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Callie Gardner's debut collection of poetry, part manifesto, part lyrical essay. A remarkable collection transmitting the reader through various discourses and offering a litberation from the violent expectations of living to reproduce bodies, feelings, and nations.

'Beefy's Tune (Dean Blunt Edit)' looks to initiate a conversation that needs to be had about Dean Blunt, about Britain (through Blunt's indifference to it), and about Blackness in Britain (through the depth and complexity of Blunt's feeling for it).

The collection offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Filipinos, told amidst coup d'etats, active conflict areas, late-night convenience stores rendezvous, and bumper-to-bumper Manila traffic, given a considered dignity and nuance by one of the Philippines' celebrated playwrights.

A poet drowns. In the weeks following, three people are haunted by him - a medical examiner, a therapist, and a dancer. As their lives begin to interweave, he intervenes from the afterlife, desperate to find out his fate.

White/ Other is a strange hybrid beast - part poetry, part polemic, part sectarian graffiti - a long lyric essay that grapples with the complexities of writing and living from the position of the absent subject: that is the white working-class "other" within neo-liberal culture.

The poems of Kerf write through themes of woodworking, craft and labour, but these poems also analogise 'kerf' as social and cultural remnants. The poems also explore the author's own, as well as others', experiences of autism and neurodivergence, as manifested in feelings of isolation and in experiences of violence and rejection.

Poems and essays dealing variously with the merging and commingling of smartphones and human bodies, the role of elegy in the mid-2000s, the social basis of fascism in the 2010s, social class, and the symbolic dysmorphia of the British high street.

Two female lovers separate. Alone in her apartment, surrounded by books and memories, the narrator learns to heal her wounds as the days pass by. Written in the form of a personal diary, the collection Yo-Yo Heart is made up of five parts, each a rite of passage, as the voice moves through the main stages of grief.

From 'sweet sobs' to 'the reservoir of sadness' a vivacious energy animates this debut collection of poems; young girls! circles back to those fleeting moments of rebellious girlhood with verve and humour. -Mona Arshi, author of small hands and somebody loves you