Talking To Skeletons by David Dumouriez
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Talking To Skeletons by David Dumouriez
David Dumouriez, a LUPO contributor since 2021, had his first collection published on the 15th July 2026 by erbacce-press Liverpool. (ISBN 978-192455-59-1) Talking To Skeletons includes 78 pieces , long and short, six of which first appeared in LUPO, from a distinctive and ‘refreshingly anarchist’ voice in the verse universe. It can be purchased via the author page here: https://www.erbacce-press.co.uk/david-layzell
New Jane Blanchard Collection
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Long standing LUPO contributor Jane Blanchard’s Phenomena, a collection of 70 sonnets, was published on 2nd July 2026 by Kelsay Books. (ISBN-13: 979-890 14 68 630) Available from Kelsay and Amazon.
The epigraph references Wordsworth’s ‘the sonnet’s scanty plot of ground’, but Phenomena covers a great deal of it, from family life and strife, paintings, football, and birds to a eulogy for a bull and topics over here such as Tintagel and Avebury. There is humour too with Faux Beau and The Cow Horn Club, not to mention Croquet which first appeared in LUPO in March 2020.
A Lexicon of Longing
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Lupo contributor Kevin Saving has a new collection out, A Lexicon of Longing (Selected Verses 1977-2026) including work from four previous collections 1994-2017, as well as additional work in the last ten years.
Unhopeful, unjoyful, but uncompromising. John Carey
Kevin Saving’s best lines have the authority of proverbs but are more musical. Alison Brackenbury.
ISBN 978-1-0687475-4-0 Published by Caparison, imprint of The Recusant. www.therecusant.org.uk/caparison-books
Catullus calling
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George Simmers has another collection out, this time from Catullus, 20 verse translations into lively modern English of the Roman poet They are mainly his personal pieces about his friendships and his love for Lesbia, not forgetting her sparrow, but also includes a long unusual one on the fate of a devotee of the goddess Cybele.
ISBN 978-1-326-20124 Available from Amazon.
Kent At Kelsay Again
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Regular LUPO contributor Steven Kent's second collection Home At Last, containing over a hundred pieces of his verse, is available via Kelsay Books and Amazon.
"Few poets could deliver this many poems at this peak of funny." - Barbara Loots