The Guardian's poetry critics round up five notable recent collections, spanning debut and established voices working across translation, illness narratives, ecological form and historical memory.

– Fetch by Colin Bramwell (And Other Stories, £14.99) – a lyrical debut from the award-winning translator of Fernando Pessoa into Scots, exploring the gap between languages and blending Scots and English with reflections on Russian poets, family and mortality.
– Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney (Fitzcarraldo, £12.99) – a hybrid collection mixing essay, diary and text-message forms with lyric poems on girlhood, illness and genetic inheritance, praised for its humour and emotional force.
– The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao (Carcanet, £12.99) – an ambitious, tree-inspired collection using experimental "splinter" word fragments, likened to the work of CD Wright and Lyn Hejinian.
– Belling the Leopard by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley (Bloodaxe, £14) – densely populated with real names of people and places, building each poem as a detailed historical miniature.
– The Matter by Padraig Regan – also featured in the roundup, though further detail was not included in the extract provided.