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George Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to his arrival in England as a young child, and to the themes of identity, memory, belonging, war, and upheaval, with a sequence on living now in a country under siege from coronavirus.

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Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of compassionate and energetic sonnets are fictionalised portraits of 'The Kids', the students she nurtured. But the poems go further, meeting her own child self as she comes of age in the riotous 80s and 90s, later bearing witness to her small son learning to negotiate contemporary London. Across these deeply felt poems, Lowe interrogates the acts of...

Claire Askew's electrifying second collection is an investigation of power: the power of oppressive systems and their hold over those within them, the power of resilience, the power of the human heart. It licks flame across the imagination, and rewrites narratives of human desire. It is a collection for anyone who has ever run through their life 'backwards/ in the dark, / with no map' - these bright poems illuminate the way. How to burn a woma...

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Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation'. Like his previous book from Bloodaxe, "Natural History and Other Poems" (2006), this new collection is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. It takes its title from a children's game.

. In her third collection Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present. . These visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures. . Miracles are found in the everyday, in a child's sleep or a lit-up house, igniting conversations about place, time and the tender paradoxes of mortality.

. Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and literature. . Shall We Go? is her eighth book of poetry, following her Bloodaxe retrospective, Very: New & Selected Poems (2008) and later collection Track (2014).

. Rebecca Perry is one of Britain's most exciting young poetic talents. . Her first collection was shortlisted for the UK's most significant award for poetry, the T.S. Eliot Prize, and for several other awards, winning the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. . Stone Fruit is a second collection in three parts relating to memory and grief, beaches and her teenage years as a competitive trampolinist.

In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach, his task, to prove the existence of wonders in the world and create a new book of marvels. Discoveries include Jasconius the island-whale, a troop of Arctic ghosts, a hellmouth of tortured souls, a rock-bound Ju...

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This second collection from one of Britain's most innovative poets is an exploration of identity in the face of loss. At its heart is a series of poems about the desolation of miscarriage. Chrissy Williams' first collection Bear (Bloodaxe) was one of The Telegraph's 50 Best Books of the Year in 2017.

The living and the dead are working side by side in John Challis's dramatic debut collection, The Resurrectionists. Whether in London's veg and meat markets, far below the Dartford Crossing, or on the edge of the Western world, these poems journey into a buried and sometimes violent landscape to locate the traces of ourselves that remain.

A major figure in American poetry, the author has always been a total outsider, defiantly unfashionable and publishing only four books in five decades. Initially associated with the Beats, he left America after winning the Yale Younger Poets Prize with "Views of Jeopardy" in 1962, eking out a living for many years on Greek islands.

. The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but becomes an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change in Penelope Shuttle's new poems. . In her preface to this book, Penelope Shuttle writes: "Lyonesse is a place of paradox, both real and historical as well as an imaginary region for exploring depths. It holds grief for many kinds of loss... The poem...

An exquisite collection from a poet at the peak of her powers, A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. Extending the territory of her zeitgeist collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, these new poems traverse history, from the cosmic to the quotidian.

Robert Hass is a major American poet of world stature. This is the first book of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 20 years, and the first selected edition of his work, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

. Now in her mid-80s, Fleur Adcock has become over six decades one of the major figures in poetry in both the UK, where she has lived since 1969, as well as in her native New Zealand. . Her national honours include receiving an OBE in 1996, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006, both presented by H.M. the Queen, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry presented to her in 2019 by the Rt Hon Jacinda Arde...

Dom Bury's Rite of Passage is an initiation into what it means to be alive on the planet in the midst of extinction, of climate, environmental and systematic collapse. It is a journey into the shadow of man's distorted relationship with the earth. And yet in the utter darkness of this hour, these often provocative poems suggest that there is hope. That we have had to come to the edge of our own annihilation as a species to collectively shift h...

. As with her debut Fortune Cookie, the poems in Jenna Clake's second collection Museum of Ice Cream all relate to food. . Poems ostensibly about chocolate, ice cream and peanut butter are explorations of secrecy, intimacy and fear. . Her quirky poems are startling and disturbing but also strangely humorous.