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
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
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
Lieutenant Anielewicz is on an eccentric mission to lift 21st century humans out of their gloom. A shimmering, breathless collection published by Archipelago.
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.
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
New work from the 30 writers in this successful poetry collective spearheaded by Bernadine Evaristo, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus and Sarah Howe.
A collection by a writer born in the former GDR, voicing his childhood landscape of uranium mines: history and experience through imagery, not reportage.
A novel in verse based on the experiences of the author's great aunt, who went to Canada as an orphan in 1908 where she worked as an indentured servant.
A collection of this important Chinese poet's work that spans his career, from the 1980s to the present. Lyrical yet restrained, sometimes raw, infused with Chinese classical imagery and a c... read more
A second collection. His novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous was a bestseller and his first collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds won the TS Eliot prize.
A 'howdie-skelp' is apparently the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. We are to understand that this new collection by the much-lauded Irish poet is a Call To Action; although what ... read more