Life Without Air | Daisy Lafarge
When Louis Pasteur observed the process of fermentation,…
February 20, 2023/by KatieYour Nearness | Forrest Gander
'There’s a deep personal feeling found in Forrest Gander’s…
May 14, 2023/by KatieNeptune’s Projects | Rishi Dastidar
What do you do when you are a god – but powerless and unable…
May 16, 2023/by KatieInmates | Sean Borodale
The poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites…
February 20, 2023/by KatieTongues of Fire | Seán Hewitt
In this collection, Seán Hewitt gives us poems of a rare…
February 20, 2023/by KatieCommonplace Book | Taylor Strickland
Taylor Strickland’s Commonplace Book moves across the Atlantic…
November 24, 2022/by KatieThe Threadbare Coat | Thomas A Clark
This Selected Poems celebrates Scotland's most distinctive…
February 20, 2023/by KatieUnexhausted Time | Emily Berry
Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which…
May 14, 2023/by KatieRite of Passage | Dom Bury
Dom Bury’s Rite of Passage is an initiation into what…
February 20, 2023/by KatieCountry Music | Will Burns
The poems in Country Music are observant, curious, finding…
February 20, 2023/by KatieTerminarchy | Angela France
Angela France’s distinctive new collection of poems eloquently…
November 24, 2022/by KatieLake 32 | JLM Morton
In this debut pamphlet JLM Morton tells the story of a year…
March 28, 2023/by KatieNature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf
Revitalising conversations around environmentalism…
Plastiglomerate | Tim Cresswell
Plastiglomerate finds our world in the midst of environmental…
February 20, 2023/by KatieCephalopography 2.0 | Rasiqra Revulva
Cephalopography 2.0 is as much a passionate celebration of…
February 20, 2023/by KatieThe Shaking City | Cath Drake
The shaking city of Australian poet Cath Drake’s debut…
February 20, 2023/by KatieFrost & Pollen | Helen Hajnoczky
'Part eco-poetry, part Arthurian fan-fiction in verse, Frost…
May 14, 2023/by KatieThe Sound of the Earth Singing to Herself | Ricky Ray
Ricky Ray entwines the beauty of the world and his love of…
February 20, 2023/by KatieThe Stone Age | Jen Hadfield
Jen Hadfield’s new collection is an astonished beholding…
February 20, 2023/by KatieWhat Fire | Alice Miller
'What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls…
May 14, 2023/by KatieThe European Eel | Steve Ely
'These eels were born in a continent of ocean
and their…
May 14, 2023/by Katieand their…
This Fruiting Body | Caleb Parkin
Caleb Parkin’s debut poetry collection, This Fruiting Body,…
October 23, 2022/by KatieStartling | Linda France
Linda France’s galvanising tenth collection comprises poems…
October 23, 2022/by KatieBioluminescent Baby | Fiona Benson
The poems in Fiona Benson’s Bioluminescent Baby reveal…
Brimstone: a Book of Villanelles | John Kinsella
Using this poetic form (of five 3-line stanzas and a final…
February 20, 2023/by KatiePostcolonial Love Poem | Natalie Diaz
Postcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book. It…
February 20, 2023/by KatieEarth Dwellers | Kristen Lang
The Anthropocene – what can poetry do in this epoch in…
February 20, 2023/by KatieHow to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) | Barbara Kingsolver
This edition gathers together Barbara Kingsolver’s vibrant…
February 20, 2023/by KatieThe Knucklebone Floor | Linda France
The Knucklebone Floor is partly a verse biography of Susan…
May 14, 2023/by KatieMaskwork | Gregory Leadbetter
In Gregory Leadbetter’s second poetry collection, Maskwork,…
February 20, 2023/by KatieThis is a Picture of Wind | JR Carpenter
This is a Picture of Wind expands upon a series of short…
February 20, 2023/by KatieTiger Girl | Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit’s Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian…
November 24, 2022/by KatieWhat If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing…
Dog Days Done features in With Love, Grief and Fury | Salena Godden
Salena Godden is a poet, author, activist, broadcaster,…
How to Live With Mammals | Ash Davida Jane
All around us, life is both teeming and vanishing. How do…
February 20, 2023/by KatieGarden Physic | Sylvia Legris
Garden Physic is a radical poetic movement through plant…
May 14, 2023/by KatieOut Of Time | edited by Kate Simpson
If you compressed the whole of Earth’s history into a single…
March 27, 2023/by KatieMeat Lovers | Rebecca Hawkes
Tender and brutal, seductive and repulsive, Meat Lovers introduces…
May 14, 2023/by KatieRebel Talk | Extinction Rebellion
Responding to a call from poet Rip Bulkeley’s call, sixty-three…
September 4, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperWilder | Jemma Borg
What is still wild in us – and is it recoverable? We do…
May 14, 2023/by KatieSeasonal Disturbances | Karen McCarthy Woolf
The poems in Seasonal Disturbances explore nature,…
BEYOND THE BRINK IS THE BEGINNING | RICHARD WAIN
“Wain’s poetry collection is full of sharply-crafted…
Passerine | Kirstin Luckins
In Passerine, Kirsten Luckins' epistolary poems distill…
February 20, 2023/by KatieThe Ballad of Yellow Wednesday | Emma Must
In 1992, a group of young people began to protest against…
October 23, 2022/by KatieAnimal Experiments | Anja Konig
In an era of tribalism, it’s rare to encounter one so committed…
February 20, 2023/by KatieMuch With Body | Polly Atkin
Much With Body is the startlingly original second collection…
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