Books in the Salt Modern Poets series

A collection of 10 years' work, in part lineated or syllabic but mostly in clustered prose, which investigates ontological echoes of the environmental condition of new scarcity, amid a wealth of inroads. The hoped-for terrain is where its own scarcity on the ground can set seed.

A pivotal book for Bernstein, The Sophist demonstrated his great range of subject matter, style, and genre. By contrasting wildly different approaches to poetry, Bernstein not only questions the intrinsic value of any given form but also provides a model for his later heterogeneous books.

Gander uses geology, and his training as a geologist, as a means for exploring what it is we stand on and for - emotionally, psychologically, and politically. His poems and the book's single essay make a passionate case for the vitality and necessity of other modes for making sense and experiencing meaning in a fragile world, among others.

The title of this book is taken from the genres of punk and electronic music and forms the way Aaron Fagan experienced these poems as he wrote them over the course of the past ten years - also as if they were, taken together, a kind of working purgatory, a garage as a place of trial and error where invention and failure are indistinguishable.

The book Leans completes the poet's twenty-three year project Gravity as a consequence of shape started in 1982. The work continues and extends the poet's concern for how we know anything and what vocabulary humans use to describe it. The poems encourage the reader's confidence and surprise.

Sills gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999. O'Brien writes, "The poems dance their dance of stillness and motion. The issue is a quiet, patterned music, animated, disciplined, ecstatic; not closure, but recognition."

Aaron McCollough's Double Venus meditates on social politics, personal politics, and the exchange between them. It concerns itself with the many manifestations of desire circulating within cultures of plenty. In doing so, Double Venus also adds to a tradition committed to socio-ethical practice based, in the final instance, on love.

Pared-down, playful and often very funny, Clegg's poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss, leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a long while after the book has been closed.

This stunning debut finds poetry in the dark underbelly of history and explores what it means to trust and to betray, to belong and be lost, to love and to remember. A courageous take on the violence and beauty of life past and present, this book celebrates what really endures: the lure of power and solace of home.

A prize-winning debut from an exciting new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poems are female-centred and focus on motherhood making this collection an ideal gift for Mothers Day or any other event where a no holds barred exploration of the courage it takes to be a mother is celebrated.

'Selby's ringing titles evoke not just a subject but a sensibility, and her versatile forms and deftly run-on lines very persuasively re-enact the thrill of sense experience and the shape of thought.' Chandrahas Choudhury

The Ophelia Letters explores the interaction between self and place, and the way the normal can become strange and freighted with magic.

`Love Me Do' offers a fresh and distinctive look at how we live our lives. Lydia Macpherson's poems are closely observed, tender, witty and often intensely personal, with subjects ranging from knitting to the far reaches of space, via a Voodoo Barbie and a skeleton under the bed.

Letters to the Sky examines themes of friendship, nostalgia, sadness, self-adornment, identity, hope and change. Ethereal, romantic and feminine, the poems draw on the aesthetic beauty of nature to convey emotional intimacies. Deeply visual, filled with colour and decorativeness, this collection celebrates the poet's love of London, fashion and art.

Fourth collection from award-winning poet Luke Kennard departs from previous outings in its scale and range while retaining his trademark wit and humour.

In 2013 the poet Roddy Lumsden suffered a serious concussion. The head injury left him devoid of creativity, impersonating himself in an effort to rediscover his own identity. Four months later, a late night conversation led to a radical experiment that would see him return to writing with a daring project. This book is that extraordinary work.

Emery's new book presents a dazzling array of voices: art dealers, TV stars, killers, cowboys, poets, coat check boys, checkout girls, composers, priests, gods, angels, winners, losers, lovers, the newly born and the dearly departed.

Radio Nostalgia uses a range of personas and historical locations to examine our sense of community and what our lives can mean.

The Tidal Wife is concerned with islands: both as physical landforms and as emotional states; the need to retreat and be cut off as much as the need to reconnect and come to trust the pulse of one's internal tide.

Amit Chaudhuri's new collection of poems makes a fresh, spiritual accommodation with the world. The poems often take their themes from sweets named and eaten, meals remembered, and matches these with meditations on culture, people, time and identity that slowly unfold as much in the mouth as in the mind.

Cracked Skull Cinema offers poems on culture and society, colonialism and its legacies, media and power. Set between these are homages and reflections on middle age, on life's loves and losses.

The Book of Revelation serves as a lonely planet guide to this outrageous place in time. Rob A. Mackenzie's apocalyptic nightmare vision encompasses the rags of Empire, political turpitude and blindingly oppressive headlines in a grimly comic phantasmagoria of twenty-first century turmoil.

Heartbreaking detail permeates Hardisty's deftly musical debut. These are love poems, conjuring relationships just beginning, gone astray, turned wrong, or fading from view.

David Chaloner's landmark Collected Poems offers us a spectacular journey into a restless, generous and incisive mind. Pondering on technology, politics, fashion and the emotions, and using typographic and formal experiment, Chaloner tackles the densities of meaning.

Zoo is Tobias Hill's third collection of poems. It shows the growing maturity of a voice already distinctive three years ago, when his first collection was noted for its 'grand irony and playful humour, with episodes of tenderness and even charm'.

The Mystic and The Pig Thief is, in part, an elegy. It is also a book about the pain of being imperfectly assimilated, a book about being torn between the culture you come from and the society you're obliged to live in; a book about being pulled both ways while belonging to neither camp.

Since 1986, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has been writing a long poem in canto-like sections, grouped in nineteen units. The individual poems fold over each other, using repeated elements to construct a sense of memory and traces or reminders of prior statements. Their themes involve history, gender, mourning and hope, all in "socio-twisty" language.