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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LIBRARIANS new titles recommended in 2014 SINGLE AUTHORElsewhere Or Thereabouts Alasdair Paterson Shearsman, ISBN 9781848613270, £8.95, pbk, 15 January Born in Edinburgh and now living in Exeter, Alasdair Paterson returned to writing after a gap of 20 years. His poem 'In The Library' was selected for the SPL's Best Scottish Poems 2010.
Bloodaxe, ISBN 978-1780370989, £9.95, pbk, March The tenth collection from this poet and translator informed by European influences.
Jonathan Cape, ISBN 978-0224097406, £10, pbk, Feb John Burnside's new collection, his first since T S Eliot prize-winning Black Cat Bone, considers shared experience. (A prose memoir, I Put A Spell On You, is out in May, also from Jonathan Cape.)
Carcanet, ISBN 978 1 906188 11 5, £9.95, pbk, March Rooted in the author's discovery of her father, a soldier in the Mesopotamian campaign in World War I; but brought up to the present, connecting WWI fragments to war in Iraq. Contains poems translated into Arabic, as well as exploring diary, prose, free verse and formal poems.
Bloodaxe, ISBN 1 78037 099 7, £9.95, pbk, 27 March A first full-length collection from Vidyan Ravinthiran, with poems about Sri Lanka, as well as poems in translation.
ANTHOLOGIESPassionfood: 100 Love Poems ed Neil Astley Bloodaxe, ISBN 978-1852248697, hbk, £9.95, 30 January A new hardback gift edition of this particularly luscious selection of love poems.
Viking, ISBN 978-0670921836, hbk, £14.99, 30 January This new anthology, edited by Sophie Hannah who is herself no slouch on the concise skewering of love and lovers in verse, promises a wide range of poems all about a perfectly sensible topic your web browser isn't going to like. Order the printed book.
ASLS Annual Volumes, ISBN 978-1906841164, £12.50, hbk, 3 February From the Line brings together the best of Scotland's poetry from the two World Wars: 138 poems, from fifty-six poets, both men and women, from battlefields across the world and from the Home Front. Paris: Poetry of place ed Hetty Meyric Hughes Eland, ISBN 978-1906011314, pbk, £6.99, Feb Another in Eland's lovely pocket-sized anthologies of poetry about particular places (the one about Scotland a few years back is also excellent).
Emma Press, ISBN 978-0-9574596-7-0, pbk, £10, Feb With good time for Mother's Day, an anthology of 32 poems about motherhood's complexity and immediacy.
CLASSICS & ESSENTIALSOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats T S Eliot, illus Rebecca Ashdown Faber, ISBN 978-0571311866, pbk, £5.99, 6 February Here it is - the one, the only, in a newly illustrated edition for its 75th anniversary year.
TRANSLATIONIce Roses: Selected Poems Sarah Kirsch, trans Anne Stokes Carcanet, ISBN 978-1847771513, pbk, £14.95, 27 February Sarah Kirsch (1935 - 2013) was an important voice in German poetry, living first in East then West Germany. These new English translations make her work freshly accessible to readers.
Shearsman, ISBN 978-1848613348, pbk, £9.95, 15 February English translations of the Spanish Renaissance poet, Fernando de Herrera (1534-97).
Vintage, ISBN 978-0099577379, hbk, £12, Feb Robin Robertson's new translation of Euripides' play of bacchanalian excess.
Faber, ISBN 978-0571284542, hbk & ebook, £16.99, 6 March Lavinia Greenlaw's precision and clarity offers not exactly a translation of Chaucer's poem, but more a new way of thinking about the poem and its tragic lovers. SMALL PRESS Murder Bear W N Herbert Donut Press, ISBN 9780956644572, £10, November 2013 We'll keep claiming W N Herbert as a Dundonian, despite a number of years' residence in Newcastle. This pamphlet not only has the lovely design values of Donut Press, but promises to be viciously funny and witty. (Not a cuddly teddy to share with younger readers, though.)
Candlestick Press, £4.95, pbk, March The wonderful Candlestick Press produce pamphlets of poems that cost about the same as a posh birthday card but ensure a better read for the recipient. These five are all suitable for those up to 11, as well as their teachers and anybody else who likes a good read.
Faber, ISBN 978-0571307210, £6.99, pbk, 6 March A first children's book by poet Julia Copus, and the first new picture book on Faber's children's list. 'This is the story of Candy Stripe Lil / and Harry the Hog who lived over the hill ... and a foggy March day, roundabout three, / when Lil had invited Harry for tea.'
Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781408196939, £6.99, pbk, 13 February New and selected poems from this experienced and popular poet for children.
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