The TollOne of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation. The Independent The best young performance poet around. The Observer Visceral, poignant and riotously funny. The Scotsman The new collection from one of Britains most popular poets, The Toll is a tighly wrought book on politics, family and a crumbling society that sees Luke Wright at the peak of his powers. Honed on roads, stages and radio shows across the UK, this stunningly crafted new

in its swaddling clothes

perhaps temporary

It is spoken by the hopeless

has made films about the Waterfowl People

still grievous

radio and the theatre

Anna Crowe

Gods of Babel is her first collection of poetry in English

In these stories of Indian life in Trinidad in the 1940s and 50s

Brendan Foster

a stinging slangy that-there thingyness of observation and detail…"

Speaking English brings together more than a hundred distinguished poets from four continents - including John Hartley Williams