Render by Billy Ramsell PRE-ORDER
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2026 black history refracted through second-generation diaspora

refracted through second-generation diaspora

Many of the poems

‘In this fine translation of Phillipe Jaccottet’s elegiac three-part collection Tim Dooley wonderfully combines the grace of his own attentive poetics with a clear intimacy of understanding

Home is a Place that Visits Me is a poetic narrative of the home

Render by Billy Ramsell PRE-ORDER<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2026</b> black history refracted through second-generation diasporaPublished 4 June 2026 My verses stretch and hesitate, scale their rickety trellises. My fruit comes rust red, grudging. Render plunges the reader into the vibrant setting of Barcelona in the second half of the 20th century. A compelling character study, the book is presented as the selected works of a fictional poet: Alberto Cenas, the lonely scion of a wealthy Catalan family. Taken individually, Renders poems offer piercing insights into the