The second book of our 2026/27 pamphlet season is the debut book from Clara-Læïla Laudette and it’s a pamphlet that is rich in language. It’s a book of sensual images that investigates both the internal and external worlds.

Here’s what some advance readers had to say about it

Clara-Læïla Laudette is a poet of lithe and granular intimacy. ‘Appetite’ is an unmissable debut.

Karen McCarthy-Woolf

Voracious and exacting, Appetite shies away from nothing and is one of the richest pamphlets I’ve read.

Nasim Luczaj

Appetite is the world seen through the eyes and imagination of a gifted poet, a brilliant but unflinching observer of the privacies and urgings of our appetites. It is a stunning, bravura performance.

Bernard O’Donoghue

These poems swill the glass and spit it into the hand, with a clear-headed erudition that burrows into quandary. 

Jack Underwood