Category: Books
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Hyakuretsu KyakuRoss SutherlandThe mercurial Ross Sutherland's new sonnet sequence Hyakuretsu Kyaku playfully recasts the characters from cult video game Street Fighter 2 as "twelve heroes that span the breadth of the human condition." |
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Speak to StrangersGemma SeltzerLondon is a city full of millions of strangers and Gemma Seltzer wants to meet them all. Speak to Strangers is a brilliant, funny and uplifting sequence of one hundred hundred-word stories. |
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The MethodRob StantonFrom the opening Tuyman's Sonnets, which depict the cultural detritus of recent history as evidence of the severed real, to the sly, deft, minimalist lyrics of the book's second half – The Method is a tour de force which shows Rob Stanton to be a poet to watch. (Rae Armantrout) |
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A Body Made of YouMelissa Lee-HoughtonCharged with sexuality and an uncomfortable sense of the strange, A Body Made of You introduces a powerful new voice in poetry. |
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Love / All That / & OKEmily CritchleyLove / All That /& OK, an anti-confessional by experimental British poet Emily Critchley, brings together a diverse range of work previously published in chapbooks since 2004 |
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Limits of ControlSteve SpenceIn this extraordinary sequence of prose poems, coral reefs fall from the sky, volcanoes smoulder and pirates come to power in Britain. |
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Steak & StationsMichael EganReports from a landscape of contrasts and contradictions: of speed and consumption, haute cuisine and isolated railway platforms; from nocturnal inner-city encounters to rural wildernesses. |
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KalagoraSiddhartha BoseIn this dazzling debut collection by Indian-born poet Siddhartha Bose, the cities of Kolkata, Mumbai, New York and London are transformed into sites of fractured vision. |
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Twelve NudesRoss SutherlandWith trademark wit, Twelve Nudes interrogates the failures of love, exploding the dynamics of text, voice and body. In this elegant but uneasy satire, ‘to be naked is to speak without footnotes’. |
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Stress Fractures: Essays on PoetryTom Chivers (ed.)Where can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? Why is poetry taught so badly at school? What do Wordsworth, Byron and Roots Manuva have in common? |
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Shad Thames, Broken WharfChris McCabeShad 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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Bonjour TetrisSimon BarracloughFrom 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. |
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Weather A SystemJames WilkesBodypopping Belgians and bicycle couriers populate a world of public fountains and archaeological debris in this original and eclectic collection by James Wilkes. |
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Static ExileGeorge TtoouliStatic Exile is a powerful and meditative debut collection which combines acute political observation with caustic humour. |
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Napoleon’s Travelling BookshelfSarah HeskethErudite, humourous and stylishly, Hesketh's debut invokes a world of frozen lakes and people who have stayed too long. |
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MetrophobiaStephanie LealFrom urban sketches of London and warped love poems to a paean to the Boston Tea Party and a letter to an American in Afghanistan, Metrophobia establishes a poetry that is inventive, quirky and packed with humour. |
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City State: New London PoetryTom Chivers (editor)City State showcases a new generation of London writers, a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from the capital. |
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Things To Do Before You Leave TownRoss SutherlandMono-browed cousins, clandestine paperboys, murderous action heroes and Swiss euthanasia clinics jostle for position in Ross Sutherland’s intelligent and wildly entertaining debut collection of poetry. |
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Charismatic MegafaunaTamsin KendrickThe sacred, the profane and the prophetic come together in this stylish debut collection of poetry by Tamsin Kendrick. |
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Man in BlackDavid CaddyMan in Black is the extraordinary latest collection by Dorset poet David Caddy, dubbed ‘the Robert Frost of the Blackmore Vale’ (Jay Parini). These poems are brimming with radical intent, drawing from a rich and varied lineage. |
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Generation TxtTom Chivers (editor)In a world of dumbed-down media and txt-speak, six of the most talented young writers speak out. This is a must-have anthology for anyone interested in the future of poetry, featuring new work by Joe Dunthorne, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Emma McGordon, Abigail Oborne and James Wilkes. |
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Peckham BlueSusie GordonPeckham Blue is about finding the family you thought you never had. In ten extraordinary poems, Susie Gordon records a journey from her home on the Lancashire coast to the inner-city neighbourhoods of South London - to rediscover the family who gave her up for adoption at birth. |
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