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In Michael Murphy's annotated edition of Kenneth Allott's Collected Poems all Allott's previously published work is combined with eighteen new poems, some of which have only recently come to light. The whole collection now represents the most complete picture of Allott, a man widely regarded as one of most exciting poets of the Thirties.

This is another sensational collection from Luke Kennard packed with humour and his heady mix of crazy animistic narrators and surreal mise-en-scene. Taking off from his much celebrated second collection, The Harbour Beyond the Movie which was shortlisted for the 2007 Forward Prize for Poetry.

Luke Kennard is an award-winning poet, critic and dramatist. His first collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers was published by Stride Books. He has worked as regional editor for Succour, a bi-annual journal of poetry and short fiction and as an associated reader for The Kenyon Review.

This lively second collection from a young, much-travelled writer falls into two parts. 'Transit' includes poems of travel and transport, especially Japan, where Tobias Hill lived for two years. 'Back to the City' is about London, from hangover to Underground; Hiroshima; and the 'City of Clocks', a fusion of cities and ages.

A Brief History of Time is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles - from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works.

Aromabingo is the much aniticipated sequel to Gaffney's highly-acclaimed `Sawn-off Tales', offering yet more weird, edgy, ultra-short stories, together with several longer ones - the perfect opportunity to spend more time inside the baffling, hilarious and sometimes moving world David Gaffney paints for us.

Broken Things encompasses a world of fractured realities and urban magic. Here are voices lost inside themselves, where the world is lopsided and nothing may be trusted. A kitchen knife crawls after a little girl to keep her safe and an old lady hears her mother calling from a cupboard.

Evolution of the Bridge collects prose poems from Maxine Chernoff's previous volumes. It features such classics as "The Last Aurochs," "A Vegetable Emergency," "Utopia TV Store," "New Faces of 1952" and provides ample evidence that Maxine Chernoff continues to be one of the most significant practitioners of the prose poem.

This book of lyrics and texts challenges the way numbers prevail over words in art and experience. Providing a radically new poetry of the book and an exhilarating manifesto against maths in art, philosophy and society, Go Figure offers a critique of mathematical reason and a comedy of speculative wit.

Strip reveals the lives of 50's pin-up Bettie page, and hardcore porn stars of the following eras with stunning beauty and poignancy. These poems illuminate the darkest of places as they explore taboo with acute sensitivity from suburbia to cinema screen. These poems are cinematic, visual, hauntingly, beautiful and at times devastating.

Down to Earth is at once a road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration and ubiquitous borders, and a meteorological model of energy transfer. This book knows no limit to poetry's ambition, dodging every border post, down every highway, like the ocelot running through its narrative.

Jill McDonough's first book gives us fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution. Headed meticulously with name, date, place, they are poignant with the factual, with eyewitness reports and the words of the condemned - so limpidly framed that one forgets the skill that crystallizes all this into authentic poetry.

Set in the West, Russia, Moldova and the Middle East, Katia Kapovich's Cossacks and Bandits explores the personal histories of survivors of sociopolitical and economic distress, who are the true modern hero and heroine. In the final reckoning, survival and dignity depend on creative thinking and a leap of the imagination.

Twisted, knotted, struck by events and emotions at our historical moment, these Drafts register and produce torques - exaltation and tension, torsion and force, in their symphonic and bantering surges. This book continues the long poem project that Ron Silliman calls "one of the major poetic achievements of our time."

These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it - the boy caught between divorced parents, the arts worker conman, the avenging wife. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, and always surprising: for it's a slippery thing, power, and nothing is ever quite what it seems ...

dg nanouk okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Mahealani Perez-Wendt are four exceptional emerging poets. Their Pacific Rim relationship invited opportunity to publish these four chapbooks in one collected volume. A significant statement as to the changing state of the world, this collection is a rich pleasure.

Shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize In a ruined garden children play cowboys and Indians while their fathers fight the Cold War. The children grow up and discover the enemy are also people. The Empire shrinks to an opera audience. The Royal Family is reduced to waxworks.

This invaluable collection now makes widely available work which was previously hard to obtain or long out of print, it will delight fans as well as general readers wanting to discover more about one of the UK's most widely-celebrated poets.

These are poignant stories of love, betrayal, dreams and tribulation, corruption and redemption. Whether we're reading about the Hong Kong girl who reconciles with her estranged father following a chance encounter with an African musician, or the hangman whose life is torn apart by demons from the past.

Don Share's latest collection, Squandermania, is a book of poems that are slightly death-haunted and studded with references to marriage and fatherhood, geology and biology. It also revives a luminous, if complex, domesticity - not something most men take as their subject.

Through detailed images of ancestors and wilderness places, through renderings of story, tribal history, and family ritual, award-winning Anishinaabe author Kimberly Blaeser explores our mesh of tangled origins.

The Salt Companion to Carter Revard is a groundbreaking collection of essays on the work of Osage poet and scholar of medieval English literature, Carter Revard. These essays offer multiple perspectives on Revard's complex and beautifully crafted poetry that should appeal to scholars, students, and general readers alike.

From the depths of longing to the London Bombings Recital offers a poet's journey looking at our world over the space of a year. Taking the lunar cycle as its central theme, Siddique's book surveys our doubts, desires and dislocations and unites us in a celebration of love.

The Solex Brothers explores the fate of the individual - albeit a rather feeble individual - and of personal responsibility in a culture of absurd, inexorable forces. Farce navigating towards moral absolution in narratives at once Fauvist and Baroque, expunging the twee with a reformist's remorseless vigour.

David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true.

In Galatea, her first collection, Challenger casts a poet's sensitive eye across the hours of a tumultuous century to create startling poems whose voice - resolute, compassionate, original - both celebrates and mourns the tensions of human nature.

This collection by Mohawk poet, James Thomas Stevens explores the effects of colonization on either side of the Bering Strait - China and North America. Three long poems focus on mapping, post-colonial emergencies and propoganda, while the short poems are personal experiences in China and Native America.

In Mother/Land, Savageau weaves traditional, personal and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance, revealing a landscape of trees, ponds, rivers and mountains rich in meaning for Abenaki people.

Red Eagle's extraordinary book deals directly with Native American experience of the Vietnam war and offers a healing and redemptive force in the face of violence and its aftermath.