The sun was briefly out earlier this week and we're already looking ahead to our Summer Selections! Huge congratulations to all the selected poets, curated by our expert team Victoria Kennefick, Fred D'Aguiar, Leo Boix, Alycia Pirmohamed and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh.
📚SUMMER CHOICE: Martina Evans, Drunken Driving (Carcanet Press)
📚RECOMMENDATIONS: Linda Anderson, Against Falling (Pavilion Press)
📚James Byrne, The Banality of Power (Broken Sleep Books)
📚Kym Deyn, Folkish (Nine Arches Press)
📚Billy Ramsell, Render (Banshee Press)
📚SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Patricia Smith, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe)
📚TRANSLATION CHOICE: Dark Night by St John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland (Penguin)
Join now for the Summer Book Box in June. All new Members and returning lapsers get a free copy of Unsafe by Karen McCarthy Woolf and our Spring poetry magazine to start your year of poetry discovery.