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Companions of His Thoughts More Green is a celebration of the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). One of the finest of the Metaphysical poets, Marvell did not come into his own until his rediscovery in the twentieth century, and now he is rediscovered anew in an anthology of contemporary poets writing in the shadow of the climate emergency and energised by the modern ecopoem. The poets of Companions of His Thoughts More Green respond to Marvell's garden and pastoral poems, his political satires, his love poems, and his all-encompassing philosophical wit. The book also comes with an introduction and afterword placing Marvell in a contemporary context and affirming the continuing poetic possibilities of 'a green thought in a green shade.'Contributors: Ian Duhig, Jason Allen-Paisant, Tom Cook, Martin Malone, Ingrid Leonard, Chris Arksey, Mary McCollum, Aaron Kent, Nuzhat Bukhari, Malcolm Watson, Suna Afshan, Rory Waterman, Camille Ralphs, Matthew Francis, Cliff Forshaw, Ishion Hutchinson, Carol Rumens, Will Harris, Emily Berry, Sean O'Brien, Nyla Matuk, Alec Finlay, Angela Leighton, Justin Quinn, Jana Prikryl, Stephanie Burt, Jon Thompson, Paul Muldoon, Stewart Mottram, David Wheatley.

Close your Eyes... is a blinding pamphlet which opens: "[i]n the unforgiving light of / the bread aisle". This is a remarkable pamphlet with the verve and vivacity to describe sound by what it is not, "silence".

Narcissus, from 2021 OCM Bocas Prize winner Andre Bagoo, is a typically brilliant work of poetry bringing together strands of the queer, nature, and the Narcissus myth, whether in ekphrasis or otherwise. In this powerful collection, Bagoo aexamines the varied dynamics of the body and mind with the narcissism of the soul, while fully embracing the work of art as a critical reflection on the human condition.

As queer people we are forced to find representation in villains, seek surrogate parents in divas, daddies and pop stars. We construct alternative histories, cosmologies, and spiritualities from those handed down to us. We become our own icons, ascribing 'iconic' status. We trouble and disrupt the established order, and so we must write narratives alternative to the ones we are erased from. Queer Bodies: Queer Icons explores multiple associations with the word 'icon', from the symbolic & sacred, to fetishism & celebrity. This anthology is a queer body of potential for what it means to be an icon here and now.

Poems for Pete Davidson by Ella Sadie Guthrie reveals an electrifying new voice in poetry, a hypnotic joy ride with all the swagger of Zelda Fitzgerald at her debutant ball. The poems show the thrills and perils of obsessive fandom coupled with a heavily romanticised version of the self, which at one point becomes so heavily romanticised she dreams of herself as Hera Lindsay Bird. "i have gone too far this time", writes Guthrie, paying ironic tribute to the troubled male muse, by this point, the reader knows Guthrie is the brighter star.

Don't Panic: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Panicking is a user manual for dealing with panic attacks, as written by a writer who has been having them for a long time. Caleb Nichols describes their own experience of panic, and what they've learned is happening neurologically, while sharing the methods that have helped them navigate living with panic disorder.

In Waste Extractions, the brilliant fiction pamphlet from Andrea Mason, we are asked to consider waste, nature, and what determines value, in a variety of interesting and diverse forms. Mason's work is experimental and vivid, evoking what happens when 'in becoming like everyone else' we become banished from society, from ourselves.

Cornish Modern Poetries edited by Ella Frears and Aaron Kent brings the editors' electric luminosity and bruised tenderness into play as guides. This ground-breaking anthology celebrates the blossoming of contemporary Cornish poetry, featuring luminaries such as Pascale Petit, Jennifer Edgecombe, John Wedgwood Clarke, and Penelope Shuttle alongside many more. Cornish Modern Poetries captures a duality which has made Cornwall an ice-cream famous tourist destination while housing some of the most deprived neighbourhoods in Western Europe. The anthology features poems in English and Kernewek, keeping the Cornish flame burning, into an uncertain future.

Lugubriations is a literary substack that publishes irregular and experimental essays, poetry, and fiction by artists and writers with a shared sense of despair and inanity. Edited by Roisin Agnew. Featuring work by Andrew Key, Lizzie Homersham, Susu Laroche, Ebun Sodipo, Ed Luker, Alan Fielden, Roisin Agnew, Paige Murphy, D Mortimer, Tim MacGabhann, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Kandace Siobhan Walker.

The island of Borneo was once the most heavily wooded in the world, and its people have always carved wood beautifully. In KILLERNOVA, grappling with his heritage, Omar Musa remixes this ancient art form with fiery poetry forged in the stars. With equal parts swagger, humour and vulnerability, Musa charts a journey through the colonial history of South-East Asia, environmental destruction, oceans, bushfires, race, the isolation and addiction of COVID lockdown, family, lost love and, ultimately, recovery. Relentlessly on beat, visually captivating and deceptively intimate, this is a collection of words and art that burns blindingly bright.

Moving across poem, play, essay - chipping away at their distinctions - Robert Kiely's ROB explores song, grading, vaccines, change, sound, and natural history. What do you remember, and why? How much of your life is determined by biology? Acknowledgments are terminally incomplete, they always must be. So, what can words hold? What if there is not distinction between inside and outside? Who do you love, who do you write to, who do you collaborate with? Kiely's answers are only ROB's. When you read this you'll have to write your own.