There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Ira Lightman The Poem Is You: Sixty

The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today

is a ground-breaking anthology examining UK disabled and D/deaf poetics

Francis shows us a vertiginous vision of a world where even the dead ‘sleep on the wing’

Durham is celebrated in a 12th-century priest’s poem but is a trinity of ‘University

There Will Be Singing by Aidan Semmens Ira Lightman The Poem Is You: SixtyAidan Semmenss fifth collection of poems moves from the range of the world to the deeply personal, always placing the detail in historical context. Employing a variety of poetic techniques, he moves from the moral ambiguities of empire to the run in to Brexit; from a reworking, forty years on, of the poem for which he was awarded the Cambridge University Chancellors Medal, to the breakdown of language suffered by his mother after an ultimately fatal