Item category 2: City of Literature

As formally disciplined as they are thematically unsettling, Ned Denny's poems open up a twilit, numinous world of exotic drugs, subterranean drums and visionary apprehension in which - to quote David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks' - 'the woods are wondrous, but strange'. In his seductive and compelling Ly...

In association with The Wordsworth Trust, this ambitious sonnet sequence focuses on six extraordinary months in 1802, exploring William Wordsworth's life and relationships.

'Vurt' is an extraordinary and compulsive dark tale of England a few years from now. Scribble and his fellow stash riders are hooked on Vurt Feathers - the most powerful drug yet created. But it has its dangers.

The poetry of Gaia Holmes delves deep beneath the urban and the quotidian to reveal a strange and exotic other-life. Her carnival of characters - bingo callers, burger sellers, critical theorists - are all cast from the least expected places, but find a new voice and a new ability to captivate.

This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology. Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to t...

In a post-Brexit Britain filled with low paid zero hours jobs a young man navigates the world through his writing and in doing so pens a bittersweet love song to Manchester. A perfectly pitched short novel, a little gem of a book that goes beyond what the politicians have to say and gets to the r...

The long-awaited new collection from former National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke.