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It's a warm and welcoming collection of poems and one that should be read and reread, especially if you've seen Lyalls live. Hopefully collection 2 isn't too far away.

With themes of beauty, identity and the body, the book tells tall stories as though they were the gospel truth, and presents new myths as strange and powerful as the old.

The book comprises lists instructions suggestions and well... everything in the title from a hilarious generic Hollywood trailer to possible designs for a shawl

The decadent 1920s and 1930s in New York were a time of great experiment and daring for women. For the rich, life seemed a continual party, but the excesses took their emotional toll.

Emma Jones' The Striped World is a hugely impressive debut. It is described as an investigation into the meetings of different worlds - sea and land, humanity and nature.

Gil Scott-Heron’s memoir is a brilliant affair. Like Miles Davis, he has the nature cadence of a poet when describing his addictions and demons that make this a compelling read. You never feel sorry for Gil and you never judge him. Instead you’re there, with him, in Jackson, with his grandma, all the way through the 41-date tour of America with Stevie Wonder trying to get a national holiday declared for Martin Luther King, that forms the backbone of the book, right up until the end.

Random Prose is a beautifully collected series of poems that give a sense of journey and asks as many questions as it seeks to answer ending with a realisation of 'the only eternity that matters.'

The new book from Laura Dockrill is a collection of modern-day fairytales, poems and retellings of classic stories, all with a slightly sinister edge. Reminiscent of Roald Dahl, Tim Burton and even Grimm, the stories take on a not-quite supernatural world of Dockrill's conjuring.

Rapture is a map of real love, in all its churning complexity; simultaneously direct and subtle, with poems that will find deep resonance in the experience of readers.

A Light Song of Light is full of beautiful, graceful poems ruminating on Miller’s various identities: teacher, immigrant, gay man and, of course, poet.

What Daniel Swift does with this slim but fascinating debut book is to fuse a history of one part of the Second World War with a reclamation and a reevaluation of the the poetry it created.

The poetry is rhythmical, coarse, foul-mouthed and utterly compelling, written out phonetically like you can hear the taunting slur from the back of the chip shop on a Preston high road. Essentially, even if you think you don't like poetry, you will enjoy this. If you love poetry, you should already have it.

From Luke's new imprint Nasty Little Press comes this collection of poems entitled High Performance, and they paint a hilarious picture of the life of a performing poet with energy and gusto.

Honest, funny and peppered with a series of expertly pitched cultural references, What If Men Burst In Wearing Balaclavas? will microwave the cockles to perfection.

Shadow Plays is an anthology of fiction and poetry by twelve new writers from West Wales.

Several pieces are in Welsh with facing page translations, testifying to a vibrant native-language literary culture.

Bubbling over with humour and life, the poems in The Hat paint pictures, evoke smells, conjure sounds and encapsulate events both contemporary and historical.

Carol Ann Duffy has invited 50 of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past.

How to update Samuel Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner? By embarking on a mostly pictoral interpretation of the text and making it an allegorical treatise on environmental disaster, obviously.

This selection of Poe's short fiction demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.

This collection of poems about the women forgotten by history is witty, intelligent and funny, but it also tackles serious themes such as loneliness, jealousy, self-loathing, desire, and domestic tragedy.

Discover a collection of extraordinary letters in this magical new volume of short stories.