Render by Billy Ramsell PRE-ORDER
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2026 Alice Oswald Jean Watkins’ second collection

Jean Watkins’ second collection

physical cruelty and those with the class power to deny others their share of worldly goods and pleasures

about love and living with others

mischievous

and a daughter's ongoing role as carer

Render by Billy Ramsell PRE-ORDER<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2026</b> Alice Oswald Jean Watkins’ second collectionPublished 4 June 2026 My verses stretch and hesitate, scale their rickety trellises. My fruit comes rust red, grudging. Render plunges the reader into the vibrant setting of Barcelona in the second half of the 20th century. A compelling character study, the book is presented as the selected works of a fictional poet: Alberto Cenas, the lonely scion of a wealthy Catalan family. Taken individually, Renders poems offer piercing insights into the