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The stories in The Incontinent of Royy are not stories in the traditional sense. People pass by in Daniel R. Connelly's subversive tales and disappear in each others' rearview mirrors; it's a kind of instant ghosting.

The Bare Thing delves into queer desire in an urgent, rough and surprisingly playful fashion. The poems celebrate illicit desire, the male body's vulnerability; transitioning, taking risks and opening the window to an unseen world.

Rochelle Roberts' Your Retreating Shadow sees the poet move between the real and the unreal world, watching ghosts 'through a celestial mirror' while flowers of the afterlife sprout 'between the floorboards'.

Empty Trains looks at the notion of spaces altering to accommodate changes introduced during the pandemic. While avoiding the pitfalls of Covid poetry, Sandifer-Smith deftly traces the poetics of space into a contemporary setting.

In Erectric Schlock Aimée Lê asks big questions like: do you really want to live in a world where a Subway sandwich costs $5.99? Tough luck. Invasive technology has made life a living hell and enriched a handful of reptiles.

An inimitable and eccentric suite of five long poems in the most aberrant tradition of epic poetry; this sequenced fable grinds human nature through its cousins and throws words like faeces at a confused tourist.

Knife Edge is a pamphlet which explores the psychological fallout in the aftermath of trauma, where the edges between bloodshed and recovery, life and death, are softened.

Charting a path of 'hope and conviction through personal adversity' The Dialectical Phoenix is a project that arose from the embers of illness, and soars on a flight of celebration.

All That Glisters is a series of stories which challenge archetypal portrayals of elderly characters by young writers, exploring issues in a more realistic way, balancing difficult themes with humour and humanity.

In Honey Monster Bobby Parker uproots the confessional tradition and plants it on a British council estate. Masochistic, impolite and painfully uncomfortable, Parker writes in first person about his childhood, unafraid to show his scars, revelling in dark moments, as if bringing them to light will bring closure. Parker is a martyr to the page, writing as if nothing mattered more, with electricity in every phrase.

At its core She, Shapeshifter considers big themes such as mental health, trauma, death and whether we allow ourselves a chance to grow through pain

Samuel Tongue explores the troubled marriage between sexuality and religion, ecology's slow erasure from a planet in decline and the hybridity of life and death, in a beautiful world ravaged by ugly gods.

Your Human Shape is a restlessly inventive pamphlet about pleasure, attraction, ecstasy and exorcism where Kosinski developing new paradigms and ways of writing which push at the boundaries of form and language.

Rubbles is a swirling, errant and wild collection by David Spittle which echoes Prynne in its linguistic complexity and use of rhetorical flourishes as a critique of popular culture.

A lyrical, disquieting, and deeply moving collection, Vital Capacity is not just a collection of poems it is a way of looking at the world through the fragile filter of the lung.

The Rise Of... Aaron Kent sees the working class Cornish poet writing with no filter, gnarly and mania driven hallucinations that tear into a traumatic incident in compelling fashion. The loosely punctuated long poem follows a wayward adolescent who begins by writing love letters to men he doesn't like and ends up evoking Dylan Thomas' mesmeric 'A refusal to morn...' before turning into the ocean. 'The Rise of' is essential reading, because as Kent knows 'After the first death, there is no other'

Hey Ho The White Swan By God I Am Thy Man is a culturally rich, beautifully furnished suite of poetry which recalls grand literary eccentrics like Beckett, Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Through classical scenes and moments of devilish intensity, Sam Quill writes with rare elegance and grace, in expectation of 'the plants his ashes sow in heaven.' A beguiling, often dazzling, first collection.

My Car Plays Tapes is a tale of captivating storytelling, focusing on John Osborne's life as a support worker and a nostalgic look at what happens when you listen to old tapes from the 1990s.

In Stellify, stories of love, abuse, and the film industry weave and intertwine in fragments, like an Altman montage, or Lydia Davis flash that coalesces into a Jennifer Egan-style interlinked narrative.

Rituals by E. P. Jenkins is an inquisitive and exploratory collection, adventurous in form and setting, it includes photographs, blue and black sketches and a variety of incantations, spells and hexes. Rituals is focused on the feminist occult and is full of intriguing and delightful poetry, brimming with the magic of witchcraft. An impressive, dynamic debut that pushes the possibilities of poetry into new and enchanting places.

THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal, changing body as related.

This is a collection of thresholds along desire lines of otherhood; a prayer against the onslaught of capital's deracination of time itself; an incantation or spell cast out by turning the page into open space of streets populated by protest.

Cai Draper's SPRUNG is an energetic and invigorating joyride through a few months in lockdown, 'a tortoise wrapped in blank verse' where Draper boldly admits 'I want to take MDMA with my mum / & listen to Everything But the Girl '. As fresh as a change of shirt, as bright as a newly polished button, this is poetry completely committed to Frank O'Hara's command to 'go on its nerve'. SPRUNG is an admirably animated pamphlet from an exciting young poet.