The Best New Poetry

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	"Painful, elegiac, beautiful poems in a sumptuous hardback edition"

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	"Comic, extraordinary work "A marvellous, inventive, playful but affecting collection." --John Burnside"

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	""Valeria Melchioretto is one of the most inventive new voices in poetry." --Pascale Petit"

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	"Poems which deal with yoga, meditation and a spiritual journey as the poet travels extensively through Japan, India, Canada, Italy and England."

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	"It is as if Marcel Duchamp and Damien Hirst were abroad in the poetry world and had met up with Kurt Schwitters. Brilliant."

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	"Williams is a modern master and one of Britain’s national treasures, despite living in Berlin. This book will be a poetry highlight of 2007."

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	"Like a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos"

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	"National Poetry Prize award winner"

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	"Sampson’s editorial skills are all on show with a passion for translation, Europe and risk"

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	"Stark, brilliant and terrifying, but filled with hope"

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	"Perhaps O'Brien's best work to date, black humour and powerful polemic coincide to brilliant effect"

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	"Darker hues and tones invade Sweeney's imaginative landscape, Europe implodes on itself"

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	"Rollinson continues his earthy celebrations of body and soul"