Render selected as a PBS Recommendation for Summer 2026

I'm delighetd that my new collection Render, forthcoming from Banshee Press, has been selected by the Poetry Book Society as a recommendation for summer 2026. My thanks to the judges Victoria Kennefick, Fred D'Aguiar, Leo Boix, Alycia Pirmohamed and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh.. I'm also grateful to all at Banshee Press for faciliatting this submission.

Here's the summer list in full:

SUMMER CHOICE: Martina Evans, Drunken Driving (Carcanet Press)

RECOMMENDATIONS: Linda Anderson, Against Falling (Pavilion Press)

James Byrne, The Banality of Power (Broken Sleep Books)

Kym Deyn, Folkish (Nine Arches Press)

Billy Ramsell, Render (Banshee Press)

SPECIAL COMMENDATION: Patricia Smith, The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe)

TRANSLATION CHOICE: Dark Night by St John of the Cross, translated by Martha Sprackland (Penguin)