RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS 2013

ContentsJanuary 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 978-0-375-71231-9 (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 2013NB: 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 HamiltonBloodaxe, £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 Eliot17/01/2013, 978 0 571 290925, 1000pp, Hardback, £40.00

Hannah Lowe, Chick

The Tale of the HeikeJAN 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 12ISBN: 9780141191515Price: £30.0Format: 234 x 153mm hbExtent: 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, 4.99The 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 Hofmannedited by André Naffis-Sahely and Julian StannardMichael 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 asimilarly 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/Randompublication: 04/04/2013price: £12size: 0 x 0 mmpages: 80ISBN: 9780091944643Also 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 GraffitiLucy 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 poetryPluto – the nonplanet, the explanet – is the dominant celestial influence in Glyn Maxwell’snew collection: Pluto is a book about change, the beforeandafter of love, the aftermath of loss:change of status and station, home and place, of tense and pronoun. It also marks a radicaldeparture for one of our most celebrated English poets: his formidable skills as a rhetorician anddramatist are suddenly directed inwardly, to produce poems of brutal selfexamination, rawelegy, and strange songs of the kind those bruising encounters often leave us singing toourselves.In Pluto, Maxwell has set out something like a metaphysic of the affair; the result is a lean andconcentrated poetry of great emotional power, and far and away Glyn Maxwell’s most directlypersonal work to date.Glyn MaxwellGlyn 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 wonBritish Theatre Guide's 'Best Play' Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, and Liberty, whichpremiered 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.

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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.

MAY: POSTERS ON EXAMS, SCENTWe are reconsidering our event programme and are keen to find out what you would most like to see happening at the SPL. Would you please answer the 10 survey questions by following the link below – it is anonymous, should only take 10 minutes at the most and would be enormously valuable to us.

We would also be grateful if you would share this link with your contacts and networks.

Apologies if you have received this already from another source. Thank you very much for your help.

SPL Event Survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DD95HZV

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 Aprilhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/openthedoor

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Door-Excite-People-Poetry/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=Poetryfoundationorg+Newsletter&utm_content=Poetryfoundationorg+Newsletter+CID_9362a1b017644f11cb43021d329cf3c0&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Caroline%20Kennedy%20on%20Learning%20Poems%20by%20Heart

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

andWhat's the Score? David W McFadden

Win the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize

memorising poetry apphttp://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2013/03/want-to-memorize-a-poem-theres-an-app-for-that/

Colorado reader dev seminarsFeatured Webinar: Why aren’t they reading quietly?! Messing around at the library

Presented by the Colorado State LibraryWednesday, June 122:30-3:30 pm (Eastern)http://cslinsession.cvlsites.org/upcoming/why-arent-they-reading-quietlyDo 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: 9780747578161EBOOK: 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 & Plays 9780141348384

Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts 5+ 9.99

Audio Book 04/07/2013

Poetry & Plays 9780141346670 Rhyme Stew 7+ 5.99 Paperback 04/07/2013PUFFIN ?quentin blake (new formats but not new titles)

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, FESTIVALSDavid 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 AshtonTrelawny's marvellous account of some of the key figures of the Romantic movement, reissued in Penguin ClassicsTrelawny 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 RobertsonThe sequel to last year’s rip-roaring success that was The Gruffalo in Scots.

Published: 15 August 2013, 6.99ISBN10: 1 84502 695 0ISBN13: 978 1 84502 695 0

SEPTEMBER: POSTERS ON WATERPoetry:

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 MandelbaumEveryman Classics, Hardcover, 568 pagesFiction - Classics; Fiction - Literary; Poetry - Ancient, Classical & Medieval978-0-375-71231-9 (0-375-71231-3)September 2013 $26.95, reprint of 1995 edn

Hole in the Wall, Judi Bensonpoems 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 HedeenOne 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 SwainSix 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 OctoberInspired launch – details tbc, Georgi

Single author:

BHM: Lorna Goodison, Oracabessa (Caracanet) – Caribbean history through personal experience

BHM: Roger Robinson, The Butterfly HotelDebut 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 FowlerCollaborative 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 InvisiblePublished 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 Maldonthird 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 ChessmenFirst 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 LifeLatest 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 resourcesPlease 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 BellA 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 GwynArgentinian 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 HusbandSix-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 regal30 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 CroweThe 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 VivasHolocaust-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 BoseSecond 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 KaminskyDeaf 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 ManninenThe 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 [anthology on ageing]

Muriel Rukeyser: Selected Poems

2014Mark Goodwin, new collection from Longbarrow Press http://longbarrowpress.com/forthcoming/

JANUARY

Ten Poems from Scotland chosen and introduced by Don Paterson. Jenny (Swann) candlestickpress@yahoo.co.ukCandlestick PressDiversity House72 Nottingham RoadArnold

NottinghamNG5 6LF