The Treekeeper's Tale

Pascale Petit

Already well known for the fierce confessional imagery of her first three books, Pascale Petit's The Treekeeper's Tale points towards another facet of her gift as a poet, an intense feeling for the natural world, allied with a personal response to historical incidents and to other lands …

Publication November 2008

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 …

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 …

"Cluysenaar's delicate and graceful poems (framed with quotations from Wallace and images of the animals and plants he collected) deftly explore the channels that Wallace's journeys opened up.  Cluysenaar's work articulates the tension between the slow evolution of a species and the scope and value of a single life …"
The Guardian, October 2008
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Leslie Norris: The Complete Poems

Meic Stephens

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Edited by Meic Stephens and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, this landmark publication of more than 300 poems reflects the sixty plus year publishing life of the late Leslie Norris, who died in 2007, aged 86. Norris was best known as a nature poet and elegist of passion and rare expression …

Women's Work

eds Eva Salzman & Amy Wack


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Three years in the making, and with over 250 contributors, this generous selection of poetry by women with an emphasis on twentieth-century poetry in English features poets from the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, and New Zealand …

Long Haul Travellers

Sheenagh Pugh

Elisions, displacements, journeys, memories of journeys, dreams: this new collection of poems by Sheenagh Pugh has a pervasive elegiac quality. Known for her incisive narratives, many of these new poems work more by implication than explication …

Sunday at the Skin Launderette

Kathryn Simmonds

Shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection, longlisted for the Guardian's First Book Award and 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 ...

Altered States

Catherine Fisher

The fate of an Italian icon damaged by floods, a Victorian skeleton, and a Vampire Ballet are amongst the many unusual subjects of the poems in this new collection by Catherine Fisher. Lyrical grace combined with a sharp eye for imagery and a precise use of language are her hallmarks ...