Eigse Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018 "The Shark Nursery" consists of three interlocking parts: poems arising directly from lockdown, poems about lives lived in an online reality, and animal poems. The animal poems draw on the rich tradition of...

A collection of new and selected poems about life, love, and growing older. A couple of years ago Stanley Moss renewed his driver's license. Now in his late 90s, his license runs to his 104th year. He has produced such an immense volume of work in h...

Scaglione Prize 2023 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Translation Prize 2023 "Still City" includes some ninety poems. They register the changing sense of time, mortality, and responsibility in a world at war and reflect on the private and...

Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award 2017 SoA Cholmondeley Award 2017 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016 "The Strongbox" opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa. Drawing in elements of Greek m...

Christine Roseeta Walker's first book is set entirely in Negril, Jamaica. "Coco Island" presents a compelling cycle of poems, attentive to the undertow and hidden forces that shape a place and its people. In narrative poems, in songs, in fables, in c...

Shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collection 2019 Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award 2014 "Come Here to This Gate", Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid and unexpected, personal, brash, hilarious, and w...

Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1984, 1997 McVitie's Scottish Writer of the Year 1995 Creative Scotland Award 2003 Frank Kuppner's new (eleventh) book consists of three long, hilarious, philosophical, existential sequences, "The Liberating Vertigo...

Shortlisted for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021 Longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2021 Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year Award 2017 "That Which Appears" gathers together four book-length sequences; "The Hundred Thousan...

A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2020 "Trees crawling with babies, babies darting through the sky or buoyed by thermal vents, babies painted with false eyes" ("Fable") In Isabel G...

Rebecca Hurst's first collection bridges memory and observation, noting the detail of the natural world and our changing relation to it. The book's places are made familiar by walking. It encounters other worlds alive with new and recovered ideas and...