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New collection of poems about beauty, death, time and contradiction by the esteemed American poet and prose writer Tess Gallagher, celebrating the two places where she has lived for the past four decades: the Northwest of America and the north-west of Ireland.

Spiritual orphanhood and the loss and protection of innocence lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton, in poems which revisit - in meditations on death and migration - the territories of the Far East from his early years, in the light of a new nomadic age.

Carolyn Forche's The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, travelling around a country erupting into civil war. Briefly available from Jonathan Cape in the 1980s, it was reissued by Bloodaxe to coincide with the publication of Forche's long awaited memoir of those times, What You Have Heard Is True.

The poems in Miriam Gamble's third collection journey through scenes and landscapes at once of the world and of the mind. By turns uncanny, dark, poignant and uproarious, What Planet sets individuality of perception and inventiveness of memory against fixed certainties, probing chaos in a post-truth world. Winner of the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize

Zoe Brigley's third collection draws on early memories of the Welsh landscape and the harshness of rural life as well as on her later immersion in the American landscape and her perception of a sense of hollowness in particular communities there. Other strands include the horror of violence, especially violence towards women.

Taking its title from an 18th-century anatomical wax sculpture of an idealised woman, Ivory's fifth collection examines how women have been portrayed as 'other'; as witches; as hysterics with wandering wombs; and as beautiful corpses cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets.

Mark Waldron's fourth collection shows his always surreal work delivering even more surprises as he depicts the absurdity behind the posturing of human beings in society. Sometimes metaphysical, sometimes apparently confessional, often hilarious, they show our lives as both funny and sad, dark and light, silly and serious.

Whip-hot & Grippy is Heather Phillipson's second collection, following her highly praised debut, Instant-flex 718, published in 2013. As well as being an award-winning poet, she is an internally renowned artist whose sculpture, 'The End', was installed on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth in 2020.

This posthumous retrospective of the popular winner of the Costa Book of the Year with Inside the Wave (2017) covers ten collections written over four decades. Expanded from Out of the Blue (2001).

Powerful, visionary book by leading African American poet confronts tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of the mothers of murdered African American men. Dynamic sequences, including a compelling chronicle of the devastating murder of Emmett Till, serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance.

A noctuary is a diary for the late hours, a time for reflection in these lyrical poems about discovering what it means to be a young father, anxious, caring and protective, deeply connected to the new, precious life of another human being. Noctuary is Scottish poet Niall Campbell's second collection, following his highly praised debut Moontide.

Jen Campbell is already a bestselling author of children's picture books as well as a popular books vlogger with a big following on YouTube. Her debut poetry collection The Girl Aquarium explores the realm of rotten fairy tales, the possession of body and the definition of beauty.

Annotated and illustrated edition produced by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge of Prynne's 1983 poem, with photographs and a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material, plus two commentary essays.

Seventh collection from northern poet previously shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Glass Swarm (2008) - his first since his Bloodaxe retrospective Border (2013). Bennet has a following in the North-East.

First new collection by the distinguished octogenarian since her Bloodaxe New & Collected Poems (2010): poems on her American childhood shadowed by the death of her husband Alan Sillitoe.

Fourth collection by winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection: poems confronting strange interconnections and anxieties of the early 21st century, tuning into what is out of range in deep time, including many relating to climate change and other environmental concerns.

Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe's greatest poets. This expanded edition of Selected Poems (1990/96), winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize, also includes all of Hoelderlin's Sophocles (2001).

Dual Farsi-English edition of three decades of poems by leading Iranian poet exiled in Sweden since 2006. Launched by the Poetry Translation Centre with a reading tour of UK festivals in October 2018.

Fifth collection by London poet presents a personal geography in poems about hope and courage, life and nature, with a focus on recovery from mental health problems and questioning the workings of the NHS.

New retrospective by Ken Smith (1938-2003), a major voice in world poetry - and the first poet published by Bloodaxe in 1978 - whose work and example inspired a whole generation of younger British poets during the 80s and 90s.

The popular Caribbean-British poet John Agard brings his trickster wit to a world of play and parable in which the Little Green Man stands for all pesky outsiders, in poems charged with contemporary relevance.

Second collection by popular London poet previously published by Salt. `One of my favourite poets writing today. Her delicate, dexterous writing belies the raw truths she tells...I love Amy Key' - Lauren Laverne. Poetry Book Society Wildcard Choice.

Hafez is one of the best known medieval Persian mystic poets, as celebrated and popular as his near contemporary Rumi. As with Rumi, modern translations have a strong appeal to today's readers. Both ardent mystic and lover, Hafez fuses earthly and divine love.

States of Happiness is Suzanne Batty's second full-length collection, following her much praised debut The Barking Thing, published in 2007.

Second collection by highly praised London poet. Poems on animal versus human, wilderness and civilisation. Her debut Pure Hustle was published by Bloodaxe in 2011. Feral is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Pretend You Don't Know Me brings together in one volume the best of Finuala Dowling's funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to new poems. It introduces this popular South African poet to a UK audience.

Latest collection by winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2016. Carol Ann Duffy wrote that Gillian Allnutt's poetry `has always been in conversation with the natural world and the spiritual life'.

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third collection, following two earlier, highly praised collections, Everything Belongs Elsewhere, published by Bloodaxe in 2012, and her debut, Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize.

The poems in Ailbhe Darcy's second collection relate to love, hope, home and children in a world under threat politically and environmentally. Insistence won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2019, the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and the Pigott Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and T.S. Eliot Prize.