Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Bulletin

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot in 1953 to "propagate the art of poetry". The Poetry Book Society Spring 2019 Bulletin features a wide range of exciting new poetry publications, reviewed by expert poet selectors Sandeep Parmar, Vidyan Ravinthiran, George Szirtes, AB Jackson, Degna Stone and Anthony Anaxagorou. This issue includes reviews of the PBS Choice Rachael Allen's debut collection Kingdomland and PBS Recommendations Rebecca Tamás' WITCH, Amish Trivedi's Your Relationship to Motion has Changed, Jane Yeh's Discipline and Elizabeth Sennitt Clough's At or Below Sea Level, as well as exclusive interviews with these poets and samples of their poetry. This Bulletin also features the winning poems of the PBS & Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition, reviews of all new poetry releases and extensive listings of new publications. This is the essential guide to the world of contemporary poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Poetry Book Society
• Release date: Mar 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781913129019

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so dark it nightly

turns the forest blue

- Rachael Allen

FOUNDED BY T S ELIOT 1953

SPRING 2019 NO. 260

CONTENTS

CHOICE

Rachael Allen • Kingdomland • Faber

RECOMMENDATIONS

Elisabeth Sennitt Clough • At or Below Sea Level • Paper Swans Press

Rebecca Tamás • WITCH • Penned in the Margins

Amish Trivedi • Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed • Shearsman

Jane Yeh • Discipline • Carcanet

SPECIAL COMMENDATION

Marilyn Hacker • Blazons: New and Selected Poems • Carcanet

RECOMMENDED TRANSLATION

Mariano Peyrou • The Year of the Crab

Translated by Terence Dooley • Shearsman

PAMPHLET CHOICE

Igor Klikovac • Stockholm Syndrome

Translated by John McAuliffe • Smith | Doorstop

WILD CARD

Fiona Benson • Vertigo & Ghost • Cape

MSLEXIA & PBS WOMEN'S POETRY COMPETITION

REVIEWS

LISTINGS

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LETTER FROM THE PBS

Official hats-off to our poet selectors who have the wonderful, yet unenviable, task of making our quarterly selections. It is always reassuring to see these selections go on to receive prize recognition, so congratulations to Hannah Sullivan, our Spring 2018 Recommendation, for winning the T.S. Eliot prize in January.

In this Spring Bulletin we showcase both home-grown and international talent. We hope you will find the choices both inspiring and challenging. We always appreciate your feedback and thoughts on the Choice and the further selections.

Also featured in this edition are the top three poems of the PBS & Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition which was announced in December. Sincere thanks to this year’s judge Carol Ann Duffy, and to all of you who submitted poems. The judge’s report and twenty longlisted poems have all been published on our website, so please do seek them out to read.

This Bulletin will be launched in Newcastle on Thursday 21st March in partnership with NCLA; Rachael Allen (Spring Choice) and Rebecca Tamás (Recommendation) will be performing their work. This is bound to be a sell-out event, so please do book tickets as soon as you read this note via our website!

Please also return to the North from 1st – 4th May for the Newcastle Poetry Festival, on the theme of Transformations, and the Northern Poetry Symposium on Inter / Play on the 2nd May at Sage, Gateshead. We love our home city, so if you do plan to travel to Newcastle to attend, we’d be delighted to give you our recommendations on places to visit or see surrounding the Festival.

Finally, we’re delighted to announce we have a Guest Book Selector for the Summer Bulletin. Andrew McMillan will be replacing Vidyan Ravinthiran for this edition as Vidyan’s own collection will be published in that quarter.

SOPHIE O’NEILL

PBS and Inpress Director

PBS CHOICE: RACHAEL ALLEN

Rachael Allen was born in Cornwall and studied at Goldsmiths College. Nights of Poor Sleep, a collaboration with the painter Marie Jacotey, was published as a