This exuberant chorus of voices from the margins of Europe proves that poetry in this minority language is far from stagnant
During 1802 the Wordsworth siblings wrote some of their most beautiful work
plumbing sorrow’s depths even as it stumbles upon solace
this ‘secular mystic with the lugubrious tongue’ (Independent on Sunday) has attracted a dedicated readership: the TLS called him the best new poet published by Bloodaxe
Subtle layers amount to a work resonant of Calvino’s Invisible Cities with the additional intrusions/ escape of a digital world - the whole device articulating with a singular feminist analysis of (and witness to) war
Mouth by Mona Arshi<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2025</b> Jean Sprackland This exuberant chorus of voicesPublished 17th July 2025. 'Delicately lethal; sharp eyed and tender' Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young 'Quick before the story ebbs away. There are things I need to tell you' A work of great strength and equal delicacy, Mouth transports us to a world where violence hangs in the air, where beauty, pity and cruelty intertwine. The sequence at its heart, Palace, takes the overlooked women from the edges of Greek tragedy and places them centre