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Featuring Sasha Dugdale Tim Dooley Paul Deaton Fleur Adcock Ahren Warner & more. The PBS Winter 2017 Bulletin marks the launch of a brand new, full-colour redesign, with extended reviews, more sneak preview poems and an extra guest selector slot! The PBS Choice for this quarter is Sasha Dugdale's excellent Joy , alongside Recommendations of Paul Deaton's A Watchful Astronomy, Tim Dooley's Weemoed , Anne Michaels' All We Saw and Ahren Warner's Hello. Your promise has been extracted. For each of these our selectors have produced detailed reviews, alongside insights provided by the poets themselves. Further write-ups are offered for our Recommended Translation, Ana Blandiana's The Sun of Hereafter - Ebb of the Senses, the Special Commendation Hoard by Fleur Adcock, and Pamphlet Choice Guppy Primer by Ruth McIlroy. Andrew McMillan, our guest selector, also writes a recommendation for Wayne Holloway-Smith's Alarum . Finally, eighteen short reviews of other new books complete this essential guide to upcoming publications in the world of poetry.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Winter 2019 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. WINTER SELECTIONS October, November, December 2019 Choice: TBC Recommendations: TBC Commendation: TBC Wild Card: TBC Translation: TBC

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The quarterly poetry magazine of the Poetry Book Society, founded by T.S. Eliot, featuring poems and exclusive interviews from Victoria Kennefick, Isabel Galleymore, Gillian Clarke, Rachel Mann, Jane Hirshfield, Rosa Campbell, Bunny Lang, and Maria Stepanova.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. Our Autumn 2024 Selections are:Choice Signs, Music - Raymond Antrobus PicadorRecommendations AGIMAT - Romalyn Ante - PenguinThe Keelie Hawk, Poems in Scots - Kathleen Jamie - PicadorStrange Husbandry - Lorcan Black - SerenBLUFF - Danez Smith - PenguinSpecial Commendation Adam - Gboyega Odubanjo - FaberTranslation Choice Birds, Beasts and a World Made New - Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, translated by Robert Chandler - Pushkin PressPamphlet Choice Sometimes Real Love Comes Quick and Easy - Janine Bradbury - ig

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. The Winter 2022 Bulletin magazine is as thought-provoking as ever with poems and commentaries from emerging and established poets. The PBS Winter Choice Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa re-examines the slave trade and interprets the voice of her Barbadian ancestors through innovative dance notation and movement across the page. Nina Mingya Powles reviews the "gorgeously sticky" Pamphlet Choice Mother of Flip Flops by Mukahang Limbu who takes us from Cowley Road, Oxford, to Nepal. The Translation Choice Laura Doyle Pean delves into mental health in Yo-Yo Heart (87 Press) translated by Stuart Bell. A E Stallings takes us back to ancient Greece via modern motherhood. Arji Manuelpillai confronts Sri Lanka's traumatic past in Improvised Explosive Device (Penned in the Margins) and Selina Nwulu examines Black British experience, migration and grief in her formidable debut A Little Resurrection (Bloomsbury). Fran Lock channels "queer working class rage" in her astonishing White/Other (87 Press) and Philip Gross takes us to a celestial plane with The Thirteenth Angel (Bloodaxe). You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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The Poetry Book Society's quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major worldwide poets, reviews and extensive listings. The Spring Bulletin 2019 features Rachael Allen, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, Rebecca Tamas, Amish Trivedi, Jane Yeh, Marilyn Hacker, Mariano Peyrou, Igor Klikovac, Fiona Benson. You may like to consider our membership options to get your Bulletin and books every quarter.

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The Winter 2020 Bulletin features Fred D'Aguiar, Safiya Sinclair, Bill Manhire, Daisy Lafarge, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Matthew Sweeney, William Gee, Maram al-Masri Translated by Theo Dorgan and Kiwao Nomura Translated by Eric Selland.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems and exclusive interviews with all the selected poets, insightful reviews by our Book Selectors Jo Clement, Roy Mcfarlane, Shivanee Ramlochan, Arji Manuelpillai and Nina Mingya Powles. Plus micro reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. The Winter 2023 Bulletin magazine is full of crossings and re-connections. It features poems, reviews and commentary from the PBS Winter Choice Kwame Dawes whose new collection Sturge Town (Peepal Tree) journeys through memory and geography from Ghana to Jamaica and Nebraska. The Translation Choice, Sea in My Bones (the87press) by Juana Goergen, translated by Silvia Tandeciarz crosses between Spanish, Taino, and Yoruba in a multilingual celebration of indigenous Caribbean peoples. Marjorie Lotfi reveals her refugee experience fleeing Iran as a child in her debut The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe). Fahad Al-Amoudi uncovers the tale of an exiled Ethiopian prince in his astonishing debut pamphlet When The Flies Come (ignition press). Jasmine Cooray's Inheritance (Bad Betty Press) bequeaths us hopeful and resilient poems for when life and love are unexpectedly cut short. "America's favourite poet" Billy Collins brings some much needed humour to the table and celebrates the short poem in his new collection Musical Tables (Picador). David Wheatley sings of mushrooms, ancient forests and curious toddlers in Child Ballad (Carcanet) and Kostya Tsolakis re-examines Greekness and queer identity in his innovative debut Greekling (Nine Arches Press). You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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Our Summer 2018 Bulletin is a bumper issue, with gorgeous cover art by Emma Holliday! Along with articles on Choice Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo and our Recommendations, we have not one but two Special Commendations, our next Wild Card Choice selected by Anthony Anaxagorou, and featured poetry by the winners of our student poetry competition, judged by Sam Buchan-Watts. We also have our regular short review slots, many of these penned by guest and student reviewers, and a comprehensive listing of new poetry publications. This is essential summer reading!

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The Poetry Book Society's quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major worldwide poets, reviews and extensive listings. The Spring 2021 Bulletin features Jen Hadfield, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Michael Symmons Roberts, Tiffany Atkinson, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Holly Pester, Isabelle Baafi and Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale. You may like to consider our membership options to get your Bulletin and books every quarter. To subscribe please visit the PBS webite.

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The Poetry Book Society Spring Bulletin for 2018 features writing from Spring Choice poet Sophie Collins regarding Who Is Mary Sue?, as well as pieces from Recommended poets Hannah Sullivan, Kaveh Akbar, Robin Robertson and Phoebe Power. These are accompanied by comments from the selectors and numerous extracts from their works. The selectors also provide pieces on the Recommended Translation Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku, the Special Commendation Selected Poems 1971-2017 by Laurie Duggan, and the Pamphlet Choice Bottle by Ramona Herdman. Eighteen short reviews of poetry books for Spring reading complete the publication, along with a catalogue of works available for purchase (PBS Members receive 25% discount on all titles!)

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems and exclusive interviews with all the selected poets, insightful reviews by our Book Selectors Jo Clement, Roy Mcfarlane, Harry Josephine Giles, Arji Manuelpillai and Nina Mingya Powles. Plus micro reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. The Autumn 2023 Bulletin magazine features poems, reviews and commentary from the PBS Autumn Choice Daljit Nagra whose playful mock epic Indiom (Faber) re-examines empire, language and class in India. The Translation Choice Lutz Seiler, translated by Stefan Tobler, crosses between industrial, rural and suburban landscapes of East Germany in Pitch & Glint (And Other Stories). Mary Jean Chan delves into queer identity, SARS and Hong Kong in her luminous second collection Bright Fear (Faber). Jacqueline Saphra considers her Jewish identity in Vevel's Violin (Nine Arches Press). US poet Terrance Hayes brings us formal innovation and powerful testimony in So to Speak (Penguin) and we celebrate the astonishing lifetime achievements of Mary Oliver in her new selected poems, Devotions (Corsair). You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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The Poetry Book Society's quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major worldwide poets, reviews and extensive listings.The Autumn 2020 Bulletin features David Morley, Sean Borodale, Kate Miller, Nina Mingya Powles, Mervyn Taylor, Gerdur Kristny, Rachel Long, Cheryl Pearson, Terence Dooley and Mesandel Virtusio Arguelles, translated by Kristine Ong Muslim.

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The final issue in our new horizons set of covers, the art for the Autumn Bulletin was kindly provided by local painter Ivan Lindsay. This edition features pieces by both selectors and poets for the PBS Choice The Illegal Age by Ellen Hinsey, recommendations As Slow as Possible by Kit Fan, playtime by Andrew McMillan, The Distal Point by Fiona Moore, and Feral by Kate Potts. The Special Commendation is To the Many, a collection of the works of Lola Ridge. The Recommended Translation is Poems by Sextus Propertius, translated by Patrick Worsnip. The Pamphlet Choice is Fishtank by Selima Hill, and the Wild Card is Us by Zaffar Kunial. The remainder of the Bulletin is packed with poetry excerpts and eighteen short reviews of other upcoming titles.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Summer 2019 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. SUMMER SELECTIONS April, May, June 2019 Choice: Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky (Faber) Recommendations: Surge, Jay Bernard (Chatto) Erato, Deryn Rees-Jones (Seren) The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here, Vidyan Ravinthiran (Bloodaxe) Hand & Skull, Zoe Brigley (Bloodaxe) Commendation: Whereas, Layli Long Soldier (Picador) Wild Card: The Half God of Rainfall, Inua Ellams (Harper Collins) Translation: The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes, Lieke Marsman, trans. Sophie Collins (Pavilion Press)Pamphlet Choice: Lantern, Seán Hewitt (Offord Road)

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The quarterly poetry magazine of the Poetry Book Society, founded by T S Eliot, featuring poems and exclusive interviews by Lucy Mercer, Sylvia Legris, Denise Saul, Ocean Vuong, Helen Bowell, Holly Hopkins, Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Claire Trevien, plus reviews and listings.

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The quarterly poetry magazine of the Poetry Book Society, founded by T S Eliot, featuring poems and exclusive interviews. The Spring issue includes Emily Berry, Will Alexander, Jessica Traynor, Warsan Shire, Fiona Benson and more. Plus extensive reviews of books, pamphlets and a complete listings of all new poetry.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems and exclusive interviews with all the selected poets, insightful reviews by our Book Selectors Jo Clement, Roy Mcfarlane, Shivanee Ramlochan, Arji Manuelpillai and Nina Mingya Powles. Plus micro reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. The Summer 2024 edition features poems and commentary from Paul Muldoon, Hannah Copley, Harry Josephine Giles, Jackie Kay, Tamar Yoseloff, Imtiaz Dharker, Karin Karaka?li, Canan Mara?ligil, Sarah Howe, Jay Bernard, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris, and Nisha Ramayya.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter. The Spring 2023 Bulletin magazine is a globe trotting extravaganza with thought-provoking poems and commentaries from leading international poets. The PBS Spring Choice Jason Allen-Paisant maps experiences of black masculinity from Africa to the streets of Europe and leads us back to the Renaissance Venice of Othello. The Translation Choice Agnes Agboton travels across three languages via Lawrence Schimel's skilful translations from Benin to Spain. Sarala Estruch takes us to her ancestry in Amritsar in India and Liz Berry relives her great aunt's journey to Canada as a Home Child in her unique new novel-in-verse. The Spring Pamphlet Choice Ellora Sutton offers a rare "songthrush" of a debut which explores queerness, history and nature with formal dexterity. Will Harris revels in persona and other in his playful Brother Poems and there's a poignant tribute to Carole Satyamurti's posthumous collection The Hopeful Hat. You can find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2019 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. AUTUMN SELECTIONSJuly, Aug, Sept 2019Choice: Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Picador)Recommendations: Mary Jean Chan, Flèche (Faber)Peter Sirr, The Gravity Wave (Gallery)Seni Seneviratne, Unknown Soldier (Peepal Tree)Anthony Anaxagorou, After the Formalities (Penned in the Margins)Commendation: Carmen Bugan, Lilies from America – New & Selected (Shearsman)Wild Card: Dunya Mikhail, In Her Feminine Sign (Carcanet Press)Translation: Manuel Forcano, Maps of Desire (Arc)

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The quarterly poetry magazine from the Poetry Book Society featuring poems and interviews with Polly Atkin, Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo, Ian Duhig, Tua Forsström, Harry Josephine Giles, Owen Lowery, Lila Matsumoto, Stephanie Sy-Quia, Fathima Zahra and more, plus extensive reviews and listings.

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The quarterly poetry magazine of the Poetry Book Society, founded by T.S. Eliot, featuring poems and exclusive interviews with Kazim Ali, Rebecca Perry, Kayo Chingonyi, Alice Hiller, Luke Kennard, Leo Boix and more. Plus extensive reviews and a complete listings of all new poetry.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter.The Autumn 2022 Bulletin features Sandeep Parmar, Zaffar Kunial, Mark Pajak, Don Paterson, Alycia Pirmohamed, Jorie Graham, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata translated by Marilyn Hacker.

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The Poetry Book Society's quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major worldwide poets, reviews and extensive listings.

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The Poetry Book Society's quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major worldwide poets, reviews and extensive listings. The Summer 2020 Bulletin features Bhanu Kapil, Ella Frears, Ranjit Hoskote, Natalie Diaz, Sean Hewitt, Grace Nicholls, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Alycia Pirmohamed, Loretta Collins-Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan. You may like to consider our membership options to get your Bulletin and books every quarter. To subscribe please visit the PBS webite.

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The Poetry Book Society's quarterly poetry magazine featuring sneak preview poems, exclusive interviews with major worldwide poets, reviews and extensive listings.The Spring 2020 Bulletin features Will Harris, Carolyn Forché, Danez Smith, Marvin Thompson, Claire Crowther, Srinivas Rayaprol, Christel Wiinblad, Jennifer Wong and Síofra McSherry.

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The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews and extensive reviews. Find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk. The Summer 2023 Bulletin magazine offers a "lesson in empathy" with powerful poems and commentaries from major worldwide poets. The PBS Summer Choice Bread and Circus by Airea D Matthews takes a formally innovative and unflinching look at class, race and poverty in the US. The Summer Pamphlet Choice Karen Downs-Barton re-examines the care system and explores her roots in the travelling community. Majella Kelly exhumes Ireland's dark history of mistreatment towards unmarried mothers in The Speculations of Country People. Adam Lowe celebrates polari and queer identity in Patterflash. Lisa Kelly brings D/Deaf communities to the forefront and the PBS Special Commendation Out of Sri Lanka presents the first ever UK anthology of Sri Lankan and diaspora poetry. In the PBS Translation Choice Taylor Strickland revives the long-forgotten Gaelic language poet (and tutor to Bonny Prince Charlie) Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and readers can also enjoy a rare interview with the brilliant Selima Hill and her editor Neil Astley.

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This edition features pieces by both selectors and poets for the PBS Choice The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus, recommendations Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie, The Weather in Normal by Carrie Etter, The Healing Next Time by Roy McFarlane, and The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe. The Special Commendation is The Coming of the Little Green Man. The Recommended Translation is David Constantine's translation of the works of Friedrich Holderlin. The Pamphlet Choice is The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry, and the Wild Card is Rabbit by Sophie Robinson. The remainder of the Bulletin is packed with poetry excerpts and eighteen short reviews of other upcoming titles

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The Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Choice. The fourth Carcanet collection from Guyanese-British poet Fred D'Aguiar.

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The debut collection by a contributor to the acclaimed New Poetries V anthology. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between ‘animal’ and ‘human’. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training their focus on the language we use to describe youth, social class, and the body. From iron horses to grizzly bears, from deep-water fish to scanderoons, Feral roams the limits of power, language, and love. Cinematic, playful, edgy, tender, startlingly imaginative and strange, Feral’s voices carve out a space in the borderlands. Kate Potts' Whichever Music was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice in 2008 and shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Her first book-length collection, Pure Hustle, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011. Feral is her second collection and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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'Like the Living End', an elegy occasioned by the sudden death of a school friend, is the centre-piece of this gathering of poems completed since The Returning Sky (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Described as 'the finest poet of his generation' and 'the finest poet alive when it comes to the probing of shifts in atmosphere, mome

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A Poetry Book Society Spring 2021 Special Commendation. Edited by Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe, this is the latest in Carcanet's celebrated introductory anthology series presenting work by two dozen poets writing in English from around the world.

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Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation This selection introduces a major poet who is also a business studies professor, a combination which may explain his vigorous questioning of human values in poetry which asks 'What is worthwhile?' His poems are characterized by simplicity and clarity, narrative and reasoning: he claims they 'at least promise to be about the important things in everyone's life.'

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Wayne Holloway-Smith's second collection Love Minus Love is an internal universe, fragmented and glued back together with uncanny logic. A strange layering of time, in which multiple things happen at once, in a looping track of intrusive thoughts – shot through with dead cows, pop songs, dead dads, the white noise of televisions – rotten teeth are raining everywhere. Somewhere at the core of all this, the seemingly fixed boundaries of masculinity, family, trauma and mental health are blurred towards a new type of vinegary identity, in a pitch of emotional intensity that punches you right in the gut. Wayne Holloway-Smith's debut collection Alarum was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and the Roehampton Poetry Prize as well as being a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. His poem 'the posh mums are dancing in the square' – included in Love Minus Love – won first prize in the Poetry Society's 2018 National Poetry Competition. Love Minus Love is shortlisted for the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize and is also a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.

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Tracey Herd’s long awaited new collection was inspired by the late actress Elizabeth Hartman’s lifelong struggle with mental illness and by her own experience of living with clinical depression. The book examines the eternal bonds of love and friendship and the joys, grief and losses which imbue the human experience. These deeply personal yet vibrant poems also use the mediums of film, music and memory to create a collection which reverberates with pain and yet still finds small moments of happiness to savour. Not in This World, Tracey Herd’s third collection from Bloodaxe, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her debut, No Hiding Place (1996) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and her second collection, Dead Redhead (2001), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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Amy Key is a poet and writer based in London. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn't Forever, which was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman and The Times. Her poems have been widely published and anthologised, and her essays have appeared in At the Pond, Granta, the Poetry Review and elsewhere.

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A Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2024. In her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith and the limits of myth and language intersect and are tested. Eleanor Among the Saints is a study in the queer joy found in counter-factuals and fantasy, shaped through the prism of the disputed story of Eleanor Rykener, a medieval trans woman, seamstress and sex worker.

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A Poetry Book Society Summer Recommendation 2023 BBC Poetry Extra's Book of the Month August 2023 This, Lisa Kelly's second collection, responds to the repression of British Sign Language (BSL) as its occasion and inspiration. Kelly develops the subject through extended sequences which attend to mushrooms and fungi, lifeforms that develop in secret, unnoticed, unappreciated, yet whose existence enriches everyday life. What can such hidden others teach us - if we attune all our senses?

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In "How Now!" Alan Moore treats themes of love, evil, and personal loss with gentle humour and tough seriousness. He evokes memories of Ireland in the sixties, seventies and eighties, capturing flashes of awareness from childhood, youth and adult years with masterful description of emotion and settings. This absorbing work is his second collection of poems, following "Opia", a Poetry Book Society Choice in 1986, which was described by Ciaran Carty as 'a virtuoso first collection'.

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A Poetry Book Society recommendationArranged in three parts - the first concerning other people's lives, the second autobiographical, the third to do with the poet's travels in Mexico - Corona, Corona displays to the full Michael Hofmann's gift for compressed and vividly pointed reportage. It offers some of the boldest, frankest and most searching poetry of our time.

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After the huge success of Nil Nil (a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the Forward Prize best first collection), Don Paterson's second collection was impatiently awaited. His readers were not disappointed. In God's Gift to Women, straight autobiography mixes with invention, exaggeration, technical dazzle and sheer cheek to produce a book quite unlike any other.

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Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage's meteoric rise to poetic stardom. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1989 and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. The e-book edition of Zoom! incorporates audio files for 18 of the poems using recordings Simon Armitage made for Peter Sansom in Huddersfield in 1989. So the voice you hear is that of Simon Armitage, then aged 26, when he was still working as a probation officer and had just published his first book of poems.

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This work is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. "Forms of Distance" is Bei Dao's second bilingual collection since his enforced exile from China in 1989. Michael Hofmann described the first, "Old Snow", as 'the work of one of the great poets of our time', and John Cayley wrote in the "Times Literary Supplement" that 'in a sense he is the only contemporary Chinese poet who is knowable for the non-specialist...we can hear the maturing poetic voice of a highly talented, individual Chinese writer.'

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Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011) was a much celebrated Palestinian poet whose work is driven by a storyteller’s vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Born in rural Galilee, Muhammad Ali was left without a home when his village was destroyed during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Out of this history of shared loss and survival, he created art of the first order. His poems portray experiences ranging from catastrophe to splendour, all the while preserving an essential human dignity. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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This title is a Poetry Book Society recommended translation. In this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though deeply rooted in the West Norwegian landscape which he evokes so memorably, Hauge's poetry has a kinship in background and temperament with that of Robert Frost, while also sharing the wry humour and cool economy of William Carlos Williams and Brecht, whom he translated. Often epigrammatic, yet lyrical in impulse, his poems have a serenity which makes them unusually rewarding.

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These intimate, visceral and often wickedly funny poems journey through the darker days of new parenthood, teasing out the anxieties which plague us when night falls. Violence against women, the destruction of our environment, the poisons and pitfalls of 21st-century living are explored here in poems by turns lyrical and earthy, yearning and angry. They mine gold from the darkness and seek luminescence in the deepest oceans. Pit Lullabies is Jessica Traynor’s third collection, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Ireland’s Dedalus Press. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. In Haywire she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through intense, powerful lyrics, she explores how these histories intertwine and influence her childhood memories and the retelling of her family's stories. Sorrow, death, imprisonment, and desire are some of the themes that echo deeply in Lleshanaku's beautiful poems. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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