Fence
I am travelled lost compass gone haywire so north Fence is an epic of fragments that is at once beautiful and beautifully strange. In his exploration of the vast, frozen Svalbard islands,...
View ArticleFutures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis
“the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, the statue standing like something outraged remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this, that hope marked you too.” from ‘This City’ by Adrianne...
View ArticleNo Dogs, No Indians
How far would you go to resist oppression? What would you choose to remember, and what to forget? It is 1932 in occupied Bengal. A young revolutionary prepares to storm a whites-only club in...
View ArticleAt Hajj
At Hajj is a book of yearning and of pulling away, of things handed down and newly made. Its central sequence plunges the reader into the heat and dust of the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. For...
View ArticleAn Ocean of Static
From the late 15th century onwards, a flurry of voyages were made into the North Atlantic in search of fish, the fabled Northwest Passage, and beyond into the territories purely imaginary. Today, this...
View ArticleThe Perseverance
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics...
View ArticleAfter the Formalities
The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou’s breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp, these are poems that...
View ArticleThe Book of Naseeb
In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero’s struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service stations of modern Britain to the desert and mountains of...
View ArticlePlastiglomerate
Geographer-poet Tim Cresswell writes with the forensic eye of a professional, bending the hard vocabulary of science into a jagged but compelling lyric that telescopes from the vast to the cellular in...
View ArticleThe Actual
In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity. Written on the author’s...
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