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New and Recommended: Poetry

Selected by the Bookshop


The LRB Bookshop’s poetry section is the largest in London. Read on for a selection of new titles we’re excited about.

From the publisher:
Demons, geese, The Laughing Cow, marching bands, LSD and pistols smuggled home from the USSR. You'll find all these in Scott McKendry's GUB. Rooted in the language of working-class Belfast, and slipping between eras and time zones, closing…

From the publisher:
'A triumph ... A wholly original and creative mind' NEW YORK TIMES'A multi-genre phenomena, it's a triumph of a creative mind' GLAMOUR'Frightens and astonishes ... Combines Maya Angelou's passion and Sylvia Plath's devastating…

From the publisher:
God Complex, Rachael Allen's second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakup of a toxic relationship in the face of the similarly toxic catastrophe of global degradation and…

From the publisher:
In this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet'MAX PORTER,…

From the publisher:
A TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023‘One of the most erudite and inventive poets of our time’ GuardianShane McCrae, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary poetry, returns with The Many Hundreds of…

From the publisher:
On the warp and weft of strange intimacies, where boundaries meet and affinities form.How much distance and difference can intimacy hold? How much proximity and likeness does it require? What can we learn from its capacities? And what could…

From the publisher:
A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024In her second collection, Mann wrestles with the questions and possibilities raised when trans identity, faith and the limits of myth and language intersect and are tested. Eleanor Among…

From the publisher:
Hannah Sullivan’s first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book’s project, offering a trenchant exploration…

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