The former poet laureate finds new depths of pathos in a haunting collection about mortality and loss

This surreal, playful collection makes the case that poets should lighten up

Nature poetry is dragged into the 21st century in this searing portrait of economic, social and racial disparity

In frank, witty, soul-searching poems, clergyman turned archaeologist Graeme Richardson draws on both strands of his career for his debut collection Dirt Rich

Josephine Balmer’s selected poems, Things We Leave Behind, excavates lost objects and voices from the depths of history

Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer was a pioneer of nature poetry

In New Cemetery, the poet laureate draws on the wonder of moths and the death of his father to produce a haunting sequence of poems

This daring debut is a sobering but sweet tale of a girl growing up in 1960s Bradford with her Jamaican family

In the Hollow of the Wave weaves a striking vision of our beautiful, fragile world

In Mona Arshi’s third poetry collection, Mouth, the marginalised of mythology make a stand

A post-punk cabaret singer’s funny, fiery collection punctures female stereotypes with needle-like precision

Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it