Panic ResponseFrom the mercurial mind of award winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope. It is full of things that shimmer, quiver and fizz: plankton glowing at low tide; brain tissue turning to glass; a basketball emerging from the waves, covered in barnacles. These are poems of uncertainty but also of hope, which move beyond the breathlessness of panic

he swallows his scorn and agrees to help

The book will also appraise their contribution since the 1770s and review the current position and projections for the future

Penny Boxall’s second collection throws light on the mysterious strangers we glimpse

fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean

including lifelong friend Doris Lessing

sumptuously detailed and fantastical

inaugurating the first Poetry International

which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and is set in 1930s Barbados

in this latest addition to the Real series

Two thousand years ago a tiny village was founded on the marshy banks of the River Thames

cricket and revolution

Belinda Huang