Nine Arches Press: 22 books

How to be a Poet: A twenty-first century guide to writing well by Jo Bell and Jane Commane. With special guest essays from: Mona Arshi, Clive Birnie, Rishi Dastidar, Jonathan Davidson, Abi Palmer, Robert Peake and Joelle Taylor. How to be a Poet combines advice, ideas and encouragement from experienced...

Angela France’s The Hill is a remarkable sequence of poems that leads us up the winding footpaths of Leckhampton Hill near Cheltenham. Here, we encounter ghosts, foxes and ancient kings. We meet the protestors who, years before the Kinder Scout Trespassers, were standing up for their rambling rights...

Abegail Morley's poetry collection The Skin Diary explore loss in its many forms, with unwavering, fierce and astonishing brilliance. Here are imperfect hiding places, imaginary sisters and near-impossible burdens fill carrier bags and archives. New skins and old disguises are stitched together whilst...

Jacqueline Saphra’s All My Mad Mothers (shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry) explores love, sex and family relationships in vivacious, lush poems that span the decades and generations. At the heart of this collection of poems is the portrait of a mother as multitudes – as a magician...

The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London's notorious Newgate Prison. Mimicking the tone of its primary source, The Newgate Calendar, The Terrors tacks from horror to humour, from moral disgust to the casual chitchat of the...

David Clarke's debut collection, Arc, invites you to follow the trail of fleet-footed poems and be swept along from sonnets for Scott Walker to epic fails and sword-swallowing for beginners. It's a memorable trip you'll want to start afresh as soon as you finish reading. Subtle, bittersweet and wickedly...

In Angela France's third poetry collection, Hide, what is invisible is just as important as what lies within plain sight. Layers of personal history are lifted into the light and old skins are shed for new; things thought lost and vanished long ago are just on the edge of perception, yet certainties...

Julia Webb's Bird Sisters is a surreal journey through sisterhood and the world of the family via the natural world. Fascinated by the otherness of things, her poems expose places and relationships that are not always entirely comfortable places to exist. Many of them feature transformations of some...