Dog Star by Symmons Roberts, Michael

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Author: Symmons Roberts, MichaelPoetryPublished on 12 February 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape) in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 80 pages130 x 196 x 19 | 108g
An inviting and poignant new collection exploring our increasingly turbulent relationship with nature, from award-winning poet Michael Symmons RobertsI love Michael Symmons Roberts poetry Jeanette WintersonDog Star is a book of linked poems rooted in encounters with real, imagined or mythical birds, trees, fish, flowers, bacteria, chimeras ancient connections reshaped by technological and political change and critically endangered by species and habitat loss.His poems are always attentive to glimpses of grace and presence, but always embodied and grounded. In this new book, that attention is sharper and more urgent than ever, at a time when the essential spiritual relationship between humanity and other forms of life is broken or lost.Some encounters in Dog Star are head-on, face-to-face, some are more slant, distant, missed connections. Theres an elegiac sequence for the poets mother with each step measured in animals, an extended riff on the world as an aquarium and our lives seen through water creatures dead and living, met in the flesh or mediated via film or stories. This is a profound, remarkable book by one of our major poets.The clearest and purest voice currently sounding in British poetry Carol Ann DuffyAn outstanding writer Sunday Times