Safe Metamorphosis John McAuliffeSafe Metamorphosis is the debut poetry collection from alternative hip hop spoken word artist and storyteller Otis Mensah, Sheffields first Poet Laureate. Mensahs work challenges dominant modes of masculinity, and disrupts the elitism of poetry through its accessible, honest, raw and intimate language and rhythms. Free from the constraints of convention, Mensah writes in his own, unique voice, layered with rhythm and surreal imagery, unified by its
workers’ tragedy at once globally resonant and deeply personal: Pachuca is his
What I love about John Corless's poetry is that instead of pretending to sit po-faced on the summit of Mount Parnassus
Perhaps you’ll want to annoy your family by reading them out
Home deals with the experience of homecoming after extended absence and engages with the archaeology of the self in the context of estrangement and belonging
the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about
James Kirkup: introduction and excerpt from the novel
Finally there is our usual range of poets
ultimately
Amjad Nasser – Eight Poems
to hold you in their hands
reminds us it is marvellous / that it still hurts
Straus & Giroux
