poetry
Bridestones
Miranda Pearson
The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams, opera, and visual art, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve – for each other and our environment.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series April 2024 114pp
9780228020776 £16.99 PB
Origins of the Syma Species
Tares Oburumu
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Inspired by the relative chaos found in the origin of things, Oburumu’s poems explore how the beauty of chaos binds us to our ancestral roots. In his poems Oburumu identifies with anyone who is a single parent or is dealing with the lonely trauma of a broken home. His poems instill hopefulness in a world that has the means to throw many into poverty and agony.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Series: African Poetry Book
March 2024 72pp
9781496237026 £14.99 PB
Leaked Footages
Abu Bakr Sadiq
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
In Abu Bakr Sadiq’s exploration of northern Nigeria in speculative poetry, the lyrical meets the chronicle. In this fusion of Afrofuturism with experimental poetic techniques, the reader witnesses a country ravaged by terrorism and the consequences of war, as well as the effects of these on those who survive.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Series: African Poetry Book
November 2024 102pp
9781496240132 £14.99 PB
The Trauma Mantras
A Memoir in Prose Poems
Adrie Kusserow
A memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States. It is a memoir of witness and humility and, ultimately, a way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the self, suffering, and healing.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2024 176pp
9781478025573 £16.99 PB
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A Demon Spirit
Arabic
Hunting Poems
Abū Nuwās
Edited & translated by James
E. Montgomery
A memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States. It is a memoir of witness and humility and, ultimately, a way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the self, suffering, and healing.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
November 2024 488pp
9781479834129 £29.99 HB
A Mouth Holds Many Things
A De-Canon Hybrid Literary Anthology
Edited by Dao Strom
& Jyothi
Natarajan
A ground breaking anthology that collects hybrid-literary works from 36 women and nonbinary BIPOC writer-artists, A Mouth Holds Many Things is the first book of its kind.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2024 111 color and 27 b&w illus. 337pp
9798987589038 £31.00 PB
A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth I Sign
Gabriel Palacios
Debut poet Gabriel Palacios slipstreams through a hauntological, historicized Southwest, to make sense out of the life inherited. These are poems that reckon with complicity: historic and on the streets of South Tucson, Arizona in the present. This collection represents a prism through which we assess time, place, and the specters of one’s own conduct and circumstances.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2024 104pp
9798987589045 £14.99 PB
A Whale Is A Country
Isabel Zapata
Translated by Robin Myers
The debut English language poetry collection by noted Mexican author Isabel Zapata, A Whale is a Country explores humanity's relationship to the natural world through a multitude of poignant angles.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2024 10 b&w illus. 132pp
9798987589007 £14.99 PB
Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium
Marcie R. Rendon
Poem-songs summon the voices of Anishinaabe ancestors and sing to future generations. Through dream-songs and poem-songs responding to works of theater, choral music, and opera, Rendon brings memory to life, the senses to attention—to see the moonbeams blossoming on the windowsill, to feel the hold of the earth, to hear the echo of grandmother’s breath, to lie on the bones of ancestors and feel the rhythms of silence running deep. Her singing, breaking the boundaries that time would impose, carries the Anishinaabe way of life and way of seeing forward in the world.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
July 2024 3 b&w illus. 88pp
9781517917432 £14.99 PB
Antillia
Henrietta Goodman
Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention.
The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to exist. Although memories pervade this collection, these poems also look forward and outward into a world where social inequality and environmental disaster meet the possibility of metamorphosis.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
March 2024 94pp
9781496236081 £14.99 PB
Arabian Hero
Oral Poetry and Narrative Lore from Northern Arabia
Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ
Edited & translated by Marcel Kurpershoek
An epic hero and a poet, the semilegendary Shāyiʿ al-Amsaḥ was a prominent ancestor of the Shammar tribal confederation that stretches across the Great Nafūd desert in the northern Arabian Peninsula. Shāyiʿ’s corpus of extant poems are preserved in narratives about his chivalrous exploits transmitted orally for centuries.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
October 2024 320pp
9781479834167 £25.99 HB
Bedouin Poets of the Nafūd Desert
Khalaf Abū Zwayyid, ʿAdwān alHirbīd and ʿAjlān ibn Rmāl
Features poetry from three poets of the Ibn Rashīd dynasty–the highwater mark of Bedouin culture in the nineteenth century. They vividly describe journeys on camelback, stories of family and marriage, thrilling raids, and beautiful nature scenes, offering a window into Bedouin culture and society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
April 2024 300pp
9781479826155 £25.99 HB
Dear Wallace
Julie Choffel
Dear Wallace addresses the poet and insurance executive Wallace Stevens in an attempt to reconsider art, power, and creativity amid the demands of everyday responsibility. Stevens, a proxy for beauty, inventiveness, and legitimacy, becomes an audience for the ennui, anxiety, and politics of care that characterize another kind of writer’s life today.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry
October 2024 100pp
9781496240064 £14.99 PB
Dreamcraft
Peter Dale Scott
Poet, deep state researcher, and radical medievalist Peter Dale Scott interrogates topics that have occupied his later thought and writing, such as moreness (our need, as humans, to be more than we are), minding, and enmindment. Dreamcraft is a book that crosses distances and straddles boundaries, moving from whistleblower law to the mimetic properties of DNA.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
April 2024 120pp
9780228020981 £16.99 PB
Fate the Hunter
Early Arabic Hunting Poems
Translated by James E. Montgomery
With this collection, James E. Montgomery offers a new edition and translation of twenty-six early works of hunting poetry, or ṭardiyyāt. With breathtaking descriptions of falcons, gazelles, and saluki gazehounds, the poems in Fate the Hunter capture the drama and tension of the hunt while offering meditations on Fate, mortality, and death.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
November 2024 184pp
9781479834259 £12.99 PB
Impossible Things
Miller Oberman
Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman’s new collection of poetry explores his experiences as both a transgender child and father. Impossible Things offers a necessary intervention into the well-worn terrain of fatherhood/boyhood memoir and functions as a living elegy, communicating with the past, the dead, and the unknowable while speaking to the possibilities for healing intergenerational trauma.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2024 120pp
9781478031093 £20.99 PB
Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body
Lory Bedikian
Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent. In this five-part testimony Lory Bedikian reconstructs the father figure, mother figure, and the self. Bedikian contemplates the concept of fate, destiny (jagadakeer), and the excavation of memory—whether to question familial inheritance or claim medical diagnoses.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
September 2024 118pp
9781496240125 £14.99 PB
Left Turns in Brown Study
Sandra Ruiz
Ruiz offers a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Ruiz interweaves poetry, memoir, lyrical essay, and vignettes to examine study as an emancipatory practice. This book is crucial for all those who theorize minoritarian literary aesthetics and think through utopia, queer possibility, and the entwinement of forms.
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Writing Matters!
August 2024 152pp
9781478030126 £21.99 PB
Metromorphoses
John Reibetanz
Grounded in the local and immediate –from Toronto’s rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers –Metromorphoses explores some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history. Far from Eliot’s “unreal city,” Metromorphoses takes us into the heart of the real Toronto, alive and ever-changing.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
May 2024 120pp
9780228020912 £16.99 PB
Ocean Mother
Arielle Taitano Lowe
Ocean Mother tells the story of a young woman’s decision to heal herself, her family, and her home. The poet gives voice to her experience as a CHamoru girl raised in the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam), located in Micronesia. Weaving together narratives of family, environment, Indigenous identity, decolonial love, and her CHamoru culture, the poet goes on a journey inward and overseas. She explores the relationships between culture and identity, colonialism and inherited trauma, sense of place and generational healing.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2024 108pp
9781935198864 £12.99 PB
Reflections on the Pandemic
COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
Edited by Teresa Politano
Acollection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2024 11 color images 274pp
9781978831094 £21.99 PB
Retribution Forthcoming
Poems
Katie Berta
Using oblique and direct strategies, these poems recount sexual coercion, the ways consumerist society reinforces and reifies gender conformity and performativity, and the psychological ramifications of these abuses of power. At its core, though, this book is an account of sexual assault and its aftermath, exploring how trauma interacts with belief and our ability to trust others and ourselves.
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
March 2024 86pp
9780821411506 £14.99 PB
Sailing without Ahab
Ecopoetic Travels
Steve Mentz
This cycle of one hundred thirty-eight poems—one for each chapter in Moby-Dick, plus the Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue—launches into oceanic chaos without the stabilizing mad focus of the Nantucket captain. Guided by waywardness and curiosity, these poems seek an alien ecopoetics of marine depths, the refraction of light, the taste of salt on skin.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
April 2024 1 map, 2 b&w illus. 144pp
9781531506322 £16.99 PB
Santa Tarantula
Jordan Pérez
Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Jordan Pérez explores the tension between fear and reprieve, between hopelessness and light, in her debut collection. Pérez lends voices to the forgotten: to the political dissidents, gay men, and religious minorities imprisoned in the forced-labor camps of 1960s Cuba; to biblical women who were deemed unworthy to name; to survivors of sexual violence who grapple with paralyzing fear and isolation.
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Series: Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
February 2024 80pp
9780268207526 £15.99 PB
The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych
Ecstasies and Elegies
Bohdan Ihor
Antonych
Translated by Michael M. Naydan
Sometimes compared to Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas, Antonych, who described himself as “an ecstatic pagan, a poet of the high of spring,” created during his brief lifetime powerful and innovative poetry with astonishing metaphorical constructions. This essential collection introduces Antonych’s work to new audiences, and includes a biographical sketch by the translator.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2024 1 b&w image 206pp
9781684485307 £24.99 PB
The Rough Poets
Reading Oil-Worker Poetry
Melanie Dennis Unrau
Presents poetry by workers in the Canadian oil and gas industry, collecting and closely reading texts published between 1938 and 2019 like Ells’s Northland Trails, Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk. How does it feel to be a worker in the oil and gas industry in a climate emergency, facing an energy transition that threatens your way of life? Unrau takes up this question with the respect and care.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: McGill-Queen's Rural, Wildland, and Resource Studies
October 2024 16 photos 240pp
9780228022947 £29.99 PB
The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry
Edited by Ted Kooser
An anthology of poems originally selected by Ted Kooser in 1980 and published by his Windflower Press, a small, independent publisher that specialized in poetry from the Great Plains. The collection contains almost two hundred poems from dozens of poets and was designed to resemble a commonplace farmer’s almanac.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
December 2024 107 illus. 156pp
9781496239594 £16.99 PB
Twenty-Nine Goodbyes
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
Timothy Billings
This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine ways of understanding a single poem. “Seeing Off a Friend,” by the great Tang poet Li Bai (701–762) has long been praised for its vividness, subtlety, and poignancy. Anthologizing twenty-nine translations of the poem, Timothy Billings not only introduces the poem’s richness and depth but also the nuanced art of translating Chinese poetry into European languages.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2024 1 b&w illus. 224pp
9781531508357 £21.99 HB
twofold
Edward Carson
Edward Carson’s extraordinary new work gathers concise diptych – or twofold – poems exploring themes of love, relationships, myth, art, language, math, physics, geometry, and artificial intelligence. Negotiating surprising twinning combinations, comparisons, and outcomes, the poems in twofold are lively, thought-provoking, and playful interchanges that are also mischievously literate, questioning, and intuitive.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
April 2024 96pp
9780228020097 £16.99 PB
Whiny Baby
Julie Paul
Who is the “whiny baby” in this book? Rather than calling names or hurling insults, the candid poems in this collection most often implicate the poet herself.
Expansive in form and voice, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites, meadows, waiting rooms, beaches, alleys, gardens, and frozen rivers, from Montreal to Hornby Island.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
April 2024 120pp
9780228020745 £16.99 PB
Water Quality
Cynthia Woodman Kerkham
Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Rich with vibrant language and intensity, these poems sizzle in lyric form, monologues, elegy, and haibun. Water Quality calls on us to consider that our very survival is at stake unless we make a vow to this vital element to cherish it as we would a partner.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
September 2024 128pp
9780228022978 £16.99 PB
Without Beginning or End Jacqueline Bourque
Deeply inspired by her Acadian upbringing along the ocean shores of New Brunswick, these are poems populated by aerialists, painters, and the spirit of Charles Baudelaire, who connects the poet to “the ligatures of life.” Without Beginning or End is a book about love, friendship, art, and the human condition. Beautiful, and poignantly human, it is an emotionally charged parting gift to loved ones and readers alike.
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
September 2024 80pp
9780228022619 £16.99 PB
