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<p><strong>“Grief, loss and the haunting power of memory are some of the themes deftly explored in this open and vulnerable collection. A skilful, impassioned dive into both the pain and comforts of nostalgia, <em>In Orbit</em> weaves its ideas into elaborate shape poems, zooming out to behold...
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<p>What constitutes a republic? Not Wales, a nation subject to military claims on its landscape and a second home explosion which has hollowed out its communities. The achievement of a republic can be a subversive activity, as was the writing of <em>Republic</em>.</p><p><em>Republic</em> is about class,...
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<p><strong>Read Judy's poem ‘Greenery’ on the <a href="https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/poem/greenery/">National Poetry Day website</a></strong></p><p> </p><p>Lairs brings together something primal and secret – the lair as haven for a wild...
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<h3>Featured as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/12/poem-of-the-week-7th-nerve... Poem of the Week</a></h3><p> </p><p><em>Goliat</em> is the long-awaited follow-up to Hooson’s debut collection <em>The Other City</em>. The title poem takes us...
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<p><em>Escape Room</em> is the long-awaited debut collection of poems from Bryony Littlefair, following her Mslexia prize winning pamphlet <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/giraffe"><em>Giraffe</em></a>.... is a collection exploring the possibilities of freedom...
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<h2>Winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021</h2><p><em> Angola, America</em>, winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021, takes its name from a prison in Louisiana in the southern United Sates. In these strikingly original, thoroughly contemporary, and deeply moving poems by poet Sammy...
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<p><strong>“A stunning and original pamphlet... inspiring, impressive and wonderful.” – The London Grip</strong></p><p> </p><p>Kathryn Bevis’s <em>Flamingo</em> introduces us to a troupe of wild, unique, and captivating...
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<p>Hilary Llewellyn-Williams is one of the most renowned poets of her generation in Wales. <em>The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems</em> features poems from her earliest as well as her latest work.</p><p>Fully immersed in the natural world, the ‘Tree Calendar’ poems are composed in a richly...
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<p>'<em>All of this has been written before,</em></p><p><em>in the godless corners at the back of churches,</em></p><p><em>in the dirt of cotton-fields-corn-fields-battle-fields-</em></p><p><em>in the dirt, any way.'</em></p><p>-...
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<h4>Foreword by Nerys Williams</h4><p> </p><h2>Also available as a <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/collected-poems-complete-set">... Set</a> for just £30.00</h2><p> </p><p><strong>“Since the...
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<h4>Foreword by Ian McMillan</h4><h4> </h4><h2>Also available as a <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/collected-poems-complete-set">... for just £30.00</h2><p> </p><p><strong>“Since the early 1970s, Finch has been the...
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<h4>Forewords by Nerys Williams and Ian McMillan</h4><div> </div><h3>Also available as individual volumes</h3><p> </p><p><strong>“Finch’s legacy is to create substance from nothing, to defy our knowledge of decay and...
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<h2>With Phil Cope, Viviana Fiorentino, Mahyar, Csilla Toldy and Glen Wilson</h2><p> </p><p><strong>“A necessary and urgent response to the world’s increasing crises…” – Robert Minhinnick</strong></p><p><...
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<p><strong>‘A stunning collection. Much of what you’d anticipate to find is here: the lyricism, the haunting evocations of memory, of loss, of absence... and an exploration of song in itself. What makes his poetry so effective is the nuances of white space and the spaces between words... The suggestiveness of his...
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<p>In <em>Homelands</em>, his debut collection, Eric Ngalle Charles draws on his early life raised by the matriarchs of Cameroon, being sent to Moscow by human traffickers, and finding a new home in Wales. Rich in tone, subject and emotion, Charles’ poetry moves between the present and the past, between Africa and...
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<h3>Longlisted for the Barbellion Prize</h3><p> </p><p><strong><em>“Hannah Hodgson takes us to the paradoxical heart of poetry itself: to be held inside a pain both intensified and soothed by the sheer brilliant presence of the poet’s mind.” – Caroline Bird...
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<p>This ambitious new collection from poet and critic Ben Wilkinson finds its author experimenting with poetic voice and the dramatic monologue. Carefully crafted yet charged with contemporary language, the book brims with everyone from cage fighters to boy-racers, cancer patients to whales in captivity.</p><p>Several poems...
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<p>Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s new poetry collection is both keenly political and deeply personal. The opening poem ‘now’ features a seemingly peaceful domestic scene of a family lounging at home as the starting point for meditation on history, time, mortality and the fate of the planet: <em>I think of...
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<h4>Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022</h4><p><strong>Poetry Book Society Winter Selection 2021</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Much With Body</em> is the startlingly original second collection by poet Polly Atkin. The beauty of the Lake District is both balm...
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<h3>Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022</h3><p> </p><p><strong><em>“All the Men I Never Married</em> is a work of immense focus, intelligence and integrity.” – <em>The Yorkshire Times</em></strong></p><p>...
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<p><strong>Winner of the <em>Mslexia</em> Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2020</strong></p><p><em>Other Women’s Kitchens</em> is Alison Binney’s debut pamphlet of poems and introduces us to a gifted new voice who writes with flair and feeling about coming out...
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<p><em>’Your museum is permanently magical… some in poems have raised fine architectural edifices, but most rare have been those who… have built a poem.’ – </em>Isaac D’Israeli to Sir John Soane, 1838</p><p>Universally captivating, Sir John Soane...
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<p>This confident second collection by Dai George addresses the contentious nature of the times. Always deeply thoughtful but also alternately ebullient, angry, curious, ashamed, the poet moves through urban and digital spaces feeling both uneasy and exhilarated. As with the Auden of the inter-war period, there is...
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<p><em>Auscultation</em> means listening and specifically, in medicine, listening to sounds that come from the body’s internal organs. If listening is a central theme of this collection, it is also about being heard. Ilse Pedler is poet of breadth and depth. There are poems about waiting rooms and surgical instruments,...
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