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Nathaniel King's Ghost Clinic is a luminous inquiry into the ghosts that haunt and comfort us everyday. A delicately interconnected series of lyrical essays, this compelling debut performs a sly autopsy on our cultural moment. Drawing upon a kaleidoscope of voices from the humorous to the meditative, Ghost Clinic chronicles the myriad of spirits that stalk the waking world. From how to conjure ancient Japanese spirits, to a suburban fast-food chain permeated by the ghosts of pandemic victims, to a drug-addled sitcom star visited by the apparition of his former agent, these poems invite us to stop and consider what happens after the lights go out, the funding is cut, and the cameras stop rolling.

Dirty Martini by Natalie Shaw is an exuberant and anarchic pamphlet. Shaw's approach to poetry is highly original and likely to surprise readers with its juxtaposition of contemporary language and cocktail of strange subjects, often culled from the animal world. Fresh, funky and restlessly innovative, Dirty Martini flamboyantly follows the footsteps of Selima Hill and the feminine surreal into absurd, deliciously delirious realms.

Ian Patterson's Shell Vestige Disputed presents poems which take great pleasure in the mystery of language and the amenability of meaning. Patterson writes with a clear focus on the stress and intonation of words and phrases, crafting complex and puzzling poems which are reminiscent of Prynne and the English surrealists. Shell Vestige Disputed is a collection full of beauty and surprise.

Jessica Mookherjee's Desire Lines is a deeply thrilling joyride into a glamorous/anti-glamorous world of sex, drugs and stolen books. Mookherjee crafts, largely through prose-poetry, a love letter to her golden years in eighties and nineties London. The poetry erupts into choppy river-washed rhythm with tales so urgent and visceral, life simply sings from the pages, wrapped up in gin, leather jackets and cheap nail polish.

George Neame's The Infinite Flood is a pamphlet which explores the vastness of space through the unremarkable details of modern life: lasagne sheets stretch out like layers of time, snooker balls roll into constellations, an astronaut's fingerprints are left in frost on a postbox. The Infinite Flood is full of warm and inviting poems which subtly evoke important questions about our place in the universe, written with stellar lyricism and attention to the melody of language.

Terra Forming by Chloë Proctor offers a mess-making of language and grammar through the prism of contemporary eco-poetry. In this collection the natural world is re-conceived in the semantics of the digital world, fungi, in particular, play a prominent role in Proctor's out-sourcing and unravelling of descriptive linguistics. Terra Forming is a prescient and innovative addition to the flourishing garden of eco-poetry.

In Ghost Methods Síofra McSherry presents a complex and loving portrait of Sean Bonney, one that is both personal and political, where death is difficult not in the leaving, but in 'the staying gone'. Here, in these outraged and beautiful poems, McSherry reminds us of the urgency of keeping the fire burning, of the importance of honoring those who have passed, of the significance of the moment that takes friends home, of the grace of the day.

Musical and sometimes whimsical in the text's wry regard for the eponymous protagonist, Michael is a pamphlet about ghosts, grief, and longing for connection in post-Brexit Britain.

A book keenly aware of life's brevity, and death's ubiquity, Prayers is a series of odes to the transitory nature of living, and the inherent impermanence of all things.