In times of uncertainty we desperately crave something to bring comfort to our troubled hearts. Whether it's a song, art, a piece of music or an inspiring poem, we seek to find a temporary place of refuge against the turmoil of the times. This collection of poetry is not a panacea for the ills of modern society. It's not an escape, rather it aims to reflect with candidness the complex, sometimes contradictory, emotions of the human experience. Feelings of despair, hope, love, and anger can assail the mind at times and sometimes it's almost impossible to put those feelings into words. It's my hope that those who read the myriad of emotional shades and colours of my own personal experiences will find a comfort in knowing that we're not alone.
Moving through the puckered stone of Roman ruins in the present, poet Debasish Lahiri unearths rumpled vestments of the human heart buried there, making the ruins revenant. On the leeward side of heraldry and historical oversight women and men, lovers and misanthropes, unwilling gladiators and unlikely saints, doomed dreamers and gullible aesthetes thrive in the pages of Legion of Lost Letters. These forgotten beings from beyond the millennial horizon ponder the second millennium. The light of these lives, effigies of breathing, made pale and frail by time, resonates Legion of Lost Letters: a light that is not yet loud enough to be heard.
Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet exploring the coves and caves of his home town, recalling its history, aware of its dangers. With 'Wild Swimming at Scarweather Sands', he remembers the countless wrecks on the dangerous coast of south Wales. Visiting the shoreline of his home he discovers a world where both history and climate change are inescapable.
These poems take the reader on a fantastic journey through the first season of the hit 1960s TV series I Dream of Jeannie. Each poem corresponds to an episode in that season, originally aired in 1965. Watching on the black and white set from her loungeroom in Perth, Western Australia, the poet, like millions of other little girls, dreamed of being the sultry Jeannie who lived inside a glass-stoppered bottle in a bachelor's house in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Revisiting the series as an adult, the poet recreates a world in which a woman searches for love with a surly astronaut, using her superpowers to further her quest.
The Signalman is Ezra Miles' debut collection of poems. They coalesce around the poet's time working in a rural signalbox, the isolation and loneliness falling to an impassioned dialogue with God. At turns both violent and tender, these lyrical poems navigate an ecologically-strained landscape populated by foxes and ghosts. Suffering and beauty sit side by side, as history rotates around personal tragedy, heartbreak and loss. A strange fire burns never far from the surface, its embers blowing across the collection, illuminating the harsh environment and casting long shadows across every face. Who are we, when we're on our own? And what are we, without each other? The Signalman points us in the right direction.
A singular memoir about the author's trauma of losing her sister Flora in the Lockerbie bombing and how raising chickens helped her through her grief.
Ada Fawkes is Britain's first forensic crime scene photographer. It's 1862 and her skill is a new science that arouses shock and hostility. To some it's witchcraft. Seeking a new start after working on a grisly murder case in Paris, which left her mentally and physically scarred, Ada has moved to York. She wants nothing more to do with crime, but then three young women in her new home city are found dead in mysterious circumstances.
Ege Dundar is a young Turkish activist forced to relocate to London and then Berlin. His debut poetry collection dives into the loss and longing ushered in by exile contrasted by the many forms of beauty found all around, with many poems fired by a passion for human rights and freedom of artistic expression. Relating this experience to the wider exodus of self-discovery, Dundar explores what may lie beyond our ideas of love, loneliness and resilience when 'titanic darkness' descends and 'the lights shine through miniscule cracks'.
A political testimony that breaks down the impact of Brexit and explores how the United Kingdom can build a stronger foundation without the presence and alliance of the European Union.
The poetry of 25th Prelude is honest, unadulterated and breaches the norms of the expected, with bold statement pieces that are often dark, granular observations of the world the poet inhabits.
This is an important published debut from a fresh new voice whose poetry takes a surprisingly mature slant on contemporary street-life. Harsh reality and stark emotion inflect these poems, the centrepiece being the taut Lost & Found sequences where a wonderful sense of anticipation keeps the reader guessing. Lost & Found is Poetry Book Society's Autumn Pamphlet Choice, to be featured in the Winter Bulletin.
An exciting debut from a highly accomplished poet, both in performance and on the page. Jarrett's work navigates the tensions between home and belonging, between relationships and personal identities. Line by line the collection is lyrically rich, charged with emotion and passion yet tinged with a wonderful twist of humour.
Three months after she gave birth for the first time, Jenny Pagdin's life was pummelled by sudden postnatal psychosis - 'and still it rained down, crosshatching the sky'. This intimate, sharp debut pamphlet charts the triggers, the illness and the first shoots of recovery. These are poems from the other side: of sanity, of hope, of motherhood. In this unflinching and confessional record where desperation intertwines with measure, the poetry is in the details - be that the hospital TV which can't be switched off, or the scratchings of a child's picture. Pagdin's fragmented narrative, broken into a number of forms, offers unmissable insight into a shattering mental illness.
90 poems by a 90 year old American poet on the edge of America, in California - casting a cold eye on life, death, passion and despair
Charm Offensive, Ross White's debut poetry collection, explores the space between Dickinson's directive to tell the truth slant and the universal reality of seeing the truth slant without knowing it. Charting the ways that tenderness can resolve into dissonance and uncertainty can resolve into transcendence, Charm Offensive crackles with the dangers of being alive and the joys of remaining defiant. At turns playful and surreal, exuberant and somber, these poems urge readers to find something new to trust in the world.
When her gifted children are kidnapped Lilly Millbank, the new Mother Nature, turns her attention to who she can trust. A new member of staff is the unlikely catalyst in her decision to trust the King of the Autumn Elves, burying her misgivings about him and her mother's death; but time is running out and King Summer is scheming with King Winter. Between them they will force Mother Nature's hand, revealing a secret the Autumn elves have been keeping and a plot which will threaten the relations Lilly has worked so hard to maintain between the human world and her own.
The Art of Coming Undone is American poet Christie Collins's first full-length collection of poems, which includes artwork by Dutch artist Erna Kuik. At its core, this collection is a celebration of the self, of imagination, and of reinvention. Based largely on autobiographical events that trace a life-changing move from Louisiana to Wales, Collins's poems also weave a narrative about the different kinds of love that shaped her story: love that is lost, unrequited love, the possibility of new love after heartbreak, and perhaps most importantly, learning to love and value the self. This collection reminds readers that while loss, setbacks, and struggles are an inevitable part of life, they are not defining. We each have the power to reshape - and retell - our stories and to start again.
Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by Jacquelyn Pope. The first major collection of Hester Knibbe's work to be published in English, HUNGERPOTS brings together a selection of poems displaying the range and skill of one of the most important Dutch poets writing today. Heralded by critics and the recipient of major European literary awards, Knibbe, in language that is both straightforward and subversive, casts and recasts themes of life, loss, and longing. The work in this selection traces the career of a poet now in full flight and at the apogee of her career. "This book is a real pleasure. Knibbe's voice can be harrowingly clear and dreamily disorienting, often in the same poem--but it's a fortifying and ennobling one nonetheless. Jacquelyn Pope has certainly come up witha memorable and sonically autonomous voice. I read the book with a sense of genuine excitement and discovery and will certainly return to it."--Christian Wiman "Jacquelyn Pope's translations, musical like her own poems, are faithful, eloquent and unafraid to bring something utterly strange and new across into our tradition in English."--Ilya Kaminsky "Hester Knibbe resurrects the dead, the 'Then'. Simultaneously austere and elaborate, her poems investigate contradiction and ambiguity: the 'flexibility of stone', the Persephone who is complicit in her own kidnapping, the fluidity between dream life and the waking world. Jacquelyn Pope's acute translations capture Knibbe's agile line breaks and syntactical ruses, and do justice to her singular and unnerving imagination."--Kathryn Maris "A revelatory new voice in a translation bursting with life."--Susan Bernofsky
Poetry. Influenced by American poetry, WHAT THINGS ARE encompasses the topology of paternity and love. Its lyrical clear voice directs us to areas of familiar territory where ideas of what once was and what one is rest uneasy. Studzinska focuses on a changing world in a domestic context of marriage, children and love, and brings to light the uncertainty of what things are in a powerful yet deceptively simple dialogue.
Poetry. "The range, across space and different habitats on earth, is striking and impressive. These poems exhibit an extremely attractive way of regarding the world, and are not afraid to be aesthetic and metaphysical, replete with myths and jewels."--Peter Forbes
Poetry. Fiction. California Interest. Translated from the Spanish by David Shook. This mystery novel in verse won Mexico's highest literary honor in 2009, the Xavier Villaurutia Prize. Here, it is translated by Bolaño's translator, Dylan Thomas Prize shortlisted poet David Shook. The novel centers around Mr. Gordon, who, after being let go from his job due to his unstable behaviour, experiences the unfolding of his spirit in an artificial Californian Eden. In the shade of a thousand-leaved tree, very near a pool's edge, Gordon transcribes his thoughts, memories and questions while he tries to cope with abuse from his wife and his best friend, and battle dialogues emanating from an interior voice reminding us of Berryman's Mr. Bones. DEATH ON RUA AUGUSTA is the diary of a person who cannibalizes themselves. In this important narrative poem, Tedi López Mills dives magisterially into the machine of the mind to locate the fine line that keeps us tied to the world. A chapter-based novel in poetry form, Tedi López Mills has written DEATH ON RUA AUGUSTA in the magical realist tradition, drawing on film noir and West Coast thrillers--making this a cinematically surreal and strange delight for all readers.
Poetry. TREE LANGUAGE is told in shard-like poems of supreme richness and finely balanced darkness--variously shaped, whittled to a point, almost sharp enough to draw blood. And although this is a book spiked with brambles and skeletal branches, shot through with frost and fossilled with plant-bones, blood is the slick thread that sews together its themes and landscapes: war and personal tragedy, daffodils and poppies, Jerusalem, Scotland, colour and desolation.
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