Full Disclosure: I had a lot of opinions around this time. Few of them were good.
[2014]
Jan 3 – Keston Sutherland – Odes to TL61P
Jan 22 – Helen Mort – Division Street
Feb 12 – Luke Wright – Mondeo Man *
May 5 – Jen Hadfield – Byssus *
May 12 – Niall Campbell – Moontide *
May 28 – Rachael Boast – Pilgrim’s Flower *
Jun 4 – Hannah Silva – Forms of Protest *
Jun 23 – Hugo Williams – I Knew the Bride
Jul 9 – Fiona Benson – Bright Travellers
Jul 28 – Kei Miller – The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion *
Aug 5 – Edwin Morgan Prize – Claire Askew, Harry Giles
Aug 11 – Edwin Morgan Prize – Stewart Sanderson, Molly Vogel, Tom Chivers
Sep 6 – Liz Berry – Black Country
Sep 12 – Kevin Powers – Lines Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Sep 22 – Colette Bryce – The Whole and Rain-Domed Universe
Sep 29 – Louise Glück – Faithful and Virtuous Night
Oct 7 – Miriam Gamble – Pirate Music *
Oct 22 – Chimène Suleyman – Outside Looking On
Nov 9 – Kate Tempest – Hold Your Own *
Nov 20 – Alan Gillis – Scapegoat *
[2013]
Jan 21: Sharon Olds – Stag’s Leap *
Jan 31: Sean Borodale – Bee Journal
Feb 12: Paul Farley – The Dark Film
Feb 20: Jacob Polley – The Havocs
Mar 4: Gillian Clarke – Ice
Mar 11: Julia Copus – The World’s Two Smallest Humans
Mar 18: William Letford – Bevel *
Jul 10: Michael Pedersen – Play With Me
Aug 5: Michael Symmons Roberts – Drysalter
Oct 2: Sinéad Morrissey – Parallax *
Nov 11: Caroline Bird – The Hat-Stand Union *
Nov 27: Ahren Warner – Pretty
* = highly recommended book
[2012]
Feb 27 – Matthew Dickman – All American Poem
Mar 23 – Roddy Lumsden & Eloise Stonnborough, eds. – Salt Book of Younger Poets
Dec 13 – Jorie Graham – P L A C E
[2011]
Jan 11: Fiona Sampson – Rough Music
Jan 14: Brian Turner – Phantom Noise
Jan 15: Simon Armitage – Seeing Stars
Jan 17: Derek Walcott – White Egrets *
Jan 20: TS Eliot roundup (John Haynes – You; Annie Freud – The Mirabelles; Sam Willetts – New Light for the Old Dark; Pascal Petit – What the Water Gave Me; Seamus Heaney – Human Chain)
Feb 11: Ryan Van Winkle – Tomorrow, We Will Live Here *
Mar 7: Alan Gillis – Here Comes the Night *
Mar 28: Robin Robertson – The Wrecking Light
June 10: Derek Mahon – An Autumn Wind
July 20: Michael Longley – A Hundred Doors
Oct 4: Leontia Flynn – Profit and Loss *
Oct 21: John Burnside – Black Cat Bone
* highly recommended
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