Poetry. Modelled on the famous United States competition, the third annual Best New British and Irish Poets competition was open to any poet of British or Irish citizenship and/or UK or Irish residenc
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Technology/Hacking. The War on Privacy is lost, and states and corporations now collect more of our data than even they know what to do with. No one person or
Poetry. THE SOUNDS WE MAKE OURSELVES collects Dooley's best work from over forty–five years of writing and publishing. Philip Gross of Poetry Review says of this book, "Nothing is out of bounds," and
Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. You do everything on your smartphone and love it--you are, now and forevermore, a cyborg. But how would you know if you were a good cyborg? Game designer an
Literary Nonfiction. Jewish Studies. "Sometimes it takes years and years to see a pattern, but watch a tin of paint when it falls and spreads unmercifully across the carpet. You can't stop it. The sta
Poetry. A SLEEPLESS MAN SITS UP IN BED, the third collection by the poet and translator Anthony Seidman, charts a cartography of the here and the beyond—from the fossils of trilobites to Aztec religio
Poetry. PARIS, STAGE LEFT covers Kate Noakes' first five years in the City of Lights, in all its history, tragedy and comedy. Noakes arrived in Paris in 2011 to pursue a job opportunity, and her early
Poetry. Little Grape Jelly is the poetry collective of Lily Ashley, Grace Pilkington and James Massiah, and this is their project: HELL-P ME. Lily first sent these words "Hell-p Me" in an email to Gra
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. BARACK OBAMA: INVISIBLE MAN is a provocative examination of President Barack Obama and his legacy. Masciotra contends that
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Usha Kishore's third poetry collection, IMMIGRANT, is gleaned from nearly two decades of writing. This book examines the political, cultural and linguistic
Drama. Translated and Entirely Updated by Rosanna Hildyard. Though ostensibly Surrealist, Alfred Jarry's 1888 play Ubu Roi bears disconcertingly close resemblance to America in 2017. This new version,
Poetry. Women's Studies. Marion McCready's highly anticipated second collection, MADAME ECOSSE is a very Scottish collection of lyrical poems. Political and personal by turns, these poems explore the
Poetry. In BLACKBIRDS Greg Santos delves into the raw, private mythologies of parenthood, adoption, ethnicity, and uncertain histories. These lyrical poems bring us from Lisbon's winding ways, to cram
Poetry. AFTER READING EVERYTHING, the debut collection from Daniel Simon, represents the culmination of years of extensive reading and close observation. In this collection, Simon 'shows his work,' ch
Literary Nonfiction. Celebrating forty years of the Sir Misha Black Awards--the world's only major awards recognising and promoting excellence in design education--FITNESS offers a treasure trove of t
Literary Nonfiction. Aimed at the more discerning gourmand, EDIBLE PLEASURES offers an irresistible guide to the unbreakable bond between food and love. From the poetic to the philosophical, the absur
Poetry. Music. Introduction by Buzzcocks designer Malcolm Garrett. Published in one place for the first time, the collected lyrics of Pete Shelley, both for Buzzcocks and his groundbreaking solo album
Poetry. These poems present a simmering portrait of what happens when the omnipotence and optimism of youth meet the reality of a declining world, where politics are disillusioning, love unfulfilling
Poetry. California Interest. Absurd yet rational, Anthony Seidman's I WILL NOT BE A BUTCHER FOR THE WEALTHY is an uncomfortable indictment of contemporary America, and truly, this collection shows the
Poetry. Subversive, erotic, and sublime, POETRY FOR PLANES challenges the conventions of airplane reading. Family, faith, technology, celebrity—yes, they are here. But so too is sex as philanthropy, f
Poetry. FIGHT SONGS exposes the rusted underbelly of the American Midwest, as experienced by young men, brutal cops, suicide cases, junkies, lovers, and minorities seeking justice. At turns as stark a
Poetry. California Interest. SHRINKING ULTRAVIOLENT is the manifesto of one of nature's wallflowers. Often out of her comfort zone in this fast-paced urban world, forced to navigate private and public
Poetry. Music. In Mandy Kahn's wonderfully inventive and gloriously lyrical second collection, Béla Bartók treks into remote villages to record folk songs on the world's first phonograph, a
Poetry. DREAM-BEAUTY-PSYCHO is Todd Swift's latest trip to the world of desire and retro style, sometimes Lynchian in scope. Rhetorically wild at heart, these onrushing poems of religion, marriage, se
Poetry. Music. THE PASSAGE: POST-PUNK POETS celebrates the lyrics and artistry of Dick Witts, frontman of the Manchester Musicians Collective band The Passage. Collected here for the first time, the l
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. DECLASSIFIED, the new collection by Mariela Griffor, Chilean poet exiled to Sweden in the 1980s and now living in the American Midwest, is an enigmatic, at times erotic
Literary Nonfiction. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY follows the history of the people exploited, displaced, and made obsolete by the tech industry, from the colonization of the Bay Area to the p
Poetry. WEEMOED is a Poetry Book Society recommendation for winter 2017. The Dutch word for melancholy, WEEMOED, could be read according to Vincent Van Gogh, as a combination of sadness and courage. I
Poetry. As if Freud, Woody Allen, and Larkin had born an unlikely love child in the 1930s, here comes Sam Eisenstein - the octogenarian debut poet from Pasadena. Charting a lifetime of marital, parent
Literary Nonfiction. DEEPER is a powerful new self-help book written by an Everest base camp motivational guide known for working with climbers, adventurers and the Sherpas, as well as any one with a
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Travel. In January of 2015, school teacher Tony Chan gave up his job and embarked on a 78-day, 1,400 -mile solo-trek across the four extreme points of mainland
Fiction. Young Adult. Middle Eastern Studies. Adapted into a BBC Radio 4 play, this powerful and deeply moving novel chronicles the Syrian War through the eyes of 14 year old Adam who has Asperger's S
