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As in Dante's Commedia, many different types of language - the political, the spiritual, the scientific, the commercial, the playful, the poetic - jostle up against each other in the way that language so often does in life. Like Dante, Baker refuses to isolate the poetic from the living. Yet, however fragmented, the poems work together as a compelling whole, thanks to Baker's measured and masterful use of the prose poem. The letters from the underworld represent the neo-modernist lyric at its best.Ian Seed

These poems are written in the Tyneside dialect of North-Eastern England. As the author says "All of these pieces are based - some very closely - on real conversations". The speaker's include a coal miner who took part in the 1926 General Strike, the young daughter of a worker in the glass industry in the 1930s and Charlie Carr, a welder at Swan Hunter's shipyard. The poems combine dialect with modernist techniques as a way of recovering the lost speech of the region.

In these poems Steven Waling writes overlooked life into vibrant presence.

The sequence of episodes which make up this narrative are linked by the logic of dreams. Separate strands of the story seem to run in parallel yet also to intersect. We enter a dystopian world from which various actors are seeking an escape.

Kathleen Bell's poetry holds a mirror up to our times and urges us to examine hypocrisy, hearsay and fear in the shadow of Covid. Maria Taylor

These poems are funny and profound, witty and emotional in a rare mix made possible by Martin Stannard's skill with the nuance and complexities of language. Martin Stannard's poetry fuses an acerbic British sensibility with the verve and humour of the New York school.

Poetry of intimate detail, sharply focussed on the things that the eye ordinarily may miss, usually does miss. Like a microscope, we are privy to the things beneath the surface, things that we need to know about. A first collection from poet Lauren Terry.

One man and his dog lead us on a dizzying dérive across south Manchester and into the psyche of a Britain on the brink of Brexit. With the sharp ear of the journalist ... the golden misquote and the deadly funny,

Dedicated to the poet's mother, this single long poem uses the terminology of art, design and fashion to portray a character and to investigate both its own language and the process of writing poetry. The poetry is sensuous, playful and dynamic, taking the reader along on a dizzying ride through the pleasures of language.

Geraldine Monk is one of Britain's foremost contemporary poets. This new collection from features the controversial A Nocturnall Upon St Lucies Day, a newly revised Raccoon and three new sequences: Glow in the Darklunar Calendar, Print & Pin and Poppyheads.