To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay we’re introducing our new collections for 2026 – Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller, and Against Falling by Linda Anderson. All three are available to pre-order on our website now and will be published in Spring 2026.
Natalie Linh Bolderston’s debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mothers, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth.
Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors.
Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.
Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet from Stoke-on-Trent. She has won an Eric Gregory Award and the Rebecca Swift Women Poets’ Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is an alumna of the Roundhouse Poetry Collective, the London Library Emerging Writers’ Programme, and Writing West Midlands’ Room 204 programme. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.
Divinations on Survival is available to pre-order from our website now!
Personal and political collide in Alice Miller’s fourth collection, as she compares present-day Berlin, where she is a new mother, with the city her German-Jewish grandmother was forced to leave. Darting through bedrooms and empires, whispers and wars, bureaucracy and origin stories, these unpredictable poems evoke Mary Shelley, visitors to Antarctica, and an inventor of the atom bomb, to ask if a new beginning is ever possible. How many buildings and oceans, how many minutes and years, how many voices speak through us? And if the past is never past, can we ever escape?
Alice Miller is the author of three poetry collections and a novel. Her previous collection, Nowhere Nearer (Pavilion Poetry, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and her novel about George Yeats, More Miracle than Bird (Tin House, 2020), was a New York Times Book Review summer selection. Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Alice lives in Berlin.
Here & Thereafter is available to pre-order from our website now!
At the heart of Linda Anderson’s second collection is an exploration of time and of ageing. Time is pressing, urgent, in relation to both the individual and the planet. However, underneath, there is also something unfinished, whether that be in relation to memory’s ability to revise the past and take on different shapes and meanings, or in relation to writing itself which has a materiality which links it to the body of the writer. The collection contains an interrogation of the poet’s notebooks where chance and randomness have an important part to play, forging surprising links, and directing attention to the surrounding bloom of uncertainty, the ‘diaphanous, unwritten poem’ that lurks behind any finished poem. The fragility of the body also undermines certainty, and while much of the collection draws on visual imagery, derived particularly from the natural world, the loss of sight is folded into acts of careful observation, making seeing itself both more problematic and more precious.
This collection ranges restlessly across forms and voices connecting the poems to artists, writers, and musicians such as Stanley Spencer, Frédérick Chopin and Elizabeth Bishop. Yet words also repeat across different poems, like musical motifs, forming a fragile net for the collection. There are moments too when silence takes over and we are asked to wait, to discover a different meaning in hesitancy.
Linda Anderson is Emeritus Professor of English at Newcastle University where she founded the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (2009) and the annual Newcastle Poetry Festival. She has written extensively about autobiography and feminist theory but more recently has published widely on Elizabeth Bishop, including the monograph, Elizabeth Bishop: Lines of Connection (Edinburgh University Press 2013), and has co-edited a collection of essays on poetry archives, The Contemporary Poetry Archive: Essays and Interventions (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Originally from Scotland, she was an editor of Writing Women for many years, has worked to establish innovative poetry archives at Newcastle University, including the Bloodaxe Archive and has published a poetry pamphlet, Greenhouse, with Mariscat Press, 2013. She is currently Chair of Bloodaxe Books. Her first poetry collection, The Station Before (Pavilion Poetry, 2020) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney first collection prize.
Against Falling is available to pre-order from our website now!
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