body and working-class women.
Mother Night Serge Neptune 13th June, pb, eb, £7, 9781915628282 A poetry pamphlet by queer, neurodivergent poet.
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
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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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