Aftershock Poets – serie

A fearless full-length debut from queer Birmingham poet Dale Booton. Though I Like Rain moves through boyhood, masculinity, shame, desire, faith, violence, teaching and tenderness, asking what survives after fear, and what kind of self can be made from the weather of aftermath.

From the million-copy-selling publisher of Candlestick Press and the big heart behind BBC-featured animal sanctuary Manor Farm Charitable Trust, Di Slaney's Hard Graft confronts the reality of mortality after a brain tumour diagnosis in 2019. These poems explore illness, grief, love and resilience with remarkable clarity, humour and wit.

From one of the most urgent voices in contemporary recovery poetry, Oliver James Lomax's I Found God Alone and He Was Grieving explores sobriety, prayer, grief, class and the clarity of living clean.