RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS 2013
Contents
January 2013 ........................................................................................................................................... 6
Lesley Harrison, Beyond the Map ................................................................................................... 6
W H Auden, Poems (1930), ............................................................................................................. 6
W H Auden, The Dyer’s Hand.......................................................................................................... 6
Nick Laird, Go Giants ....................................................................................................................... 6
Dear World And Everyone In It: new poetry in the UK ................................................................... 6
The Tale of the Heike ...................................................................................................................... 6
FEBRUARY ............................................................................................................................................... 7
LV volunteering in Aberdeen ............................................................................................................... 7
Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors........................................................................................................ 7
Iain Bamforth, The Crossing Fee ..................................................................................................... 7
Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After the Beatles .................................................................................... 7
W.N. Herbert: Omnesia [alternative].............................................................................................. 7
Anthologise winner: The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead ................................................................ 7
The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann ............................................................. 8
Modren Scots Grammar: Wirkin Wi Wirds ..................................................................................... 8
MARCH .................................................................................................................................................... 8
7 March http://www.worldbookday.com/ ......................................................................................... 8
Emily Berry, Dear Boy ..................................................................................................................... 8
Ian Hamilton: Collected................................................................................................................... 8
Henry Shukman, Archangel............................................................................................................. 8
Willa Cather, April Twilights and other Poems ............................................................................... 8
Paul Muldoon, The Word on the Street: Rock lyrics ....................................................................... 8
David Harsent, new translations of the celebrated Greek poet Yannis Ritsos ............................... 9
Andrew Elliott, Mortality Rate, ....................................................................................................... 9
TRANSLATION: John Gallas, 52 Euros ............................................................................................. 9
Fiona Sampson, Coleshill................................................................................................................. 9
Kona Macphee: What Long Miles ................................................................................................... 9
R.S. Thomas: Uncollected Poems .................................................................................................... 9
Michelene Wandor, Natural Chemistry ........................................................................................ 10
Earth Love anthology .................................................................................................................... 10
APRIL ..................................................................................................................................................... 10
23 April: World Book Night ............................................................................................................... 10
26 April Shakespeare’s 450th birthday - no, not till 2014.. ................................................................ 10
Rob A Mackenzie, The Good News ............................................................................................... 10
Andrew Philip, The North End of the Possible .............................................................................. 10
Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter ........................................................................................... 10
Christopher Reid Selected............................................................................................................. 10
Dannie Abse, Speak, Old Parrot .................................................................................................... 10
Lucy Burnett, Leaf Graffiti ............................................................................................................. 10
Glyn Maxwell, Pluto ...................................................................................................................... 11
Tom Hubbard’s.............................................................................................................................. 11
MAY: POSTERS ON EXAMS, SCENT........................................................................................................ 12
George Szirtes’ In the Land of Giants ............................................................................................ 12
Mention Poetry Foundation / MacSweeney’s – from 9 April ........................................................... 12
Matthew Francis, Muscovy ........................................................................................................... 13
James Fenton, Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 .......................................................................... 13
Fred D’Aguiar, The rose of Toulouse............................................................................................. 13
Jorie Graham, The Taken-Down God: Selected Poems ................................................................ 13
Robert Hass (ed & tr): The Essential Haiku ................................................................................... 13
JUNE: POSTERS ON GARDENS, SUMMER .............................................................................................. 13
memorising poetry app..................................................................................................................... 13
Colorado reader dev seminars .......................................................................................................... 14
Featured Webinar: Why aren’t they reading quietly?! Messing around at the library .......... 14
Robert Graves, Selected Poems ed Longley.................................................................................. 14
Oxford Poets Anthology 2013 ....................................................................................................... 14
Fleur Adcock: Glass Wings ............................................................................................................ 14
John Agard: Travel Light Travel Dark ............................................................................................ 14
Robert Bly & Tomas Tranströmer: Airmail.................................................................................... 14
Christopher Meredith, Air Histories.................................................................................................. 14
Hilary Menos, Red Devon.................................................................................................................. 14
JULY: POSTERS ON HOLIDAYS, WALKING .............................................................................................. 15
Raymond Queneau, Hitting the Streets ........................................................................................ 15
Caroline Bird, The Hat-Stand Union .............................................................................................. 15
Harry Eyres, Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet..................................................... 15
AUGUST: POSTERS ON BEATS, FESTIVALS............................................................................................. 15
David Morley, The Gypsy and the Poet......................................................................................... 15
Maurice Riordan, The Water Stealer ................................................................................................ 15
Katie Waldegrave, The Poets' Daughters: The Lives of Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge ....... 16
Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients ................................................................................................. 16
Edward John Trelawny: Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author ................................................. 16
The Gruffalo’s Wean by Julia Donaldson, translated into Scots by James Robertson ...................... 16
SEPTEMBER: POSTERS ON WATER ........................................................................................................ 16
PBS T S Eliot tour: 30 September, Mitchell. Poets: Crawford, Paterson, Jamie – Letford tbc ......... 16
Sinead Morrissey, Parallax ................................................................................................................ 16
ask for posters suggestions ............................................................................................................... 17
Gareth Reeves, Nuncle Music ........................................................................................................... 17
John Whale, Frieze ............................................................................................................................ 17
Gillian Allnutt: indwelling .................................................................................................................. 17
Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter ............................................................................................................. 17
Christopher Reid, Six Bad Poets ........................................................................................................ 17
Sylvia Plath: her drawings ................................................................................................................. 17
Ovid: Metamorphoses, trans Allen Mandelbaum ............................................................................ 17
Allan Ahlberg, The Bucket: Memories of an inattentive childhood.................................................. 17
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert ............................................................. 17
OVID, THE METAMORPHOSESTranslated by Allen Mandelbaum Everyman Classics, Hardcover, 568
pages Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Literary; Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval 978-0-375-712319 (0-375-71231-3) September 2013 $26.95, reprint of 1995 edn .................................................... 18
Hole in the Wall, Judi Benson ........................................................................................................... 18
Thaw, Victor Rodriguez Nunez trans Katherine M Hedeen .............................................................. 18
Pocket Horizon, ed Don Paterson and Kelley Swain ......................................................................... 18
OCTOBER ............................................................................................................................................... 19
Tell A Story Day – 25 October ........................................................................................................... 19
Inspired launch – details tbc, Georgi ................................................................................................ 19
Single author: .................................................................................................................................... 19
BHM: Lorna Goodison, Oracabessa (Caracanet) – Caribbean history through personal experience
.......................................................................................................................................................... 19
BHM: Roger Robinson, The Butterfly Hotel ...................................................................................... 19
Carol Ann Duffy, Bethlehem (Picador, 20 Oct 2013) – new Christmas title ..................................... 19
Enemies, S J Fowler ........................................................................................................................... 19
Eavan Boland, New Selected Poems, carcanet; from more than a dozen collections..................... 19
Mark Strand, Almost Invisible ........................................................................................................... 19
Colin McGuire, as I sit quietly, I begin to smell burning Colin McGuire, Glasgow-born performance
poet, first full-length collection. A collection loosely based on the theme of Hell – as a place and a
state of mind. Red Squirrel Press, pbk 7.99, 8791906700744 .......................................................... 19
J O Morgan, At Maldon ..................................................................................................................... 19
Forward Book of Poetry 2013 ........................................................................................................... 20
The Best British Poetry 2013 [Paperback] ..................................................................................... 20
Daljit Nagra, Ramayana..................................................................................................................... 20
Kei Miller, Writing Down the Vision: essays and prophesies............................................................ 20
Les Murray, Killing the Black Dog PROSE .......................................................................................... 20
simon Currie, The Isle of Lewis Chessmen ........................................................................................ 20
Peter Bennet: Border Brendan Kennelly: Guff Nikola Madzirov: Remnants of Another Age Karen
Solie: The Living Option: Selected Poems ......................................................................................... 20
Fergus Allen, New and Selected Poems ............................................................................................ 20
Zoe Skoulding, The Museum of Disappearing Sounds ...................................................................... 20
Michael Schmidt, Stories of My Life ................................................................................................. 20
NOVEMBER ........................................................................................................................................... 21
Re-vamp of SPL School Friends package. .......................................................................................... 21
Armistice day poetry and resources ................................................................................................. 21
John Greening, To the War Poets ..................................................................................................... 21
Correspondences, Anne Michaels................................................................................................. 21
Maps and Legends: Poems to find your way by, ed Jo Bell .............................................................. 21
The Spaces Between, Jorge Fondebrider, trans Richard Gwyn ........................................................ 21
The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man, Ian McMillan and Tony Husband ............................................. 21
Inside Voices, Outside Light, Sigurdur Pálsson, trans Martin regal .................................................. 21
Talking Vrouz, Valérie Rousezu, trans Susan Wicks. ......................................................................... 21
Peatlands, Pedro Serrano trans Anna Crowe.................................................................................... 21
While I am Drawing Breath, Rose Ausländer, trans Jean Bose-Beier and Anthony Vivas ................ 22
Digital Monsoon, Siddhartha Bose ................................................................................................... 22
Dancing in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky ..................................................................................................... 22
Six Finnish Poets, ed Teemu Manninen ............................................................................................ 22
Moniza Alvi: At the Time of Partition Paul Batchelor (ed): Reading Barry MacSweeney John
Halliday (ed): Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair [anthology on ageing] Muriel
Rukeyser: Selected Poems ................................................................................................................ 22
2014 ...................................................................................................................................................... 22
Mark Goodwin, new collection ......................................................................................................... 22
JANUARY ............................................................................................................................................... 22
Ten Poems from Scotland chosen and introduced by Don Paterson. ............................................... 22
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/08/government-young-learn-poetry-by-heart
Mariscat 2013, dates tbc:
Anne Crowe, My Grandparents in the Peloponnese.
Linda Anderson, Greenhouse.
Diana Hendry, Apple Sense: New and Selected Poems.
January 2013
NB: New Scottish titles for 2012?
Lesley Harrison, Beyond the Map (Dec 2012 but hey), Mariscat, £5, pamphlet
W H Auden, Poems (1930), trade pbk, 978 0 571 283514, 9.99 Faber (The 1930 Poems was
Auden’s first major published book, after a privately-printed collection in 1928)
W H Auden, The Dyer’s Hand 978 0 571 283507, 20.00
40 years since Auden’s death in 1973
Nick Laird, Go Giants pbk 7 january 978 0 571 288182 9.99
Dear World And Everyone In It: new poetry in the UK ed Nathan Hamilton
Bloodaxe, £12.00 paperback 1 85224 949 8
Larkin selected Amis, pbk reissue
Letters of T S Eliot vol 4: 1928-1929, ed John Haffenden and Valerie Eliot
17/01/2013, 978 0 571 290925, 1000pp, Hardback, £40.00
Hannah Lowe, Chick
The Tale of the Heike
JAN 2013 for UK
One of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tale of Genji, in a groundbreaking new edition
First assembled from scattered oral poems in the early 14th century, The Tale of the Heike is Japan's Iliad. It is
as familiar a touchstone to the Japanese as the Bible or the Arthurian legends in the West. Royall Tyler's
masterful new translation recreates the work in its full operatic form, with speech, poetry, blank verse and
song. Beautifully illustrated with 55 woodcuts from the 19th century artistic master, Katsushika Hokusai, and
bolstered with maps, character guides, genealogies, and rich annotation.
Royall Tyler, an American, is retired from the Australian National University where he taught Japanese
language and literature for many years. He has a B.A. from Harvard University and a PhD. from Columbia
University and has taught at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin.
Pub Date: November 12
ISBN: 9780141191515
Price: £30.0
Format: 234 x 153mm hb
Extent: 800pp
Wendy Cope, Family values, pbk reissue
Lavinia Greenlaw, Casual Perfect pbk reissue
FEBRUARY
LV volunteering in Aberdeen
Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors, 28 Feb, Picador 978-1447231530
Breaking news: Robin Robertson writes collection which may possibly include
happy poems. However, the reader will also discover a distinct new note in
Robertson’s austere but ravishing poetry: towards the possibility of contentment
– a house, a door, a key – finding, at last, a ‘happiness of the hand and heart’.
11 Feb: 50th anniversary of death of Sylvia Plath cf Duffy new selection of poetry
Iain Bamforth, The Crossing Fee (Carcanet, Feb 2013)
Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After the Beatles (Seren) – poetic responses to the songs
Frederick Seidel, Nice Weather, Faber
John Redmond, Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British
and Irish Poetry, Seren, Feb 2013, 9781854115850, 14.99 In essays on Derek Mahon, Glyn
Maxwell, Robert Minhinnick, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, John Burnside, Vona Groarke, David
Jones and W.S. Graham, John Redmond seeks to introduce a sense of pragmatism into the
relationships between poetry and criticism (academe) and poetry and social or political relevance
W.N. Herbert: Omnesia [alternative]
W.N. Herbert: Omnesia [remix]
Anthologise winner: The Poetry of Earth is Never Dead – Picador, 14 Fe b, 4.99
The Poet Laureate's national poetry anthology competition for secondary schools,
introduced by Carol Ann Duffy and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.
is an anthology of ecology poems chosen and carefully ordered by the pupils of Monkton Combe
Senior School, Bath, the winners of Anthologise.
Inspired by the school’s own plans for a sustainable future, these are poems that remind us of our
environment, of how we see, affect and are ourselves part of, the natural world. Here you’ll find poetry
from all places, all ages, and of all colours, shapes and sizes, from John Keats to Jo Shapcott, Seamus
Heaney to Virgil, and of course, Carol Ann Duffy herself.
These are poems that have inspired the pupils, or made them look at their environment in a new way
– most importantly they are poems the pupils loved.
The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann
edited by André Naffis-Sahely and Julian Stannard
Michael Hofmann – poet, translator, critic – has been an iconic figure for his generation. His poetry
continues to be a defining influence on younger writers; his translations (of Joseph Roth, Wolfgang
Koeppen, Herta Müller and many others) have enlarged our world. This collection of essays, poems
and reflections reaffirms Hofmann’s central place in contemporary literature. A bibliography and a
frontispiece portrait by Arturo Di Stefano are included. The 40 contributors include James Buchan,
Fred D’Aguiar, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mark Ford, Durs Grünbein, Tessa Hadley, Alan Jenkins,
James Lasdun, Sarah Maguire, Andrew Motion, Dennis O’Driscoll, Christopher Reid, Robin
Robertson, Stephen Romer, Frederick Seidel, George Szirtes, David Wheatley, C. K. Williams and
Hugo Williams.
CB Editions, isbn 978-0-9573266-0-6, pbk, 210 x 135 mm; 250 pages, £10.00 rrp
Modren Scots Grammar: Wirkin Wi Wirds, Chris Robinson (Luath Press, 22 February)
9781908373397 £9.99 pbk
MARCH
7 March http://www.worldbookday.com/
Emily Berry, Dear Boy pbk (but first release) 978 0 571 284054 9.99 Faber
New poet, first collection, ‘irresistible and life-affirming’. Sounds good to us.
Ian Hamilton: Collected, ed Alan Jenkins
Henry Shukman, Archangel, 7 March, 9780224097420, £10, Jonathan Cape
Willa Cather, April Twilights and other Poems, Everyman, March 2013
Her first book of poetry, April Twilights, was published in 1903, but Cather significantly revised and
expanded it in a 1923 edition entitled April Twilights and Other Poems. This Everyman’s Library edition
reproduces for the first time all the poems from both versions of April Twilights, along with a number of
uncollected and previously unpublished poems by Cather, as well as an illuminating selection of her
newly released letters.
Paul Muldoon, The Word on the Street: Rock lyrics 978-0571299065 March, hbk,
£12.99 2012 e-book CHECK MARCH RELEASE?
Lyrics and lyrical poems, some of which written for Muldoon’s band (very
well, ‘music collective’). And there the pigeonholability stops. indeed,
many of them double as rock songs, performed by the Wayside Shrines,
the Princeton-based music collective of which Muldoon is a member. Their
themes are the classic themes of song: lost love, lost wars, Charlton
Heston, barbed wire, pole dancers, cellulite, Hegel, elephants, Oedipus,
more barbed wire, Buddy Holly, Jersey peaches, Julius Caesar, Trenton,
cockatoos, and the Youngers (Bob and John and Jim and Cole).The Word
on the Street is a lively addition to this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's
masterful body of work. It demonstrates, once again, that, as Richard
Eder has written in the pages of the New York Times Book Review, 'Paul
Muldoon is a shape-shifting Proteus to readers who try to pin him down . .
. Those who interrogate Muldoon's poems find themselves changing
shapes each time he does.'
David Harsent, new translations of the celebrated Greek poet Yannis Ritsos. In
Secret http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/22/in-secret-yannis-ritsos-review
Andrew Elliott, Mortality Rate, CB Editions
TRANSLATION: John Gallas, 52 Euros: Containing 26 men and 26 women in a double a-z of
European Poets in Translation (Carcanet)
Fiona Sampson, Coleshill (Chatto / Random)
Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and
Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill.
This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place,
both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local
soil.
The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns of
the orchards, verses for walkers, songs for bees. These are slices of life
and states of mind; poems of grief, fears and maledictions, but also of
renewal, resurrections and the promise of spring.
Coleshill emerges as a "parish of sun / and shade"; its darkness and light
perfectly balanced. From the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet
comes a deep, interrogative collection of astonishing clarity and power.
PROSE: Mary Shelley: a biography, Muriel Spark. first published 1951, reissued with previously
unpublished material
Kona Macphee: What Long Miles
978-1852249656, Bloodaxe, 21 March, £8.95
R.S. Thomas: Uncollected Poems
C.D. Wright: One with Others
Robert Wrigley: The Church of Omnivorous Light: Selected Poems
Michelene Wandor, Natural Chemistry, Arc
Earth Love anthology has now been published, featuring work from Gaelic prize winning poet Angus
Peter Campbell, Paisley punk poet Graham Fulton, poetry in Farsi from Mahmoud Farzan, as well as
work from A C Clarke, Rory Waterman, Alistair Taylor, Sandra Bunting, Tawona Sithole, Betty McKeller,
Books will also be available at the cost price of £4.75. All proceeds from book sales will be donated to
conservation charities.
APRIL
23 April: World Book Night
26 April Shakespeare’s 450th birthday - no, not till 2014..
Rob A Mackenzie, The Good News, Salt, 9781907773426, 12.99 15 April
Andrew Philip, The North End of the Possible, 9781907773419, 15 April, hbk, 12.99, Salt
Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter, 4 April, Cape, £12, 9780224093590 and ebook 9781448181407,
Michael Symmons Roberts’ sixth – and most ambitious collection to date – takes its name from
the ancient trade in powders, chemicals, salts and dyes, paints and cures. These poems offer a
similarly potent and sensory multiplicity, unified through the formal constraint of 150 poems of 15
lines.
Christopher Reid Selected, first pbk, faber
Dannie Abse, Speak, Old Parrot new collection/selection to mark his 90th birthday?
Hutchinson/Cornerstone/Random
publication: 04/04/2013
price: £12
size: 0 x 0 mm
pages: 80
ISBN: 9780091944643
Also available as:
ebook: 9781448164738
Alison Brackenbury, Then, Carcanet April (Rural England, climate, water, survival)
Lucy Burnett, Leaf Graffiti (Carcanet, April); born Dumfries, teaching fellow Creative Writing U
oStrathclyde
Leaf Graffiti
Lucy Burnett
Carcanet, ISBN 978 1 847772 02 2 April, pbk, £9.95
First collection from Lucy Burnett, born in Dumfries and based in Manchester.
Richard Crashaw, Selected Poems ed Robin Holloway, Carcanet April
Glyn Maxwell, Pluto (Picador)
The brilliant new collection from a major voice in contemporary poetry
Pluto – the non-planet, the ex-planet – is the dominant celestial influence in Glyn Maxwell’s
new collection: Pluto is a book about change, the before-and-after of love, the aftermath of loss:
change of status and station, home and place, of tense and pronoun. It also marks a radical
departure for one of our most celebrated English poets: his formidable skills as a rhetorician and
dramatist are suddenly directed inwardly, to produce poems of brutal self-examination, raw
elegy, and strange songs of the kind those bruising encounters often leave us singing to
ourselves.
In Pluto, Maxwell has set out something like a metaphysic of the affair; the result is a lean and
concentrated poetry of great emotional power, and far and away Glyn Maxwell’s most directly
personal work to date.
Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell has won several awards for his poetry, including the Somerset Maugham Prize,
the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Geoffrey Faber
Memorial Prize. His work has been shortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes.
Many of his plays have been staged in the UK and USA, including The Lifeblood, which won
British Theatre Guide's 'Best Play' Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, and Liberty, which
premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in 2008.
Publication Date 11/04/2013, ISBN 9781447231585, £9.99, pbk
Richard Murphy: The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012
Leanne O'Sullivan: The Mining Road
Heather Phillipson: Instant-flex 718
C.K. Williams: Writers Writing Dying
Tom Hubbard’s new book-length collection of poems, Parapets And Labyrinths,
takes the form of a European tour, and includes versions of poems from France,
Switzerland, Italy, Hungary and Ukraine. It will be available from Grace Note
Publications in March.
It's a companion volume to his The Chagall Winnocks (2011), from the same
publisher, and which is also a virtual European tour. The earlier book has poems and
translations entirely in Scots; the new collection, however, is mainly in English.
----------------------------------------------------------------------No 2 of The Pathhead Review, a Fife-based magazine edited by Tom Hubbard has
just come out. He is seeking a new editor to take the magazine forward. March Hare
No. 2 is mainly a poetry issue. Contributions by Lillian Scott Forbes, Sheena Berry, Maureen
Sangster, J. Derrick
McClure, James Underwood, John Brewster, Ross Wilson, David C. Purdie, Bob Purdie,
Gordon Jarvie and
others, including translations from French and German, paintings and photography.
If you contact Tom at tfhubbard@yahoo.co.uk he can make the e-text available to you.
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George Szirtes’ In the Land of Giants,
Hungarian-born poet illustrated by Helen Szirtes and published by Salt, has won the 2013 Centre for
Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Poetry Award.
The annual award, established in 2003, encourages and celebrates outstanding new poetry for
children.
In the Land of the Giants, which includes poems translated from Hungarian, centres on a series of
poems in which characters feel small and insignificant in a big world.
Troubadour editorial director Fiona Waters, who co-judged the prize, said: “This is what real poetry for
children is all about—challenging, mysterious, profoundly thought-provoking and absolutely no cheap
easy laughs, no snot, no bums, nothing remotely patronising.
"Children will come back to this book time and time again, and the images will haunt their dreams.”
Also judging were poet Rachel Rooney; Morag Styles, professor of children’s poetry at the University
of Cambridge; and Julia Eccleshare, the co-director of CLPE.
Mention Poetry Foundation / MacSweeney’s – from 9 April
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/openthedoor
http://www.amazon.com/Open-Door-Excite-PeoplePoetry/dp/1938073290/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1365520934&sr=8-2&keywords=open+the+door
and Caroline Kennedy new book re memorising
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/article/245748?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=P
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Gillian Clarke podcast
Best Scottish Poems
Matthew Francis, Muscovy Faber
James Fenton, Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011, first pbk, Faber
Fred D’Aguiar, The rose of Toulouse, Carcanet May
Grey Gowrie, The Italian Visitor, Carcanet
Jorie Graham, The Taken-Down God: Selected Poems (Carcanet); after PLACE winning 2012
Forward
Carol Ann Duffy, Mean Time (Picador, 23 5.2013, reissue)
Robert Hass (ed & tr): The Essential Haiku
Helen Ivory: Waiting for Bluebeard
Clare Pollard: Ovid's Heroines
John Agard: Travel Light Travel Dark
JUNE: POSTERS ON GARDENS, SUMMER
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems Fady Joudah, translated
from the Arabic, written by Ghassan Zaqtan
and
What's the Score? David W McFadden
Win the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize
memorising poetry app
http://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2013/03/want-to-memorize-a-poem-theres-an-app-forthat/
Colorado reader dev seminars
Featured Webinar: Why aren’t they reading quietly?! Messing around at the
library
Presented by the Colorado State Library
Wednesday, June 12
2:30-3:30 pm (Eastern)
http://cslinsession.cvlsites.org/upcoming/why-arent-they-reading-quietly
Do you seek ideas on how to turn your library from a grocery store to a kitchen? Are
you looking for ways to engage folks in your library? Come hang out, mess around
and geek out with us. Get inspiration from others about letting creation and
HOMAGO happen in your library.
Robert Graves, Selected Poems ed Longley 978 0 571 283835 hbk, ebook, Faber
Don Paterson, Selected Poems first pbk 06/06/2013 978 0 571 281800, Faber
Sylvia Plath: Poems chosen by Carol Ann Duffy, first pbk 6.6.13, Faber
Roger McGough, As Far As I Know, first pbk, Penguin June
PROSE: Peter Davidson, Distance and Memory (northern Aberdeenshire), Carcanet
Oxford Poets Anthology 2013, ed Iain Galbraith and Robyn Marsack
Fleur Adcock: Glass Wings
John Agard: Travel Light Travel Dark
Robert Bly & Tomas Tranströmer: Airmail
Maitreyabandhu: The Crumb Road
Christopher Meredith, Air Histories (Seren, June) 978178172-0745
Hilary Menos, Red Devon (Seren, June), second coln from Forward Prize winner
Ahren Warner: Pretty
PROSE Paul Morley, The North (And Almost Everything In It)
Paul Morley A celebratory and beautiful mixture of memoir, social history and cultural
observation, Paul Morley’s The North is a unique portrait of Northern England and
almost everything within it Bloomsbury PRICE: £20.00, Hardback ISBN: 9780747578161
EBOOK: 9781408834008, PUB DATE: 6 Jun 2013
JULY: POSTERS ON HOLIDAYS, WALKING
Jane’s Morgan chapters
NPD resources
MacCaig sale book?
T S Eliot shadowing
Forward shortlist
Raymond Queneau, Hitting the Streets (carcanet); author of Zazie dans le metro and co-founder
of OuLiPo; Rachel Galvin’s translation is the first complete translation available in English
Caroline Bird, The Hat-Stand Union, Carcanet 25 July??
Poetry &
Revolting Rhymes and
Audio
Plays
9780141348384 Dirty Beasts
5+ 9.99 Book
Poetry &
Plays
9780141346670 Rhyme Stew
7+ 5.99 Paperback
PUFFIN ?quentin blake (new formats but not new titles)
04/07/2013
04/07/2013
Harry Eyres, Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
(Bloomsbury, July)
Prose? A deeply personal exploration of what Horace’s philosophy of ‘tasting the day’,
and his thoughts on friendship, love and the good life, can teach us: classical
therapy, perhaps. Horace lived at a pivotal moment. Rome was facing a profound crisis: though
it ruled the world, the values which had made it great were disintegrating. As
efficiency and pragmatism became watchwords, Horace championed the ‘supremely
useless’ endeavour of poetry, and glorified friendship and wine. Horace and Me
charts Harry Eyres’ evolving relationship with the Latin poet to show how, in an
era of affluence and excess which seems to be hurtling out of control, Horace can
help us navigate our way in uncertain times.
Harry Eyres has been a theatre critic, wine writer, poetry editor and is the author
of the ‘Slow Lane’ column in the Financial Times. He is the author of a collection
of poetry, Hotel Eliseo, and of the Beginner’s Guide to Plato’s The Republic, Wine
Dynasties of Europe, The Viking Guide to Cabernet Sauvignon Wines and the Which?
Wine Guide 1995/6. He lives in London.
AUGUST: POSTERS ON BEATS, FESTIVALS
David Morley, The Gypsy and the Poet, with drawings by Peter Blegvad, Carcanet (real-life
encounter between John Clare and Wisdom Smith via sonnet sequence..)
Maurice Riordan, The Water Stealer (1 Aug, Faber)
Katie Waldegrave, The Poets' Daughters: The Lives of Dora Wordsworth
and Sara Coleridge (8 August, Hutchinson see Cornerstone), bios
bio: Peter J. Conradi, A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson
(Bloomsbury)
Kate Tempest, Brand New Ancients – forthcoming? end Aug, Picador, tbc
http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/katetempest/brandnewancients
Edward John Trelawny: Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, new edn ed
Rosemary Ashton
Trelawny's marvellous account of some of the key figures of the Romantic movement, reissued in Penguin
Classics
Trelawny records his initial meeting with a cynical and flippant Byron, his impressions of a youthful,
otherworldly Shelley and, most memorably, the poet's death at sea and the subsequent burning of his body on
the sand. Trelawny's Records create one of the most memorable portraits of an age, published here with a
new introduction by Rosemary Ashton.
9.99, 9780141392783, 1 Aug 2013
The Gruffalo’s Wean by Julia Donaldson, translated into Scots by James
Robertson
The sequel to last year’s rip-roaring success that was The Gruffalo in Scots.
Published: 15 August 2013, 6.99
ISBN10: 1 84502 695 0
ISBN13: 978 1 84502 695 0
SEPTEMBER: POSTERS ON WATER
Poetry:
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Notes from Lighting a Fire – Gerry Cambridge (HappenStance)
The Overhaul – Kathleen Jamie (Picador)
Rooster – Gerry McGrath (Carcanet)
Small World – Richard Price (Carcanet)
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, 2013
Shortlist Announced
Finalists to be announced: Thur 5 Sep
Winner to be announced at Lennoxlove Book Festival: Sat 2 Nov
PBS T S Eliot tour: 30 September, Mitchell. Poets: Crawford, Paterson,
Jamie – Letford tbc
Sinead Morrissey, Parallax, Carcanet
ask for posters suggestions
Gareth Reeves, Nuncle Music, carcanet (Shostakovitch’s monologues.. plus Barrie Ormsby
illustrations)
John Whale, Frieze, carcanet
Gillian Allnutt: indwelling
Philip Gross: Later
John Hegley: New & Selected Potatoes
Micheal O'Siadhail: Collected Poems hardback
Micheal O'Siadhail: Collected Poems paperback
Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter, a sequence of poems based on the war-zone experiences
(in Somalia, the Balkans, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan) of the Canadian reporter Paul Watson, and
on O’Brien’s friendship with Watson; CB Editions
Christopher Reid, Six Bad Poets (Faber, 5 September)
Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The life of Marianne Moore (5
September, Faber) ??FSG (US), but no Faber edition in UK currently listed? Aug 2013
Sylvia Plath: her drawings, intro Frieda Hughes (5 Sep Faber)
Ovid: Metamorphoses, trans Allen Mandelbaum (Everyman, Sep 2013)
Allan Ahlberg, The Bucket: Memories of an inattentive childhood Penguin
September, Penguin, 9780670923038, Using a mix of prose and poetry, supported by new
drawings by his daughter Jessica and old photographs, The Bucket retrieves a childhood
which lovers of Ahlberg's classic picturebooks The Baby's Catalogue and Peepo!might
feel they have glimpsed before but which are now exquisitely brought to life.
Born in Croydon but brought up by his adopted parents in the Black Country town of
Oldbury, Allan Ahlberg held jobs as a gravedigger, postman and plumber's mate before
becoming a teacher. He taught for ten years before collaborating with his wife Janet on a
series of much-loved, now classic children's picture books. He lives in Bath, and his
daughter Jessica is now an illustrator like her mother.
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert
John Drury, Penguin, 9781846142482, £25, hbk
The definitive biography of one of England's best-loved poets.
'Love bade me welcome . . .''Teach me my God and King . . .'George Herbert (1593–1633) is a great and greatly
loved poet, author of some of the most familiar lines in the English language. Born in the years before the
English Civil War, his family was aristocratic and his upbringing privileged. He showed early ambition and
seemed sure of high public office, but then 'lost himself in a humble way', devoting himself to his parish of
Bemerton near Salisbury. When in the year of his death his friend Nicholas Ferrar published Herbert's poems
under the title The Temple, his fame was quickly established.Herbert published no English poems during his
lifetime, and dating most of them exactly is an unusual challenge. Instead, John Drury places his exceptional
readings of the poems at carefully-thought moments in the narrative, illuminating at once the frame of mind
and the society which produced them. Drury's Herbert is not the saintly figure who has come down to us from
John Aubrey, but a man torn between worldly ambition and the spiritual life so clearly shown in his writings.
The result is the most satisfying biography of this exceptional English poet yet written.
John Drury is Chaplain and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He began as a biblical scholar, and while Dean of
King's College, Cambridge, worked with Frank Kermode on the Gospels for The Literary Guide to the Bible. As
Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, he studied Christian paintings and their meaning in Painting the Word.Music at
Midnight is the culmination of a lifetime's interest in Herbert, whose Complete Poetry Drury is now editing for
Penguin Classics.
OVID, THE METAMORPHOSESTranslated by Allen Mandelbaum
Everyman Classics, Hardcover, 568 pages
Fiction - Classics; Fiction - Literary; Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval
978-0-375-71231-9 (0-375-71231-3)
September 2013 $26.95, reprint of 1995 edn
Hole in the Wall, Judi Benson
poems written during residency at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, working in oncology and
palliative care. Rockingham Press, pbk, 9.99 9781904851509
Thaw, Victor Rodriguez Nunez trans Katherine M Hedeen
One of Cuba’s most distinguished authors. Thaw is a book length sequence of short poems, all ten
lines long. Arc publications, Hbk & pbk, £13.00/10.99, 9781908376056, 9781908376039, September
Pocket Horizon, ed Don Paterson and Kelley Swain
Six UK poets working with Don Paterson to develop a new anthology inspired by the wonders of
science and medicine, as showcased at London’s Wellcome Collection and Cambridge’s Whipple
Museum. The poems are paired with original artwork by Cassie Herschel-Shorland. Poets: Lorraine
Mariner, Malene Engelund, Sarah Westcott, Mick Delap, Dominic McLoughlin, Kelley Swain, Richard
Barnett
OCTOBER
Tell A Story Day – 25 October
Inspired launch – details tbc, Georgi
Single author:
BHM: Lorna Goodison, Oracabessa (Caracanet) – Caribbean history through
personal experience
BHM: Roger Robinson, The Butterfly Hotel
Debut full collection from Black British poet – a telling document of the immigrant experience, from
the 1980s to the present, and the realities of uprooted culture.Peepal Tree Press, pbk, 8.99,
9781845232191
Carol Ann Duffy, Bethlehem (Picador, 20 Oct 2013) – new Christmas title
Enemies, S J Fowler
Collaborative poetry project – between S J Fowler and over thirty artists, photogographers and
writers. Incl Ryan Van Winkle, Sam Riviere, Chris McCabe.
Penned in the Margins, pbk 9.99, 9781908058133
Eavan Boland, New Selected Poems, carcanet; from more than a dozen
collections
Mark Strand, Almost Invisible
Published by Knopf in the US, this Waywiser Press edition brings Pulitzer Prize-winning Mark Strand’s
unique brand of meditative, metaphysical prose poetry to the UK. Waywiser Press, pbk, 8.99,
9781904130567
Small press:
Colin McGuire, as I sit quietly, I begin to smell burning Colin McGuire,
Glasgow-born performance poet, first full-length collection. A collection
loosely based on the theme of Hell – as a place and a state of mind. Red
Squirrel Press, pbk 7.99, 8791906700744
J O Morgan, At Maldon
third collection from Aldeburgh Prize-winng and Forward-shortlisted poet who lives in Scotland.
Battle of Maldon, AD991, reawakening the events of a thousand years ago with verve and precision.
CB Editions, pbk, 8.99, 9780957326651
Anthology: Train Songs, selected by Don Paterson & Sean O’Brien (Faber, 3 Oct)
Anthology: Poetry Please (Faber, 3 Oct)
Forward Book of Poetry 2013, Faber, 3 Oct
The Best British Poetry 2013 [Paperback]
Ahren Warner (Author), Roddy Lumsden (Series Editor)
Anthology: Poetry Remembers, ed Carol Ann Duffy (17 Oct, Faber) 978 0 571 30214 7
translation/version?
Daljit Nagra, Ramayana (3 Oct, Faber)
Kei Miller, Writing Down the Vision: essays and prophesies (literary essays and
memoir)
Miller’s essays emerge out of tow life-changing moments: finding faith in his youth at his charismatic
church, and then losing his religion. Stories about migration and leaving familiar places (Jamaica) and
making connections with new ones (Glasgow), as well as lively stories about family, friendship and
nation. Analytical pieces on language and poetry, alongside essays on his own writing influences and
rituals. Peepal Tree Press, 9.99, 9781845232283, pbk
Les Murray, Killing the Black Dog PROSE with poems: account of struggle with
depression – first appeared in 1977, this is revised and updated with added poems
Looks like the Murray has been cancelled
And also:
simon Currie, The Isle of Lewis Chessmen
First full length collection; Fly-fishing, botany and archaeology sit alongside travel pieces and poems
about Currie’s Scottish heritage, but centrl to the book are tender but unsentimental poems coming
to terms with the loss of the poet’s wife.
Peter Bennet: Border
Brendan Kennelly: Guff
Nikola Madzirov: Remnants of Another Age
Karen Solie: The Living Option: Selected Poems
Fergus Allen, New and Selected Poems, C B Editions
Zoe Skoulding, The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren, 7 Oct)
Thomas Kinsella, Late Poems (from five most recent Peppercanister collections), Carcanet
Michael Schmidt, Stories of My Life
Latest collection from Michael Schmidt, Professor of Poetry at Glasgow and editorial director of
Carcanet Press, full of bold and allegorical stories. Smith Doorstop, pbk, 9.95, 9781906613846
NOVEMBER
Re-vamp of SPL School Friends package.
Armistice day poetry and resources
Please put any notices for teachers/librarians here!
John Greening, To the War Poets, Carcanet November; sequence of verse letters
Correspondences, Anne Michaels and Bernice Eisenstein; book-length poem by Michaels, in
conversation with a series of portraits by Eisenstein. unusual format. Bloomsbury
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/correspondences-9781408836026/
Maps and Legends: Poems to find your way by, ed Jo Bell
A new anthology celebrating the best of Nine Arches Press over the past five years. Nine arches
Press, pbk, 10.99, 9780953784750, 10.99
The Spaces Between, Jorge Fondebrider, trans Richard Gwyn
Argentinian poet, ushering in a new breeze of modernity in the 1980s after the dark days of
dictatorship. Cinnamon Press, pbk, 7.99, 9781909077140
The Tale of Walter the Pencil Man, Ian McMillan and Tony Husband
Six-line rhyming stanzas tell the story of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself
caught up in the horrors of the first World War. Walter records the things he sees around him with
only a pencil and some paper. By broadcaster Ian McMillan and cartoonist Tony Husband.
Smokestack Books, pbk, 7.99, 9780957574717, 7.99
Inside Voices, Outside Light, Sigurdur Pálsson, trans Martin regal
30 years of selected poems from one of Iceland’s leading modern writers. Arc publications, Hbk &
pbk, 12.99/9.99, 9781906570590 / 9781906570583
Talking Vrouz, Valérie Rousezu, trans Susan Wicks.
Rouzeau represented France in the Poetry Parnassus events in 2012’s Cultural Olympiad; her most
recent collection, Cold Spring in Winter (Arc, 2009) was shortlisted for the prestigious 2010 Griffin
poetry prize.
Peatlands, Pedro Serrano trans Anna Crowe
The first bilingual single collection of Mexican poet Pedro Serrano to be published in the UK. Poet
and translator Anna Crowe lives in St Andrews. Arc publications, hbk & Pbk, 12.99/9/99,
9781906570866 / 9781906570859
While I am Drawing Breath, Rose Ausländer, trans Jean Bose-Beier and
Anthony Vivas
Holocaust-survival poetry by one of Eastern Europe’s finest post-war poets. Rose Auslander’s first
book of poems in German was published in bucharest in 1939, with the moajority of its print run
destroyed during Nazi occupation. In the Chernivtsi ghetto she became friends with Paul Celan. After
the war, her later poetry brought her prizes and acclaim. Arc Publications, hbk & pbk, 13.99 / 10.99,
9781906570941 / 9781906570934
Digital Monsoon, Siddhartha Bose
Second collection from writer named one of the Times’ ten rising stars of British poetry. Includes
dispatches from the post-industrial landscapes of the North of England, and from the poet’s
hometowns of Mumbai and Kolkata. Penned in the Margins, pbk, 8.99, 9781908058164
Dancing in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky
Deaf since the age of four, Kaminsky’s depiction of his Russian-emigrant family is musical and
forceful. The book won American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf award and Poetry’s Ruth Lilly
Fellowship. Kaminsky was born in Odessa in 19777, and arrived in the USA in 1993 when his family
was granted asylum by the US government. Arc Publications, hbk/pbk
Six Finnish Poets, ed Teemu Manninen
The latest of Arc’s profiling of European languages. A bilingual Finnish/English edition, trans Lola
Rogers, Emily Jeremiah, Ruth Urbom. Arc Publications, pbk, 10.99
Moniza Alvi: At the Time of Partition
Paul Batchelor (ed): Reading Barry MacSweeney
John Halliday (ed): Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair
Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems
[anthology on ageing]
2014
Mark Goodwin, new collection from Longbarrow Press
http://longbarrowpress.com/forthcoming/
JANUARY
Ten Poems from Scotland chosen and introduced by Don Paterson.
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