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As the moon grows from a sliver to a full moon, then waning til the dark night sky is empty again, so does love. Love Me Ugly expresses these different phases and layers of love, not only singing songs of happiness and contentment, but bringing light to the rawness it holds. The heart is not always telling of the blooming romance but also the destruction, the chaos, the thrill, the loneliness, the ugliness, all of it. Caitlin Davis-Ruiz presents her collection of poems conveying the message of empowerment around not so pretty thoughts and feelings, encouraging the reader to not be ashamed of all of who they are, and that the most important relationship of all, is the one you have with yourself.

This is the first book-length study of the poetry and journal writings of Gillian Clarke in their entirety; it is the first extensive examination of her work published in this century, and the first full account of how her work has developed in the course of her career as a writer and teacher. In addressing timely and highly relevant themes in Clarke's work, which have been relatively overlooked until now, the book highlights and re-examines her importance for today's readers. Discussing the energy, subtlety and originality of her works, the author commends Clarke as an innovative, politically-alert and scientifically and cosmologically-aware Welsh writer of global significance.

"Meditations and Manifestations" is a poetic anthology that delves into the raw emotions of love, the intricacies of medicine, and fleeting moments of awareness. The poems explore the remnants of fractured relationships, tracing the lingering echoes of affection and heartache in the ruins of romance. They also talk about the clinical world, bringing it to life and transforming hospital corridors into spaces where both physical ailments and the emotional toll of healing are examined. The poems dissect ailments - the mundane and the extraordinary, capturing the fragility of both patients and healers. In the final section, the poet reflects on brief, profound epiphanies, capturing life's delicate balance through sensory experiences.

"The apocalypse referred to in the title of the bookmay indeed be upon us, but Waldman is keeping theseshopping lists, showing us ways out, giving us hope, allowingus to live inside the poems for their duration on the page, taking us by the collar, and making us listen. Listen close." Jay Parini, from the Introduction

With authenticity and sensitivity, Sayima's writing explores themes of identity, healing, connection, and the comforting embrace of awareness when facing change.She invites us to a realm where vulnerability intertwines with strength, where introspection becomes an intimate dance between self-discovery and reflections on reality at large. Her creations serve as a call to pause and examine the truths and values that shape our lives.Born and raised in Tanzania, Sayima followed a traditional educational path. After graduating from her first degree she embarked on a journey of exploration and has since moved across Asia and Europe. She finds her inspiration in bridging the personal and the universal.

A language that only the soul can understand; poetry.

From the celebrated author of Philomath, an astonishingly inventive collection of poems illuminating human, planetary, and personal survival.Traversing historical, terrestrial, and discursive limits, Devon Walker-Figueroa brings a chorus of perspectives, eras, idioms, and ideals into novel if not turbulent dialogue. In this dazzling second collection, bursting with detailed case studies, obscure natural phenomena, and flagrant apocrypha, these poems calculate the debilitating and contorting costs of survival. “You find your family, / your whole phyla & future, buried / in some encyclopedia & glean / how small the risk of eternity,” she imagines, addressing the consciousness of a “Lazarus species”—creatures thought vanished, even while they live.Here, classical poetic forms meet postmodern notations and aerospace architecture meets Babylonian hymns, all of them wrestling with the aberrant existence we yield to in life, and wield against other lives. We read into the worlds of a tormented Lawrence of Arabia, our special ancestor Australopithecus, Tesla’s space dummy Starman, and other brilliantly posed figures and sagas in indelible spaces like “The Euthanasia Coaster,” a “Desert Theater,” and “Paradise Lust.” Conceptually driven and blooming with a lyricism at once tender and razor-sharp, Lazarus Species knows no bounds in the exploration of an evolutionary, archeological, and interstellar vision.

Dancing for Mourning is a deeply introspective and lyrical collection of poetry that explores themes of grief, transformation and emotional renewal. The poems move through a range of states-despair, loss, longing-before gradually transitioning towards hope, healing, and transcendence. There is a constant interplay between the destructive forces of life and the redemptive possibilities of artistic expression, connection, and spiritual renewal. The writer's relationship with their emotions and the world around them evolves from one of profound suffering into one of acceptance and even joy. There is a sense of searching for identity, for meaning, and for connection-especially with the divine or the cosmic- toughing on existential themes. The collection explores love, art and self-discovery and the poems wrestle with the fragility of existence, yet they consistently point towards a kind of resilience that is almost spiritual in nature

Originally published by the Talbot Press, Dublin, in 1918 after his execution by the British Government for his involvement in the 1916 Rising, Roger Casement's poetry has long been a collector's item. To coincide with Pride 2026, New Island will publish a new edition of SOME POEMS OF ROGER CASEMENT, with a newly commissioned introduction by the award-winning poet, memoirist, novelist and literary critic, Seán Hewitt. In his day, Roger Casement was a man who appeared to contain many contradictions: decorated British diplomat, Irish Protestant and martyred Irish nationalist. He was a humanitarian, essayist and sometime poet, a public gentleman and a private lover. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, he rises again as a queer Irish icon of significant historical and social importance and way ahead of his time.