Primers Volume Seven

"The poems in Primers: Volume Seven take us to the heart of human experience: love, heritage, identity, grief, and humour. Through playful language and form, the poems excavate what it means to belong – to a nation, to an identity, to the earth. These are poems that speak out, whose voices are heard long after you close the book on the final one." – Katie Hale

"Primers: Volume Seven demonstrates the impressive reach of contemporary poetry - and for debut writers to show their dextrous ability to encompass and embrace the wider world in subjects close to their hearts. Whether that is in archaeology as a way of unearthing and carefully examining identity, as in Jade Cuttle's work, the fractured nature of nations, their stories and our inheritance in Antonia Taylor's poems, or the mother/monster at last given her larger-than-life voice in Laura Varnam's re-imaginings of Beowulf, this is new poetry at its most bracing, brilliant and best" – Jane Commane