Memoir and reportage by the outstanding foreign correspondent (who has covered conflict in Ukraine, Mali, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine), and an anthology of poems that spe... read more
This highly praised posthumous debut concerns the body of a black boy found in the Thames - a fate unnervingly similar to the author's own tragic death last spring.
The great novelist returns to poetry - where his career began - to consider migration, borders and displacement, from his childhood in Sri Lanka to Canadian rivers and Bulgarian Orthodox chu... read more
Much-anticipated new collection about, according to Her Greatness, 'different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow... forensics, encounters with lovers, the word "idea", th... read more
Hewitt is a skilled writer of the interior self; his memoir - All Down Darkness Wide - recalled an uneasy romance with a young Swedish man. This second poetry collection is a similar mixture... read more
Lieutenant Anielewicz is on an eccentric mission to lift 21st century humans out of their gloom. A shimmering, breathless collection published by Archipelago.
Draws on thirty years of published work. Perception is an enduring theme - what it means to observe oneself, one's friends, lovers, surroundings, things that are felt but not seen. See also... read more
An anthology of the poetry of this ancient and threatened culture: medieval Sufi lyrics and other traditional forms as well as contemporary work. A pocket-sized Everyman.
New work from the 30 writers in this successful poetry collective spearheaded by Bernadine Evaristo, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus and Sarah Howe.
The Grimm Brothers' tale recast as a C21st dystopia by the Poet Laureate. Illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, who also did the other-worldly illustrations for Armitage's Sir Gawain and the ... read more
More tonic from the apothecary (but no gin). WS founded the Forward Poetry Prize and has been a tremendously Good Egg in the poetry world for a few decades now.