New Poetry Collections 2008

Here is a list of poetry collections scheduled for publication in 2008. Please note: the month of publication may change. Please contact individual publishers for further information.

Publishers, please send title listings to: publications AT poetrysociety.org.uk

January

Bob Beagrie, Yoik (Cinnamon) 
Janet Frame, Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe)
Deborah Garrison, The Second Child (Bloodaxe)
Deborah Gaye (ed.) Pendulum: The Poetry of Dreams (Avalanche)
Julie O¹Callaghan, Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe)
Peter Howard, Weighing The Air (Arrowhead)
Naomi Shihab Nye, Tender Spot: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe World Poets: 4) Bloodaxe)
Rabindranath Tagore, The Golden Boat (Anvil Press)


February

Annemarie Austin, Very: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe)
Marianne Boruch, Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan University Press)
Catherine Brennan, Beneath the Deluge (Cinnamon)
Iain Britton, Hauled Head First into a Leviathan (Cinnamon)
Martin Espada, Crucifixion in the Plaza de Armas (Smokestack)
Jon Anderson (ed) Seeds of Fire
Jane Griffiths, Another Country: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe)
Jen Hadfield, Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe)
Stephanie Norgate, Hidden River (Bloodaxe)
Kathryn Simmonds, Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren)


March

Simon Armitage, Out of the Blue (Enitharmon)
Ciaran Berry, The Sphere of Birds (Gallery)
Basil Bunting, Complete Poems (Faber)
Ciaran Carson, For All We Know (Gallery)
Robert Crawford, Full Volume (Cape)
Matthew Francis, Mandeville (Faber)
Paul Groves, Qwerty (Seren)
Jane Hirshfield, Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Newcastle/Bloodaxe poetry lectures (Bloodaxe)
Michael Hofmann, Selected Poems (Faber)
John Kinsella, Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful (Picador)
Rupert M. Loydell, An Experiment in Navigation (Shearsman)
Matthew Mead, The Autumn-Born in Autumn (Anvil Press)
Ruth & Matthew Mead, Word for Word (Anvil Press)
Matt Merritt, Troy Town (Arrowhead)
Antony Rowland, The Land of Green Ginger (Salt)
Elena Shvarts, Birdsong on the Seabed, bilingual Russian-English edition translated by Sasha Dugdale (Bloodaxe)
Edward Thomas, The Annotated Collected Poems, ed. Edna Longley (Bloodaxe) 


April


Patience Agbabi, Bloodshot Monochrome (Canongate)
Sarah Corbett, Other Beasts (Seren)
Adam Foulds, The Broken Word (Cape)
Owen Gallagher , A Good Enough Love (Peterloo) 
Daniel Healy, Winter Lines (Cinnamon)
Kelly Moffett, Waiting for a Warm Body to Fill It (Cinnamon)
Edwin Muir, Selected Poems (Faber)
Bernard O'Donoghue, Selected Poems (Faber)
In Person: 30 Poets, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, edited by Neil Astley (DVD-book) (Bloodaxe)
Lloyd Rees, Simple Arithmetic (Cinnamon)
Stephen Wilson, Fluttering Hands (Greenwich Exchange)


May


Moniza Alvi, Europa (Bloodaxe)
Moniza Alvi, Split World: Poems 1990-2005 (Bloodaxe)
Brian Chan, The Gift of Screws (Peepal Tree)
Michael Henry, After the Dancing Dogs (Enitharmon)
Joan Hewitt, Missing the Eclipse (Cinnamon)
Jackie Kay: The Lamplighter (book with audio CDs) (Bloodaxe)
Jeet Thayil (ed.), Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe)
Robert Vas Dias, Leaping Down to Earth (Permanent Press)


June

Neil Astley (ed.) Being Human (Bloodaxe)
Paul Batchelor, The Sinking Road (Bloodaxe)
David Betteridge, Granny Albyn's Complaint (Smokestack)
Peter Borkovec, trans. Justin Quinn, From the Interior: Poems 1995-2005 (Seren)
Vuyelwa Carlin, The Solitary (Seren)
Anne Cluysenaar, Batu-Angas (Seren)
Gerald Dawe, Points West (The Gallery Press)
Kwame Dawes, Wheel and Come Again: An anthology of reggae poetry (Peepal Tree)
Frank Dullaghan, On the Back of the Wind (Cinnamon)
Joseph Harrison, Identity Theft (Waywiser)
Selima Hill, The Hat (Bloodaxe)
Selima Hill, Gloria: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe)
Pearse Hutchins, At Least for a While (The Gallery Press)
John Robert Lee, Elemental: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree)
Seán Lysaght, Venetian Epigrams (The Gallery Press)
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Selected Poems (The Gallery Press)
Leslie Norris, The Complete Poems (Seren) 
Arnold Rattenbury, Various forms of Speech (Smokestack)
Anne Rouse, The Upshot: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe) 
Carol Rumens, Blind Spots (Seren)
Dennis Scott, After-Image (Peepal Tree)
Zoe Skoulding, Remains of a Future City (Seren)
Greg Williamson, A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck (Waywiser)
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Not In These Shoes (Picador)
Seven American Poets in Conversation, with an introduction by Christopher Ricks (Between The Lines/Waywiser)

 

July

Linda Black, Inventory (Shearsman)
Andy Brown & John Burnside, Goose Music (Salt)
Adam Chiles, Evening Land (Cinnamon)
Miriam Darlington, Windfall (Oversteps)
Katy Evans-Bush, Me and the Dead (Salt)
Jeff Hilson (ed.), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street)
John Robert Lee, Elemental: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree)
Gordon Meade, The Private Zoo (Arrowhead)
Estill Pollock, Designs for Living (Cinnamon)
Dennis Scott, After-Image (Peepal Tree)

 

August

Kenneth Allott & Michael Murphy, Collected Poems (Salt)
Kevyn Alan Arthur, Caribbean Treasure: A Trove of 18th-Century Barbadian Poetry and Prose, Volume 1 (Peepal Tree)
Anne Berkeley, Lammas Land (Salt)
Pam Brown, True Thoughts (Salt)
Neville Dawes, Fugue and Other Poems (Peepal Tree)
Leontia Flynn, Drives (Cape)


September

Opal Palmer Adisa, I Name Me Name: Lola (Peepal Tree)
Karen Annesen, How to Fall (Salt)
Richard Berengarten, For the Living (Salt)
Colette Bryce, Self-Portrait in the Dark (Picador)
Nina Cassian, Continuum (Anvil)
Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Exeter Book Riddles (Enitharmon)
Mak Dizdar, Stone Sleeper (Anvil)
Maureen Duffy, Family Values (Enitharmon)
Juan Gelman, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez & Katherine M. Hedeen, The Poems of Sydney West (Salt)
Steve Griffiths, An Elusive State (Cinnamon)
Anson Gonzalez, Collected Poems (Peepal Tree)
Khadijah Ibrahiim, Rootz Runnin (Peepal Tree)
Gabriel Levin, The Maltese Dreambook (Anvil)
Medbh McGuckian, My Love Has Fared Inland (The Gallery Press)
Myra Schneider, Circling the Core (Enitharmon) 
Dorothea Smartt, Samboo's Grave (Peepal Tree)
Ida Vitale, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez & Katherine M. Hedeen, Garden of Silica (Salt)
Gregory Warren Wilson, The Mercury Fountain
(Enitharmon)
 

October

 

Chris Agee, Next to Nothing (Salt)
Elizabeth Ashworth, Flashes and Specks (Cinnamon)
Tim Atkins, Folklore (Salt)
Ros Barber, Material (Anvil)
Howard Barker, Sheer Detachment (Salt)
Mike Barlow, Amicable Numbers (Templar Poetry)
Mike Bartholomew-Biggs, Tell it Like it Might Be (Smokestack)
Julia Bird, Hannah and the Monk (Salt)
Pat Borthwick, Admiral Fitzroy's Barometer (Templar Poetry)
Michael Brennan, Unanimous Night (Salt)
Buzz - anthology (Templar Poetry)
Siobhan Campbell, That Water Speaks in Tongues (Templar Poetry)
Ciaran Carson, Collected Poems (The Gallery Press)
Alison Croggon, Theatre (Salt)
Maura Dooley, Life Under Water (Bloodaxe) 
Carol Ann Duffy, Answering Back (Picador)
Raymond Friel, Stations of the Heart (Salt)
Rob Hindle, Neurosurgery in Iraq (Templar Poetry)
Jane Holland, Camper Van Blues (Salt)
Anthony Joseph, Bird Head Son (Salt)
Daniel Kane, Ostentation of Peacocks (Eggbox)
Agnes Lehoczky, Budapest to Babel (Eggbox)
Chris McCabe, Zeppelins (Salt)
Jill McDonough, Habeas Corpus (Salt)
Glyn Maxwell, Hide Now (Picador)
Geraldine Monk, Ghost & Other Sonnets (Salt)
Katrina Naomi, Lunch at The Elephant & Castle (Templar Poetry)
Maggie O'Dwyer, Yes, I'd love to Dance (Templar Poetry) 
Michael O'Neill, Wheel (Arc) 
Mary Oliver, Red Bird (Bloodaxe) 
Kate Rhodes, The Alice Trap (Enitharmon)
Lemn Sissay, Listener (Canongate)
Rommi Smith, Mornings and Midnights (Peepal Tree)
Pauline Stainer, Crossing the Snowline (Bloodaxe) 
Greta Stoddart, Salvation Jane (Anvil)
Liane Strauss, Leaving Eden (Salt)
Hugh Underhill, Found Wanting (Smokestack)
Tomas Venclova, The Junction: Selected Poems, ed. Ellen Hinsey, trs. Lithuanian by Ellen Hinsey, Constantine Rusanov & Diana Senechal (Bloodaxe)
Mark Waldron, The Brand New Dark (Salt)
Pat Winslow, Unpredictable Geometry (Templar Poetry)
Dawn Wood, Quarry (Templar Poetry) 



November


Ruth Bidgood, Hearing Voices (Cinnamon)
Judy Gahagan, The Secret Frontiers (Enitharmon)
Ian Gregson, How We Met (Salt)
Lee Grenfell, Nor From Books (Cinnamon)
Esther Jansma, What It Is, trs Dutch by Francis R Jones (Bloodaxe)
patrick jones, darkness is where the stars are (Cinnamon)
Martha Kapos, Supreme Being (Enitharmon)
Marion May Campbell, Fragments from a Paper Witch (Salt)
Pascale Petit, The Treekeeper's Tale (Seren)
Martinus Nijhoff, Awater (Anvil)
John Sears, Reading George Szirtes (Bloodaxe)
Yi Sha, Starve the Poets!: Selected Poems, trs. Chinese by Simon Patton & Tao Naikan (Bloodaxe)
Susan Bradley Smith, Super Modern Prayer Book (Salt)
Juliana Spahr, Well Then There Now (Salt)
George Szirtes, New & Collected Poems (Bloodaxe)
Aldo Vianello, Selected Poems (Anvil)
Jan Villarrubia, Return to Bayou Lacombe (Cinnamon)
Ania Walwicz, Palace of Culture (Salt)



 

Publishers

Anvil Press Poetry, Neptune House, 70 Royal Hill, London SE10 8RF
Arc Publications, Nanholme Mill, Shaw Wood Road, Todmorden, Lancs OL14 6DA
Archipelago Books, 232 3rd Street, #A111 Brooklyn, NY 11215 
Blackstaff Press, 4c Heron Wharf, Sydenham Business Park, BELFAST BT3 9LE
Blinking Eye Publishing, PO Box 549, North Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE30 2WT
Bloodaxe Books, Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland NE48 1RP
Jonathon Cape (Random House imprint) 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA
Breeze Hayward Publishing, PO Box 152, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 2AH
Carcanet Press, 4th Floor, Alliance House, 28-34 Cross Street, Manchester M2 7AQ
Candlestick Press 21 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 1BS
Chapman Publishing, 4 Broughton Place, Edinburgh EH1 3RX
Chatto & Windus (Random House Imprint) 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA
Cinnamon Press, Meirion House, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd LL41 3SU
The Dedalus Press, 13 Moyclare Road, Baldoyle Dublin 13, Ireland
Ebury Press, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA 
Eggbox Publishing
Enitharmon Press, 26B Caversham Rd, London NW5 2DU
Faber and Faber, 3 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AU
Flambard Press, Stable Cottage, East Fourstones, Hexham, Northumberland NE47 5DX
Headland Publications, 38 York Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, CH48 3JF
flipped eye, P.O. Box 43771, Suite 13, London W14 8ZY
The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland
Grey Hen Press, PO Box 450, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 9WS
The Heaventree Press, Koco Building, The Arches, Spon End, Coventry
CV1 3JQ
Honno Welsh Women's Press, c/o Canolfan Merched y Wawr, Stryd yr Efail, Aberystwyth SY23 2JH
Payback Press (an imprint of Canongate Books), 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
KATABASIS, 10 St Martin's Close, London NW1 0HR
Mews Press, Dr Steven Earnshaw: s.l.earnshaw@shu.ac.uk
Peepal Tree Press, 17 King's Avenue, Leeds LS6 1QS
Oversteps Books
Penned in the Margins, 53 Arcadia Court, 45 Old Castle Street, London E1 7NY
Peterloo Poets, 2 Kelly Gardens, Calstock, Cornwall PL18 9SA
Picador (McGraw-Hill/Macmillan imprint), 20 New Wharf Road, London
N1 9RR
Poetry Salzburg, Dept of English and American Studies, University of Salzburg, Akademiestrasse 24, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
Rack Press, The Rack, Kinnerton, Presteign, Powys, LD8 2PF
Ragged Raven Press, 1, Lodge Farm, Snitterfield, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37 0LR
Reality Street Editions, 63 All Saints Street, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3BN
Rialto, PO Box No 309, Aylsham, Norwich NR11 6LN
Rockingham Press, 11 Musley Lane, Ware, Herts SG12 7EN
Salmon Publishing, Knockeven, Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare Ireland
Salt Publishing, PO Box 937, Great Wilbraham, Cambridge PDO, CB1 5JX 
Seren, First Floor, 38-40 Nolton Street, Bridgend CF31 3BN
Shearsman Books, 58 Velwell Road, Exeter EX4 4LD
Smith/Doorstop, c/o The Poetry Business, The Studio, Byram Arcade, Westgate, Huddersfield HD1 1ND
Spout Publications, The Word Hoard, Kirklees Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield HD1 1RL
Smokestack Books, PO Box 408, Middlesbrough TS5 6WA
Stride, 4B Tremayne Close, Devoran, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 6QE
Templar Poetry, PO BOX 7082, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 9AF 
Tsar Publications,  P.O. Box 6996, Station A, Toronto, Ontario M5W 1X7,
Canada
Two Rivers Press, 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS
The Waywiser Press, 9 Woodstock Road, London N4 3ET