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Jemima Foxtrot's Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation which explores power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh, playful perspective. The poems of Treasure live up to its name: showing us where the gold is-the joy-how to feed it into the soil of our lives.

'you need to be a warrior right now,especially in Wetherspoon's where you're slightly scaredto take a pissand for comfort you search 'Mudlarking' on your phone,as you squat in the cubicle with one footpressed hard against the doorin case someone should come inand realise what you are.'Jackson Phoenix Nash is an essential new poetic voice. Funny, tragic, deeply lived, his poems snap you wide awake.

'these basements that taught me to breathe;my body happening in the space between moonlight &the leather straps wrapped round an old dyke's wristgender split open like a crass piñata on the sticky floor'Ciara Maguire's poems explore the bright fields and dark corners of love. They are heartbreaking, sexy and addictive.

Kareem Parkins-Brown's highly-anticipated pamphlet is an audacious and richly plural celebration of friends and selves, present and otherwise. In Parkins-Brown's hands, language bends like an illusionist's spoon - a dazzling, fisheye-lens distortion of daily grief, absurdity and communion - while reminding us always that the trick is to carry on living.

'My mother was an oak treemy dad a garage mechanicMy father was a field of wheatmy mother the Prime MinisterMy mother was an innkeeperand my father a lonely cactus...'Suzannah Evans' new pamphlet introduces us to Green, half human, half angry nature spirit. Green serves as a stunt double for our own rage and complicity in nature's destruction. He shows us nature's delights so we may mourn their loss more deeply.

Alex Mazey's playful text art sequence follows Ghost through a hyperreal metropolis of both capitalist and eschatological peril. Woven between the visuals are virtuosic lyric poems: poignant, philosophical and irreverent.

The debut collection by poet and visual artist James Kearns is a twisting, Chekhovian narrative interrogating mortality, permanence and self-deception. The speaker of these addictive prose poems becomes increasingly lost in dialogue with himself, a deceased superhero, and a supporting dramatis personae who offer humour and hostility in equal parts.

Cai Draper's sing & hide is a tribute to youth, family and the nuances of belonging. While its speaker places us firmly in the distinct and polyphonic context of his coming of age (Woolworths, Megadrive, 'Spoons, Moschino, Peckham Pulse, the Rivoli), he himself is often caught between lines and homes, between pride and shame. Draper's bold, idiosyncratic voice betrays a deep yearning for knowledge of the self and others, drawing the reader in with magnetic effect. Influenced by modern sculpture, there is an architectural quality to these poems, cast into bronze or moulded from London turf, skilfully wielding negative space to draw attention to the unseen and unspoken.

"Shareen K Murayama's debut collection, Housebreak is a book of wild beauty and probing enquiry. Murayama asks how we live within perennial emergency, where belonging and self-protection converge, how we explain loss to children, what the wind has in common with hate crime. These heartbreaking poems are full of dance-like grace, and gut punches that send the reader off balance. Formally artful and disruptive, they seek out the breaths between words and worlds, applying biology, etymology, astronautics and myth. There is a gentle undoing, a quiet rage here, alongside great tenderness. Housebreak is stunning, apocalyptic, revelatory."--Publisher marketing.

Molly Naylor's Whatever You've Got is the letter you wish you could send to your younger self. It's the voice of a kind, whip-smart friend who accepts your mistakes, messiness and chaotic energy-because they've been there-while challenging you to hold yourself with honesty and forgiveness, 'pressing your ear to your body and hearing that you exist'. Naylor cuts to the quick of modern anxiety, of love and its many dilemmas, of trauma and recovery, with unfaltering insight and wit. Full of left-hook quips to make you laugh out loud, and joyful, anthemic rhythm. The poems in this unputdownable collection give permission to do the unexpected, to change your mind, to run an emotional scan and find yourself new, and whole after all.