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Improvised Explosive Device is a startlingly innovative exploration of extremism, hate crime and violence by poet Arji Manuelpillai. In this powerful and unsettling first collection, Manuelpillai presents a vision of the contemporary haunted by Melville's image of the whale - the terror beneath the surface of the sea.

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A series of bold interrogative essays exploring the hinterland of acclaimed poetry collection 'The Actual'. Published in a limited edition.

Set in the urban pastoral of an east London postcode, Feral City by Meryl Pugh asks what it means to be local and to call a place home, and how best to share that home with its non-human inhabitants.

The Sun is Open pieces through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of Gail McConnell's father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Flitting between a child and adult self, this startling, innovative debut charts the experience of going through the box.

In the fourth instalment of his grand project to map the lost poets of London's Victorian cemeteries, the so-called Magnificent Seven, Chris McCabe walks thought the Egyptian gates of Abney Park.

The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury-sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy. In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity.

Plastiglomerate finds our world in the midst of environmental disaster: from plastic pollution and wrecked shipping to fires in the Amazon rainforest. It completes a trilogy of poetry books that examines mankind's impact on the earth.

In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero's struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service stations of modern Britain to the desert and mountains of a fictional borderland.

A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 pound inflatable blue bathtub.

Cavalier, acerbic, droll and disconsolate, NOT AN ESSAY is a self-incrimination, the noise of the intellect giving its mechanics away. The chronicler is contrary, fallible - a body among bodies, a nervous system, an overwrought brain, the awareness of open pores, clothed in subjectively awful trousers.

Bodypopping Belgians and bicycle couriers populate a world of public fountains and archaeological debris in this original and eclectic collection by James Wilkes.

Static Exile is a powerful and meditative debut collection which combines acute political observation with caustic humour.

A collection poems presents a vision of the countryside in decline, of 'absent Dorset folk' marginalised and repackaged for the tourist industry.

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Selected as one of 'The most beautiful books in the land' by Time Out. Shad Thames, Broken Wharf is a play of voices that spans centuries of changes across the Docklands, allowing past ghosts to be heard above the white noise of the polemical present.

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London is a city full of strangers and Gemma Seltzer wants to meet them all. Originally conceived as a daily fiction blog, Speak to Strangers is a funny, provocative and elegant series of one hundred hundred-word stories, which chart a journey across the city through its inhabitants.

From retro computer games and Hollywood blockbusters to the West Indian cricketer Brian Lara - no field of contemporary culture is safe from Simon Barraclough's sophisticated and inclusive vision.

Despite some positive initiatives within the British poetry scene, there remains a general unwillingness amongst some in the 'industry' to engage seriously with young writers. This work is an attempt to redress the balance, to give some of our most talented and promising young writers a platform for their work.