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Black Jam
Matthew Haigh's Black Jam is a delectable and delicious collection of poetry, with a sheen of on surface sweetness which conceals its darker undertones: ominous omens and the very real presence of death. Black Jam is deeply bittersweet, with flavours to savour, and an aftertaste that lingers long on the tongue.
Poetry Ambassadors
Poetry Ambassadors presents the work of three exceptional new poets from the Solent region. It is the first publication from the Poetry Ambassadors mentoring scheme, a new programme supporting emerging literary talent co-founded by ArtfulScribe, Winchester Poetry Festival, and Will May from the University of Southampton. The work of these three poets takes in everything from Tolstoy to the Supremes, birth certificates to the underworld. Arresting, playful, and compelling, here are poems to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
Snackbox
Snackbox is a selection of Legitimate Snacks from Broken Sleep Books' seminal handmade imprint. Containing complete works by poets such as J. H. Prynne, Rishi Dastidar, Aaron Kent, Astra Papachristodoulou, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Imogen Cassels, Maria Sledmere, and more, this selection is an absolutely essential introduction to the world of Legitimate Snack.
Rubbles
Rubbles is a swirling, errant and wild collection by David Spittle which echoes Prynne in its linguistic complexity and use of rhetorical flourishes as a critique of popular culture. Somewhere between "putting your head between a sanding belt and a circular saw" and "the would-be Russian elegy for expecting the unexpected item in the bagging area" Rubbles is by turns grandiose, innovative and an often thrilling assault on language, where "the path clears/by the use it gets".
Springing from the Pews
Day Mattar's Springing from the Pews is an explosive pamphlet which explores an episode of sexual violence through a verse play interwoven with confessions and journal entries. Mattar's poetry is eloquent, with a dark intensity underlying the sugary surface, with echoes of Frank O'Hara and Sharon Olds. A breathtaking read, Mattar's splenetic energy gushes out like water from a fire hydrant.
Plain Air
Cat Chong's Plain Air: An Apology in Transit is a pamphlet in flux, a diary like inner-monologue without a single full stop, charting the speaker's journeys from A to B yet evoking a bigger change, as the speaker leaves behind student life and wanders into the wider world. 'Plain Air...' contains meditations on disability, opioid use, carbon emissions, food waste and veganism backdropped by extinction rebellion protests and the songs of Oh Wonder. It's a pamphlet of quiet courage, resonant and resolutely rooted in the now.
Slaughter
From dogs to curlews, sheep to people, the animals we live with tell us much about ourselves. In these stories, set in the bleak and eerie landscape of the Yorkshire Pennines, domestic struggles collide with the wild as humans fight for control - often making a bargain with the devil. These stories are well written, with an elegant style. The characters are believable and fully formed, as Hildyard inhabits the different voices throughout.
Come and See the Songs of Strange Days: Poems on Films
To say that SJ Fowler's Come and See the Songs of Strange Days is a poetic encyclopaedia of film would be right but falls short of describing its true nature. From an authorship marked by poetic skill and genius insanity, this book covers a range of avantgarde methodology without parallel in the British literary tradition. At times aberrant, at times playful, it overlaps cinema and language, combining lyricism with abstract visual commentary, and thriving on that which defies description. The films include American blockbusters and European arthouse, obscure documentary and all-time classics. It is a book that offers much, whether or not you like film, and whether or not you like poetry
Quiet, Grit, Glory
In Quiet, Grit, Glory Ricky Ray displays a delightful delicacy and neatness while sharing a deep relationship with pain, and Rilke-echoing existential questioning. These poems are explorations into our interactions with the animal kingdom, as leaders and followers, as participants. Quiet, Grit, Glory is full of poems of silent courage, softly spoken, with a generosity of spirit that opens out to everyone.
Waterbearer
Waterbearer is remarkable and irrepressible like an asteroid tearing through the atmosphere, leaving exit wounds. Haunting and haunted, "like snow / for the beautiful dead"
