During the latter phases of covid, Isobel Williams completed the challenge of completing her celebrated translations of Catullus. It joins Carcanet's celebrated Classics series, and like its incomplete predecessor it is illustrated with bondage drawings by the translator herself.
Michael Edwards' new collection consists of 92 poems forming a single long poem that recounts the finding of another world in moments, often dramatic, sometimes everyday, which become doorstones, thresholds.
This first collection by New Poetries poet and Telegraph poetry editor is at once brilliantly witty in language and formal ambition, and wryly dark in its themes.
Letford's long-awaited third book is a tour de force of storytelling and poetry that has the narrative punch of a novel, taking us to the not-too-distant-future, where an artificial intelligence rules the world and a working-class family use their wits to live off the land.
Fred D'Aguiar's new collection connects the condition of namelessness of a famous black jockey with a present-day need to give back to those lost souls the dignity of their names.
With the world turned upside down following the sudden death of a same sex partner, the poet works through the aftermath, negotiating the people and 'stuff' left behind, and transforming difficult lived experience by interrogating language as a means to process grief and loss, ultimately finding love, hope and catharsis.
The second Carcanet poetry collection from Peter Davidson is a book of elegies and consolations for dead friends, past times, and spiritual consolations.
The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection has its face turned towards the future, considering how we face the ever-continuing approach of the unknown.
