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John's Spring Picks 2023

Selected by John Clegg


Loads of wonderful new poetry for spring - David Harsent's long-awaited versions of Yannis Ritsos, three electrically good second collections (from Joey Connolly, Emily Hasler, and Solmaz Sharif), and also the new book from Hannah Sullivan, which has been out for a bit but I only just started it and look here, it's amazing.

From the publisher:
Joey Connolly's funny and feverish second collection, The Recycling, considers dissolution and aftermath. Poems experiment with forms and histories, grieving for estrangement and heartbreak, haunted by climate anxiety. Connolly is…

From the publisher:
Hannah Sullivan’s first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book’s project, offering a trenchant exploration…

From the publisher:
Yannis Ritsos (1909-90) is generally considered to be - along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis - one of the most significant Greek poets of the last century.…

From the publisher:
Situated where salt and freshwater meet, where floods and fields 'mingle parts', Emily Hasler's second collection exposes the dailiness of disaster to chart the constantly shifting courses of rivers and lives.Taking its name from the…

From the publisher:
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardLonglisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeA New Yorker Essential Read of 2022A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022An NPR Best Book of 2022A Literary…

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