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An intriguing and idiosyncratic book, RE:VERB energetically recreates Rimbaud's terrestrial adventures: from the Hooligan Poet and Seer in bohemian Paris, through the years as tough merchant and gun-runner in Africa, to end with his death aged thirty-seven in a Marseilles hospital. Cliff Forshaw's verse narrative allows us to glimpse Rimbaud's life, travels and the diverse characters he dealt with through the disillusioned poet's own eyes, offset by the reports and asides of those who knew and observed him.

Human Townsperson, the debut collection by Liam Bates, centres around a heroic quest. The hero? Somebody. The quest's objective? Unsure. Utilising Bates' engaging and absurd poetics, Human Townsperson follows the journey of a poet leaving town bearing gear and supplies: a pack full of fantastic weaponry, potions and prescription medication. The work will be precarious and the costs grave, but out in the wilderness for long enough, maybe we'll remember why we're here.

Obligate Carnivore is an immaculate introduction to Stuart McPherson's poetry. Painted in the jagged brushstrokes of wounded masculinity and childhood trauma, McPherson excavates new darkness. The haunted images - wolves, corpses, moons and abattoirs - are not only vessels for McPherson's poems, but form part of an internal nightmare logic, creatures of the hell McPherson is trying to escape from. Writing, which as Barthes wrote: "is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin."

Interval: House, Lover, Slippages is the first collection from Lucy Rose Cunningham. The poems find Cunningham in contemplative mode, seeking to understand: "the year 2020 and the years that follow". The poems are neatly observed, paying close attention to melody, with a love of beauty reminiscent of the artists she references. Interval: House, Lover, Slippages is a collection which overflows with imaginative, intoxicating images and sounds.

Complete Sentences is a poetry pamphlet of & about teaching, owing its existence to the break room, the blackboard, the brilliance of students, and the bell at the end of the school day. Tom Snarsky has created a pamphlet of briliant poetry, constructed at a time when there are a million things to do that aren't wrting poetry.

A Terrific Uproar is a dedicated and exuberant collection from Scout Tzofiya Bolton. The poems juxtapose her mental health struggles with her love for her boyfriend, Vaslav Nijinsky, and the birth of modernism. Nijinsky represents the imaginary ideal, a ballet dancer who pushed himself to the top of the world and then over the edge with a lethal combination of talent and instability. Bolton's poetry soars through Nijinsky, through mesmeric scenes at The Ballet Russes, a life that is both 'communal and depersonalised.' A Terrific Uproar is an outstanding collection, when the dust settles, it feels like victory.

In of work Nóra Blascsók writes about office life, celebrating little rebellions and rare moments of joy found in the mundane, buried in "1,048,576 rows in a spreadsheet".

The Erection Specialist is poetry-by-adventure, a throwback to literature that put the reader at the heart of the story. Niall Bourke's poetry centres the transformation of the characters within its labyrinthian structure.

Moods, reveries, erasures; In Katy Wareham Morris' Violet Existence surprising reflections on gender and sexuality are wrapped in the chaos of real life.

The Selected Lyric Poetry of U. G. Világos finally collects portions of his lyrical works. The collection is bold and vibrant, as if written in blood, with a lifetime of strong feeling punched into every poem. A work of genius.

John Greening's remarkable Omniscience takes its title from a long playful sequence at the core of this work. Rhetorically stunning, emotionally charged, and meticulously constructed, Omniscience makes perfect, profound sense.

Somewhere, Looking explores human orientation and sense of place in the modern world, often in terms of dislocation. Here, in this spellbinding pamphlet, Amber Rollinson's work exists at the edge of two worlds: poetry and cyanotype.

The stories in The Incontinent of Royy are not stories in the traditional sense. People pass by in Daniel R. Connelly's subversive tales and disappear in each others' rearview mirrors; it's a kind of instant ghosting.

The Bare Thing delves into queer desire in an urgent, rough and surprisingly playful fashion. The poems celebrate illicit desire, the male body's vulnerability; transitioning, taking risks and opening the window to an unseen world.

Our lady of tyres is an absorbing collection of poetry by Claire Trévien translated into French by Marie Lando. Trévien understands poetry intimately, writing with a clarity of perception, a deep knowledge of beauty and a sprinkling of mysterious stardust. Trévien's poetry is moving, delicate and often darkly humorous. Our lady of tyres reimagines the world a new, as though laid bare and reconstructed, enchanted by little details, full of bottomless wonder.

Rochelle Roberts' Your Retreating Shadow sees the poet move between the real and the unreal world, watching ghosts 'through a celestial mirror' while flowers of the afterlife sprout 'between the floorboards'.

Empty Trains looks at the notion of spaces altering to accommodate changes introduced during the pandemic. While avoiding the pitfalls of Covid poetry, Sandifer-Smith deftly traces the poetics of space into a contemporary setting.

In Erectric Schlock Aimée Lê asks big questions like: do you really want to live in a world where a Subway sandwich costs $5.99? Tough luck. Invasive technology has made life a living hell and enriched a handful of reptiles.

An inimitable and eccentric suite of five long poems in the most aberrant tradition of epic poetry; this sequenced fable grinds human nature through its cousins and throws words like faeces at a confused tourist.

Knife Edge is a pamphlet which explores the psychological fallout in the aftermath of trauma, where the edges between bloodshed and recovery, life and death, are softened.

Charting a path of 'hope and conviction through personal adversity' The Dialectical Phoenix is a project that arose from the embers of illness, and soars on a flight of celebration.

All That Glisters is a series of stories which challenge archetypal portrayals of elderly characters by young writers, exploring issues in a more realistic way, balancing difficult themes with humour and humanity.

In Honey Monster Bobby Parker uproots the confessional tradition and plants it on a British council estate. Masochistic, impolite and painfully uncomfortable, Parker writes in first person about his childhood, unafraid to show his scars, revelling in dark moments, as if bringing them to light will bring closure. Parker is a martyr to the page, writing as if nothing mattered more, with electricity in every phrase.

At its core She, Shapeshifter considers big themes such as mental health, trauma, death and whether we allow ourselves a chance to grow through pain

Your Human Shape is a restlessly inventive pamphlet about pleasure, attraction, ecstasy and exorcism where Kosinski developing new paradigms and ways of writing which push at the boundaries of form and language.

Samuel Tongue explores the troubled marriage between sexuality and religion, ecology's slow erasure from a planet in decline and the hybridity of life and death, in a beautiful world ravaged by ugly gods.

Rubbles is a swirling, errant and wild collection by David Spittle which echoes Prynne in its linguistic complexity and use of rhetorical flourishes as a critique of popular culture.

A lyrical, disquieting, and deeply moving collection, Vital Capacity is not just a collection of poems it is a way of looking at the world through the fragile filter of the lung.