John's New Year Picks 2025
Selected by the Bookshop
There's lots of new poetry collections I'm looking forward to in the New Year. Ange Mlinko is one of the best poets writing in the US - it seems astonishing that this is her first book to be published in this country, but Faber have done it proud. Shane McCrae follows in Dante's footsteps to create his New and Collected Hell. Karen Solie returns, with her first collection in six years - I spilt a glass of prosecco over her selected poems at the staff Christmas party, so will be foisting this on all comers to make up for it. And from the UK, long-awaited new books from Kate Potts and Jeremy Over. What a business.
From the publisher:
The UK debut of a celebrated American poet whose work is as lyrical as it is radical. Foxglovewise is complex but inviting, profound but wry. It is firmly contemporary while also being in lively conversation with deep histories: 'Where do…
From the publisher:
Shane McCrae, one of the most prophetic and powerful poetic voices of our time, has created a twenty-first-century epic in New and Collected Hell. As David Woo wrote in Poetry, 'McCrae's poems allude to literary precursors like Dante,…
From the publisher:
In Pretenders, her third book of poetry, Kate Potts asks: what is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? And what can ‘the imposter phenomenon’ – a sense that our true abilities and…
From the publisher:
Wellwater demonstrates a poet writing at the height of her powers. In poems that are supple, philosophical, bracingly honest and ribbed with erudition, Wellwater conducts a self-interrogative conversation with a culture in crisis and a…
From the publisher:
Equal parts commonplace book, instruction manual and cheerful vandalism, Fourth & Walnut is absurdly joyful, gathering together words from a wide range of favourite writers and artists, erasing some and fooling with others as variations…
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