Helen Farish(Bloodaxe Books, 2024); pbk, £12.00 The Penny Dropping is a compelling narrative-driven poetry collection telling the story of a relationship from beginning to end. This is Helen Farish’s fourth collection of poetry. Previously, Farish has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and this is the second time her work has been shortlisted Read More
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
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
Joe Carrick-Varty(Carcanet, 2023); pbk, £11.99 ‘O rain falling on the stillest lake that was all of our futures’ (‘Ode to a Shotgun’) More Sky is Joe Carrick-Varty’s debut poetry collection and the winner of The Irish Times Book of the Year. Carrick-Varty won the New Poets Prize in 2018 and the Eric Gregory Award in Read More