2025 releases

On Finding Ourselves, Each Other, and the Things That Make Us Come Alive A compelling blend of personal narrative, universal themes and spiritual exploration to help readers to reflect, connect...

A Chapbook Box Set This ten-piece, limited-edition box set―an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project―features the work of nine new African poets THE LIMITED-EDITION BOX SET is a project started...

Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was an eighteen-year-old on a train to Mexico City,...

Evocative. Unsettling. Unafraid. Ritual is a ground-breaking new publication which centres and celebrates the diversity of contemporary Muslim-Australian identities and experiences through the timeless power of the written word. As...

Translated by Aaron Coleman A fantastical collection of poems by revolutionary Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén presented in a Spanish-English bilingual edition. Born in Cuba to parents of African and European...

Winner of the 2023 CAAPP Book Prize from the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press, Okwudili Nebeolisa’s debut poetry collection explores a son’s relationship...

On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically An innovative and accessible guide to writing and reading poetry by an acclaimed poet and beloved professor of poetry. What makes reading a poem...

A collection of previously published poems by renowned National Book Award-winning Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez.  The seventh book from award-winning Chamoru author Craig Santos Perez, Call This Mutiny brings together...

Translated by Anton Hur How do you write a poem? These startling and beautiful meditations on poetry offer a provocative new answerKick against words like you would kick back on...

The debut collection from an electrifying new talent - a poet of philosophical depth, searching intellect, and lyric grace'A daring, ambitious pleasure to read' ROGER ROBINSONIntimate and epic, dark and...

'What a joy to see a new sun rising in the poetic sky!' Nikki Giovanni Exploring naming and its power, the remarkable second collection from the award-winning poet and former...

Following on from Turbulence and Decadence, Essence continues Thuy On's exploration into language and broadens its reach into the arts. It strips poetry down to its core to distil moments of beauty and chaos into...

A profound and visionary collection of poetry and original artwork that explores personal narratives, First Nations wisdom and the many shapes of love, from one of Australia's most prolific young...

From award-winning poet Eileen Chong comes a dazzling book-length poem, comprising 101 interconnected fragments that can be read in any order, inviting the reader to construct multiple interpretations.We Speak of...

An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo - poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed - that bears witness to the genocide in GazaThe Nightmare Sequence is a searing response...

**Winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award** Time. Memory. Mirror. Past & Parallel Lives is a rippling reflection on being alien, queer, and other. These poems yearn for home and...

Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph. With an introduction by Lauri Scheyer For over...

A memorable debut collection that explores colonial and generational trauma.   In this striking debut, Dorsía Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, highlighting the natural...

A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body. With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the...

'Atmospheric and intoxicating' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS 'A joyous, lyrical read' YOMI ADEGOKE 'Hypnotic and freewheeling' GUARDIAN A Guardian Book of the Year Caleb Femi returns with a landmark, life-affirming new poetry...

and some others Author of the instant national bestsellers James and Erasure, the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film American Fiction, Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, Sonnets for a Missing...