POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SUMMER 2023 BULLETIN

The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry. It's a unique poetry book club and every quarter our expert selectors choose the very best new books to deliver to our members across the globe. Our lively quarterly magazine is packed full of sneak preview poems from all the selected poets, alongside exclusive interviews and extensive reviews. Find out more and join our poetry community today at www.poetrybooks.co.uk. The Summer 2023 Bulletin magazine offers a "lesson in empathy" with powerful poems and commentaries from major worldwide poets. The PBS Summer Choice Bread and Circus by Airea D Matthews takes a formally innovative and unflinching look at class, race and poverty in the US. The Summer Pamphlet Choice Karen Downs-Barton re-examines the care system and explores her roots in the travelling community. Majella Kelly exhumes Ireland's dark history of mistreatment towards unmarried mothers in The Speculations of Country People. Adam Lowe celebrates polari and queer identity in Patterflash. Lisa Kelly brings D/Deaf communities to the forefront and the PBS Special Commendation Out of Sri Lanka presents the first ever UK anthology of Sri Lankan and diaspora poetry. In the PBS Translation Choice Taylor Strickland revives the long-forgotten Gaelic language poet (and tutor to Bonny Prince Charlie) Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair and readers can also enjoy a rare interview with the brilliant Selima Hill and her editor Neil Astley.