New and Recommended: Poetry
Selected by the Bookshop
The LRB Bookshop’s poetry section is the largest in London. Read on for a selection of new titles we’re excited about.
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Joy Is My Middle Name documents crawling through your twenties and emerging into your thirties. Walking uneasy cities and rural towns, talking about sex, race, womanhood, addiction, sobriety, consumerism and pop culture, these poems…
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A collection of Michael Longley's greatest poems, spanning an extraordinary career of sixty years as one of the Belfast triumverate, alongside Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon'One of the world's greats' IRISH NEWS'A keeper of the artistic…
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A dreamlike, unsettling portrait of a riverside village in the heart of rural EnglandFollowing his Forward-prize shortlisted Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb's breathtaking second poetry collection summons the West Country of his…
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This book traces the poet's ancestral Indo-Caribbean legacy, following the history of the cane sugar industry, and growing up in an oil refinery small town in south Trinidad.The 'Guaracara' opening section contains snapshot recollections of…
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Forward Prize shortlisted poet returns with a second collection tracing family, memory and artIn the Hollow of the Wave, the second collection by Nina Mingya Powles examines orientalism, art and artmaking in a time of ecological crisis.…
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A bristling, invigorating new collection from the eminent American poetFrederick Seidel declares ‘I’m not as old as I used to be. I’m getting young.’ In So What, he speeds across the island of Manhattan on his…
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'A master of language' HILARY MANTELJohn Burnside’s last collection of new poems gathers around a single theme – mortality – and draws on his faltering health and earlier glances with death, creating a powerfully moving…
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‘I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.’It is sixty years since Ariel was first published. The poems were written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, and…
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A resonant new collection from the Forward Prize-winning poet Mona Arshi, giving voice to the marginal women of Greek tragedy to present fresh perspectives on war and migration todayQuick before the story ebbs away.There are things I need…
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