Poetry

The title's is not very crisply informative, I know. But tht tentative ambiguities in those two words suggest, I hope, dear reader, quite a lot of possibilities to the open and forgiving mind of poetry-readers.

The Kevin Mayhew hymn writers have contributed countless new songs to the worldwide Church for over 40 years. Here are 50 of the most popular a reminder as to why they go on being sung in every nation and every land.

In these restlessly exploratory poems and sequences, the space between things is never empty, but alive with messages. Utterly physical even when it is at its most enquiring, Philip Gross's latest collection contemplates space and sound.

The wide, wild world is made of wonder, but as climate change reinvents the landscape, rich ecosystems are under threat. On a journey through Earth's major biomes, January learns the plight of the planet.

These twenty-five poems are perennials but may also serve as daily Advent readings from 1st December.

Alphabet Poems and Word-Games.

The two searching sequences that bookend this collection are not so much elegies as unfinished conversations with friends no longer living - friendships lost or neglected, with their closeness and distances sensitively mapped.

In this stunning debut collection, Lauren Moseley's poems move through real and imagined landscapes, navigating the borders between doubt, fear, wonder, and empowerment.