Remains of a Future City

Zoë Skoulding

These vibrant, multi-layered poems create a textual city of monuments, castles, bridges and labyrinths through which the reader is invited to wander. Such visions carry within them both hints of utopia and the seeds of disaster, as the future city is haunted by its ruins …

Batu-Angas, Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace

Anne Cluysenaar

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), one of the most famous scientists of the 19th century and best known today as the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution, is the inspiration for this beautiful sequence of poems by Anne Cluysenaar …

Blind Spots

Carol Rumens

Certain to be one of the most read and talked-about poetry collections of the year, Blind Spots is a masterclass of inventive, intelligent, original, and relevant modern poetry.
A major voice in contemporary verse, Carol Rumens is admired as much for her technical brilliance as for the range, breadth and subtlety of her subject matter …

Qwerty

Paul Groves


This fresh collection contains not only the type of ironic, sly, and coolly witty poems we have come to expect from this writer but also material with quirky turns, melancholic hints, and playful flourishes. This book will delight existing fans and recruit many new ones …

Sunday at the Skin Launderette

Kathryn Simmonds

Shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection, also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

Quietly persuasive and formally adept, the poems in Kathryn Simmonds´ first collection engage with both the quotidian and the transcendental…

Academe

Paul Groves

Paul Groves’s first volume confirms the promise which has marked him out as one of the most engaging poetic voices of recent years. Crystalline, deft, and exhilaratingly ironic, these poems deserve a wide audience ...