Poetry
17th March, hb, £16.99, 9780281092093
George Herbert, widely considered the greatest devotional poet in the English language, is a source of delight to Cope, whose witty, much-loved verse is now reaching a new demographic.
The 87 Press
Unceded Land Issam Zineh 11th June, pb, £16.99, 9781068488047
Selected Poems Pat Parker, SaraEllen Strangman (ed)
7th May, pb, £16.99, 9781068488009
Selection of the most- loved poems from black, lesbian, feminist poet Pat Parker, renowned for her passion for social justice and her belief in meaningful change.
The Museum of Unnatural Histories Annie Wenstrup
14th March, pb, £16.99, 9781068488016
Archiving stories of dissonance and curating connection, this debut poetry collection by Whiting Award recipient parses personal history in the space of an imagined museum.
Notas / Notes Juan Gelman, Silvia Tandeciarz (tr), Arianna Afsari (tr)
25th June, pb, £16.99, 9781068488054
Captures the sorrow and violence of Argentina’s 1976 military dictatorship. Translated for the first time into English, this collection is renowned for its linguistic innovation.
Terror Counter Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 9th July, pb, £16.99, 9781068488061
Debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages— interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical— constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.
Glitchwork Mantra Mukim 16th April, pb, £16.99, 9781068488023
Traces a jagged, poetic lineage of central India through a densely forested grid, blending industrial sublimity, Cold War relics, Surdas remixes, palaeolithic echoes and post-independence Modernism.
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Portal Tracy Fuad 23rd July, pb, £16.99, 9781068488078
Anthology exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality and climate anxiety from emerging Kurdish American writer.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-Fiction
A poignant engagement with Palestine from the perspective of a rooted diaspora grappling with history, territory and colonialism with a keen eye for unknotting emotions, recording beauty and recognising love.
Return
Emily Lee Luan 28th February, pb, £16.99, 9781068751530
Through the recurrence of memory, myth and grief Luan captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.
The Emma Press Noon
Zain Rishi 19th February, pb, £7.99, 9781915628527
Sparkling first pamphlet from British Pakistani poet explores home, family and faith.
Eating Air Suyin Du Bois 9th July, pamphlet, £7.99, 9781915628534
Poems about food, belonging and connection. Dive in and travel between Penang, Brussels, London and South Africa while filling up on noodle soup, pan- fried steaks, kaya toast and custard apples.
The Way the Water Held Me Catherine Redford
19th March, pb, £10.99, 9781915628541
Powerful debut poetry collection unpeels young widowhood.
Milk & Moon-water Milena Williamson 9th July, pamphlet, £7.99, 9781915628558
Pamphlet of witchy, medicinal, magical poems inspired by Old English metrical charms. They focus on bodily illnesses and barren lands, suggesting ways of solving problems and warding off harm.
The O’Brien Press
A Terrible Beauty Mairead Ashe FitzGerald (ed)
23rd March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781788496407
Poems of revolution and dreams and visions of freedom and nationhood for Ireland, focusing on before, during and after the 1916 Rising.
Ugly Duckling Presse
Ways to Move Jonathan González 1st May, pb, £20, 9781946604385 Moving between archival fragments, rehearsal notes and speculative memory, Ways to Move traces the embodied frequencies
and assembled states of Black life.
The Disinherited Terrence Arjoon 1st May, pb, £20, 9781946604392 Composed of translations, pastoral pastiches, slant rhymes, off-sonnets and malapropisms, this is a meandering stroll through exile and diaspora towards something richer, denser and stranger.
University of Alberta Press
Evacuations Kevin Irie 5th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772128536
Weaves a poetic documentary for readers, capturing the personal and political histories of the Japanese Canadian internment in British Columbia during the Second World War.
Sublunary Lisa Richter 10th March, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772128543
Navigates the other- worldly geographies of grief, renewal, climate emergency, love and survival, interweaving dreamlike surrealism, humour and compassion.
Nighthawks Lisa Martin 19th February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781772128550
Martin traces a creaturely interconnectedness, traversing land, ecology and other boundaries amid crises unfolding at a global scale.
University of Chicago Press
Bramble Susan Stewart 23rd March, hb, eb, £18, 9780226847467
Seventh collection by poet offers a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature.
University of Massachusetts Press
Who Follow the Gleam Christian Wessels 3rd April, pb, £13.99, 9781625349262
Lore and magic meld with history to shape narratives of childhood, fatherhood and personhood. Elements of folklore and dreamlike stories are grounded in the atmosphere of the natural world.
I Love You but I Don’t Speak Your Language Jason Bredle
2nd April, pb, £13.99, 9781625349279
Poems are alive in voice and detail yet the speaker’s connections and disconnections turn towards isolationism, solitude and loneliness.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
The Best of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas 28th May, pb, £12.99, 9781399637855
The major works of one of the 20th century’s most revered literary figures, collected in a beautiful paperback edition.
WW Norton
Transit David Baker 27th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781324117476
Well-liked nature poet reflects on environmental change, political transformation and the ineluctable fact of ageing.
I Am Your Lifeguard Charlie Smith 24th March, hb, eb, £25, 9781324118176
“For pure, raw power of language, nobody in his generation comes close to Charlie Smith— David Bottoms.
The Book of Hours Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow (tr)
22nd May, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781324123460
Gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in 20th-century poetry.
The Invention of the Darling Li-Young Lee
31st March, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781324123477
Revelatory volume of ecstatic poems that search out divine voices in the silences of life, love and death.
Enormous Morning Philip Schultz 24th April, hb, eb, £22, 9781324123828
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet examines the lives and sacrifices of his foremothers in his most personal collection yet.
Exit Opera Kim Addonizio 3rd July, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324130659
A new volume by Addonizio, whose
work is known for its streetwise, unflinching explorations of love, lust and mortality.
The Widow’s Crayon Box Molly Peacock 23rd June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781324130680
Book-length sequence of poems that dares to affirm the vast variety of emotional colours in loss and rejuvenation.
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