Poetry
Poetry that inhabits a world that is strange, unsettling and edged with danger. This retrospective draws upon her three collections of Kiss, plus a new collection, Afterlife.
Melete Jennifer Lee Tsai 21st May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377575
Debut explores Tsai’s British Chinese family history, intergenerational trauma, love, loss and belonging. Interweaves narratives of memory, migration and mysticism across Liverpool, China and Hong Kong.
Jiving With Wasps Rita Ann Higgins 26th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781780377643
Draws on collections from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024).
Ethnology Cathy Galvin 26th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377728
Puts the mystical cry for the dead of Galvin’s Irish-speaking ancestors in the centre of the poetry to reclaim place, people and language and create a bridge between our times and a Connemara community.
Crowd Voltage John McCullough 26th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377810
Addresses yearnings for community. Engaging with working-class and queer experiences, the poems move between solitude and togetherness, haunted by ghosts from history.
History of the Child Penelope Shuttle 26th February, pb, eb, £14, 9781780377858
Shuttle’s 14th collection is a highly evocative exploration of child- hood, memory and imagination that blends personal and historical perspectives, including parenting, grief, nature, emotional recovery and connections to the past.
Life Immediately Lily Blacksell 26th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377872
Pacy debut contains all the preoccupations of Blacksell’s work, from womanhood to music to the natural world and our calamitous dealings with it.
Egrets, While War Tishani Doshi
Spring/Summer 2026
21st May, pb, eb, £14, 9781780377896
Doshi’s fifth collection navigates the deep entanglements between environmental loss, ancestral memory, the slow transformations of ageing and the devastations of war.
The Intentions of Thunder Patricia Smith 21st May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781780377919
Hailed as the heir to Gwendolyn Brooks, Smith is one of the foremost Black women poets now writing in America, commanding both stage and page with equal power.
The Tumbling Paddy Frank Ormsby 25th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781780377933
Ormsby’s eighth anthology is a playful book which constantly surprises with serious themes, including how people have lived through history in Ireland and in wartime.
Bloomsbury Education
100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Poetry Adam Bushnell, Frankie O’Reilly
23rd April, pb, eb, £15, 9781801997874
Treasure trove of creative poetry activities. Helps boost literacy, creativity and confidence with quick, engaging ideas for teaching and writing poetry across the curriculum.
Bloomsbury Poetry
Haunting the Black Air Anthony Joseph 9th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781526683380
From the TS Eliot Prize-winning author of Sonnets for Albert comes a dextrous collection spanning the emotional spectrum of unabashed joy and crippling grief.
Unsafe Karen McCarthy Woolf 12th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781526666994
Collection number three from firebrand poet, essayist and editor whose Bittersweet and Kin introduced a generation of readers to Black British poets in the 1990s.
Broken Sleep Books
P a u s E. JR Carpenter
1st February, pb, £12.99, 9781917617567
Expansive meditation on land, language and attention, unfolding through the sensory and political textures of Treaty 6 Territory in Canada.
Alanis Morissette Jake Wild Hall 1st February, pb, £12.99, 9781917617574
Sprawling, tender and formally inventive collection that weaves fatherhood, friendship, grief and masculinity into a shifting, polyphonic tapestry.
55 Devotionals (Against Erasure) Andrew McDonnell
1st February, pb, £12.99, 9781917617581
The metaphysical prose poems in this collection seek to create a space for strangeness and joy and aim to prevent the erasure of working- class experience.
Bertha Comes Down Megan Pattie 28th February, pb, £12.99, 9781917617635
Collection steeped in metamorphosis, haunting and quiet resistance.
Good Ground Olly Todd 28th February, pb, £13.99, 9781917617642
Sharply observed selection blends memoir, cultural commentary and lyrical digression with a skater’s eye for momentum and terrain.
Fragile July Oscar Nearly 31st March, pb, £13.99, 9781917617697
Slow-burn excavation of memory, trauma and domestic unreality rendered through the porous, looping rhythms of prose poetry.
Cabin in the Woods Fran Lock 30th April, pb, £13.99, 9781917617765
Quietly radical sequence that places rural space, ecological rupture and queer relationality into subtle interplay.
My Ear is Full of Milk Simon Barraclough (ed), Aaron Kent (ed)
1st February, pb, £13.99, 9781917617888
Elegiac and inventive anthology that refracts the comic legacy of Laurel and Hardy through a prism of contemporary literary response.
Galahad and the Grail: Merlin’s Isle Vol 1 Malcolm Guite
23rd March, hb, eb, £25, 9781786227126
A chance to be enchanted by the legend of King Arthur all over again. Four- volume ballad starts with Sir Galahad setting out in search of the Holy Grail.
Carcanet Classics
Selected Poems Austin Clarke, John McAuliffe (ed)
28th May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800175570
One of the most significant poets of 20th-century Ireland.
New and Selected Poems Henri Coulette, Michael Caines (ed), Boris Dralyuk (ed)
30th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800175525
New selection is Coulette’s first work in more than three decades. Includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry’s best-kept secrets.
Carcanet Poetry
The Killing Spree Jorie Graham
The Banality of Power James Byrne 30th June, pb, £12.99, 9781917617918
An excoriating read, The Banality of Power is 2025 Cholmondeley Award’s most politically charged and lyrically tender work to date.
Canongate Books
Tender Harry Baker 5th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781837264636
Hilarious and heartwarming. Baker is a World Poetry Slam champion who turns his attention to the topic of fatherhood for the first time.
Canterbury Press
28th May, pb, £12.99, 9781800175549
Politically engaged collection tackles the conditions of the world around us, with particular focus on violence across the globe and the destruction in Gaza.
Work Experience Sophie Hannah 28th May, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781800175556
Combines maverick, irreverent poems that rhyme and scan and are amusing together with the librettos of Hannah’s two musicals.
Before Violence Joe Carrick-Varty 26th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800175426
TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet’s outstanding second collection looks unflinchingly at inheritance, pain and memory, reflecting further on growing up with an alcoholic father.
Nothing to Write Home About Oksana Maksymchuk
30th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800175716
One of Ukraine’s foremost contemporary poets, Maksymchuk’s new work goes beyond the war to explore love, exile and hope.
Drunken Driving Martina Evans 25th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800175631
Humorous, subversive sequel to 2023’s The Coming Thing, this narrative poem continues the story of Imelda 10 years on within the walls of Pentonville prison.
Impossible Paradise Yuhong Chen, George O’Connell (tr), Diana Shi (tr)
26th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800175365
Introducing this award-winning Taiwanese poet translated into English for the first time. Chen’s poetry spans our world, ancient and present, blending Eastern and Western sensibilities in a brilliant tapestry.
Do I Look Like an Atmosphere? Zoë Skoulding
26th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800175389
Leading ecopoet’s second Carcanet collection invents new forms to explore human relationships with the non-human world.
Landscape with Question Leeanne Quinn
25th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800175617
This new collection from award-winning Irish poet presents a pan- European meditation on human geography and landscape.
The Natural Way Roma Havers 26th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800175464
Debut collection from Manchester-based queer poet and winner of the Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry 2024.
Selected Poems Leontia Flynn 30th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800175501
From one of the most accomplished and acclaimed Irish poets of her generation.
Clemson University Press
The Special View of History
Ralph Maud (ed), John Faulise (ed), Gary Grieve- Carlson, Joshua Hoeynck
1st March, hb, eb, £114.50, 9781638042075
Revised and expanded edition of Charles Olson’s The Special View of History (1970).
Ecco Night Owl
Aimee Nezhukumatathil 21st May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780063282315
From the author of World of Wonders and Bite by Bite this fifth collection explores love, nature and the transformative powers of the night.
Lady No Kim Hyesoon 4th June, hb, eb, £20, 9780063446687
From legendary avant-garde poet a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date.
Monologue of a Dog Wislawa Szymborska 26th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780063490420
Nobel Prize winner offers up a collection of witty and contemplative poems. Foreword by Billy Collins.
Edinburgh University Press
The Proposition Lyn Hejinian, Georgina Colby (ed)
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