Wise as Water: Jeremy Loynes, Vole Books
This latest collection of poems by Surrey-based writer Jeremy Loynes follows on from his poetry pamphlet Turning which was published by Dempsey & Windle in 2018. In Wise as Water we discover similar preoccupations with childhood, family life and an enduring love of the natural world. The photograph on the front cover of a stretch of the River Wey near Godalming, taken by the author, reveals someth...
2nd March 2026
Slow Migrations: Adam Horovitz, Indigo Dreams
This collection of poems by Adam Horovitz was inspired by the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology of the Cotswolds exhibited at the Corinium museum, Cirencester, and the prehistoric and Roman artefacts from the Roman bathing and temple complex and Sacred Spring in Bath. It marks the culmination of ...
1st March 2026
The Way the Water Held Me: Catherine Redford, Emma Press
Catherine Redford began writing after the early death of her partner and is now widely published. The Way the Water Held Me is her debut collection, dedicated to the memory of her partner, Rebecca Mar...
28th February 2026
The Sight of Light. The Sound of Clouds. The Touch of Skin: Pia Tafdrup, Bloodaxe
Danish-born writer Pia Tafdrup is the author of over 20 collections of verse, which are often organised into themed sequences. Her latest is a series of five books on the human senses collectively ref...
21st February 2026
The Storm's Flora: Laura Wainwright, Seren
Cardiff-born writer, artist and musician Laura Wainwright grew up in Newport where she still lives. She has a PhD in English literature from Cardiff University where her thesis focused on Anglophone W...
30th January 2026
A Few More Sunrises Yet Before It Ends: Martin Hayes, Broken Sleep Books
Martin Hayes was born in London and has lived around Edgware Road all his life. This major traffic artery running north from Marble Arch was once part of the Roman road Watling Street. Countless peopl...
22nd January 2026
The Taste of Lightning: Ivan V Lalić, Bloodaxe
Ivan V Lalić (1931-1996) was born in Belgrade, the Yugoslav and Serbian capital. The summers of his childhood were spent in western Serbia, an idyll that came to an abrupt end with the Nazi invasion i...
3rd January 2026
Polar Corona: Caroline Gill, Hedgehog Poetry Press
Caroline Gill, who currently lives in Suffolk, grew up in London, Kent and Norfolk before moving with David, her archaeologist husband, to Rome, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge and Swansea. She graduat...
3rd January 2026
