Released October 31st, 2025 // 42 pages // 978-1-917617-36-9 // RRP: £9.99 / $13.99 / €11.99
 
Songs and Sonnets by Shane McCrae is a caustic, formally agile sequence that confronts the psychic and political wreckage of contemporary America through fractured sonnets and sharply enjambed verse. Ranging across voices and registers, from mock-Elizabethan soliloquies to blank verse diatribes, the collection stages an ongoing reckoning with race, power, complicity, and historical violence, particularly as refracted through the figure of Donald Trump. McCrae’s characteristic use of disrupted syntax and looping repetitions builds a dissonant, incantatory music that unsettles while refusing abstraction. What results is a taut, unrelenting document of moral and national disarray, rendered with furious clarity and formal mastery.
 
ABOUT Shane McCrae:
Shane McCrae‘s most recent books of poetry are New and Collected Hell and The Many Hundreds of the Scent. He has edited a volume of John Berryman’s uncollected Dream Songs, titled Only Sing. McCrae has been a finalist for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize, and his awards include a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a Michael Marks Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City.