New Arcana by Jessica Traynor PRE-ORDER Lautus Press  The English River is

 The English River is her first book-length poetry collection

Included here is his brilliant Forward Prize winning poem ‘The Plenty of Nothing’ alongside a career and poetics that defies time

‘She writes with honesty

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New Arcana by Jessica Traynor PRE-ORDER Lautus Press  The English River isPublished 25th September 2025. Available for pre order. Jessica Traynor's New Arcana explores grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life, domesticity, and desire, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as