Second Place Winner of the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry.A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation.Following her groundbreaking 2014 début An Aviary of Small Birds ('technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak' - Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances.Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature...

Shortlisted for the T. S. ELIOT and the JHALAK PRIZE FOR POETRY'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' Malika BookerWhen reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartme...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe third collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet, essayist and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf'A work of intense epiphany' ROGER ROBINSON'Unsafe will stay with me forever' SAFIA ELHILLO'As urgent as it is meditative and thought provoking' PRETI TANEJA______...

Longlisted for the 2020 Laurel Prize for EcopoetryA 2017 Poetry Book Society RecommendationFollowing her groundbreaking 2014 début An Aviary of Small Birds ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances.Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence, these poems are charged yet meditative explorations of nature, the city, and the self. A sinister CEO pre...

An Aviary of Small Birds is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. The book opens at the birth, which paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after a long labor and an emergency caesarean, the baby's heart gives out. For the mother, her body flooded with endorphins, euphoria gives way to shock, followed by an intense and visceral grief. However, just as grief itself is not linear, so too the book follows a...

Ten: poets of the new generation presents the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. It is the third anthology from The Complete Works poetry mentoring scheme, a national programme supporting exceptional black and Asian poets founded by the writer Bernardine Evaristo in 2007. Already making a big impact on the British poetry scene, poets from the series have included Sarah Howe, the 2016 winner of both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year...

Bloomsbury presents Unsafe, written and read by Karen McCarthy Woolf,POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe third collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet, essayist and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf'A work of intense epiphany' ROGER ROBINSON'Unsafe will stay with me forever' SAFIA ELHILLO'As urgent as it is meditative and thought provoking' PRETI TANEJA

Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. These ten poets were selected for The Complete Works 2 mentoring project, a groundbreaking initiative to promote diversity and quality in British poetry, initiated by the writer Bernardine Evaristo. The poets follow on from the first group to take part in this scheme, whose work was published in Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra's anthology Ten: new poets from Spread the Word (2010). Most of tho...

The rise of nature writing as a cultural phenomenon is nothing new. Yet it has stirred questions relating to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and writers.In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance. Their genre-defining anthology considers nature poetry from its historical roots to more recent flourishings, presenting how Black and Asian poets of past and p...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its ninth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the b...

With contributions from Jay Bernard, Malika Booker, Kat Francois, Jay T. John, Anthony Joseph, Ishion Hutchinson, Charnell Lucien, Vladimir Lucien, Rachel Manley, Tanya Shirley and Karen McCarthy Woolf.What does it mean to fight for a 'mother country' that refuses to accept you as one of its own? Britain's First World War poets changed the way we view military conflict and had a deep impact on the national psyche. Yet the stories ...

Mapping the Future offers new work by all 30 writers supported by The Complete Works project**, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Sarah Howe, Will Harris, Kayo Chingonyi, Jay Bernard, Yomi Sode and Karen McCarthy Woolf.**In 2008 the level of poets of colour published by major presses was less than 1%. By 2020 it was over 20%. The Complete Works Poetry – an initiative spearheaded by Booker Priz...