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The Wrong Person to Ask (Awarded, Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection)

Marjorie Lotfi(Bloodaxe Books, 2023); pbk, £10.99 Majorie Lotfi was born in the United States and moved to Tehran as a child, and then back to her American mother’s hometown of Ohio on the cusp of the Iran Revolution. Currently living in Edinburgh, she seems to have moved around a fair bit. This debut title comes Read More

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From Our Own Fire

William Letford(Carcanet, 2023); pbk, £14.99 ‘Now the world’s broken I feel safer being surrounded by people who can put things together’ (‘Starlings’) From Our Own Fire is William Letford’s third poetry collection, following Bevel (2012) and Dirt (2016). He was the winner of the New Writer’s Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2008. It Read More

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Blood Salt Spring

Hannah Lavery(Polygon, Birlinn, 2022); pbk. £10.99 As the title suggests, Hannah Lavery’s collection is a triptych possessing multiplicities. The reader is brought along through scenes and sights that could be from the author themselves, or could be anyone, yet which all share in the difficulties, tragedies, and memories that are embroiled in race, class, sexuality Read More

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Taking Liberties

Leontia Flynn(Cape Poetry, 2023); pbk, £12. Is an image always a representation of something material that we see on the outside of us, or can it be something that we inhabit internally, providing us with a shape to express something otherwise that isn’t quite so easily realised? In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard suggests Read More

Featured image of Self-Portrait As Othello (TS Eliot Prize 2023, Winner; Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023, Winner)

Self-Portrait As Othello (TS Eliot Prize 2023, Winner; Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023, Winner)

In Jason Allen Paisant’s latest collection, Self Portrait As Othello, we see ekphrasis as the active choice of self-examination through the lens of the other. He jumps in and out of the titular painting, looking back on himself through the culture and history that shaped the connection between him and the artwork. The collection intertwines Paisant’s experiences and the fictionalised character of Othello. As Paisant travels the world, so does Othello travel in time, appearing through the collective experience of Black men finding selfhood in a society that denies their humanity….

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Sonnets for Albert (Shortlisted, Forward Prize for Best Collection)

The sonnet is a design classic; it retains its formal appeal, with contemporary giants such as Don Paterson and Imtiaz Dharker regularly inspired by its elegance and infinite variety. Trinidadian poet Anthony Joseph has used the form to explore his relationship with his father and with himself across a sequence of more than 50 poems.

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