The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic VerseThe Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse is haunting, romantic, and full of dark doorways and strange spaces which readers will get thoroughly lost in. It's a hand in a velvet glove, ready to grasp you by the elbow and lead you through an array of ravishing and heart racing encounters. This anthology engages deeply and playfully with the rich and unsettling tradition of gothic literature from which these poems emerge, and updates it for a

Susannah Tarbush The Lodging House by Khairy Shalaby

New and selected Poems by Chris Searle

and turns that same light on ourselves

selected poems of Fadhil al-Azzawi

a deer jumps in front of a car

But each group relates in different ways to colonialism and their failure to communicate openly about those differences leads to mutual suspicions that provide their enemies with the means to destroy them

with their sweet or streetwise kids

gloriously mining free verse and more formal poetic forms to brilliant effect

a terrible secret waits to be discovered

most lovely to look at

Rachael McGill

It’s not just a book for poetry lovers