Poetry Book Society Spring 2024 Bulletin E-Book

• Herausgeber: Poetry Book Society
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

The quarterly poetry magazine of the Poetry Book Society, founded by T.S. Eliot, featuring poems and exclusive interviews from Victoria Kennefick, Isabel Galleymore, Gillian Clarke, Rachel Mann, Jane Hirshfield, Rosa Campbell, Bunny Lang, and Maria Stepanova.

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

CHOICE

Victoria Kennefick • Egg/Shell • Carcanet

RECOMMENDATIONS

Gillian Clarke • The Silence • Carcanet

Isabel Galleymore • Baby Schema • Carcanet

Jane Hirshfield • The Asking • Bloodaxe Books

Rachel Mann • Eleanor Among the Saints • Carcanet

SPECIAL COMMENDATION

Ed. Rosa Campbell • The Miraculous Season:Selected Poems by V.R. “Bunny” Lang• Carcanet

TRANSLATION CHOICE

Maria Stepanova • Holy Winter 20/21 • Bloodaxe BooksTranslated by Sasha Dugdale

PAMPHLET CHOICE

Asim Khan • Annihilation • Magma

CHOICE SELECTORSRECOMMENDATIONSPECIAL COMMENDATION

JO CLEMENT& ROY McFARLANE

TRANSLATION SELECTOR

SHIVANEE RAMLOCHAN

PAMPHLET SELECTORS

NINA MINGYA POWLES& ARJI MANUELPILLAI

CONTRIBUTORS

SOPHIE O'NEILLMEGAN ROBSONLEDBURY CRITICS

EDITORIAL & DESIGN

ALICE KATE MULLEN

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LETTER FROM THE PBS

I assume I’m too late to say Happy New Year, but I’ll say it anyway in this first mailing you are receiving from us this year – wishing you all a wonderful year ahead! I’d like to start the year by thanking you for your support of the Poetry Book Society – we love being the custodians of this society. We can take no credit for the selections, that is down to the talent and perception of our poet selectors and their unenviable (or is it enviable?!) task of reading all the new title submissions. Feedback from those of you we have seen in person recently has been so positive and we hope to keep bringing you the very best of the best poetry books in 2024.

If this mailing reaches you in time and you fancy a trip to Newcastle, on the 6th March at 7pm, NCLA at Newcastle University are hosting our PBS Spring Showcase with Victoria Kennefick and Isabel Galleymore, in conversation with Tara Bergin. It will be a brilliant evening. Having read their collections and Bulletin commentaries I really look forward to hearing an extended conversation on their work and process.

If Newcastle is not possible for you, our Spring podcast will be released in March with Arji Manuelpillai in conversation with Victoria, so you can hear more from your armchair. Visit our website or scan the QR code below.

We are also looking ahead to the 2024 Newcastle Poetry Festival in May, even if you’re not in the North East – you really MUST COME! And if you do plan to attend, please let us know, we would be delighted to meet more members in person and can always recommend places to stay, eat, visit, shop for (more) books. We will, of course, have more events at locations around the country across the course of this year too. I hope you enjoy the Spring selections.

SOPHIE O’NEILL

PBS & INPRESS DIRECTOR

ERRATUM: Please note the review of Kwame Dawes’ Sturge Town in the Winter Bulletin 2023 was written by Jo Clement not Roy McFarlane.

PBS CHOICE: VICTORIA KENNEFICK

Victoria Kennefick grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry. Her debut Eat or We Both Starve (Carcanet Press, 2021) won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, and the Butler Literary Prize. She was the UCD/Arts Council of Ireland Writer in Residence 2023 and Poet-in-Residence at the Yeats Society Sligo 2022-2024. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, PN Review, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review and The Stinging Fly.

EGG / SHELL

CARCANET PRESS | £11.99 | PBS PRICE £8.99– PBS CHOICE, SPRING 2024

If grief is love with nowhere to go, Victoria Kennefick has found a place to rest hers in Egg/Shell. Evolving from the same personal and national traumas in her prize-winning debut Eat or We Both Starve, this second collection mourns lost children, honours the emergence of a trans spouse and, taking swans as a central motif, observes her own transformation throughout these life-changing events:

The sting is there’ll have to be a transition from one

form to another, so I take the shape of a swan

with large powerful wings