Improvised Explosive Device examines extremism and hate crime in all its forms in the UK. In this ‘remarkable’ debut, to be published in October 2022, Arji Manuelpillai questions what makes a person radical, how the British government polices this thinking, and how marginalised groups are at risk.
The English Summer is the first full collection by Manchester-based poet Holly Hopkins and is scheduled for release in June 2022.
Independent publisher Penned in the Margins has acquired Out for Air from former professional skateboarder Olly Todd.
Luke Kennard has won a top poetry accolade for his ‘joyously unclassifiable’ collection Notes on the Sonnets, which recasts Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.
Tim Cresswell explains why he loves eco-poetry and shares the poets who have inspired him, from Don McKay and Sarah de Leeuw to Juliana Spahr and John Clare.
Richard Skelton reflects on how Stranger in the Mask of a Deer came to be, examining his experience of pain medication-induced hallucinations, the uncertainty of knowledge about early humans, and the resonance of poetry.
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard has been shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Collection and ‘Flower of Sulphur’ by John McCullough for Best Single Poem.
John McCullough brings his distinctive surreal humour and emotional intensity to a new collection, Panic Response, to be published spring 2022.
Like a cross between the Guardian’s Writers’ rooms and MTV Cribs, our ‘Where I write’ series brings you up close and personal with the furniture of our authors’ lives to discover where – and how – the magic happens. In this episode, poet Sonia Overall invites us into her attic writing room and reveals the importance of walking to her practice.
Like a cross between the Guardian’s Writers’ rooms and MTV Cribs, our ‘Where I write’ series brings you up close and personal with the furniture of our authors’ lives to discover where – and how – the magic happens. In this episode, poet Luke Wright leads us off the ‘sunken roads of southern England’ and into his Suffolk cottage.
Like a cross between the Guardian’s Writers’ rooms and MTV Cribs, our new ‘Where I write’ series brings you up close and personal with the furniture of our authors’ lives to discover where – and how – the magic happens. In this first episode, we are invited into artist and writer Abi Palmer’s south London flat…
