Penned In the Margins

The debut full collection from celebrated British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus.

In her long-awaited poetry debut, award-winning digital writer and artist J.R. Carpenter transforms the dense, fragmented archive of the North Atlantic into an astonishing sea of fresh new text. Cartographic and maritime vernaculars inflected with the syntax and grammar of ships logs and code languages splinter and pulse across the page.

An evocative debut poetry collection documenting wild swimming in lakes, rivers and seas across the UK.

Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die is a love letter to British theatre. Join Amber Massie-Blomfield as she veers off the beaten track to discover the pasts and present of the UK's most unique performance spaces.

The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the `inscape' of the living world. In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on.

The debut poetry collection from Cumbrian poet Kate Davies

"beautifully written, funny, mischievous and touching" NICHOLAS ROYLE Shortlisted for the MMU Novella Award 2014 The Lost Art of Sinking is a dark comedy about losing yourself. Sensual, funny and exquisitely written, this bold novella introduces a fresh new literary voice in Naomi Booth.

The long-awaited poetry debut from Meryl Pugh.

Sunshine is the new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee-Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems inhabit the lonely hotel rooms, psych wards and deserted lanes of austerity Britain.

Voracious in her critique of modernity, Charlotte Newman ranges across the spectra of social and sexual politics - from Brexit to the Bechdel Test via Renaissance art and vintage computer games.

Welcome to a science fiction reality of mirrors, windows and menacing simulacra - where nothing is as it seems. In this ambitious and long-awaited second full collection, Sutherland interrogates the language of authenticity, presenting the poet as an anxious, disorientated collaborator trapped in a world of hacked computers and digital avatars.

Typewriters, plagiarism and the poetic line are just three of the subjects under the spotlight in this book of essays by much-loved literary blogger Katy Evans-Bush.

Johnny Bevan, a whip-smart, mercurial kid from a council estate, saves Nick from living his father's safe life, but it ends tragically. Years later, a world-weary Nick is reminded of their friendship. Can Johnny save Nick again? Luke Wright makes his theatre debut with a verse play about friendship, class and a bad idea for a festival.

Explosive political satire and acerbic wit leap from stage to page in this hotly anticipated debut collection from Luke Wright. ...

At Hajj is a book of yearning and of pulling away, of things handed down and newly made.The debut collection from British poet Amaan Hyder plunges the reader into the heat and dust of the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.

A Body Made of You is a series of poems written for other writers, artists, strangers, lovers and friends. Charged with sexuality and an uncomfortable sense of the strange, this debut collection introduces a powerful new voice in poetry.

Spacecraft navigates white space of the page and distances between people. Margins, edges and coastlines abound in McCullough's tender explorations of contemporary life and love. From lichen to lava lamps, from etymology to Brighton's gay scene, Spacecraft is a humane and spellbinding collection from the winner of the 2012 Polari First Book Prize.

Winner, British Book Design & Production Awards 2016 Guardian Best Books of 2016 Guardian Best Books for Summer 2016 Observer Best Holiday Reads 2016 Tricksy, acerbic and laugh-out-loud funny, Cain is the dazzling new collection from Next Generation Poet Luke Kennard.