For a large part of my adult life, which is quite a long time, as I could kindly be best described as 'post retirement', I have felt, in fact known, that I needed to write a book.
Interlaced with humour and insight, Luminosity is a collection of carefully observed, profoundly moving poems that cast a bright light on a wide range of life experiences.
Lightning Shades traverses the mysteries of existence, from the ambiguities that lie within our inner lives, to the liminal spaces we occupy throughout life and death, sleeping and waking, growth and decay, and all the paradoxes that abound within those realms.
These short poems celebrate the enigmatic, sometimes comical, often disappointing and always exquisite movement between dark and light in every human encounter.
So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the business of everyday life.
An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies.
Dear Yukie is the third part of a verse novel series (including Leopardwood and Kirinya) exploring how we are together, with our history and our environment.
From the direct trajectory of her first collection, Straight Ahead, Clare Shaw's second collection Head On turns an unflinching gaze into startling new territories.