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 …

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 …

Other Beasts

Sarah Corbett

From the first sumptuous poem, ‘Birthday’ where the protagonist, running at night, thinks of her body as a “nocturnal bloom”, the reader is immersed in the compelling voice of Sarah Corbett. From her first book, The Red Wardrobe, nominated for both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prize, we are familiar with the world she portrays …

From the Interior: Poems 1995-2005

Petr Borkovec

Petr Borkovec is a young Czech poet who is making a name for himself across Europe and beyond. From the Interior is the first generous selection of his work to appear in English and draws on work from his five collections in Czech. Translated by Justin Quinn, the work focuses variously on the natural world and on human relationships, though viewed through the objects with which people surround themselves …

Publication September 2008

Moonrise

Meirion Jordan

Finely held moods and moments resonate throughout this unusually accomplished first book. The rich, complex history of Wales often crops up in expected, as in the post industrial imagery of ‘A Camera at Senghenydd Pit’, and then, in often unexpected contexts …