The Story of NoIn The Story of No Emma Hammond delivers an experimental lyric that is wild, weird and full of the errata of modern life. Her poems reappropriate the language of brands, pornography and instant messaging, and argue for Carry On films and Wotsits as the true subjects of poetry. The shifts of register and voice alone range from the breathtaking to the disconcerting in what promises to be a much talked about second collection.

In the absence of reliable history

poets making waves – the well-known Mubarak Wassat

With full-colour photographs throughout

Mona Zaki Learning English by Rashid al-Daif

and now lives in Aberystwyth

• Writers who are completely new to Western readers are Nazum al-Obeidi and Nassif Falak (who has his own hair-raising personal story of flight

One stall had bursting figs

Joe Dunthorne

the mesmerising imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and unclassifiable volume of work

The process of moving from place to place is brought to life in compelling detail

representative of the Forum for Democracy

Geoffrey Philp’s second collection displays again the gold stamp of the born story-teller