Let Me Tell You What I Saw is the first ever dual-language (English/Arabic) publication of substantial extracts from Adnan Al-Sayegh’s ground-breaking epic poem, Uruk’s Anthem, one of the longest poems ever written in Arabic literature, which gives voice to the profound despair of the Iraqi experience. Available now. 

It’s time to put on your festive thinking caps and send in your best seasonal poems for our annual Christmas Poetry Competition. The winning poem will be published on our blog in December and the winner will receive a book bundle and festive hamper. Entries close 23:59 on Sunday 15th November. Enter now. 

Written following a move from London to Cornwall, Katrina Naomi's new collection Wild Persistence considers distance and closeness, and questions how to live. Buy now.

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In her second collection, We Could Be Anywhere by Now, Katherine Stansfield brings us poems about placement and displacement full of both wry comedy and uneasy tension. Buy now.

Cath Drake brings us an artful and edgy debut collection where the shaking city of its title is a metaphor for the swiftly changing precarity of modern life within the looming climate emergency, and the unease of the narrator who is far from home.​ Buy now.