Primers Volume Seven Ming & Wah and illustrated by Carmen Vela

Primers Volume Seven Ming & Wah and illustrated by Carmen VelaIn 2023, Nine Arches Press launched their nationwide Primers scheme for a seventh time, in search of exciting new voices in poetry, with Katie Hale and Jane Commane as selecting editors. After reading through hundreds of anonymous entries, and narrowing down the choices from longlist to shortlist, three poets emerged as clear choices: Jade Cuttle, Antonia Taylor and Laura Varnam. Primers Volume Seven now brings together a showcase from three exciting

and sometimes

“CJ Sage distills the cadences of faith and flourish into a gorgeous bestiary

Ahmad Yamani – Two Poems

Singer in the Night is a rich

Illustrated in colour One Hundred Welsh Churches encompasses a millennium of  churches around Wales

truncated at a crucial moment

In this collection from the winner of Sweden’s August Prize

its faunal composition offers symbolic visions

Mohamed al-Harthy

photographs are plentiful

Beat poet Diane di Prima began writing her ‘letters’

there would emerge someone so remarkable that a new name would be inducted into Tianjin’s hall of fame