Jasmine Cooray(Bad Betty Press, 2023); pbk, £10.99 Jasmine Cooray’s debut poetry collection, Inheritance, is nominated for the Forward’s Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Besides being a poet, she is also a psychotherapist, BBC Performing Arts Fellow, and former National University of Singapore Writer In-Residence. She has published and performed her poetry since the Read More
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Fady Joudah,(Out-Spoken Press, 2024); pbk £11.99 Shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Prize for Best Collection, Fady Joudah’s seventh poetry collection […] articulates, paradoxically, the silenced and unspeakable. Comprised predominantly of poems similarly titled ‘[…]’, navigated by a narrator who identifies as ‘unfinished business,’ this collection deconstructs political boundaries from the margins, giving voice to intergenerational Read More
Rachael Allen(Faber, 2024); pbk; £12.99 God Complex is a study in toxicity, focusing on a poisoned self, a poisoned relationship and a poisoned environment. Its fascination with the darkness of its subject makes for a difficult but compelling read. Rachael Allen’s new collection is an extensive narrative meditation on various forms of breakdown—and also attempts Read More
Sarah Wimbush(Stairwell Books, 2024); pbk, £15.00 300 million years of compression dripping through their hands. (‘Boy Riddlers’) Trade union activists reading Sarah Wimbush’s Strike will recognise those turbulent meetings, the passions, pains, waved placards, and they will know both the lasting comradeship and the perpetual divisions germinated during prolonged strife. They will be Read More
Janet Sutherland (Shearsman Books, 2023); pbk: £16.95 Janet Sutherland is a British poet and a co-founder of the Needlewriters cooperative. In this her fifth collection from Shearsman Books, The Messenger House, she aims to better understand societies on local and global levels, and `why things happened as they did`. This book was created based on Read More
Jessica Widner (The 87 press, 2022); pbk: £14,99 Jessica Widner is an author, and scholar from the University of Edinburgh. Her debut novel, Interiors has been featured in such publications as Extra Teeth, Gutter, and The Cardiff Review. Owen Beausoleil, a poet, is found drowned; three people are haunted by his tragic death: Noah Lang, Read More
Eithne Hand (Salmon Poetry, 2020); pbk: €12,00 Wherever your political inclinations, in the aftermath of the UK’s most recent election, it’s likely we can agree that we have all endured a certain amount of tired, repetitive debate. In poetry, probably, there are parallels in the regularly trundled out arguments polarising page and stage, discussions which Read More
K Patrick (Granta Poetry, 2024); pbk: £12.99 Scottish writer K Patrick is having a moment. Their debut novel, Mrs S (4th Estate, 2023) earned them a place on the Observer Best Debut Novelists list as well as the Granta best Young British Novelists in 2023. 2024 sees their debut poetry collection come hot on its heels Read More
Giacomo Abbruzzese (dir) It has been a long time since I have been so impressed by any film. I initially attended Disco Boy at the DCA because of Franz Rogowski playing a Belarussian ex-con Alexei, but I ended up leaving the cinema in admiration of Giacomo Abbruzzese’s talent. Within the first few minutes of the Read More