Rosie Garland’s dauntless and enthralling new poetry collection, What Girls Do in the Dark, invites us to leap into deep space - across a universe where light, names, place and time become the “distance between things that stand like sisters”. We venture through strange night-time...

The collected LettersA collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory. In DESGRACIADO, Angel Dominguez navigates language and memory to illuminate the ongoing traumas of misremembered and missing...

Fourteen Poems is a London-based poetry journal, publishing the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets 3 times a year. This anthology is designed to bring modern poetry into your everyday life. We hope by limiting it to just fourteen poems, you’ll be able to get a...

Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks, can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something new: an identity, a family,...

Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking...

Finding Myself in the Footsteps of John Clare In 1841 the 'peasant poet' John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare...

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the year of his death at...

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men,...

In Throatbone, Maddrell asks us to consider the way memory, home, history and empire confer to shape our understanding of one another. Poems which at times stretch and contort to subtly lead us back into the way of the personal through anecdote, imagery and...

Shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers' WeekThrough four highly acclaimed collections, Colette Bryce has steadily consolidated her position as one of the most important of the younger generation of Irish poets. Possessed of a preternaturally acute ear and eye,...

Reminiscent of one of this century's great elegies, Denise Riley's A Part Song, The M Pages is similarly probing, hurt, skeptical and smarting. . . in a book packed with good poems.' Irish Times. The reader might be justified in thinking that the 'M' in...

Stories that Speak for Freedom A varied and thought-provoking collection of short stories and poems for teens with a conscience, with striking cover illustrations by award-winning children's laureate Chris Riddell. With contributions from Frances Hardinge, Sarah Crossan, Matt Haig, Neil Gaiman and many more....

In this “more-than-human lyric,” Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes offers the ampersand, a mode of encounter that unfixes the reader. This form, a lyric prose poem beginning, midsentence, with an ampersand, accesses the intimacies of a life shaped by perpetual “and-ing.”These ampersands move by associative...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 5th November 2026 With gentle fervour and precise language that speaks to the nonverbal, the gestural, the sonic, Jody Chan’s third collection of poetry mobilizes the intimate, the historical, the revolutionary, and the mundane to confront the instrumentalization of disability as...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 29th October 2026 The rock opera Bark of Millions is an incomparable celebration of queerness, and here from its award-winning creators Taylor Mac and Matt Ray is the experience in book form, including lyrics and music for 50 of the show’s songsBark of...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 10th November 2026 Part reckoning with a father's chronic illness, part coming of age in the Upper South, part meditation on the slow, painful accumulation of adulthood, Another Man considers issues of family, care, and inheritance. These powerful poems capture unexpected...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 20th October 2026 The third collection from John A. Robertson Award– and Pushcart Prize–winning poet David Meischen, looking at the joys, the struggles, and the contradictions of aging. In this gorgeous assembly of poems, award-winning poet David Meischen candidly examines how...

PRE-ORDER NOW -  9th October 2026 Arachne Press has long been a champion of LGBTQ+ writers, and our first anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry Joy//Us, was something of a hit! It was a strange moment, publishing joyful poems, that celebrated all that is best about...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 3rd November 2026 This Music is the final, intimate work of celebrated Koyoonk'auwi (Concow) poet and essayist Janice Gould, completed posthumously by a collective of close friends and literary scholars. Told through lyrical prose poems and personal photographs, this memoir traces...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 30th July 2026 Colin McGuire is published by Red Squirrel Press, Speculative Books and Little Betty. He won the Out-Spoken Prize for Best Poem and Film for The Glasgae Boys. An excerpt from his memoir features in the Scottish Queer anthology...

The award-winning poet reckons with feminine archetypes, erotic love, and the shifting boundary between power and surrenderFury is very lustfulA body concealing its heart’s desireHas a certain textureA tang or an edge if you willThat the openhearted cannot match& when exactly does the deceitfulHeart...

The long-anticipated third collection from the revered Richard Siken delivers his most personal and introspective collection yet.Richard Siken's long-anticipated third collection, I Do Know Some Things, navigates the ruptured landmarks of family trauma: a mother abandons her son, a husband chooses death over his wife....

Queer, vegan poet Dominic Berry presents his favourite poems for performance from his collections Tomorrow, I Will Go Dancing, Wizard, No Tigers and Yes Life, along with new poetry designed to engage and inspire. An extraordinary and enthralling collection exploring life, personal development and...

Life comes at you in waves, sometimes they carry you to new shores, sometimes you risk drowning in the flood. Life is a pulse, a heart pumping the blood of now and the blood memories of the past and of your ancestors. Life is...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 6th Jun 2026 *The brand new poetry collection from the internationally bestselling poet and TikTok phenomenon, Whitney Hanson*the love of my life is a poetry collection that traces the process of rediscovering a love for life after change, disconnection, and personal upheaval....

John McCullough's Crowd Voltage addresses yearnings for community. It probes fragmentation within groups and individuals – disturbances within the body of the crowd and the crowd of the body. Engaging with working-class and queer experiences, the poems move between solitude and togetherness, haunted by...

A posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure. Kevin Killian—the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresario of the Bay Area arts community—channeled the charisma of the pop stars. Pulled from his legendary...

Crohnic is a brilliant and moving collection of poems that asks, what is the landscape of a medicated life? From their convalescence in a room that overlooks the North Saskatchewan River, author Jason Purcell thinks ecologically with medical records, prescriptions, and dosages, staying attuned...

A narrative sequence of lyric poems reimagining Joan of Arc as a framework for queer identity, transformation, and poetic voice.   Collapsing biography and autobiography, the poetry of Jake Rose’s debut explores queer identity, grief, and desire through the historical framework of Joan of...

At a house party with as many antipsychotics as party drugs, Danilo, bakla, schizophrenic, and heartbroken, is tracing the disintegration of a recent relationship. Dancing and stumbling with his Filipina nurse friends, Danilo traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog....