As part of World Book Day, four poets shared their "shelfies" (that is, a snapshot of the books currently ornamenting their shelves) with The Poetry Society.
Among the four poets was Peepal Tree writer Andre Bagoo. Andre's shelfie picks are:
- Pamela Mordecai, A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2022)
- Cecil Gray, The Woolgatherer (Peepal Tree, 1994)
- Charlotte Eichler, Swimming Between Islands (Carcanet, 2023)
- Shani Mootoo, Cane | Fire (Book Hug Press, 2022)
- Sean Borodale, Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee (Hazel Press, 2020)
- Day Mattar & Brendan Curtis (eds.), Queer Bodies (Broken Sleep, 2022)
Speaking of his selection, Andre said, ‘At any given moment, several books can be on the boil but here are a few poetry books, old and new, which I have been enjoying recently.’
You can read the article in full, including shelfies from Clare Shaw, Aaron Kent and Ian McCartney, at The Poetry Society website.
