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The virtuosity and high spirits of Sophie Hannah's poems are unusual at any time of day. She handles rhymed metrical forms with wily insouciance and passes the 'memorability test' with flying colors.

Rough Breathing is a substantial selection from thirty years of procedurally and formally inventive writing from poet, editor and art critic, Harry Gilonis. A lively, lyrical and clever collection, th

The Multiverse sings of science, philosophy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme, and the poems subtly find their way

Long Pass is narrated by people who set out to communicate something simple and heartfelt, and who get caught up mid-expression in the social and linguistic complexities of communication: how can we s

Nina Bogin writes of her second collection that she has drawn together poems that deal with the personal - family, friendship, love and loss; poems about landscape and place; and poems that try to com

A Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation. Wandering in central Europe, a traveller observes and records a landscape of lakes, folk culture and uneasy histories. Phoebe Power’s Shri

Tender, exuberant and deliciously dark, Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection evokes the surreal humor of Matthew Sweeney and the candor of Emily Berry, while remaining disarmingly fresh in its bl

Peelin Orange is the definitive Collected Poems by one of Jamaica's leading voices, the current Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. These poems explore the everyday, the erotic, love and the melancholy and

Alex Wong's debut collection Poems Without Irony is a miscellaneous assemblage of aesthetic experiments with diction, syntax and verse form. They are poems produced in an irony-free environment and de

Miles Burrows is a man always in love, and confused as lovers have to be by the inconstant nature of ?the other’. With Waiting for the Nightingale, he expresses social class anxiety, nostalgia and the

Price’s most ‘live’ or ‘performative’ work to date, the poems in Moon for Sale are sensual and shapeshifting and unfold like a series of haunting dreams. The collection begins with a poem about the ar

In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. "Love teaches you how to mind / And how

Following on from her 2013 T.S. Eliot Prize-winning Parallax, the inaugural Poet Laureate of Belfast, Sinead Morrissey, returns with a poignant and compelling new collection which evokes the atmospher

Peter Hughes has taken Guido Cavalcanti’s groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions. Cavalcanti was a 13th-century Tuscan poet who brought an extraordinary inten

John F. Deane’s poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide-awake tradition of Gerard Manley

A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the

The March-April 2018 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights include: winners and commendations from the PN Review Prize; a celebration

stack is a book-length poem, and the début Carcanet title of one of the UK’s rising poetry talents. Described by its author as a document of "minimalist interventions", the

In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird’s fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surre

Crossing the Mirror Line, the stunning debut from Judith Willson, explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections, the magician’s disorientating art that ‘makes nothing appear’. Artists’ mannequins and watchful children stand at an angle to the familiar world; an estuary elides distinctions between land and sea. Like the eighteenth-century artists’ landscape mirror that reconfigured the relationship between the viewer and what is viewed, these poems are concerned with looking, how it selects and transforms what is seen. Their landscapes are borders and boundaries, places shaped by the persistance of a past which still presses close to the surface, its meanings as unstable as the play of light. The poems echo with stories and songs in which elusive histories are glimpsed, fragments remembered in the deep strata. Objects carry stories of their travel through time concealed within them: the poems ‘reach through thick folds into pockets / for a letter or a glove’.

The January-February 2019 issue. New poems by Les Murray and Rebecca Watts. Vahni Capildeo on making multivocal performative texts. Michael Powell discusses Drawing in Drag, the first comic book publi