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Jemima Foxtrot's Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation which explores power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh, playful perspective. The poems of Treasure live up to its name: showing us where the gold is-the joy-how to feed it into the soil of our lives.

'you need to be a warrior right now,especially in Wetherspoon's where you're slightly scaredto take a pissand for comfort you search 'Mudlarking' on your phone,as you squat in the cubicle with one footpressed hard against the doorin case someone should come inand realise what you are.'Jackson Phoenix Nash is an essential new poetic voice. Funny, tragic, deeply lived, his poems snap you wide awake.

'these basements that taught me to breathe;my body happening in the space between moonlight &the leather straps wrapped round an old dyke's wristgender split open like a crass piñata on the sticky floor'Ciara Maguire's poems explore the bright fields and dark corners of love. They are heartbreaking, sexy and addictive.

Kareem Parkins-Brown's highly-anticipated pamphlet is an audacious and richly plural celebration of friends and selves, present and otherwise. In Parkins-Brown's hands, language bends like an illusionist's spoon - a dazzling, fisheye-lens distortion of daily grief, absurdity and communion - while reminding us always that the trick is to carry on living.

'My mother was an oak treemy dad a garage mechanicMy father was a field of wheatmy mother the Prime MinisterMy mother was an innkeeperand my father a lonely cactus...'Suzannah Evans' new pamphlet introduces us to Green, half human, half angry nature spirit. Green serves as a stunt double for our own rage and complicity in nature's destruction. He shows us nature's delights so we may mourn their loss more deeply.

Alex Mazey's playful text art sequence follows Ghost through a hyperreal metropolis of both capitalist and eschatological peril. Woven between the visuals are virtuosic lyric poems: poignant, philosophical and irreverent.

The debut collection by poet and visual artist James Kearns is a twisting, Chekhovian narrative interrogating mortality, permanence and self-deception. The speaker of these addictive prose poems becomes increasingly lost in dialogue with himself, a deceased superhero, and a supporting dramatis personae who offer humour and hostility in equal parts.

The debut poetry collection by poet, psychotherapist and BBC Performing Arts Fellow, Jasmine Cooray. Inheritance is a graceful and profoundly moving exploration of what our lost loved ones leave behind, and the ambiguities of belonging. Sorrow and celebration come together in a powerful hymn to heritage, love, survival and self-belief.

Cai Draper's sing & hide is a tribute to youth, family and the nuances of belonging. While its speaker places us firmly in the distinct and polyphonic context of his coming of age (Woolworths, Megadrive, 'Spoons, Moschino, Peckham Pulse, the Rivoli), he himself is often caught between lines and homes, between pride and shame. Draper's bold, idiosyncratic voice betrays a deep yearning for knowledge of the self and others, drawing the reader in with magnetic effect. Influenced by modern sculpture, there is an architectural quality to these poems, cast into bronze or moulded from London turf, skilfully wielding negative space to draw attention to the unseen and unspoken.

The debut from award-winning poet, Jess Murrain. An astute exploration of selves dawning in childhood and finding routes into a life woven with complications, of pushing back against shame.

"Shareen K Murayama's debut collection, Housebreak is a book of wild beauty and probing enquiry. Murayama asks how we live within perennial emergency, where belonging and self-protection converge, how we explain loss to children, what the wind has in common with hate crime. These heartbreaking poems are full of dance-like grace, and gut punches that send the reader off balance. Formally artful and disruptive, they seek out the breaths between words and worlds, applying biology, etymology, astronautics and myth. There is a gentle undoing, a quiet rage here, alongside great tenderness. Housebreak is stunning, apocalyptic, revelatory."--Publisher marketing.

Molly Naylor's Whatever You've Got is the letter you wish you could send to your younger self. It's the voice of a kind, whip-smart friend who accepts your mistakes, messiness and chaotic energy-because they've been there-while challenging you to hold yourself with honesty and forgiveness, 'pressing your ear to your body and hearing that you exist'. Naylor cuts to the quick of modern anxiety, of love and its many dilemmas, of trauma and recovery, with unfaltering insight and wit. Full of left-hook quips to make you laugh out loud, and joyful, anthemic rhythm. The poems in this unputdownable collection give permission to do the unexpected, to change your mind, to run an emotional scan and find yourself new, and whole after all.

Christopher Lanyon's playful, topographical poems embody what it means to swell: in the rising and falling breath of landscape, in the joyous vulnerability of intense friendship and love, in the wake of the inexorable changes to which body and world are bound. This pamphlet takes a kaleidoscopic view of the material; full of flex and growth, feather and claw. In dialogue with fathers and poets, quarries and coastlines, Lanyon asks who we are, and who we want to be.

In Eve Esfandiari-Denney's My Bodies This Morning This Evening we see the body in so many states-ranging from survival to affection-that it achieves a sense of the elusive. Like water, Esfandiari-Denney's poems move and seep into the gaps that exist between ourselves and the languages that define us. Holding together this remarkable debut pamphlet is a poetic that, in its plurality, is able to cross and recross borders, taking with it sisters, mothers, lovers and past selves. Here, voices are always moving beyond a single narrative, beyond the individual or certain, to a place where it makes sense to say: "Your life are one".

The debut pamphlet from Helen Bowell, published by Bad Betty Press.

Manuela Moser's debut pamphlet is a breathless game of contradictions: part dream, part discourse.

New poetry from Matthew Haigh, author of Death Magazine (Salt) and Black Jam (Broken Sleep Books). Vampires is a rare book: devastating both for its dazzling linguistic flair and its moving central story-an elegy to a lost, beloved aunt.

The poems in this book pay tribute to the women who've changed our lives, globally or personally. The fighters, survivors, rebels, queens, bosses, mentors, mothers, lovers and friends.Poetry by Gale Acuff, Polly Atkin, Erdem Avsar, Honey Baxter, Chloe Bettles, K. Blair, Laurie Bolger, Helen Bowie, Helen Bowell, Troy Cabida, Jemima Foxtrot, Jasmine Gray, Fee Griffin, Marguerite Harrold, Julie Irigaray, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Cecilia Knapp, Jill Michelle, Jenny Mitchell, Charlotte Newbury, Madeleine Pulman-Jones, Ellora Sutton, Ojo Taiye, Claudine Toutoungi and Christian Yeo.

Kate B Hall's poems cast light on the troubling and the joyful; blend myth and reality to forge a reckoning.

In her debut pamphlet, Boi, Nicola Bray recasts gender as poetry.

Tender and devastating, Niroshini's poems embody the stillness within the maelstrom required to reclaim oneself from unlawful ownership, from colonial and gender-based trauma.

Tanatsei Gambura dismantles walls of silence to show us the story behind the story.

Amara Amaryah's debut is a 'backward walk' towards oneself and one's history, in which the poet plays with plurality of voice, story and silence.

Judson's poetry is pop punk in all its fierce and fragile beauty, the honesty of a power chord, the way 'an old old song can hit you exactly where you are and fill you with light'.

'Passerine's an elegy not just to a lost friend but to a world that is rapidly disappearing around us- one of the most dazzling collections I've read in a long time.' Claire Trévien