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Ciaran Berry, States<\/em> (The Gallery Press, 2025).\"\"<\/a><\/h4>\n

In\u00a0States<\/em><\/a>, his fourth collection, Ciaran Berry offers poems that are attentive to the cinema of the moment and the film that becomes the life. They meditate on everything from the blockbuster to the B-movie, and there\u2019s the footage from\u00a0the author\u2019s own life, offering an encounter with the increasingly dis-United States, where he has now lived for more than a quarter of a century, and with an Ireland he recognizes more and more only through memory.<\/p>\n

“His 100-page States<\/em> is both photography and myth-breaking, a collection that will repay much re-reading; a full summer-long of reading.” \u2014Thomas McCarthy, Poetry & Writing<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sarah Bilston, The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2025).<\/h4>\n

The forgotten story<\/a> of a decades-long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at great human and environmental cost.<\/p>\n

“Focuses on a single flower that took Europe and America by storm\u2026[a] spirited account.” \u2014Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books<\/p>\n

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Ethan Rutherford, North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther<\/em> (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2025).\"\"<\/a><\/h4>\n

From “one of our great artists of catastrophe” (Laura van den Berg) comes\u00a0North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther<\/em><\/a>\u2014an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning days of the American whaling industry.<\/p>\n

“Audacious… A classically styled novel that sounds a very contemporary alarm.” \u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/em>, starred review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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