Life Immediately by Lily Blacksell #Translated Phoenix / Phönix features previously

Phoenix / Phönix features previously unpublished poems as well as a selection from his latest

Born out of working-class life in a coalmining community

John Agard strikes back with these cleverly crafted parables of an outsider

Optik draws on letters twelve and thirteen of the correspondence between scientist-inventor Sir David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott on natural magic

Life Immediately by Lily Blacksell #Translated Phoenix / Phönix features previouslyPublished 26th March 2026. Life Immediately is a pacy, dynamic debut collection containing all the preoccupations of Lily Blacksells work, from womanhood, to music, to the natural world and our calamitous dealings with it, to the calamity and comedy of human relationships, romantic or otherwise. In eclectic, formally confident poems, balancing keen observation with wry insouciance, Blacksells writing showcases the expansiveness of language, but also