From the inaugural winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, Monika Radojevic’s debut collection explores the joys, confusion and moments of sadness behind having your history scattered around the globe – and the way in which your identity is always worn on your skin, whether you like it or not.

Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s debut collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of Black interiority, intimacy and selfhood. The poems are interlaced with grace and dignity, and are sonically resonant with the vibrations and sounds of these poems staying with the reader long after the page has turned.

In poems that can turn from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Wendy Cope offers readers her reflections on love and life. From the joy of falling in love to ways to help you deal with a painful breakup or the memories of people loved and lost, this is a book you will want to return to again and again and share with your loved ones.

“As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others? We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun.”

In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her flair and style to the question of what we have been taught to hate and if we might learn to love again.

With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a girl who makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls.

Bhanu Kapil’s first full-length collection to be published in the UK, How To Wash A Heart explores the complex relations that emerge between an immigrant guest and a citizen host. Drawing from a first performance in London in 2019, and using poetry as a mode of interrogation that is both rigorous, witty and compassionate, Kapil begins to ask difficult and urgent questions about the limits of inclusion, hospitality and care.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Milk And Honey and The Sun And Her Flowers comes Rupi Kaur’s third collection of poetry. In Home Body, she walks readers through a “reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present and the potential of the self. It’s a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself, reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family and embrace change.”