Fiercely told, this is a powerful coming-of-age story told in verse, from one of the UK's leading poets, Dean Atta. Perfect for fans of Sarah Crossan and Poet X.

A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his wings as a drag artist, The Black Flamingo. A bold story about the power of embracing your...

This highly-anticipated second volume of poetry and short stories combines the forces of some of the most popular poets of 2019. [Dis]Connected presents poems and short stories about connection wrapped up in a most unique exercise in creative writing. Follow along as your favorite poets connect with each other, offering their poetry to the next person who...

Spanning more than six decades of Sudan’s post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan’s most renowned modern poets, largely unknown in the United States. Adil Babikir’s extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context. Translated from Arabic, the collection...

WITCHDOCTORPOET is the debut collection of poetry and prose by the US based artist, Bola Juju. This book explores topics such as love, spirituality, womanhood, addiction, ancestral trauma and the unwavering power of healing from the inside out. WITCHDOCTORPOET is an offering to those in need of a sensual and empowering stance on the realities and legacies...

An exclusive extract from the outstanding new verse novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; poignant, thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores mental health and friendship while asking what it means to be a family.

I am not who I say I am,

and Marla isn’t who she thinks she is.

I am a girl trying...

From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.

There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a...

For Every One is for every kind of reader. A letter to anyone who has ever had a keep-you-up-at-night ambition. The heart racing, what if? This book is a challenge to think beyond the expected and go for what you want, when going for it is the scariest part. THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling Jason Reynolds, come a one of a...

An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by turns of Simon Ortiz, Pӓr Lagerkvist, and Jane Hirshfield. This is the mind of prayer, a seeing and re-seeing of the immense cyclic beauty of the earth. “Lundy...

OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017

'Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands. A glorious living thing' Florence Welch
'One of the must-reads of the year' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard

'You will come away bruised.
You will come away bruised
but this will give you poetry.'

Raw and stark, the poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her...

Dave Harris’s stellar debut takes a nuanced look at the complexities of black masculinity. Patricide weighs those complexities and how they impact a lineage of black boys who fight to become men in the image of their fathers. More than just a book about fear or death centered on being black in America, Patricide illuminates the internal struggle to be the...

Desireé Dallagiacomo's debut book grapples with the intersections of family and mental health. SINK asks and answers hard questions about grief, lineage, death and all manner of inheritance. What is one left with when they come from a family that has nothing to its name but loss? Throughout, Dallagiacomo weighs the cost of what it is to be alive and a woman...

"Last of the Outsiders" offers a sweeping view of prolific American poet Jack Grapes’ fifty-year career. Presenting the core of Grapes’ poetic work, the collection ranges from poems originally printed in 1968 to work written in 2019. The title, "Last of the Outsiders", reflects both Grapes’ ties to "The Outsider" journal and his standing as an outsider with...

Dr. Leonid Altshuler M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist. Here's what Dr. Altshuler says about his poetry:

I have been writing poetry for as long as I can remember.

Once, I posted my poetry in the local magazine, some of my psychiatric patients saw it and mentioned to me that they were using my poetry as a tool to get into the meditative state of the...

Zookeeper is a timeless free verse poem that encourages us to view our lives like the zoo with the patterns found in nature and valuable life lessons are made inspiring. Illustrated by Daniel J. Middleton to bring smiles to faces. Author Douglas S. Haynes is a practicing attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, who began writing poetry in 2011. He publishes...

A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017  Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as...

'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in 'books of the year'. No wonder this first British publication is a significant...

A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.  Following her groundbreaking 2014 début An Aviary of Small Birds ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature, the...

The powerful new collection from award-winning poet, Emily Berry.

Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known. But these poems delve deeper...

“They say that pets will leave paw prints on my heart. But I don’t think I believe them.”

Paw Prints is a poignant, illustrated story of grief and loss. With full color illustrations on each page, it follows a woman's contemplation on the loss of her young dog as she takes one last walk through their morning routine.

While always informed by a lifetime's professional study of human psychology, this collection is unusual, the author thinks, in its final variety - humorous, sardonic but also at times dark and disquieting.

This book of poetry is a reflection of life; my life. The parts that are festive and the parts that are not so festive. I wanted the readers to capture that about my writings. The important part about this project was that I was able to candidly show my flaws. It was important for me to let the readers know that I am just like anyone else. I stand before a...

Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and triumphs.

In poems that dig deep into sexuality, acceptance of the body, survival of trauma, and learning to love yourself in spite of everything telling you not to, Baird's voice is a rich addition to her generation. Searing, soaring, and heartbreaking, If My...

Filled with over 190 lethal limericks and punny poems along with some quirky cartoons, all with a mystery twist. Includes a special bonus feature: the short story "The Adventure of the Baffled Blacksmith," where Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes take on the Lizzie Borden case.

Samples of the sinister stanzas:

COLD CUSTOMERS

Embalmer Montmorency Rome

Is a cheerful, if...

Part one of The Comedy Project – an edition which will be six parts in all. Be introduced to Dante’s world in this beautifully illustrated, modern re-imagining of his work.

Dante called his chapters songs, and this book contains the first 17 songs of The Comedy Project, which make up the first half of the Inferno inside You. Traditionally Dante’s journey...

Thiahera Nurse’s Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil’ Kim rapping in the rain, the landscape of Nurse’s poetry functions equally as underworld and imagined heaven.

Some Girls Survive on Their...

In Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite, Andrew Colarusso hybridizes lost and unknown spaces, taking his title from a falconry term for the cord used to restrain a bird. The word derives from the late fifteenth century, from the French créance (“faith”), also denoting a cord to retain a bird of peu de créance (“of little faith,” i.e., which cannot yet...

This is how you draw a broken heart: Dip your fingers in blood and don't Hesitate to botch the final project.

This is a book about love and the wounds that it can bring. It explores the exhilaration of first love, the damage of unrequited love, and the distress of abandonment. The poems are little memories that come alive, a journey between reality and...