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Letters Against the Firmament is a user’s report on the end of the world, a treatise against Tory terror, a proposal for a new zodiac, a defence of poetry, a hex against the devourers of planet earth. The Letters are fierce epistolary poems, a vivid account of the sheer panic and brutality of the Austerity years. They are apocalyptic screeds of black humour hammered out in an obscure corner of east London, fearful attempts to ward off the attentions of gentrifiers, bailiffs, border agents and racists. In this collection in four parts they are joined by lean versions of already well-known...

Single sheet designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press to advertise publication of Christopher Le Brun's artist’s book with Enitharmon, a collaboration with the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Printed on Arches Vélin 160gsm. Title page on one side and prospectus on the other side. A collectible item for a bibliophile – could be framed or stored loose with other literary treasures.

Behold is Nicki Jackowska’s seventh book of poetry. The last decade has seen a marked change in position, language and sensibility. She is more daring in her juxtapositions, the creation of dimensions whereby one world seeps through another. The title poem is the crown of this book’s achievement, where history (the Holocaust) is woven among precise particulars, the mundane detail. Together with her working-class English roots, this European consciousness creates an extraordinary spectrum of awareness and evocation. Many of the poems are akin to dramatic monologues, moving from a Lewes garden party to characters in a Brighton terrace and thence to...

Paul Muldoon & Philip Pearlstein It is perhaps the accidental collaborations that can prove the most imaginative and charming, as in this beautifully conceived artist’s book bringing together the Pulitzer-prizewinning poet Paul Muldoon and one of his artistic heroes, the eminent American painter Philip Pearlstein, long revered as one of the modern masters of figurative art. Sparkling new sequences of poems accompany lively watercolours which, as the artist explains, are ‘mostly of terra cotta objects…vessels and fragments of gods, goddesses, and demons from various ancient cultures.’ In his introduction Paul Muldoon sets the scene: ‘When I’d first asked Philip Pearlstein if he...

'Nocturnes brings together recent family subjects touching on themes of women’s domestic labour, with night scenes which have been a recurring motif in my work for over a decade. Depicting everyday activities, from my daughter watching tv before dinner, to my mum seen washing dishes or taking the bins out late on a midsummer’s night, to the darkened space of a bedroom, lit only by the streetlights outside the window, where my sister in law, Lisa, feeds her baby.  The medium of lithography offers particularly rewarding results for building up the atmosphere and rich colour needed to depict these nocturnal scenes...

Caroline Walker writes: ‘Early Years brings my interest in nurseries as a subject for painting into the language of printmaking with my first set of etchings since experimenting with the medium during my MA at the Royal College of Art (2007-2009). “Early Years” is a term used to describe children’s developmental provision in the years before they start school. It’s a period in which young children learn about the world around them – how to feed and dress themselves, speak and understand language and build relationships with others. Each etching depicts a scene of nurture with a pared-back palette of...