Review: The Essential Emily Dickinson (selected by Joyce Carol Oates)

Strange, precise and elusive poetry.

Review: Winepress by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

Poetry that is elemental, grief-stricken, unearthly.

Poetry that forces clarity upon you about the cruelty and wonder of being alive.

A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.

A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.

A fascinating and ugly collection of poetry.

These are austere, still poems about the things embodied in words.

The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.

Ellen van Neerven conjures magic from trauma in this fluid collection full of warmth and light.

The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.