Released June 30th, 2024 // 150 pages // 978-1-916938-29-8 // RRP £14.99
 
Collecting 15 years of poetry, Post-Atomic Glossaries is Antony Owen’s magnum opus, a selection including his Ted Hughes award shortlisted collection, The Nagasaki Elder, alongside selections from every book he has published, and an impressive range of new poems. The poems that make up this collection explore war, nuclear power, terrorism, the death penalty, genocide, Hiroshima, nuclear weaponry, family life, masculinity, and much more. The poems are, by turns, beautiful, disturbing, uplifting, and heart-breaking. This is a remarkable body of work by an outstanding poet.
 
PRAISE for Post-Atomic Glossaries:
These poems are words on a page, but the way Antony Owen spins them, they have a sheer physicality that is truly remarkable. Few poems evoke for me such strong visual images – and bring such a powerful emotional kick. Sometimes lyrical, sometimes raw, these poems convey what it is to be human, to feel, to live, and to die. From the greatest horror of nuclear Armageddon, to the everyday impact and emotional brutality of war, Owens writes it all. He takes us on a journey of head and heart, wrings us out, and leaves us uplifted and far-seeing.
— Kate Hudson, General Secretary for CND
 
ABOUT Antony Owen:
Antony Owen was raised in the working-class heartland of Coventry which alongside growing up in Cold War Britain influenced his poetry on conflict. His work features in UK School lesson resources for peace education by CND and Quakers. He is a recipient of the Museum of Military Medicine Award (2018), The Bread & Roses Award, and most notably was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry for his study of atomic bomb survivors taken in Japan.