Through the porosity of the US/Mexico border, Freudian slippages, and toxic relationships, in her fourth collection, I Sugar the Bones, poet Juana Adcock interrogates what it means to cross from one country into another – the gradient spaces that inhabit the nexus between life and death, and the people and languages that sit either side of it.

Set in the beating heart of Family, Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit’s poems are both a questioning of the past and a mirror searching for future possibilities. Grappling with loss, the futility of language and the distances of countries, these poems are an accumulation of the speaker’s struggles and senses. Interconnecting locales across generations, they set out what it means to belong and what it means to mean.

“An enthralling debut collection of playful yet elegant and lithe poetry.” — Holly Pester

How might the figuration of trees deform language? 

* * Shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Prize for Best Collection, Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry * *

Responding to the unspeakable in real time, Joudah offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens.

Find out more, including poems, reviews and interviews on our […] page here.

In Boiled Owls, Azad Ashim Sharma delves into the kaleidoscopic terrain of cocaine addiction to explore the strain it puts on his speaker’s interior, as well as family and those in close proximity. 

In this uncompromising collection of lyric essays, T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Fran Lock explores and eviscerates historical and cultural links between animality and otherness.

State of Play brings together conversations between an international line-up of poets, taking place over the course of a year. Edited by Eddie Tay, a Singapore-born, Hong Kong-based poet and literature professor and Jennifer Wong, a Hong Kong-born, British-based poet.

In his arresting debut pamphlet, Alex Marlow asks what desire and longing look like in the 21^st century.

Nude as Retrospect is an exploration of contemporary intimacy examined through the lens of family, queerness, sex, and mental health. These are poems that position connection as the root of human want, while straddling the gaps between what we have and what we can get.

** Limited alternative cover variation, available in a numbered edition of 100, exclusively from Out-Spoken.**

‘You know what they say: TODAY HAMLET,

TOMORROW A SUPERNUMERARY. You know

what they say: today planet Earth, tomorrow

consignment to Hell. I’ve had enough’

‘You know what they say: TODAY HAMLET,

TOMORROW A SUPERNUMERARY. You know

what they say: today planet Earth, tomorrow

consignment to Hell. I’ve had enough’

All seven of the titles we published under Wayne Holloway-Smith’s editorship, for a special price of just £45:

Dog Woman by Helen Quah

Mother of Flip-Flops by Mukahang Limbu

Apricot by Katie O’Pray

A Disbelief of Flesh by Maria-Sophia Christodoulou

Trust Fall by William Gee

Sad Thing Angry by Emma Jeremy

G&T by Oakley Flanagan

‘Overwhelmingly thought-provoking and beautifully queer, Oakley Flanagan’s G&T is a must-read pamphlet.’ —Richard Scott

sad thing angry is an expression of the inexpressible: the fracturing of a relationship with living.

In this unique and brilliant debut, Emma Jeremy finds new language to navigate a journey where guilt and hope, grief and isolation live side by side. In a voice that’s both daring and one-of-a-kind, these poems hold a quiet wisdom earned from knowledge delivered too early. This ambitious collection hums with complex feeling, bringing into question what being alive means, when all you can think about is death.

Trust Fall is an exhalation of loss; a lean into frailty and bodily abandon. In the language of stomach and synapse, Gee maps a path towards accepting unwellness.

* * SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZES 2023 FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION & THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023 * *

* * POETRY BOOK SOCIETY WINTER CHOICE * *

‘a joyous liberatory dance against oppression’ — Roger Robinson

A Disbelief of Flesh holds a grief not just for the loved and lost, but one that comes with depth of identity, of culture, of faith.

apricot is a devastating debut from one of the UK’s brightest and most fascinating poets, written with the urgency of someone who knows they might not make it through the weekend.

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY WINTER PAMPHLET CHOICE

‘This extraordinary collection of poems is an archeology of shame, discomfort, unease. Quah’s controlled poetic lines hold utmost tension as she explores love, sexuality, desire, and the fraught emotional hinterlands of an orientalised female body.’ — Jason Allen-Paisant

‘By turns evocative of English landscape paintings and frantic late-night conversations,
Sarah Fletcher’s poems are highly mobile, troubled, troubling, rich and fraught.’ — Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick

All five of the titles we published under Joelle Taylor’s editorship, for a special price of just £35:

Cane, Corn & Gully (Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa)

Fetch Your Mother’s Heart (lisa luxx),

flinch & air (Laura Jane Lee),

Somewhere Something is Burning (Alice Frecknall); and

Caviar (Sarah Fletcher)

A selection of eight Out-Spoken Press pamphlets for a special price of just £40:

Mutton Rolls (Arji Manuelpillai), 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father (Joe Carrick-Varty), flinch & air (Laura Jane Lee), Lasagne (Wayne Holloway-Smith), The Neighbourhood (Hannah Lowe), Titanic (Bridget Minamore), Ways of Coping (Ollie O’Neill) and Nascent (Jess Rahman-González, Mukahang Limbu, Tice Cin, Maria-Sophia Christodoulou).

‘The great thing about these surreal, dazzling poems is how they follow their own, always unexpected logic and pull the reader along with them as well; beneath the luminous imagery lies a heart that will move and beguile you’ — Andrew McMillan

flinch & air is a unique exploration of Asian female identity. Reflecting on culture, politics, language and society in and beyond Hong Kong, this is a book of remembrance, courage, resilience and sacrifice. Touching on the current Hong Kong mass demonstrations, the 2019 Extradition Treaty, and the stories of her female elders, flinch & air positions Asian women at the centre of the page.

‘tender, political, simultaneously exuberant and mournful, and lovingly populated with family of every definition’ — Safia Elhillo

lisa luxx’s debut poetry collection is an examination of the tender violence that pools in all our states of wanting; from our intimacies to our uprisings. It searches the grief of our longing, from the eyes of displacement; carrying her experience in foster care, adoption, and as a mixed-heritage daughter of the Arab diaspora.

*** 2020 National Jewish Book Award finalist ***

‘A beautiful lyric collection’ — Ilya Kaminsky

“Joe Carrick-Varty's poems don't need permission from anybody. Their exceptional and beautiful vulnerability is a permission all of its own. Each poem contained here demonstrates a mind completely awake to the sadnesses and risks of intimacy, and awake to finding an original vocabulary for articulating these things. A brilliant short collection. I'm utterly convinced of this poet's talent.” —Wayne Holloway-Smith

“The poems in this brilliant, playful debut are multifarious though gratifyingly interlinked, addressing the subjects of Sri-Lankan British identity, masculinity, friendship, grief and love. The tone is sometimes satirical, but there is no hiding behind satire in Arji Manuelpillai’s work – great tenderness and beauty characterise these poems, and the poet’s voice is completely original, entirely his own.” — Hannah Lowe

In Lasagne, acclaimed poet Wayne Holloway-Smith moves between internal and external landscapes with pace, panache and vulnerability. This short collection of poems is a defibrillator resurrecting a small part of the universe at each new twist: a silent scream rearranging the flowers in a window, the miracle of a near-dead cow sprung back to life and feeding orphans, tears coming at the speed of cars. When these poems hit, you hardly see it coming.