The Craft brings together some of contemporary poetry's most skilled practitioners to offer ideas on the making of poems. The book covers practical techniques - putting poems together, mastering poetic forms and titling poems, the art of long sequences - and essays on using technology , truth and fabrication, and performing poems.
Jacqueline Saphra will follow her critically acclaimed, T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted All My Mad Mothers (2017) with Dad, Remember You Are Dead, a sister volume to her previous collection, taking on the canon in an examination of fatherhood and daughterhood within a wider context.
Roy McFarlane presents his second poetry collection The Healing Next Time, a timely and unparalleled book of interwoven sequences on institutional racism, deaths in custody and of a life and love story set against the ever-changing backdrop of turn-of-the-21st-century events.