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Hello. Your promise has been extracted is the third collection from Britain's poetry wunderkind, and his third to be made a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Mama Amazonica is set in a psychiatric ward and in the Amazon rainforest, an asylum for animals on the brink of extinction. It reveals the story of Pascale Petit's mentally ill mother and the consequences of abuse. Winner of the Laurel Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018, Mama Amazonica is her seventh collection, and her first from Bloodaxe.

In her second collection, printer's daughter Heidi Williamson mines the rich language and history of printing to consider themes including belonging, parenthood, love, and communication. Winner of the Poetry Category and Book by the Cover award, East Anglian Book Awards, 2016.

Dooley's first new collection since her Eliot-shortlisted Life Under Water (2008). Poems on looking in, looking out, looking through, on shifting light and what it reveals, reflects or conceals - and what remains.

Latest collection by winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize: poems contemplating space and sound, language and the world, the self and its environmental relationships.

Debut collection by editor of Poetry Wales, a book of rituals that stalk the space between what is uttered and what is meant, haunted by the the longest words in the world and folk-mythic figures.

First collection of poems drawing on a childhood spent on the Hebridean island of Erraid along with the rupture and re-imagining of a family. Runner-up for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016.

Sonnets by one of Ireland's leading poets celebrating his own part of Dublin: also a coming to terms with age and a rediscovering of the universal in the local.

Seven lectures by one of Britain's leading poets tracing the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets in American and Britain since the 1930s.

Poems of a lost self and a lost brother. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's, Limburg identified with Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Another of the book's main sequences was written in response to her brother's suicide.

First collection by one of Britain's liveliest young poets. Wayne Holloway-Smith has been a been a strong presence on the London poetry scene for several years, renowned for his wildly imaginative poems and compelling stage presence.

Mapanje was imprisoned by Malawi's dictator Hastings Banda for nearly four years, chronicling his prison experiences in his previous books. Now he returns to Africa.

Agard puts on the mask of medieval Jewish rabbi Moses Maimonides (from Moorish Spain) in provocative poems that resonate with the current climate of extremism.

Susan Wicks's seventh collection is a considerable literary achievement: a book of poems about time whose central title-poem weaves together two pregnancies spanning two generations.

First collection by new poet from Sri Lanka. The lotus flower embodies the promise of purity and transcendence in poems relating to customs and superstition, war and its aftermath, fables and human relationships.

Lowe's second collection follows her widely acclaimed debut, Chick, about her father, a Chinese-Jamaican gambler. Another of his nicknames, Chan also represents the travellers and shapeshifters in these poems.

Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. The dog of memory roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - mornings in Sicily, night skies in Athens - and people, but also the landscape of literature itself.

This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan's unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gift. The years of her husband's throat cancer are charted in poems by turns tender, harsh and darkly humorous.

W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. This late collection written in his late-80s finds him deeply immersed in reflection on the passage of time and the frailty and sustaining power of memory.

Published on her 70th birthday, Shuttle's latest collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory.

Three contrasting but complementary, familial poem sequences by the TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet: Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers; Lobo-Lobo, about sisters; and Behold My Father on His Bicycle, about exactly that.

Playful and poignant first collection by a young poet already known for several pamphlets: poems of love and death, life, loss and grief in which mortality is confronted by the ephemera of popular culture.

Swedish poet, novelist and philosopher Lars Gustafsson (1936-2016) was one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation, shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize 2018 (for translation from Swedish).

Poems from the diary of an immortal time-travelling rake, or someone imagining themselves to be such a rake, having drunk too many espressos? A series of beautifully skewed, left-field, back-handed love poems.

This changes things was Claire Askew's first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland's flourishing poetry and spoken word scene. It was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award 2016, Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for First Full Collection 2017 and Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017.

Modern Poetry in Translation is one of the UK's most innovative and prestigious poetry magazines, founded in 1965 by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort.

Poems of coming home, both a departure and a return for Breeze, who left her village in Jamaica to become an inter-nationally renowned Dub poet and storyteller. Published on her 60th birthday, launched with a UK reading tour.

Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for Release from the Dream, Tony Hoagland's fifth collection, pursues these questions with the fierce abandon of one who needs to know how a citizen of 21st-century America can stay human.

Joan Margarit is one of Spain's major modern writers, known for his mastery of the Catalan language. In Love Is a Place, a translation of his three most recent collections, he finds himself face to face with the prospect of his own death, while rediscovering love.

Home Front presents full-length collections by Bryony Doran and Isabel Palmer, both mothers of young British soldiers serving in Afghanistan; and two American poets, Jehanne Dubrow, wife of a serving US naval officer deployed to the Persian Gulf and other conflict zones, and Elyse Fenton, wife of a US army medic posted to Iraq.