Throughout Girling, the boundaries between living and death, between history and present, and how these are preordained for us in the fabric of our DNA, but also via our geographical or cultural spaces, are wrestled and contended with throughout this open-hearted debut collection. Through a personal relationship with illness and a closeness to death, the author asks the reader, I hope its ok to die. I can / be something / like actualised metaphor.Recounted is the story of a father left abandoned in a church, a grandmothers home in a travellers caravan. Grief is portrayed with a tongue in cheek, cosmic register, as the speaker invests in lions mane, attempts to feel super-radiant, and moves into moon pose, while we watch electronic deep-sea claws on YouTube, and google what to do if your mum died last night.Philosophical, funny, pertinent, ecological, global and intimate, this is a collection of poems for the contemporary moment, a book deeply personal yet communal in its intention, beginning from a personal history then resonating outwards, ending on a note so gorgeously hopeful, as life moves towards the speaker, gloriously close.

Moving through somnambulant states, Sleep Gate evokes Inger Christensens description of the necessity for us to dream our way inward. The poems in Sleep Gate push Christensens dream inward further, into biological dreaming itself. Fully absorbed in the fabric of sleep, enfolded into the inventory of dreams, these poems become part of the process of sleep respiration, so that we might consider the world around us from another perspective. Moving through the changing states of peoplesdreamscapes and what might affect them, like nightmares, insomnia and other sleep disorders, Sleep Gate captures the disjunctive, jump-cutting quality of dreams: within the unspoken context of deep-sleep tectonic logic, these poems jump from a time before the clouds are inventoried to the present, from Winters gnashing bruxism to a garden anointed with gluey residue. A collection that, as on waking, assembles the world through distortion and towards clarity.

In 2021, Magorzata Lebda ran the entire length of the longest river in Poland, the Vistula, from its source in the Beskid Mountains to its mouth at the Baltic Sea. She set out to run as a poet, not as an athlete, to use the rhythms of her own body as a means of understanding and connecting to the rhythms of the rivers body of water, under threat of environmental ruin. Her collection Mer de Glace, which won the Szymborska Prize, is the culmination of her remarkable journey, and a profound meditation on the porosity, reactivity and receptivity of both the body and the natural world, and of their influences on one another.

Radically lyrical, politically astute, this new collection features six writers whose every word is an act of affirmation. As it must be, for their art to flourish beside one of the worlds great languages.In Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh, we find youthful energies tackling climate change, global extinctions, even human life beyond our planet. Whether in Wales or Palestine, Manhattan or the island of Alcatraz itself, we learn that todays Welsh language poetry, with its unique perspective, is as valid as any verse in the world. And, possibly, more vital.If these translations take liberties, none are unforgivable. The spirit of each poem remains unblemished. Here, veteran writers, such as Menna Elfyn, Karen Owen and Iwan Llwyd, mix with the next generations Iestyn Tyne, Llyr Gwyn and Sian Northey. Alcatraz is an essential work for anyone interested in the good health of modern poetry in the UK.

The definitive edition of Plaths poetry for readers, scholars and studentsSylvia Plaths first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This present volume emerges out of decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition.The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years, sourced from diaries and letters, published in school magazines, and copied into the manuscript book that Plath kept for her own records. In each instance, the editors have dated and selected the most authoritative text, and provide critical notes that offer insight into Plaths extraordinary evolution as a poet - from her early, precocious determination to be a writer to her place in literary history as the twentieth-centurys most fiercely burning star.

From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return.Andrew Motions new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the opening elegies for friends and former versions of the self, and in the long title sequence which completes the book, he explores the ways in which regrets compete with hope, and the appetite for life is always a prey to hard facts of mortality. The energy and reach of these poems opens a new chapter in Motions writing, remaining true to the elegiac subjects which have always been his main concern, while adding new depths of pathos and resonance.

Forty years after it was first published, Ted Hughess Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders is presented in a beautifully redesigned edition with a new introduction by the nature writer Tim Dee. The sixteen poems gathered here brim and bristle with the life Hughes generates from the absolute attention he commits to whatever it is he is looking at. His knack for finding a language to animate its subject, without a trace of sentiment or nostalgia, singles out Hughes as one of the truly great poet-interpreters of the natural world.This edition gives full justice to the subtlety of the original watercolour illustrations, produced by Hughess long-term collaborator and friend, the American artist, Leonard Baskin.

In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle explores the themes of abandonment, imprisonment, generational incomprehension and the very notion of how we end up where we are. The poet looks at his life through a lens to get closer to meditate on the anxieties and insecurities of a life, and how we remember and mis-remember, how memories and people can be difficult and at times hurtful to hold onto it. In reading this collection it becomes clear that although these recollections may be ordered, the emotions and impressions surrounding them are not.

La recopilación de todos los poemas que Raúl Quinto ha escrito hasta la fecha, con un apéndice inédito.Un idioma siempre al borde de la extinción recoge toda la producción poética publicada hasta la fecha por Raul Quinto desde que en 2002 apareciera su primer poemario, Grietas. Esta edicion, que abarca mas de dos decadas, contiene los seis libros que le siguieron, asi como tambien una antologia de poemas dispersos y un librito inedito, escrito durante los dias del confinamiento, titulado Cuaderno de la peste de 1348 y que aparece aqui por primera vez.Su poesia, a medio camino entre lo lirico y lo que Luis Bague ha llegado a denominar instalaciones discursivas, funciona como un mecanismo textual donde se pone de relieve el conflicto permanente entre la realidad y el lenguaje desde un compromiso en el que lo estetico y la busqueda de sus limites pesan tanto como lo politico o lo existencial. A traves de un trabajo formal depurado y en continua transformacion se nos presentan los temas que recorren toda su obra: la historia, el poder, la incomunicacion, la identidad, el horror y la belleza, y que lo han convertido en una de las voces mas relevantes y reconocidas de la poesia española de este siglo.

La obra de un poeta imprescindible, reunida en un solo volumen.«Poéticamente atesora una austeridad y una sobriedad que entroncan más con la poesía inglesa que con la latina, pero que se ocupan de un

Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet.Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, Bplastic is based on Matthew Rices experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a post-industrial, post-Troubles society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts.Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the workers experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques Ranciere calls the labourers in love with the intellectual nights and those intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.plastics evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.

The never-before-published poems of one of the great American poets, edited and introduced by Shane McCrae.Only Sing is a continuation of John Berrymans vast project The Dream Songs. These 152 never-before-published poems are an expansion of this epic of the American twentieth-century psyche. In the voice and figure of Henry - riddled with desire, self-loathing and a permanent sense of being odds with the world - Berryman created, in the words of McCrae, a hero for a disenchanted nation.Berryman never saw these dream songs in print but he was content that if they ever appeared, it would be up to the reader to fit those poems in among the published ones.

I am drawing a map of distances. The swimmer. The sleeper. The dreamer. Another afternoon traipsing the incomprehensible corridors of the brain. Nothing uttered.Alia Kobuszkos poetry is as immediate as it is mysterious. She is unafraid of detonating form or trusting a quiet phrase, and saturates these poems with surreal and sensuous aspects. In this enchanting and piercing debut, strange horses gallop - embodying metamorphic freedom and power. The speaker becomes the rider, the horse itself and even the field, enacting how the poet inhabits and unanchors their subject so that girl and horse / stand still- / field runs through them.

Un mundo apocalíptico donde la lluvia debe ser traducida, el silencio canta más fuerte que el habla y los pájaros cableados repiten grabaciones de sus ancestros extintos.Al 2040 empieza con una pregunta puntuada como si de una afirmacion se tratara: Estamos / acaso ya extinguidos. De quien es / el mapa. Sus poemas son cantados por alguien que esta escribiendo esos mismos versos mientras mira por la ventana de una sala de radioterapia, y lo que ve fuera son los retazos de una tierra en ruinas: un mundo apocaliptico donde la lluvia debe ser traducida, el silencio retumba mas fuerte que el habla y los pajaros, conectados a la red, repiten grabaciones de sus extintos ancestros.En estos poemas visionarios, Jorie Graham hace a la vez de historiadora, de cartografa y de profeta, y, con imagenes de precision cinematografica, nos muestra multiples futuros potenciales, que abarcan desde vistas aereas de costas remodeladas hasta primeros primerisimos planos de un gusano excavando en la tierra. Todo ello con la banda sonora de sirenas entre los escombros, contemplando la perdida de las especies que los habitaron y de quienes les dieron nombre.Con la crisis climatica en suspenso, este libro funciona como una carta abierta urgente destinada al futuro, a la par que vamos siendo cada vez mas conscientes de la profunda belleza de este mundo que estamos destruyendo, mientras buscamos con apremio una orientacion que, quiza, ya no este a nuestro alcance.

"Entre o silêncio e o caos, encontro-me nas estações do meu ser."Assim começa o livro de estreia de André de A. Oliveira, um autor jovem que transformou dor em palavras. Nesta obra, poética e ilustra

Recortes sem desculpas reúne reflexões poéticas e prosaicas sobre a vida e a condição humana, atravessadas pela experiência da pandemia de covid-19.Por meio de metáforas, o autor escreve sobre o isol

Poemas que encarnan la conciencia de una mujer de nuestro tiempo y una rabiosa reivindicación de la escritura y del deseo.Cara de antigua es un poemario íntimo y vigoroso que pone palabras a la experiencia de crecer en un ambito que vulnera los cuerpos y la subjetividad desde la niñez. Lucia Baskaran traza un itinerario de la construccion de una identidad marcada por el amor, el deseo, el genero, el aborto, la culpa y la violencia patriarcal.La infancia, los afectos, la maternidad, los dictados de belleza y la disidencia corporal aparecen entrelazados con imagenes del cuerpo de una honestidad conmovedora. A traves de sus versos, que oscilan entre la furia y la ternura, la autora desmonta mitologias domesticas, religiosas y sociales, y denuncia con ironia el discurso patriarcal que pretende reglar los afectos, el deseo y los cuerpos.El poemario Cara de antigua supone la conciencia encarnada en una mujer de nuestro tiempo que ha habita los margenes, y que desde alli construye una poetica de la resistencia: rabiosa reivindicacion de la escritura como forma de volver a nacer.

A poetic memoir from an award-winning journalist tracing love, loss and the truths we dare to speak. In her debut poetry collection, These Are the Things We Have Lost, Janice Warman chronicles a journey from her South African childhood to the landscapes of motherhood with unflinching honesty. From pregnancy high on hormones and Pellegrino, to second weddings, these poems capture intimate moments of love and loss. With a journalists precision and a poets sensitivity, Warmans voice moves between continents and decades. A celebration of lifes joys and an elegy for what inevitably slips through our grasp.

Não resta dúvida de que Isabela Benassi, poeta e pesquisadora que estreia com O salto do tigre, está entre aquelas e aqueles "que aceitam sujar as mãos/ com os problemas do seu tempo". Suas palavras