Christmas 2025: Poetry

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Edited by Rosie Lavan & Bernard O'Donoghue with Matthew HollisHere is the definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry, with illuminating critical notes, including a substantial number of uncollected poems and a…

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Wellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a…

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A landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.Unearthed in a…

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Exploring translations, folksongs and geographies of longing.In Silk Work, Imogen Cassels’ debut collection, desire and grief are a double-edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations,…

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Original medieval remedies mix with new inventions of Julia’s own in this collection of charms for modern life.For uncertaintyremember your dreams.There is bound to be onethat will lead you throughlike a red threadWhat does it mean…

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'Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state.' So begins Lorna Goodison's astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as 'uncompromising as an Old…

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Punctuated by rhyme and shaped by traditional forms, the poems in Small Pointed Things turn encounters with the natural world and scenes from family life into acts of self-discovery. Poignant and funny in equal measure, many of these poems…

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The UK debut of a celebrated American poet whose work is as lyrical as it is radical. Foxglovewise is complex but inviting, profound but wry. It is firmly contemporary while also being in lively conversation with deep histories: 'Where do…

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A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'Taylor's poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous . . . A wildfire blazing free' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Kaleidoscopic in its breath, structure and humanity . . . Both selfless and…

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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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The lode in Gillian Allnutt’s title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and…

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A poetry collection of epic scale and transformative vision from one of the most innovative American poets‘An astonishing New World epic…of human transfiguration and transformation, of nothing less than the great work of art…

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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection.The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point…

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Drawing on Romany language, storytelling and the speech of birds, award-winning poet David Morley offers a provocative and passionate invitation to reflect afresh on the ways in which the lives, stories and fate of humans – and the…