Poetry Book Society Winter 2021 Bulletin

"The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews, insightful reviews by the Ledbury Critics and extensive listings of every book and pamphlet published this quarter.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Poetry Book Society
• Release date: Nov 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781913129613

Book preview

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CONTENTS

CHOICE

Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo • Like a Tree, Walking • Carcanet

RECOMMENDATIONS

Polly Atkin • Much With Body • Seren

Harry Josephine Giles • Deep Wheel Orcadia • Picador

Lila Matsumoto • Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water • Prototype

Stephanie Sy-Quia • Amnion • Granta

SPECIAL COMMENDATION

Ian Duhig • New and Selected Poems • Picador

TRANSLATION CHOICE

Tua Forsström • I Walked On Into The Forest: Poems For A Little Girl Translated by David McDuff • Bloodaxe Books

PAMPHLET CHOICE

Fathima Zahra • Sargam / Swargam • ignitionpress

WILD CARD

Owen Lowery • Crash Wake and other poems • Carcanet

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Cover Art Photograph by Hannah Devereux www.hannahdevereux.com

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ISBN 9781913129286 ISSN 0551-1690

ePub ISBN 9781913129613

ePDF ISBN 9781913129606

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LETTER FROM THE PBS

I am wondering what life will be like this Winter when the Bulletin drops through people’s doors? As I write, COP26 is about to take place, environment is top of the agenda alongside the pandemic. Weatherwise, the north wind has returned with a vengeance this weekend, reminding me how bracing and painful walking the North East Coast can be, but so beautiful and wild too. If, for whatever reason, we are all home a bit more come the winter, I can think of no greater pleasure than hunkering down and getting swept away with this season’s collections. There is such a range of writing and variety of subject, language and style in these nine selections, they are books to be read, mulled over and read again. We were so sad to hear of the passing of Owen Lowery in May, whose posthumous collection is this season’s Wild Card Choice.

A very special thank you to the Ledbury Poetry Critics; Gazelle Mba, Dave Coates, Pratyusha, Shalini Sengupta, Shash Trevett and Maggie Wang who have provided many of the reviews at the end of this Bulletin. And a HUGE thank you to the wonderful Andrew McMillan who has not only been a selector extraordinaire, but a huge champion of the PBS while working with us. Andrew’s time as a selector is up, and he’ll be replaced by the brilliant Anthony Anaxagorou. The equally inspiring Caleb Femi, who has just won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, joins as our new Wild Card Selector and Harry Josephine Giles as our Translation selector. We are really looking forward to working with them and discovering their selections in Spring 2022.

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