The Channel by Jana Prikryl Penguin Putnam Abandoned Gardens is a powerful

Abandoned Gardens is a powerful and essential distillation from this poet’s three collections

but also the risks of crossing strangers’ thresholds or in encountering the violent machismo and hypermasculine expectations of the society you grow up in

London Undercurrents is a collaboration by two London-based female poets Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire

Something About Living is the brilliant third collection from acclaimed poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

offering a deeply personal exploration of the self and the body

The Channel by Jana Prikryl Penguin Putnam Abandoned Gardens is a powerfulJana Prikryl's poems contend with displacement and domestic upheaval in a style both fluid and inexorable. The Channel, the poet's fourth collection and her UK debut, is in deep conversation with King Lear, listening for Cordelia as a person banished from home, whose nearest relations know love only as a form of control. The play depends on her silence, but outside of the play her voice may make us audible to ourselves. The book thinks, brilliantly