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Charm Offensive, Ross White's debut poetry collection, explores the space between Dickinson's directive to tell the truth slant and the universal reality of seeing the truth slant without knowing it. Charting the ways that tenderness can resolve into dissonance and uncertainty can resolve into transcendence, Charm Offensive crackles with the dangers of being alive and the joys of remaining defiant. At turns playful and surreal, exuberant and s...

90 poems by a 90 year old American poet on the edge of America, in California - casting a cold eye on life, death, passion and despair

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From the cobbled streets of Prague, to the rivers and coastlines of the Scottish Borders, Pilgrims journeys through place and time, juxtaposing totalitarian authority in communist Czechoslovakia, fishing communities left without menfolk following storms in the North Sea, and love and longing against the variegated seasonal backdrop of the British Isles. These poems are deft and sensuous explorations of distance and alienation, and of the inter...

The poems in Harp Duet are three dimensional. They have a strong physicality as words on the page, their space and spacing part of the rhythm and sense, and they touch amazing notes. There is a lot of courage, sensuality and painful joy in a poem like 'Clarsach', which naturally pairs with the shyer, dreamier 'Sleeping in his Harp Case'. The poems' erotics as much as their poetics are compelling. These are poems to come back to, and that will ...

Until We Knew is a poignant self-depiction of one woman's dilemma in love and grief. The husband of Elisabet O Klint was not yet sixty when he was diagnosed with ALS and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). This notebook, a retrospective diary, is about the year they fought against his illnesses and lived with this sorrow. In her autobiographical story, Klint allows us to accompany her through life as it happened, with the aid of notes jotted down r...

Christopher Jackson's first full collection is a landmark moment where English poetry regains its spiritual and formal force. As the book begins: 'Long as I can remember I've been pursued/by a suspicion of yellow at my back' ('The Lion'). These are poems which acknowledge that the world is in constant flux ('change shall sweep through on the unjust and the just' ('March 2020')) while also hoping for transcendent joy ('I also aim to outlive the...

Vinyl is an exploration of directions, inspired by the shape and malleability of the material itself. These directions become linear, horizontal, and metaphysical as the poems explore gaze, self and intimacy. Can home and elsewhere, life and death, poetry and prose be divided into clear binaries, or is there a messy limbo that exists in between? Inspired by modern mythologies, Vinyl is an attempt to decode poetic and bodily boundaries, buildin...

Lana Del Rey seemed to appear fully-formed with her melancholy viral hit 'Video Games' - but the story started long before. In this anatomy, F.A. Mannan considers everything that has gone into the equation: the music, poetry and films but also the places and experiences that allow the songs to communicate despite the media circus around them.

The Mad Kayaker is a poet's account of his relationship with wildness both fluvial and human, exploring inner and outer worlds. John Lane's language negotiates the rapids, balancing, with deft control, on the torrents and in the depths. This is a work of maturity, poise, and natural exhilaration.

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Artistic inspiration is elusive. Yet, confronted with an exhibition of artistic works, you see it staring back at you as interpreted by another person. Harper's poems are often ekphrastic musings on visual art, sculpture and space: he crafts his own works as a response. An urbane traveller, he also finds inspiration in the small details of life abroad: losing himself and re-appearing in another situation with fresh eyes. Harper's elegant poems...

Sharpened, but not defined, by the author's evolving experience of motor neurone disease, these poems are meditations on - and sometimes collisions with - the limits of body, language and voice. Veering from sardonic resignation to defiance, they use a variety of forms to entangle the living in the speech of the dead (poets and others), the quotidian in the odd, the local in something altogether elsewhere. And occasionally, the poet's past, as...

An exciting debut from a highly accomplished poet, both in performance and on the page. Jarrett's work navigates the tensions between home and belonging, between relationships and personal identities. Line by line the collection is lyrically rich, charged with emotion and passion yet tinged with a wonderful twist of humour.

The poetry of 25th Prelude is honest, unadulterated and breaches the norms of the expected, with bold statement pieces that are often dark, granular observations of the world the poet inhabits.

A first anthrax attack is thwarted. The second and third cannot be stopped and many school children die. A senator is murdered with a medieval device in his skull upon the Canadian parliament building tower. Templar knights, a Cainite cult, clashing through history from the caves below the Niagara Falls in the 1800s, a turn of the century insane asylum, Catholic Monsignors, torture, and ship wreck diving, to a present-day plague doctor, carniv...

Grove chronicles not only his own fascinating Anglo-Argentinian background growing up in Buenos Aires but also the political history of the tango.

This moving novel teases us with the question of what Dickens' Pip might have been like if he had grown up in the American South of the 1960s and 1970s and faced the explosive social issues that galvanized the world in those decades: racial injustice, a war abroad, women's and gay rights, class struggle.

Most days, Henrietta is alone in her bedroom. This is where she creates and develops her own computer game, 'A Digital Tomato', having recently graduated in that field. She is trying to cope with a crisis of identity and purpose in her life. Unless this is overcome it will clearly lead her to yet further isolation and depression.

When Ana Maria Caballero's young son is diagnosed with epilepsy, her family collides with the reality of illness, but also with Western medicine. A Petit Mal follows the narrative arc of this blunt collision, one that plunges its readers into multiple alternative methods of healing and the spiritual implications therein. Caballero's boldly innovative book unfolds as a page-turner, one whose topics are especially relevant to audiences intereste...