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Gwyneth Lewis

First Rain in Paradise

Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025

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First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse, through subsequent chronic ill health, and towards a hard-won resurrection. These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language. Suffering does not preclude humour and may, in...

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Arundhathi Subramaniam

The Gallery of Upside Down Women

Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025

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Kate Potts

Pretenders

Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025

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Ana Blandiana

The Shadow of Words

Publication Date: 20 Feb 2025

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Niall Campbell

The Island in the Sound

Publication Date: 19 Sep 2024

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Imtiaz Dharker

Krisztina Tóth

Neil Astley

Charlotte Van den Broeck

Sarah Holland-Batt

Marie Howe

Jane Clarke

Fleur Adcock

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News & Publicity

Ellen Cranitch's Crystal reviews & interviews

Crystal reviewed in The Observer, The Irish Times, PIR & on Nick Hornby's blog; interviews with Ellen on RTE Radio 1's Poetry People & on the Planet Poetry podcast of...

News & Publicity

Tony Harrison Profile on Radio 3

Radio 3's Tony Harrison profile chosen for Pick of the Week on 30 April 2017, Harrison's 80th birthday; v. discussed in BBC Culture feature, 7 March 2025.

Poetry Events

Heidi Williamson Readings & Workshops

Heidi Williamson will be giving an online workshop for the Festival of Suffolk Poetry, Friday 16 May 2025, 10.30am-1pm; videos of her reading from Return by Minor Road...

Poetry Events

Bloodaxe poets at StAnza 2025

Imtiaz Dharker, Gwyneth Lewis and Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck will be at this year's StAnza poetry festival, 14-16 March 2025. In St Andrews and online.