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Pretend You Don't Know Me brings together in one volume the best of Finuala Dowling's funny, poignant and idiosyncratic poetry from four earlier prize-winning collections, with a section devoted to new poems. It introduces this popular South African poet to a UK audience.

Latest collection by winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2016. Carol Ann Duffy wrote that Gillian Allnutt's poetry `has always been in conversation with the natural world and the spiritual life'.

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third collection, following two earlier, highly praised collections, Everything Belongs Elsewhere, published by Bloodaxe in 2012, and her debut, Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Prize.

The poems in Ailbhe Darcy's second collection relate to love, hope, home and children in a world under threat politically and environmentally. Insistence won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2019, the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and the Pigott Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and T.S. Eliot Prize.

First English translation of one of Lithuania's leading poets. Paradoxical, absurd, witty and observant, his poetry reflects Lithuania's post-Soviet society.

Mircea Dinescu has been one of Romanian poetry's most provocative and obstinately singular poets for five decades. A one-time dissident, he's still writing necessary poems that challenge all systems.

Doris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, admired especially for poems that balance precision and control with passion and bravado.

Abigail Parry's first collection is concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues from moth-camouflage and stage magic, from the mirror-maze and the masquerade, and from high-stakes games of poker. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2018.

Fourth collection by popular young Irish poet written in response to her husband's total loss of memory following a brain infection. More present to him him were birds and animals he believed he could see during his recovery. Winner of the inaugural Farmgate Cafe National Poetry Award 2019.

Imtiaz Dharker's themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. In Luck Is the Hook chance plays a part in finding or losing loved people and places. All her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of the book.

New collection by leading Albanian poet of work written since her first UK edition, Haywire: New & Selected Poems, was published by Bloodaxe in 2011. Ani Gjika's translation from the Albanian of Luljeta Lleshanaku's Negative Space was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize 2019.

Esther Morgan's fourth collection explores family history through the generations after death and loss in wartime, as well as motherhood, love and responsibility.

Jane Commane's first collection is an exploration of the post-industrial towns and cities of the Midlands, Britain's heartlands that are forever on the periphery.

Anthology celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King receiving an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in November 1967, six months before his assassination in April 1968, with poems addressing the three major problems of our time named by King in his acceptance speech: racism, poverty and war.

Although Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf has lived in exile in the UK for 20 years, she is fast emerging as one of the most outstanding Somali poets, as well as a powerful woman poet in a literary tradition still largely dominated by men. This dual-language Somali-English edition is translated by Clare Pollard.

A celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings.

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania's foremost poets, her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. This book brings together her two recent collections The Sun of Hereafter and Ebb of the Senses in one volume. These are the two collections she published in Romania immediately before My Native Land A4.

Posthumous winner of Costa Book of the Year 2017, this was the final collection by the renowned poet and novelist, much of it written from her sickbed while facing death. With spare, eloquent lyricism, they explore the borderline between the living and the dead - the underworld and the human living world - and the exquisitely intense being of both.

Fifth collection by Forward-shortlisted poet drawing on the houses and landscapes of childhood. Physical things are remembered both for their own sake and to explore how they continue to shape the self. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Ninth collection from a poet known for her evocations of the sacred, presences, hauntings and the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world.

Third anthology from the Complete Works project showcasing the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds.

So Glad I'm Me was Roddy Lumsden's tenth collection, and sadly turned out to be the last book he published. In these haunting poems he returned to familiar themes in his work. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award 2018.

Work by Belfast poet written since his retrospective Goat's Milk (2015), including poems - sombre and flippant - about having Parkinson's Disease. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for a National Book Circle Critics Award.

C.K. Williams was one of the major American poets of the past 50 years. Falling Ill is his final collection, written during his last months in 2015 as he lay dying from cancer.

One of Britain's best-known and most popular Caribbean poets explores those nocturnal hours when sleep is hard to come by, and the business of the day is hard to shut out.

Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into this world.

Highly unusual, highly entertaining third collection by a young Scottish writer in which eighty-one everyday objects, concerns and states are given a voice.

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's best-known poets. Hoard is her fourth Bloodaxe collection since Poems 1960-2000, following Dragon Talk (2010), Glass Wings (2013) and The Land Ballot (2015).

Hyem is Robyn Bolam's fourth poetry collection from Bloodaxe. Her previous collection, New Wings, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Hyem is home in Geordie: the book is about growing up on Tyneside and more generally what and who makes us feel at home throughout the world - and in the natural world also.

Menna Elfyn is Wales's leading Welsh-language poet. Bondo is the latest of her collections to be published in Welsh and English at the same time: so there is no separate Welsh-language edition.