New titles from Fran Lock, Richard Skinner, Tara Bergin and Mark A Murphy

New titles from Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Comak and Volker Braun, one of Germany’s most important writers

New collections from Neil Fulwood, Kevin Higgins, Clare Saponia, Nora Blascsok and Peter Godfrey

While the enemy’s ideas of culture are disfigured by money, snobbery, ignorance and dullness, the left still has the poets with something to say

Three great new collections about the unknowable past and the unknown future

ANDY CROFT salutes poet Jack Hirschman, an indefatigable communist activist

New offerings from Rebecca Lowe, Alun Rees, Mike Jenkins, Trisha Heaney and William Blake at the Bridge Hotel that showcases the work of 10 longstanding cultural activists on Tyneside

Latest collections from Greg Freeman, Emma Jones, Ruth Valentine, Anna Robinson, Selina Rodrigues and Antony Owen