There’s so much exciting poetry being published this summer – here are a few titles I’m particularly looking forward to. Declan Ryan’s long-awaited debut collection, Crisis Actor, has just arrived in the shop and is as awash with rueful self-accusation and laconic regret as we were hoping. Isobel Williams has finally translated all of Catullus – everyone who, like the LRB’s own Colin Burrow, had their mind blown by 2021’s taster, Shibari Carmina, will want to pick up this new complete volume. Terrance Hayes, Julian Stannard and Leontia Flynn are some of the most exciting poets writing today; a new collection from any of them would be an event; new collections from all of them in a single month is cause for celebration.
And lastly, a massive book for a long train journey: I’ve been putting off reading Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker’s definitive account of the Spanish Armada, but it looks absolutely amazing, and at 796 close-packed pages can surely see me through the very worst the train operating companies can throw at me.
From the publisher:
‘Elegant and heartaching, these poems illuminate the sorrows of life with a bright flame, returning us to that miraculous human capacity for love and faith even in our darkest days.’ Liz Berry‘Declan Ryan reveals…
From the publisher:
During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari Carmina, published to acclaim in 2021,…
From the publisher:
These poems emerge from the experience of being a single mother in Belfast, and against a background of seemingly continuous crisis. Political upheaval and anxiety, violence and death are all registered in these poems, which ask questions…
From the publisher:
A dazzling new collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin. In So to Speak, the dazzling new collection by Terrance Hayes, the poet seeks to understand how we see…
From the publisher:
Julian Stannard has been described as the poet of cabaret. His poems sing and weep in equal measure; a poetry of wretchedness and hilarity, of discombobulation and the bizarre. In his new collection a dead brother returns on a white horse,…
From the publisher:
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel-and then a fierce naval…
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