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This year-long sequence of five-line poems takes as its point of departure the French Republican Calendar, devised by the poet Fabre d'Eglantine with the aim of breaking the power of the Church and returning symbolic importance to the agricultural worker.

In A Confusion of Marys Rupert Loydell and Sarah Cave re-imagine the story of the Angel Gabriel appearing to Mary. The work is part of an ongoing exploration of this material and associated themes such as colour, contemporary art, spiritual/alien intervention and intrusion into the human realm, symbolism and the nature of belief and submission.

Huidobro published this collection of manifestos and statements on poetics in 1925, and it summed up the previous 8 or 9 years of his work. The truth is, however, that he was already moving away from some of the positions espoused in this volume, and it was one of his last original publications in French.

Here are the last steps of Lycambes, close to following the death of his daughters with his own, and reminiscing. Central to this reminiscence are the early expeditions to colonise Thasos he undertook with Telesicles, Archilochus's father. .... Notions of the slip encompass all manner of acts of evasion, disguise, and the tying of a noose.

This is the first anthology of its kind to appear in the UK, and features ten poets: Pilar Adon, Martha Asuncion Alonso, Graciela Baquero, Mercedes Cebrian, Maria Eloy-Garcia, Berta Garcia Faet, Erika Martinez, Elena Medel, Miriam Reyes and Julieta Valero - one born in the 1960s, six in the 1970s and three in the 1980s.

In 1931, Huidobro and Arp together wrote Tres novelas exemplares (Three Exemplary Novels), a set of wild quasi-surrealist "stories". In 1935, Huidobro offered the set to a publisher in Santiago, but was told that the book was too short, and so wrote two further solo stories. The contents are therefore not three, not huge and not novels.

Aidan Semmens's new collection moves from the range of the world to the deeply personal, always placing the detail in historical context. Using a variety of poetic techniques, he moves from the moral ambiguities of empire to the run-in to Brexit; from a reworked 40-year-old prize-winning poem to the breakdown of language suffered by his mother.

Aiming above all to be 'a careful, attentive, reader', Jeremy Hooker seeks in this volume to illuminate subjects that have been neglected or undervalued relative to mainstream fashions, such as the poetry of David Jones, George Oppen and Christopher Middleton, Welsh women poets, and neo-romantic painters such as Winifred Nicholson.

This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet whose work stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain, and a poet with a decided admiration for the work of both George Oppen and David Jones. Jeremy Hooker is a poet with a powerful sense of place, whose joy in landscape and his surroundings shines through his body of work.

Geoffrey Hill was, by common consent, one of the finest poets in the English language in the second half of the 20th century, and the early years of the 21st. This volume brings together essays comparing Hill's work to that of other poets, as well as covering specific works, and the relationship of his work to philosophy or 18thC literature.

A collection that shows the author continuing his forays into collage and experimental writing, but always with a lyric turn.

In stories varying from a funeral eulogy to a compelling wartime romance, Late Driver tells of a number of surprising lives imagined in out of the way places; the mood is restless, probing, suffused with memories and loss - although some rivet-hole stars still let in the light of the young women who first punched them into an empty sky.

A good Cavalier poet from the group that regarded Ben Jonson as friend and exemplar, Richard Lovelace's work deserves more attention than it usually receives. As with his friend Sir John Suckling, he has tended to be overshadowed by the great names of the era - and there were so many of those - but his work still stand up today.

Sir John Suckling (1609-1641) was a significant figure in the group of poets who followed Ben Jonson (often referred to as the "tribe of Ben"), and was a close friend of both Robert Herrick and Thomas Carew. These writers tend to be described as Cavalier poets, having been supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War.

The Kangaroo Farm first appeared in Australia in 1997 and confirmed Martin Harrison's (1949-2014) reputation as one of Australia's finest poets. His poems of landscape and nature (and above all, Australian nature, in all its weird glory) offer the reader glimpses of an underlying meaning that mere tourism never can offer.

Putting On My Species is about identity and selfhood, the desire for the very beginning, the sardonic pleasure of making and destroying in order to start over again, the love of poetry. How should I live? Sasja Janssen wonders. Who am I? Am I my memories? In a sober but moving style, Sasja Janssen gnaws away at her species.

Menno Wigman (1966-2018) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Netherlands, with many awards to his name, and his early death sent shock-waves through the Dutch literary world. At times echoing Baudelaire, his poems tend to move from doubt to recommitment, from ironic detachment to passionate engagement.

This volume is a long-awaited collection of essays which gives a chance for Allen Fisher's many admirers to study his work in depth with a group of experts.

The first double-issue of Shearsman magazine for 2020 contains poetry from the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, Lithuania, Galicia / Spain, Italy and Chile.

Before attaining his poetic maturity - and this would be through poems written mostly in Spanish - Huidobro wrote these two collections in French and published them in Paris in 1925, the same year that a volume of his manifestos appeared (see below). The two books have never been republished in France, and only in collected editions in Chile.

Molly Vogel's first collection of poems, Florilegium is an exploration of life written in 'the language of flowers'. The poems regard flowers as both symbols and means of communication; in a broader sense, they deem the natural world essential to our understanding of words, ourselves, and the divine.

Diana's Tree is an important book - written in Paris, where she lived for four years - and the first really mature work (1963) by Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), increasingly recognised as one of the major poetic voices of the second half of the 20th century in Latin America.

"Johnson's poems are like unchained pit bulls tossed into a school yard - somebody is going to get bit." - Ron SillimanOffensive to many, perhaps amusing to more, Kent Johnson's singular position in American poetry as its conscience, and its court jester, is unequalled. Perhaps deliberately. A sequel to Homage to the Last Avant-Garde.

Disappearance is Lesley Harrison's first full-length collection, bringing together new work which examines the coastline and our uneasy, unresolved relationship with the waters that surround us. Drawing from archives, folk myth and cultural memory, these poems make real our sense of living at the edge of an older, sub-polar world.

Solar Cruise is Claire Crowther's fourth collection. Her first collection, Stretch of Closures, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection prize. Solar Cruise is a love story of a poet and a physicist who is devoted to halting climate change through solar energy. It is a passionately personal but also political work.

Mario Martin Gijon's (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short passionate lyrics describing a love lost and found. This might sound like nothing new in the history of poetry, but the poet immerses us in his story by a complex process of linguistic recreation: recreation in the sense of re-invention and recreation also as play, or playfulness.

Bitter Grass was written in 1976 in my last year of high school in Albania. It was refused by the government publisher in Tirana, where the censor said, 'the texts in this collection do not deal with the theme of our socialist village, the transformations that socialism has brought under the guidance of the Party are entirely absent...'

Ickerbrow Trig, the book, is simply a collection of poems written since A Cure for Woodness. As for the book's title, it's simply the remnant of a bonnet-bee and an exhausted pun. As a topographical feature, it exists, un-named as such on any map....

Like the eponymous fungus that appears to be regurgitated by the Earth herself after rain, fragments of invented folklore and mongrel histories have stained through from Breen's subconscious and come to bloom in a trio of poetic sequences.