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