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Karen Dennison's Of Hearts opens with a poem about Point Nemo, the 'spacecraft graveyard' and furthest place from land in the ocean. The poem sets the tone for a pamphlet which explores our tiny place in a vast, overwhelming universe. It is full of crisp, lucent, technically agile and clever poems of cosmic longing. Of Hearts is a deeply enjoyable pamphlet from a poet with her eyes pressed to a telescope, searching until 'the stars switch off'.

Lucy Rose Cunningham''s For Mary, Marie, Maria places melody at its forefront, through its five sections the speaker meditates on romantic moments, loss, and displacement, crafting mellifluous soundscapes as she goes. For Mary, Marie, Maria is an arresting and composed pamphlet, a lyrical soliloquy with the poet''s heartbeat at its centre.

The poems in Gorge Ttoouli's from Animal Illicit have an extraordinary immediacy and playfulness, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Ttoouli's inquisitive probing of language. Collecting parts from two poetic series about ecology and the climate crisis, Ttoouli's work is heavily invested in the natural world. His passion for the various landscapes are preserved for the moment in this sublime collection in which he attempts to deconstruct, recycle, salvage and mutate a way of seeing and being.

This pamphlet features new translations of Medieval Welsh poet, Gwerful Mechain, renowned for her proto-feminist and erotic poetry. Altogether, the translations and original poems channel Gwerful's audacious spirit. They question why in the twenty-first century, women are still policed and discouraged in talking about sex, desire, and the body. They ask what might happen if women were set free.

Living in Disneyland is a short - yet urgent - tour de force exploration of late-stage capitalism, told through the lens of a Baudrillardian perspective. Through an aphoristic and epigrammatic style, Alex Mazey delves into the absurd (hyper)realities of contemporary living, attempting to decipher and understand ''what it means to observe surrealism in the 21st Century, to feel as if you must be dreaming.''

the pleasure of regret is a collection of mixed form texts that explore class and the ways it impacts upon ambition and education. Using essayistic prose, stream-of-consciousness and a little bit of poetry, Scott Manley Hadley writes about class displacement, toxic relationships, chronic ill health, money, awkward teenage sex and being diagnosed with a personality disorder. Scott was ''Highly Commended'' in the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2019.

Until he died, Sara Coleridge barely knew her father, but as editor of his estate she found him and presented her Coleridge to the world. My Coleridge responds to Sara Coleridge''s diaries, essays and poems, exploring her experience of motherhood and addiction. But this book tells the author''s story too, because like Anne Carson writes, ''Sometimes you can see a celestial object better by looking at something else, with it, in the sky.''

Ganda the rhinoceros was a celebrity when he arrived in Europe in the sixteenth century. Kings and popes were intrigued, while poets and artists raced to depict the rhinoceros regardless of whether they had seen him with their own eyes. Most notable among them was Albrecht D├╝rer, whose celebrated woodcut is held in the British Museum. Rhinoceros is a playful fragmented reflection on the life of Ganda and the position he assumed as representative of his species, layered with expectations from millennia of wonky natural histories, bestiaries and etymologies. It looks at the rhinoceros as a spectacle, tracing a literary journey from Diodorus and Pliny the Elder to Babar the Elephant and Disney, via unicorns, YouTube, Ionesco and the Medicis. 

Gathering together shards of autobiography, poetry, and critical commentary on music and writing, Sheets of Sound evokes DeWald's experiences as a musician and poet, father and teacher, movie-lover and teenage skater. This debut collection of essays-by turns lyric and philosophic-reflects on jazz improvisation, poetic constraints, writing pedagogy, and the "queer art of failure" (Jack Halberstam), offering fresh perspectives on artists as various as Ellen Douglas, Nicole Mitchell, and Tomoka Shibasaki.

Natural Sugars is a pamphlet dripping with desire, in which Lady Red Ego''s poems luxuriate over tongues, rotting teeth and "ripe, round fruit", addressing lust in subversive, unsettling and erotic ways. Natural Sugars reclaims the body from a culture always hungry to commodify it. An essential pamphlet from a thrilling new voice in contemporary poetry, one who doesn''t "know how to garden, only to blossom".

Liam Bates poetry is cynical and louche, his pamphlet Working Animals explores how fauna, typically pests: spiders, wasps, gnats and maggots are all present, intersect unhelpfully with a world we believe to be our own but is not our own. Liam Bates is a fresh and frequently delightful poet of the anthropocene, whose words crawl under your skin and, when you're least expecting, bite.

infra·structure is a collaborative work shaped over a year of correspondence between Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere. The pamphlet was written following an Association of Literature and Environment conference on the Orkney islands, a wind battered archipelago north of the Scottish mainland. The poems respond to this distinct setting and share a dichotomous relationship where each ‘complete’ poem is mirrored by an ‘incomplete’ sister poem. Katy Lewis Hood and Maria Sledmere’s innovative dismantling of language echoes the destructive energy of the natural world. infra·structure is a highly original, must read pamphlet.

Robin Purves’ Three Spiders Fucking is a heartbroken and mournful suite of poems heavy with loss. Purves’ poetry bears the influence of two of the UK’s most celebrated alternative voices, J. H. Prynne and Denise Riley. The opening section pivots around the discovery of a man “hanging from a bough in a clearing”. The following sections mostly concern the aftermath. Purves’ language is drenched in natural world, fractured and thoughtful, hinting at the deeper questions which underpin this remarkable pamphlet.

Barney Ashton-Bullock’s Café Kaput! is an exuberant, sexed-up pamphlet laced with enough innuendo to sink an armada. An exploration of the physical side of queer desire, the poems take delight in their own irreverence, singing the body electric full of bravado and Ashton-Bullock’s often outrageous flair. You won’t read another pamphlet like it.