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Seal Mother
The narrator of Cow Seal is a woman who lives by Iceland’s northernmost coast, where the struggle for life is hard, winters attack with sea ice and cold. Her husband dies, a child dies, and other calamities follow, but the woman and her children never give up. They endure. The woman helps a seal give birth – the boundaries between man and animal, culture and nature disappear in this magical book. The text is chiselled, the poems traditional in form with alliteration and internal rhyme reminiscent of ancient metres which underscore the timelessness and relevance of the work to the constant struggle for life that is the lot of both humans and animals.
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Collected Poems 1972 - 2024
Prize-winning poet Kevin Crossley-Holland has been described by Philip Pullman as ‘a master, a magician and commander of the language’, a view that this eagerly-awaited Collected Poems will undoubtedly support.
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Within the Shop of the Divine
Mary Gilliland, the American poet, essayist, ecologist and activist, is well-known and highly regarded in the USA, and this new poetry collection is her UK first.
It is impossible not to fall for Within the Shop of the Divine. These are poems abundant in flora and fauna, rich in life and matter and earthed in the spaces and histories they emerge from.
Mary Gilliland’s gift with language, and her open attention to the world affects a kind of communion – between self and space, human and more than human, and between loved ones – that moves as much as it delights.
A pamphlet of grief, recovery and quiet joy from a poet who deserves to be better known in the UK.
Mary Gilliland brings to her work the rich flavors of the natural world, yet her destination is clearly news of the inner self, its perceptions, its relationships with others. She is not afraid of delight, neither does she shirk the hard tasks of anger, pain, and deep caring.
Mary Gilliland’s tensile lyric and fluent narrative grasp the sweet otherness in life… a radiant testimony – and a triumph – of an unerring ear I deeply cherish. Mythical and grounded, her sensuously rich language enacts a poetry in which self-concentration brims beyond the far reach of desire, passion, and the self.
By turns mystical and realist, Mary Gilliland’s intensely musical poems consider global apocalypse but also celebrate the generative power of creativity. Her vision is profound, enduring.
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Lizzard Looks
The past and distant past creeps through the lines and unsaid words in these poems; they explore how the past forms the present and connects our shared humanity. These are sensual poems, where sound, history and the natural world are dominant.
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Nightsongs for Gaia
Nightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poems spans over twenty years of James Byrne’s poetic practice. Accomplished in both formal and innovative modes, Byrne’s poetry is visionary, attentive and curious, encapsulating a global sensibility. Selecting from seven full collections and various pamphlets, Nightsongs brings together works unavailable in England until now. Here, we encounter a poetics that works with communities to further consider a sense of self and otherness and is unique in its musicality. Nightsongs celebrates the work of one of the most gifted poets of his generation.
James Byrne's poetry has always been lyrically complex, with a voice that is singular and instantly striking. What particularly strikes the reader of his Nightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poems is its capaciousness. This book takes us on a journey from his youth, via places of recent conflict such as Myanmar and Libya in way that few contemporary writers across the globe can match. He makes most poets writers today look like they’re jogging in a bathtub.
Nightsongs for Gaia presents alchemical fissures of a heart reduced to gold with no other substance to turn (in)to. A fiery presence of augury, of premonition, burns from the outset with a wary flame. Byrne has seen many places, been many things, and undergone visceral self-haunting in many guises. To say the Nightsongs are oracular is to understate the poet's own sense of knowingness. Here, exquisite beauty prevails.
James Byrne’s Nightsongs for Gaia is an extraordinary body of work—restless, urgent, and deeply humane. These poems move fluidly between the intimate and the geopolitical, tracing loss, exile, and resilience with a precision that is both unflinching and tender. Byrne affirms poetry as an act of witness and transformation. This is a vital, necessary collection.
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The Conjurer
The Conjurer is Pedro Serrano’s second book from Arc, and includes work drawn from his three published collections in Mexico as well as unpublished work. These are powerful poems which explore the natural world in all its wonder with a close and meticulous attention that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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Can the Dandelions be Trusted?
Katherine Gallagher has a loyal readership both in the UK and in her native Australia and her latest book from Arc will not disappoint. Ranging in time and place from her childhood in the Australian outback to heady youthful days in Paris of the ‘60s, to slower-paced recent years in the gardens and open spaces around her north London home, these poems are full of a colour and energy that paint a picture of life lived to the full, and also a reflectiveness, a gentle humour, and occasionally a sense of loss, as the poet looks back on times past.
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Vanishing Points
Vanishing Points is Lucia Stupica’s fourth book of poetry and comes after a decade of silence in which her poetic voice has become more complex and sensitive to the cracks in time and in the world through which she observes fragments of life – imperfect, painful and real. Her expression has retained its tenderness, establishing a deep dialogue with the world, the past and the present, and with appearances and the things they conceal. In her attempt at a new understanding of the world, Stupica is not writing the story of her own role, but of the role of women as the hidden movers of history, and the role of those, be they a man, a child or a random stranger, who see the experience of the other, and are open to it. These poems of love, loss, mystery and what lies beyond our understanding make for a haunting and memorable collection in Andrej Peric’s beautiful translation.
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My Country's Hair Turned White
Dilawar Karadaghi is one of the most important contemporary Kurdish poets and his work is marked by the long years of persecution, marginalization and struggle that are part of the Kurdish experience. The poems in this short selection are full of longing, sadness, loss and, in the final poem, anger, as the poet remembers the devastating chemical attack on Halabja in 1988 in which his ‘country’s hair turned white’.
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