George Economou Ananios of Kleitor

George Economou Unfinished & Uncollected

Theodore Enslin To an Unknown Shore

Aidan Fine A Nest This Size

Norman Finkelstein Track
Published 2012. Paperback, 310pp, 9x6ins, £16.95 / $25
ISBN 9781848612068 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
Track is a book-length poem, originally released in the USA by Spuyten Divil in three volumes.
"Norman Finkelstein's Track undertakes a voyage beset by recombinatory duress. An excursis through realms where "the letters / arrive to be destroyed," this wickedly wise poem keeps on arriving long after it's done — a lingering trade or track of mind in mind, trouble in mind. It is a beautiful, beguiling book of unrest." —Nathaniel Mackey

Jennifer Firestone Flashes

Jennifer Firestone Holiday

Edwin Frank Snake Train. Poems 1984–2013

Bill Freind (ed.) Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums — Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada
Published 2012. Paperback, 339pp, 9x6ins, £19.95 / $27.50
ISBN 9781848611849 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasusada was an invention, and while no one claimed responsibility for the work, most readers agree that Kent Johnson was the creator, although Johnson insists the actual author is Tosa Motokiyu, the pseudonym for an unnamed writer who is now dead.
This book considers all aspects of the Yasusada phenomenon.

Cameron Gearen Some Perfect Year

Richard Georges Make Us All Islands

Jim Goar The Dustbowl

Anne Gorrick Kyotologic
Published 2008. Paperback, 108pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848610040 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
Anne Gorrick's first collection is a remarkable reworking of themes from the ancient Japanese Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.
"A densely beautiful book, young poems growing out of old poems, vines round an ancient pine. Imagine language talking to itself, all skin and rain and blossoms, scattering like leaves, seeming to remember some other country some other time—yet always being vividly present like a strange food you've taken into your mouth that's too sweet—but after a moment, just barely sweet enough, as we get to like this world Gorrick has incarnated for us here, safe in our deepest feelings." (Robert Kelly)

Anne Gorrick I-Formation (Book I)

Anne Gorrick I-Formation (Book 2)
Published 2012. Paperback, 150pp, 9x6ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848612372 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
I-Formation in its entirety is comprised of four separate groups of poems, that when ordered in a particular way, tell a Genesis story. The first book (2010) begins in a garden and ends with an incarnation of Eve meeting her coeval. The break between books expresses a break in the story. Something has happened. Something perhaps as simple as eating an apple. The second book addresses the things we are left with once we are thrown out of the garden: co-identity and depiction, the self and landscape. The first section of the second book is a collection of poems based on anagrams of people’s names, and forms a relationship map of this poet’s life. The final section is comprised of poems based largely on the Hudson Valley landscape, a world exterior to and surrounding the garden.

Derek Gromadzki Horology

Carol Guess My Father in Water

Anthony Hawley Forget Reading

Anthony Hawley The Concerto Form

Michael Heller Beckmann
Variations & other poems

Michael Heller Speaking the Estranged — Essays on the Work of George Oppen

Michael Heller Uncertain Poetries — Selected Essays
Published 2012. Paperback, 256pp, 9x6ins, £14.95 / $23. 2nd Edition
ISBN 9781848612181 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
These essays concern the uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry. Dealing with such major figures as Pound, Stevens, Moore, Oppen, Duncan, Niedecker, Lorca, Rilke and Mallarmé and of poets in more contemporary modernist and post-modernist lineages, they examine how these poets articulate, virtually in the same breath, both affirmation and doubt concerning poetry, history and knowledge.

Michael Heller Within the Inscribed — selected prose and conversations
From his pioneering studies of the Objectivist poets and of uncertainty and representation in modernist and contemporary thought, Michael Heller has been seeking to expand the terms of how we read and discuss poetry. In these recent writings, at once revelatory and precise, Heller deepens the exploration, articulating a sense of poetic language’s inscription and trace, often with respect to aspects of Judaic thought and Buddhist influences, the “poetics” of Walter Benjamin, Heidegger, the Objectivists, Oppen and Reznikoff, H.D., Robert Duncan, and other twentieth century writers and thinkers. As Xavier Kalck writes in his Foreword to this collection, Heller’s concern is with “the sacred as a function of language and as an objective in his poetics.”

Janet Holmes The ms of m y kin
Published 2009. Paperback, 180pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £14.95 / $20
ISBN 9781848610354 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
If you write out "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" and erase some of the letters very neatly and precisely, you can get to The ms of m y kin — the manuscript of my kin, as it were; the manuscript of my family. It might also be said to be the manuscript of my kind. (Janet Holmes)

Brandi Homan Hard Reds

Brandi Homan Bobcat Country

Judith Infante Love: A Suspect Form — Heloise and Abelard
Published 2008. Paperback, 124pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £12.95 / $20
ISBN 9781905700820 [Download a sample PDF from this book here .]
Heloise and Abelard—since the 12th century writers, artists, and musicians have been inspired by the details of their story—famous philosopher and his pupil, forbidden love affair, abandoned son, castration, monastic life, and heresy trials.
In this remarkable collection Judith Infante gives us a series of poems that form a verse novel about the medieval lovers. The poems make clear how bound was their relationship to its period, yet capture the intensity of their timeless and conflicting emotions.
Heloise and Abelard became different people as their story moved from romance to life apart and finally to their individual deaths and the mysterious change that implies. By interweaving Ovid’s myth of Atalanta with the story of Heloise and Abelard, Love: A Suspect Form calls attention to the many and often disorienting aspects we present to each other.

Nazifa Islam Forlorn Light — Virgina Woolf Found Poems

David Jaffin Those Summer-Soothing Days
Published 2024. Paperback, 276pp, 8.5 x 5.5 ins, £15 / $23
ISBN 9781848618657 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
David Jaffin's first collection for 2024. The world's busiest poet strikes yet again.....

David Jaffin Those 50 Lost Days and Nights
Published 2023. Paperback, 184pp, 8.5 x 5.5 ins, £14.95 / $23
ISBN 9781848618794
David Jaffin's second collection for 2023. The world's busiest poet strikes yet again.....

David Jaffin Simply Living Life
Published 2023. Paperback, 298pp, 8.5 x 5.5 ins, £17.95 / $25
ISBN 9781848618565 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
David Jaffin's first collection for 2023. The world's busiest poet strikes again.....

Kent Johnson Homage to the Last Avant-Garde

Kent Johnson Because of Poetry I Have a Really Big House

Kent Johnson Nuper Verba
“If, as it has been claimed, the satirist is a left-handed writer, the analogy seems made for Kent Johnson’s inimitable, fearless and much needed contribution – the one-in-ten, or more like one-in-a-thousand corrective, antidote, ballast, counterpoint, to the worst excesses and insincerities of western poetry’s decadence and pomposity. In Nuper Verba – the Latin title is apposite – he takes aim at poetry’s postures of antagonism, even as it drains the last best wine and lounges on a mouldering couch of bursaries. Truth-sayer or holy fool, insider’s outsider or witnessing spirit, the moral force of Johnson’s project, as well as its sublime humour, shines like so many corroding rays, here reaching moments of unanticipated lyrical brightness. He’s never been funnier or more strangely moving. Refusing consensus and mentioning the unmentionable remains the true poet’s calling, and Johnson’s poetry reminds us of this, with the beautiful sobering chill of genuine veracity.” —Sam Riviere

Cralan Kelder Give Some Word

Nancy Kuhl The Wife of the Left Hand

Nancy Kuhl Suspend

Nancy Kuhl Pine to Sound

Nancy Kuhl On Hysteria
On Hysteria, Nancy Kuhl’s fourth collection of poems, is a lyric engagement of voice, memory, longing, and the fraught ways we speak ourselves. In conversation – and sometimes conflict – with Sigmund Freud’s foundational text of psychoanalysis Studies on Hysteria (1895), Kuhl reframes the discourse surrounding cases of so-called hysterical girls and women, expanding and shifting given narratives. With intensity and emotion, On Hysteria examines how ideas may be converted into physical symptoms, thought collapsed into sensation, articulation fused with forceful action. Above all, Kuhl’s poems consider ways suffering itself becomes unbounded expression: “Her pain is a voice / pulled by handfuls / from the throat.”

Maryrose Larkin The Name of This Intersection Is Frost

Mary Leader Beyond the Fire

Mary Leader She Lives There Still

Mary Leader The Distaff Side
Mary Leader The Wood That Will be Used
Published 2024. Paperback, 102pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $18
ISBN 9781848619258
"Mary Leader’s
The Wood That Will Be Used is a tour de force exemplifying what results from a lifetime of labor in the word, a lifetime of one’s poring over rich literary texts, and of one’s developing the habit of one’s offering answering texts; it also manifests a capacious mind shaped by wit, by candor, and by a keen eye. Receiving the matter prepared for her, she has shaped a beautiful structure that will serve her and us for the journey beyond. If Philip Larkin and H.D. were to have been blessed with a literary child, that child would be Mary Leader."—Scott Cairns

Anna Leahy Aperture

Karin Lessing Collected Poems

Karin Lessing In the Aviary of Voices
Published 2001. A5 Paperback, 62pp. OUT OF PRINT
ISBN 9780907562313.
In the Aviary of Voices was Karen Lessing's third full-length collection, and her first for ten years. INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTED POEMS above.

Karin Lessing The Winter Dream Journals
Published 1991. A5 Paperback, 40pp. £7.50 / $10.95
ISBN 9780907562801
The second full-length collection by this woefully under-recognised expatriate American poet, following on from her early Montemora collection, The Fountain (1982). INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTED POEMS above.

John Levy 54 poems, selected and new
Published June 2023. Paperback, 104pp, 9 x 6ins, £12.95 / $18
ISBN 9781848618909 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]
The earliest poem in this book (‘The Sleeper’s Blue Shirt’) is from 1972. The most recent poems are from 2022. Ken Bolton edited this selection, drawing from five books and one chapbook.
“John Levy has a magical deftness that makes world upon world appear out of nowhere. He marvels at the most ordinary circumstances and things (waiting for a bus, wrong numbers, accordion straps, a hammer, the letter K) and when he does so, there is nothing else in the universe. The work is meticulous, precise yet always unlabored. The poems come from Paris, Kyoto, Greece, Tucson, Edinburgh (among other places), and the poet has worked as a public defender. Reading Levy’s wondrous poems, I say to myself again and again, “so this is how it’s done!” His book is like no other.”—John Martone

erica lewis murmur in the inventory
