Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?
By Zoe Skoulding
Skoulding's second Carcanet collection develops the author’s contribution to ecopoetics, inventing new forms to think through relationships with the more-than-human world.
Taking its title from a line in Hôtel du Nord, a 1938 film of doomed romance, Do I Look Like an Atmosphere? asks us to pay close attention to that which we inhabit and change.
Through ferns, plastic, troubadour birdsong and broken bones, experimental poems bring background into the foreground. In these poems the atmosphere is under our skin and in our bones.
Skoulding’s ingenious, innovative forms evoke a natural world newly vulnerable to human actions. Faced with the inseparability of the non-human world from the destructiveness of human activity, these poems trace their connection across times and places: the humble mussel connects the coast of north Wales with fishing communities world-wide, while the calcium of its shell is found in the limestone of the Norman castles that colonised Wales.
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The Natural Way
By Roma Havers
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‘We’re trying the natural way’, Havers once said when asked about children in their queer partnership. What follows is their sparklingly disruptive debut, drawing on inside jokes, ironies and imaginings for new ways of thinking about what we call natural and the ways and paths we choose to get there.
From Oscar Wilde to an unlikely pelican, this book’s wandering way resists the traditional nature poem, instead digging into the muck and rock of queer wilderness.
Formally inventive, these poems span the width of the page and draw on mathematics, tablecloth patterns and swimming pools for their structures.
Ingenious and funny, Havers’ debut questions received ideas about inheritance and legacies: what if, it asks, we live outside the familiar, familial archive?
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The debut collection from Manchester-based queer poet Roma Havers, winner of the Northern Writers' Award for Poetry 2024
Impossible Paradise
Selected Poems
By Yuhong Chen, George O'Connell, Diana Shi
One of Taiwan’s most celebrated poets, Chen Yuhong draws on both Western and Asian literary traditions, inflected by her work as a translator of contemporary English-language women poets (Gluck, Oswald, Duffy).
This selection makes her art widely available in English for the first time. Her award-winning translators, George O’Connell and Diana Shi, carry across the richly metaphorical lexicon of her poems and their uncanny inhabitation of places both real and imagined, conjuring mood, angles of thought or light, animal presence, and the tides of the seasons.
In a world where much that seemed united has frayed, Chen Yuhong’s finely balanced poems bring us news of other imagined worlds, and acknowledge the unexpected, its capacity to terrify or astonish.
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Poems (1913)
Introduced by David Brooks
By Christopher Brennan
This new edition of Brennan' greatest work is introduced by award-winning poet David Brooks, and includes Brennan's correspondence with the French symbolist poet, Stephane Mallarme.
‘Brennan is one of the first legendary figures in Australian literature. Unresponsive to, and seemingly uninfluenced by, the forces of nationalism and radicalism that dominated the contemporary Australian scene, he was a literary enigma standing apart from his own social and literary milieu, finding instead a literary affinity with the French symbolist writer (Mallarme) ... he was clearly part of the international mainstream of writing that gave rise to poets such as T. S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats.'
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Golden Days
By Brenda Eldridge
Brenda Eldridge’s Golden Days navigates a gentle way through the journey of her husband Stephen Matthews’ fight with cancer and his choice to take the path of Voluntary Assisted Dying.
Brenda’s glorious and confronting poems explore a couple’s descent into illness; the helplessness and pain this inflicts. Her poems speak to an extraordinary love, full of tenderness, compassion, and the courage it takes to seek out golden days, as each day diminishes in hope.
Her collection is a fitting tribute for Stephen Matthews, the man whose vision for Ginninderra Press gave thousands of Australian writers a voice.
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Isle Full of Noises
By Kevin Densley
Isle Full of Noises, Kevin Densley’s sixth collection, has everything you would expect from this witty, allusive poet – wry observations on the intersection of low and high culture, biting academic satire, rollicking yarns from the underbelly of history –but with a new, fascinating twist: an intense emphasis on the physicality of everything.
Sound, particularly, leaps in fizzing profusion from every page.
The swish of severed heads, childhood fish lifting and slapping out their names, the howls of suburban acrimony, art so intense it licks into flame – all that lurks under the skin of experience made startlingly present.
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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
By Agnes Meadows
In In the Footsteps of Marco Polo, Agnes Meadows masterfully traces the ancient Silk Road with poems that shimmer like the threads of the route itself, weaving together history, myth, and intimate human moments.
With unparalleled lyricism, she offers readers more than just landscapes: bustling markets hum with the unspoken stories of traders and artisans, while the endless stretches of desert reveal their secrets in the patterns of shifting sands.
Agnes captures the quiet resilience of civilisations long past with each poem offering a glimpse into the soul of the Silk Road, where cultures collide and coalesce, and where Agnes profound sensitivity brings even the smallest detail - a shared glance, a woven tapestry, the night sky - to vivid life.
This collection is not just a journey of geography, but one through time, capturing the spirit of exploration and wonder in every line.
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Amittere
By Charlotte Ansell
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Charlotte Ansell's territory, from her debut in 2002, has been the heart. In Amittere, the heart is stripped to its connectionsparent to child in poems such as Navigation and Poiesis; between friends and siblings in Dandelions and Twins; and to place.
Beyond that she excavates how the body that holds a heart, perceived through lenses of race, gender, wealth or power, affects the troubles the heart carries.
Ansell's years working as a child and adolescent psychotherapist come to the fore in this latest book, the dilemmas of the young people who have passed through the doors of her service reflecting the contemporary world and its many fascinating fusions and fractures.
Amittere is the human story delivered in a spirit of tenderness, curiosity and occasional despair, but always underpinned by an unrelenting thread of hope.
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Thrums
By Thomas A Clark
thrums grows out of Clark’s celebrated collection, that which appears, in an extension and affirmation of that book’s particular aesthetic. Including poems first published in London Review of Books and New York Review of Books, the poems’ closely observed landscapes tell of presence and loss, of change and precarious continuity.
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Through a Glass Darkly A Novel in Verse
Leaning Against Time
Selected Poems
By Libby Hathorn
Evie Walsh sits beside a pond, examining her life, loves and her bouts of deep depression. She takes the reader back in time, into the heart of Sydney suburbia, the bohemia of Kings Cross, the mystery of the Blue Mountains and far away Normandy, as her marriage collapses. At last her sharp memories of the enigmatic Rob Connor can finally release her from her vigil.
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By SuAndi
In this selection, the rhythms of speech and performance echo off the page. Though SuAndi is as at home with the dramatic monologue as the lyric and the ballad, her poems defy easy categorisation and make visible on the page a remarkable trailblazing writing career. SuAndi’s work as a performer, writer for stage and arts curator has recently been celebrated by her winning the RSL Benson Medal Award.
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The Banquet
By Stav Poleg
The Banquet explores the fragile, intricate links between language and longing — how words can reconstruct great cities out of memories and dreams, tear them apart, or carry them from one place to another, as if each city, house and chamber were made of sonic and visual images rather than walls and bricks. It explores the ever-growing tensions between words and action, knowledge and ethics.
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Men of the Same Name
By Evan Jones
Men of the Same Name is satirical, elegiac and memorable, bringing together lost books, burned libraries, Goethe, the lives and deaths of Presocratic philosophers, Paris, statues of Niobe, patterns in history, war, displacement, the evils of ambition, and Pachynian tuna. Working in this way between allegory and reality, the book rethinks poetry’s changing relationships to politics and our historical moment.
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Answerlands
A Book for Kids
By Joseph Minden
Answerlands is a teacher's rhapsody, written out of anguish at the state of schools, the pressures of being in them and hallucinations brought on by the prolonged collision of errant imagination and disciplined reality. It explores the curiositydestroying, harmful potential of school even as it celebrates the erring minds of teacher and student, which make encounter possible.
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By C.J. Dennis, John Derum
A Book For Kids was first published in 1921, with poems and stories from the author of The Sentimental Bloke. This new edition into Imprint Classics is introduced by John Derum, to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the author’s birth.
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Slow Puncture
By Miles Burrows
The new collection by Miles Burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic sketches and dramas. These poems are second thoughts, cartoons, esprits de l’escalier, sybil’s leaves, poems at a tangent, unspoken repartees. Like sketches done in a café by a person absently rubbing his thumb into some spilt coffee.
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Ring the Bells
By Colleen Keating
Ring the Bells is a collection of new poetry with an invitation to hear each poem as a bell chime embracing light, dark, life and love – cyclic like the seasons. Award-winning poet Colleen Keating invites readers to listen closely — to the chimes of joy, the tolls of grief, and the quiet notes of love that echo through our shared human experience.
Moving through four sections — Embracing Light, Embracing Dark, Embracing Life, and Embracing Love — her poems ring with an acute awareness of the world’s beauty and its brokenness.
From intimate moments in nature to the great sweep of history and current events, Keating’s lyrical voice finds hope, tenderness, and resilience in the spaces where light filters through the cracks.
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Kastellorizo Walls in the Sun
By Michele Fermanis-Winward
This collection of poems is a homage to my grandfather, Demetrius (Jim) Fermanis and the island he called home but never returned to. I cannot vouch for all these stories.
Some are a confection made of fragments I was told as a child, part of our family lore, some are my own imagining.
There are impressions from my visit to the island in 2012 as I went in search of the culture my grandfather revered.
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Pulse
By Peter Knight
Pulse is a miscellany of 29 poems, eclectic in subject matter and not overly constrained by reality’s parameters.
Expressed quite simply and intelligibly, the poems are largely narratives focussed on forms of a life force, the pulse that drives the body of the human world.
That pulse is measured in a variety of circumstances. Some relate to a reality that we generally acknowledge and others are more surreal.
Readers are invited to mull the intellectual and emotional content and be entertained by its novelty.
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Chords in the Soundscapes
By Michael J. Leach
Chords in the Soundscapes is a full-length collection of nonfiction poetry about sounds and emotions.
This collection is divided into two interrelated sections: The Science of Music, which focuses more on the technical side of music and sounds more generally, and Love Notes, which focuses more on emotions such as love and grief.
Connections between Leach’s life and songs from diverse genres are conveyed through various poetry types, from ghazals to prose poems, forming a cycle of deeply personal and human reflections
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Bird on the Wing and Overnight Mountain Snow
By Judith E.P. Johnson
Cultivating a haiku way of looking at the world opens the door to perceptions that would otherwise almost certainly go unheeded and unrecognised. Sometimes fleeting, sometimes deep, as Judith E.P. Johnson astutely notes— behind each haiku a long story untold – Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki
A Letter to the Dead Collected Poems
By Lynette Roberts, Charles Mundye
Lynette Roberts is one of the most astonishing and brilliant poets of the twentieth century. Though published by T.S. Eliot and Faber in the 1940s and ’50s her work unjustly fell off the radar for many years until the groundbreaking edition of her collected poems published by Carcanet in 2005. Twenty years on, this new edition contains an additional sixty-five previously uncollected and unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her growing importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
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Jonah and Me
By John F. Deane
John F. Deanes new book follows the publication of his careerspanning New and Selected Poems, which was published on the occasion of his eightieth birthday in 2023 and shows no relaxation in his descriptive and lyric powers. Ireland’s foremost living religious poet, the new book includes a sequence, Of Human Flesh, which takes Easters rituals as its occasion, and dwells on its continuing purchase and meaning as the poet remembers others and walks a landscape where, sometimes, as he puts it, the spiritual and material worlds come together: all here fits together, oxbow and pillow-stone, holon and fractal, stunning, admonishing, this morphogenic field. The poems bear witness to a number of different Irelands, and one memorable sequence tracks a family heirloom, a carriage clock, through three different marriages in 1897, 1906 and 1940. Alive to what is comical and even enchanting, his steadfast faith is as well captured in his grip on a childhood memory of Jonah, his ‘Bunnacurry mule, big and raw, / stubborn in hardship and unwilling’, with whom he is partnered in what the poem calls a ‘slow, uncomely, cosmic dance’.
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A Wild Goose Chase
By Andrew McNeillie
In the new collection from the Welsh Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, nature writer and editor of the eco -literary magazine Archipelago, McNeillie explores his deep sense, in his older age, of not belonging anywhere other than in mind and in the wild. McNeillie recovers and renews Pytheas the Greek’s exploration of fourth century BC Britain and Thomas Pennant’s account of Wales, but A Wild Goose Chase lays these historical accounts of the natural world beside the author’s own experiences. The poems’ moving and not unmelancholy late recollections blur temporal and spatial boundaries as they stay alive to the impacts of climate change and globalization.
Dirt Rich
By Graeme Richardson
Rooted in religion, grounded and earthy, the debut collection from the Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times delivers frank and humorous poems about mortality, desire, and the joys and griefs of fatherhood. In Dirt Rich, Richardson digs deep into his past: a childhood in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, his ‘hatch / match / dispatch’ duties as a Church of England Parish Priest, and years of work with Archaeological Science in Germany. These poems deal with the dirt we dish, the mud we sling, the treasure we bury. In this startlingly honest first collection, love is celebrated, loss confronted, and life’s trade-offs presented – do we choose loving or knowing, faith or the void, time or eternity? In coalmines and churchyards and fossil-hunting digs, the hope of resurrection persists. These are poems of personality and beauty, to be learnt by heart and taken to heart.
The Emperor's Tailor
By Lynn Hard
A new collection of poems by Lynn Hard, with 20 drawings by Garry Shead.
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To Be Languaged Thus
By Jacob Sam-La Rose, Hoor Alnuaimi, Alex Chand, Rachel Cleverly, Kiara Gilbert
To Be Languaged Thus collects and celebrates work produced by poets of the 2023 cohort.
From horror movie tropes and hospital wards to the poetics of botany, a meditation on the colour blue, and many other points along the way, these poems stand as a compelling collective vision of what’s possible in contemporary poetry.
For more than a decade, the Barbican Young Poets programme has served as a base for experimentation, creative development and an ever-extending community of poetic practice.
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From the Ground to the Birdsong
By Jacob Sam-La Rose, Vera K Yuen, Shyamli B, Nomakhwezi Becker, Ishita Uppadhayay
From the Ground to the Birdsong collects and celebrates work produced by poets of the 2024 cohort.
From black holes and emu burgers to family dynamics, experiences of transformation, and many other points along the way, these poems stand as a compelling collective vision of what’s possible in contemporary poetry.
For more than a decade, the Barbican Young Poets programme has served as a base for experimentation, creative development and an ever-extending community of poetic practice.
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The Art of Turning Possible
By Jacob Sam-La Rose
The Art of Turning Possible collects and celebrates work produced by poets of the 2025 cohort.
A vivid field of questions and visions. Poems that reckon with memory, identity and power, that navigate the space between personal history and the urgencies of the present.
Whether tracing the shimmer of stained glass or the silence of whispering snowfall, these poems fracture and reassemble language - restless, inventive, alive.
For more than a decade, the Barbican Young Poets programme has served as a space for experimentation, creative development and an ever-extending community of poetic practice.
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26 Connections
By Jacob Sam-La Rose
What happens when you connect one poet to another to think about a theme? And what then happens when you ask them to create a poem together? Does poetry itself create common ground that rises above differences in background, culture and identity - a shared space that is human and universal?
26 Connections shows the results. Here, 13 alumni of the Barbican Young Poets programme were paired with 13 from the writers' group 26.
What they were asked to focus on was 'Human.Kind' - the theme of the 2024 Bloomsbury Festival. The poems in this anthology demonstrate the power of people coming together to explore the potential of creative collaboration. The poems created are diverse, thought-provoking, playful, inspiring, taking each of the writers into surprising, challenging places. They invite you to enjoy the experience of engaging with their poetic process through the further collaboration of reading.
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By Rachel Cleverly
Rachel Cleverly has mastered the art of sly transgression. The voice of her debut has a knack of rendering notions you feel perhaps can’t or shouldn’t be said.
A deadpan dissection of modern living set against a backdrop of bed bugs, boyfriends, remote job interviews and incisive introspection
Prickle is finely and effortlessly balanced, capable of extracting a laugh or smile through a deft turn in spite of the ever present sense of disquiet and unease; somehow managing to feel both completely anchored in the present moment and timeless in the same turn.
Yellow Things: A Family Operetta
By Caroline Fernelius
Yellow Things: A Family Operetta retraces a childhood of "round and rounding days" in the Texas Gulf Coast and presses onwards into the dreamy flatlands of Ohio, potentially misremembered cafe encounters in New England and nameless landscapes populated by ghostly pink rabbits.
A fascination with change and repetition runs through Caroline Fernelius' debut, which attempts - by experiment and alchemyto uncover a string of alternate family histories, and perhaps even resolve a decades-long familial drama in the process.
Yellow Things tasks itself with reconstructing memories, setting them in motion and observing as they become their own tiny worlds. The result is a distinctive and unwavering exploration of who can claim ownership of an experience, and ultimately of the process of writing itself.
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Prickle
Fower Pessoas
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025
Shortlisted for the Scots Book O' the Year Award
2025 Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2025.
By Fernando Pessoa, Colin Bramwell
Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry by an exciting next-generation Scottish poet. Following his subject’s unique approach to composition, Colin Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa’s heteronyms into a present-day Scotslanguage vernacular, and so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times.
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Selected Poems and Essays
Dante's Inferno
A new translation
Finalist for the Governor General Literary Awards 2025. Shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Lit Prize for Caribbean Literature 2026. Longlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2026.
By Lorna Goodison
This Jamaican Dante is as much transformation as it is translation: the poet's narrator, its Dante figure, is now guided through an underworld by Goodison's great Jamaican predecessor Louise Bennett, 'Miss Lou'. Goodison draws on the continuum of Jamaican speech yet securely grounds the action in Dante's formal architecture, bringing an entire world to life.
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By Alice Meynell, Alex Wong
This is the first anthology of Alice Meynell’s verse and prose to be published for over seventy-five years. Meynell was highly regarded both as a poet and as a writer of essays and was proposed for the laureateship on two occasions. This selection is introduced by Alex Wong, who offers a poet’s view of Meynell’s distinctive artistic achievements and locates her within her literary contexts.
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Emotional Support Horse
Longlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025. A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year 2024
By Claudine Toutoungi
Emotional Support Horse tracks the tragicomedy of grief, and out of low vision, bereavement and eco-stress blends poems of startling wit, verve and solace. A woman longs to transform into Nicola Walker in a cop car, or a Hungarian Vizsla, or just to find an equal footing with her doctor. Emotional Support Horse flickers with light and life, charting sorrow's depths even as it stumbles upon joy.
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Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot
The Complete Works
By John Gallas
This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In a pyrotechnic display of thirtyone-syllable sparkles, set off by accident and protracted by design, it lights up any corner of things done, thought, felt, seen, suffered and enjoyed. It is contagious: readers begin tanking as soon as they close the book. A walk in the country will never be the same.
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Invisible Dog
Winner of the Premio Valle Inclán Prize 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2024
By Fabio Morabito, Richard Gwyn
Fabio Morábito is one of Mexico's best loved and most entertaining contemporary writers, his narratives marked by a humane irony and a philosophical resignation to the vagaries of his society and the irresistible tyrannies of time. The fifty-four poems in Invisible Dog were selected by the poet and translator in collaboration and draw from his five published collections spread over four decades
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Dante's Purgatorio
By Philip Terry
A sequel to Philip Terry's Dante's Inferno (2014), where Dante relocates to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dante's Island of Purgatory to Mersea Island, in Essex still, where the poet and his guide Ted Berrigan climb a mountain made out of Flexible Rock Substitute (FRS) Dante's artists are replaced with contemporary artists and artists-in-residence on the Essex Alp
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Collected Poems
King's Gold Medal for Poetry. Winner of the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2025. A Guardian Book of the Year 2024. A London Review Bookshop Book of the Year 2024.
By Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent away to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six, only returning to her family in Iran when she was seventeen. The loss of her native country, culture and mother tongue formed the bedrock of her adoptive love of the English language. ‘I hope', she writes, 'the poems speak especially to those who have made their homes wherever the tide has brought them ’
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One Little Room
By Peter McDonald
The poems in One Little Room explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to be as small as they seem: they expand and interconnect to produce new and dazzling perspectives out of the limits of concentrated meditation and formal shape alike. Poems inhabit the surroundings of a Belfast childhood, pushing these into dimensions where time and space play tricks on memory
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Fourth and Walnut
The Face in the Well
By Jeremy Over
Equal parts commonplace book, instruction manual and cheerful vandalism, this is absurdly joyful, gathering together words from a wide range of favourite writers and artists Interludes on love and death deviate into a sequence promising an essay on reading and unpredictability, which is in turn distracted by counting snowdrops, shellacking cardboard boxes and the urge to take flight.
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By Rebecca Watts
In her vibrant third collection, Rebecca Watts shines a light on the tender, spontaneous, creative and creaturely aspects of the self, and asks how we might nurture and shield these from the many physical, psychological and social forces predisposed to keep them down. The characters in these dramatic poems play hide-and-seek, guarding their vulnerabilities while yearning for greater connection with others and the world.
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Father's Father's Father
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025 Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2026
By Dane Holt
Dane Holt’s subject is often the aftermath of tragedy, but these poems grieve in surprising ways. Deflection, displacement and refracted voices combine to animate a world of brilliantly realised situations. Compelling, funny, endlessly inventive, this bold debut collection explores the formation and disillusion of masculinity and community, exposing just how tender and brittle these constructs are.
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A History of Western Music
By August Kleinzahler
August Kleinzahler’s rhythmic, wry style captures the ineffable power and beauty of great songs and artists, as well as the potency of our response to them. In this collection, music is inextricable from life, from landscape, and from the people we remember through it. The poet inhabits the minds and milieus of musicians; he hears arpeggios in the salon of Princesse Edmonde de Polignac and listens to the vibrations of a hummingbird through Béla Bartók.
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Small Pointed Things
By Thomas McCarthy
Following upon Pandemonium (2016) and Prophecy (2019), Plenitude marks a moment of completion and buoyant plenty in a very real and contemporary Irish world. Enriched at all times by a sense of history – the precise histories of heritage gardens, of novelists such as Molly Keane and Waterford neighbours who had gone to the Great War – his is a poetry of both brief formal lyric and longer historical meditation.
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By Erica McAlpine
Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things turn encounters with the natural world and scenes from family life into acts of self-discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems address human concerns by comically reimagining them through the analogous 'lives' of plants and animals
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Heirloom
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2025. Shortlisted for the Forward (Jerwood) Prize for Best First Collection 2025 Shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Lit Prize for Caribbean Literature 2026. Longlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize 2026. A California Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2025.
By Catherine-Esther Cowie
Moving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations of women, developing monologues, lyrics and narrative poems which enable us to see how past dysfunction, tyranny and terror structure the shapes of women's lives, and what they hand down to one another.
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By David Morley
Drawing on Romany language, storytelling and the speech of birds, award-winning poet David Morley offers a provocative and passionate invitation to reflect afresh on the ways in which the lives, stories and fate of humans – and the more than human – are twinned and entwined.
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Pattern-book
Commonwealth
By Eireann Lorsung
Threaded through with filaments of others’ poems – from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Emily Dickinson to Gwendolyn Brooks – Pattern-book’s sonnets, couplets, quatrains and invented forms draw on family life, art history, grief, time and the natural world. Woven of recurring images, Lorsung’s delight in form brings pattern to vivid life.
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By Theophilus Kwek
A neighbourhood containing Singapore’s oldest public housing estates, a catchphrase for the dream of equitable distribution, the long tail of the British Empire Commonwealth takes as its starting-point the Bukit Ho Swee fires of the 196os and traces the dislocations and relocations that have come before it, and in its wake.
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Guaracara
By Fawzia Muradali Kane
This book traces the poet's ancestral Indo-Caribbean legacy, following the history of the cane sugar industry, and growing up in an oil refinery small town in south Trinidad. The final sequence 'Ancestral Coda' links the poet's family oral histories passed down through the generations, intertwined with her own experience as witness to family rituals of more recent bereavements.
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Bunting's Honey
By Moya Cannon
This is a book of wonderings and wanderings. Many of the wanderings are on familiar territory explored on foot, the hills of Wicklow and of the Burren in Co. Clare, the shorelines of Dublin Bay, of North West Donegal, of Galway, Achill and the Aran Islands. Other poems bring us farther afield, to a French village on the banks of the Saône, to the Venetian Island of Torcello, to a sacred mountain lake in China. In these poems there is an alertness to the palimpsest of lives, human and nonhuman, lived in these places and the mystery of each individual life. The poems bear witness to our primal kinship with the natural world, a source of nourishment, joy and solace, but also to our disastrous, onrushing human conquest of that same earth and seas.
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Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology III
By Simon Armitage
An anthology celebrating the winner and shortlistees of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Winner: Dillon Jaxx. Shortlistees: Will Fleming, Lucy Holme, Jam Kraprayoon, Adam Panichi.
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Red Carpet
By Steve Malmude, Miles Champion
While the place and year of Steve Malmudes birth (Manhattan, 1940) nominally stamp him as a second-generation poet of the New York School, his hieratic, almost ideogrammatic poems, made slowly and carefully - sometimes over many years - are utterly distinct from those of his peers. With substantial selections from his books - all but ten of Malmude’s previously published poems are included here - Red Carpet also gathers unpublished early work (the opening sonnet was written in 1958, when Malmude’s guiding star was Robert Lowell) along with poems written after he relocated to Limerick, Maine, in 2002.
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Eccolo
Poems
By Hal Coase
Hal Coase has a gift for catching the rhythms of speech and exchange, and an eye for a telling image. His book’s Italian title, Eccolo, meaning ‘Here he is’, or ‘Here it is’, captures his work’s immediacy, and the poems’ revelatory quality. These are poems and sequences which relish the ways in which we (try to) communicate and know one another, emulating the techniques and effect of some of the mid-century New York School and Roman poets he admires. Coase’s writing – as playwright, translator, critic and poet – aspires to be both beautiful and conscientious. Eccolo: Poems is an auspicious debut.
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Debris
By Daniel Huws
Debris collects poems from Daniel Huws first two books, Noth (Secker, 1972) and The Quarry (Faber, 1999), alongside a substantial selection of new poems and translations. Huws’ poems are true lyrics, seeming to emerge out of often difficult or obscure moments whose import and meaning only come into view as they find their brief lyric shape.
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The Idea of an Entire Life
By Billy-Ray Belcourt
In The Idea of An Entire Life, Belcourt delivers an intimate examination of twenty-first-century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility. Through lyric verse, sonnets, fieldnotes, and fragments, the poems sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes slyly humorous are always finely crafted, putting to use the autobiographical and philosophical style that has come to define Belcourt’s body of work. By its close, the collection makes the urgent argument that we are each our own little statues of grief and awe.
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My Friend the Goldfish
By Stephen Alomes
After the late 20th century emergence of the internet and digitisation, the global speedup has continued with growing everyday angst.
Wars, social media, neoliberal job insecurity, rising costs and the continuing Covid -19 pandemic have eroded confidence, trust and security in everyday life.
Stephen Alomes explores the lived ironies of our times while finding pleasure, colour and beauty.
His reflections begin with a painting and poem about his friends, the goldfish, offering a unique perspective on navigating the complexities of our times.
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Owed to a Nightingale
By Oliver Freeman
Oliver Freeman invites readers to share the emotional and intellectual journey he has made as a poet from small beginnings when he was a child in London to his adult reflections on love, life, family and more - initially in England and for the last 40 years in Australia.
The book title honours his debt to John Keats and the romantic British poets, not forgetting the poetry greats before and after those times – Blake, Hopkins, Donne, Eliot and Graves.
Oliver is sceptical about much post-modern poetry and is a traditionalist in the sense that he loves a good rhyme! His subject matter is strongly influenced by love and loss but he has a deep interest in the way poetry can address social and worldly matters as well as the aching heart.
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Cracks in the Path
By Brenda Goggs
Cracks in the Path is a reflection of the poet's life in Australia's capital city, an environment dominated by imposing national monuments and landmarks.
Negotiating the everyday comforts and discomforts, Brenda Goggs is interested in the intersections between these ambiguous states of being.
In a world where everything looks straightforward but isn't contrasts that seem obvious can be overlooked. Cracks begin to appear in the surrounding paths as forces exert pressure from above and below.
It's like the writing on the back of a postcard that doesn't quite fit the space provided. Poems sprout between the cracks.
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Harbour in Me
By Therese Corfiatis
In Harbour in Me acclaimed poet Thérèse Corfiatis lays bare her hopes and dreams.
So fine-tuned with nature are the peregrinations of these poems that they become an arboreal odyssey, travelling the highways and byways of the author's island state of Tasmania.
Juxtaposed against this sensory immersion is the painful truth that the world we long to share in harmony with nature is often marred by man's wilful destruction.
Many of the poems will delight with their celebrations of nature's bounty yet in other poems the stirrings of patriotism and ancestral yearning transport the reader into the world of yesteryear.
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Matter of Time
By Kate O'Neil
The matter of these poems has been lifted from a long stretch of time. And from disparate experiences. Light moments. Dark moments. Random encounters, sharp observations, startling reflections. And of course, some fun and games, moments of sheer silliness. Quite a rattlebag. As Kate's collection shows you never know where words will take you.
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The Passage of Bees
By Michele Fermanis-Winward
This collection is a meditation on the garden that is my woodland sanctuary at the top of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Perched on the side of a ridge it is sheltered by tall silver-top eucalypts with their rough grey bark. Each year the number of insects, birds, reptiles and other animals decline, prey to loss of habitat and hard seasons. In the south, the place of my birth Melbourne's St Kilda by the bay holds inspiration of another kind. Here I beachcomb explore inner city lanes and markets observe how we rub and fret against each other the sharing care and conflict that is part of community. The life unseen of rodents and foxes the introduced and native species continues around me. Port Macquarie is my soul country the ocean beaches where for a few weeks each year I wander rocky headlands and spot dolphins and whales watch pelicans, herons and brush turkeys. These three places are my heartlands.
Arrangements
By Gabrielle Journey Jones
Like a flower arrangement from a rose garden this collection is a colourful celebration of being present to the everyday experience of family and social life self-care and creativity. Gabrielle Journey Jones endeavours to balance busy life arrangements through the reflective process of a regular poetry practice. Arrangements is Gabrielle’s fourth book of poems, published by Ginninderra Press.
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That's What They Do
By Koraly Dimitriadis
That’s what they do is an empowering collection of poetry from bestselling, Cypriot-Australian poet, Koraly Dimitriadis, exploring the different ways a person might experience emotional abuse: from friendships, family, cultural background, romantic relationships, work, society.
It is a collection aimed to bring comfort to those who have experienced emotional abuse, so they feel less alone. The author writes in an honest way to connect with readers, writing of her own personal experiences resulting in a powerful text.
Violence often begins with emotional abuse. With the increase in violence against women, this book brings the issue to the forefront of the literary cannon.
As a divorced single mum from a working-class background, Koraly is self-made and self-published and has sold thousands of copies. In 2025 Love and Fck Poems (2011) won best book of narrative poetry at the Legacy Book Awards at American Book Fest. In 2023 it was longlisted for the UK Poetry Book Awards. In 2024 Just Give Me The Pills (2018) won best book of poetry (narrative) at American Book Fest. Koraly has received state and federal funding for her arts in Australia and Cyprus and has been awarded various residencies including a Wheeler Centre fellowship and the UNESCO City of Literature residency (Krakow).
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(C)loud
A poetic response to child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church
By Anne Elvey
The poems in this collection respond to the failed institutional responses to child sexual abuse as detailed in the Australian Royal Commission report handed down in 2017. The poems reflect the writer’s own background in the Roman Catholic tradition and her situation as a settler on stolen First Nations’ lands and the related institutional failures in both cases.
Poet and researcher Anne Elvey was part of a group of four whistleblowers who approached the Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne more than three decades ago about the behaviour of a parish priest, now deceased, whom the diocese has since accepted was serially abusing children.
(C)loud begins with lament, then explores the poet’s experience of being part of the problem and her increasingly fraught relationship to an inherited tradition of Roman Catholicism. The collection moves toward a poetic reinterpretation both of and beyond a Roman Catholic sacramental tradition after the Royal Commission - but does not pardon it.
The poem ‘Loud’ honours the voices of all those who cried out and the eloquent remembrance given material expression through the Loud Fence movement.
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