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In Backlogues Joseph Minden explores how the act of remembering recreates spaces of oppression and how complicity in ancient power structures sustains modern day violence. Minden writes about the detritus of British history, from the Birkenhead Iron Works to the Bay of Biscay to Cape Town and the Straits of Malacca, all the time weaving a rich tapestry of troubling repetition alongside lenitive melodies and epicurean imagery.

French Leave follows RE:VERB in which Cliff Forshaw recreated Rimbaud's terrestrial adventures from the Hooligan Poet and Seer in bohemian Paris, through the years as a tough merchant and gun-runner in Africa, to his death aged thirty-seven in a Marseilles hospital. This new collection plays variations on the themes and forms of French verse from mid-nineteenth century Gautier and Gérard de Nerval, through Baudelaire and Rimbaud, to Valery and Apollinaire on the eve of the First World War. Among the well-known figures, Forshaw invents further fin-de-siècle personae that might have existed, and possibly even did.

A psychedelic odyssey that plunges the reader into a mythic exurban world of wonder, ritual & friendship, The Deep Ark blurs the lines between the imagined, the real and the invoked. Moments of tenderness, humor, grief, joy and revelatory intensity combine to form a fragmented narrative of astonishing lyrical beauty, suffused with an abiding reverence for the music, memories, community and landscape that inspired it. Check the forecast one last time, put your headphones on, open The Deep Ark and get lost.

Health Hireth highlights the fleeting nature of both health and identity, as well as the challenges faced by those who exist on the edges of the healthcare system. Taran Spalding-Jenkin's poetry moves between past and present medical experiences as if existing between here and an Otherworld. Chronic illness, Cornish culture, gender, sexuality, and mental health are all woven throughout the evocative and poignant verse of Health Hireth.

The Commerce Between Tongues explores adrija ghosh's multilingualism, which bears the collection's exploration of loneliness, grief, trauma, desire, and their impact upon one's sense of self. This collection explores the idea of mobility and how the self transports itself via memory and finds itself in constant motion, blurring its own spatio-temporal existence. This stunning collection showcases a lyric 'i' that travels between Scotland, London, Norwich, Delhi, and Calcutta.

In his debut collection a fondness for the colour green Charlie Baylis writes with the uninhibited brio of a drunken text to one's ex. Ophelia face down in oceans of milk, suitcases full of whipped cream, Sinatra sleeping inside a spoon and other dreamlike images mesmerise the reader like confetti falling onto a bonfire. Brimming with references to pop culture, this is a playful yet profound, electrifying debut collection from an essential poet.

Who does not envy with us is against us is a collection of essays on working-classness that demonstrates Maria Fusco's exceptional talent for weaving together the analytical and the poetic to create an affecting and profound work. With expressive prose, Fusco deftly captures the experiences of the global working class, illuminating emotions that unite them across borders and lines. This is a tribute to the resilience and tenacity of working-class communities, and an invitation to readers to join in a deeper understanding of their struggles and triumphs. Through her masterful storytelling, Fusco utilises the power of language to elevate the voices of those who have long been silenced, creating a symphony of words that will echo long after the final page.

Bloofer by Cathleen Allyn Conway is an intoxicating mix of the playful macabre and elements of dark academia. Conway's illicit obsessions creep through like the full moon on a cloudy night: Bram Stoker, Plath in thrall to the occult, dark alleyways and haunted libraries. Bloofer hides "razorblades between the pages" that give a keen edge to this thrilling and mischievous collection of poems that disarm you with humour before they bite you.

Wendy Allen's erotically charged pamphlet Plastic Tubed Little Bird, finds the speaker of her poems "wearing lipstick /the exact colour of my cervix" and "masturbating whilst reading Anaïs Nin". Through a tumble of poetic forms, Allen writes about orgasm, female sexual liberation and Barbara Hepworth. Her poems are tinged with vulnerability and honesty, singing of a body turned on, plugged in, electric.

A troubled programmer disappears into their own hardware, bad mobile signal dictates the rhythm of a breakup, history's greatest corporate mascot lays waste to the metropolis... Haptics examines our complex relationship with technology, the ways in which it shapes and transmits our lives, and the worlds we inhabit which are dreamed for us by the electrical cycles of silicon microprocessors. Fox's poems reveal the wonder and horror of our tech muddled lives.

Jill Abram's Forgetting my Father is a poignant portrait of family life and a daughter's bond with her ailing father. Abram's poetry is warm and gentle, keeping a space for the moment: "I remember Dad when he still remembered me". Abram writes of love, hope and loss in tender and neatly observed poems, which, in the words of Dylan Thomas: 'rage against the dying of the light'.

Dastram / Delirium samples the soaring verse of one of Scotland's pivotal poetic talents, Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. Formal innovation, political protest, revelry in nature, and erotic praise poetry are all contained here, the first full-length collection of Alasdair to appear in English in over a century. An Enlightenment mind and contemporary of Pope, Hume and Burke, his poetry should have been the indigenous genius Samuel Johnson and James Boswell sought out in their now-infamous literary tour through the Highlands and Islands. Though much-celebrated within his native Gaelic language, Alasdair's poetry is as much neglected outside of Gaelic. But now, in novel literary translations by Taylor Strickland, readers can re-visit his oeuvre and restore his name to the wider literary conscience.

Seasons of Love around the Rising Sun by Tamiko Dooley is a sweetly-observed portrait of childhood and vulnerable moments shuffled into four six-poem decks of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Dooley writes of pickled plums tucked under tatami straw floors, a kokeshi doll gifted by her uncle, her grandmother sealing envelopes with leftover rice and other details that lead down a path that winds through her most tender memories. A luscious, poignant selection of poems.

In Your Body is a House Stripped Charley Barnes delivers a poignant and raw narrative of battling with an eating disorder. Written in the second person, this novella takes readers on a journey through a precise and honest depiction of the toll an eating disorder takes on both the mind and the body, shedding light on a subject that is too often left in the dark. Your Body is a House Stripped is a brave and powerful work that will resonate with readers who have struggled with similar issues, and provide insight for those who seek to understand.

Patrick Davidson Roberts presents a world of illusion in The Trick, a book of masterful deception and creation. Starting from the mysterious act of covering something in smoke to hide or cleanse it, the title poem sets the tone for a collection filled with spells, trails, and twists. Whether exploring the power dynamics behind trickery, devising new escapes and personae, or exploring the accusations of misrepresentation or concealment levelled at both genderqueer and bisexual individuals, The Trick is a thought-provoking and captivating read.

Let us (or the invocation of smoke) by Shehzar Doja is a mysterious and ethereal pamphlet. The words patter inexplicably onto the page like a tiger dreaming of snow. Through these meditative poems Doja shows a deep engagement with craft, realizing "in that primordial amniotic /we never were / when we were." His masterful wordplay curls like smoke rising from an extinguished candle.

In The Birds, The Rabbits, The Trees, Briony Collins deconstructs a year of grief and an abusive relationship through her evocative poetry. Pink daisy chains and letters to mum clash with broken thumbs and Bundy black eyes as Collins expertly weaves between the light and dark of a life of loss. Her cutting yet delicate language leads the reader on a journey through pain to empowerment.

For four centuries Anne Shakespeare, née Hathaway, has been in her famous husband's shadow. It's high time she had a book of her own.This bold and ground-breaking volume places her centre-stage and encourages us to re-imagine Anne in her own right, and afresh for our own times. Anne-thology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare brings together sixty-seven newly-commissioned poems, one for each year of Anne's life. Here, too, are ten poems of the past. The poetic voices that sing from this book are excitingly diverse in their age and background. Together they present a multi-faceted portrait of Anne's identity and dreams.Brave, moving, liberating, and witty, Anne-thology brings together Anne's past and present and is a bold beacon, illuminating the enduring legacy of this remarkable woman for future generations.Including poems from: John Agard, Vasiliki Albedo, Andre Bagoo, Robert Bal, Liam Bates, Sally Bayley, Charlie Baylis, Mathilde Blind, Jane Burn, Wendy Cope, Hannah Copley, Lesley Curwen, Rishi Dastidar, Olga Dermott-Bond, Imtiaz Dharker, Charles Dibdin, Carol Ann Duffy, Ella Duffy, Taylor Edmonds, Paul Edmondson, Barbara Everett, Ewan Fernie, Tommy Oliver Sam Flynn, Paul Francis, Wendy Freeman, Jo Gatford, Kathy Gee, Neal Hall, Susanna Shakespeare Hall, Judith Shakespeare Quiney, John Harris, Justina Hart, Lucy Holme, Maisie Ireland, William Ireland, Luke Kennard, Aaron Kent, Chris Laoutaris, Fiona Larkin, Nina Lewis, Len Lukowski, Anna Catherine Markham, Louise Mather, Andrea Mbarushimana, Fokkina McDonnell, Jennifer McLean, Andrew McMillan, Stuart McPherson, Jessica Mehta, Jenny Mitchell, Constance Naden, Grace Nichols, Richard O'Brien, Yewande Okuleye, Emilia Olivia, Caleb Parkin, Roger Pringle, Emma Purshouse, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Sam Quill, Dean Rhetoric, Rochelle Roberts, Amber Rollinson, Rachel Sambrooks, George Sandifer-Smith, Hal Algernon Sandle-Keynes, Anna Saunders, Katherine Scheil, William Shakespeare, Genevieve Anne Marragold Stead, Julie Stevens, Taylor Strickland, Elizabeth Sylvia, Kostya Tsolakis, Carina Vallera-Satchwell, U. G. Világos, Cat Weatherill, Rowan Williams, and Ay¿egül Y¿ld¿r¿m

In 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun Cat Chong gives voice to populations at the intersections of gender, literary genre, disability, race, and chronic illness. The hypnotic collection is complimented by a compelling array of internet screenshots: instagram, twitter, wikipedia etc to question how poetic language might replace dehumanising medical terminology and disrupt realities of state violence. This work engages with entangled and overlapping environmental, gendered, colonial, and medical systems and practices to inquire after radical models of love, solidarity, and care.

./code --poetry is a colourful cacophony of computer languages.Authors Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr have created a collection of code poems - poems written in the source codes of a variety of programming languages.Inside, code and poetry are presented alongside visual artwork with the poetry itself embedded in the source code of a number of programs. Every program is entirely valid, and when compiled and run these programs produce the visual artwork presented alongside the individual poems in the collection.Lavishly formatted and bursting with colour, this unique book is essential for anyone passionate about visual art, poetry or programming. ./code --poetry is a Rosetta Stone for programmers, restored and rendered for the digital age, highlighting the intersection of three classic art forms.

The Last Song is a poignant tribute to one of the most beloved bands of our time. This book takes readers on a journey through the heart and soul of Frightened Rabbit's music, exploring themes of love, loss, and the human condition with raw emotion and lyrical beauty. Each page is a powerful reflection on the band's songs, offering a new perspective on the music that has touched so many lives. Whether you're a die-hard fan or discovering Frightened Rabbit for the first time, The Last Song is a must-read for anyone who appreciates the power of music to move us and inspire us.

A series of poems, diagrams and invocations regarding the journey of three priests of Cybele into Pluto's Gate. Songs of Xanthina is an eclectic, engaging, and vivid book encouraging the reader to close their eyes and step forward into the banished.

These poems are a product of trespass, burnt foliage, transpiration, and digital fixation. During the 2020 lockdown, Hughes walked across the private golf course located behind her home, veering further away from the public footpath each day.

Georg Trakl (1887-1914) is commonly seen as one of the leading figures of the Austro-German expressionist movement in literature during the early part of the twentieth century. Marked by the perpetual use of nightmarish visions of disintegration, death, murder, and natural decay, his poems bear haunting witness to a world devoid of faith, meaning, and hope. Nevertheless, Trakl still captures glimpses of beauty in this wasteland, a beauty he usually equates with erotic or familial relationships, a beauty that in his view can only be seen in contrast with death and horror.

Proverbs for a Woman Drinking Alone is a pamphlet of poetry which tackles class, grief, and sexuality. Talia Randall confronts these themes alternately with closed fists and open hands, lacing humour into even the darkest subjects. These poems claim a sense of place and belonging while creating a space for the reader to listen to Randall's sharp and precise voice, one that is at once colloquial and lyrical, playful and sombre. This is a book which both demands and fulfils the reader's attention.

¿¿Wanted is chiefly a book about the resilient female spirit, containing the idea of resilience as much as female abuse and sacrifice. The resulting monologues are ranging in style - from outlaw to lyric and dialect - yet cohere through themes and forms as they explore what it means to want and be wanted: women munitions workers wanted by the government, a daughter wanting relief for her suffering father, the desire for love and self-worth, a Goddess wanting to shatter the perfect pane - taking issue with her so-called God.

Landsick inverts the idea of seasickness - in this pamphlet it is the lives we lead on land that are unstable, uncertain and often nauseous, while the ocean's rhythm provides moments of solace, rest or hope. In exploring this inversion, Landsick engages with the wider theme of connectivity and discord between humans and the natural world. This a book that embraces the beauty and joys of the natural world, while also reflecting on the perils and complexities of human life, and takes us 'all the way to the bottom of the deep blue sea'.

Eating the Archive by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh offers a stunning portrait of life in the Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, where Qasmiyeh was born. The poems examine even the harshest aspects of the camp with tenderness, pondering existential questions about time, family, language and identity. A mother's blurry photograph, a father's sharpened knife, blood stirred into watery lentils and other glimpses into Qasmiyeh's upbringing enrich this raw and profound collection.

Titled after a popular Instagram filter, Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon by Poppy Cockburn draws on multimedia aesthetics to consider the ways our progressing post internet reality can complexify, unite and alienate. Touching on film, social media, news coverage and marketing, these dynamic, decadent poems revel in contemporary dystopia, slyly poking fun at and probing the dark heart of the malaise.