We’re continuing our 2026/27 pamphlet season with Clara-Læïla Laudette’s debut Appetite. A sensual, vibrant collection of poems, this book will be released July 20th. Pre-order by clicking below. Please note, books will be sent out from July 20th.

Clara-Læïla Laudette is a writer, facilitator, and journalist based in London. She won the Magma’s Judge’s Prize and her poetry, translations, and reviews have been published widely, including in the Poetry Review, Propel, Wet Grain, and Oxford Poetry.

See what advance readers have said about Appetite below:

Clara-Læïla Laudette is a poet of lithe and granular intimacy. In these poems of family, relationships, and the self, of sex, love, and a rigorously considered politics of the body and desire, thought and feeling coexist in unexpected and hard-won equilibrium. Appetite is an unmissable debut. 

Karen McCarthy-Woolf

In Appetite, Laudette writes out of life and into the world, in a voice both lush and brutish, from its ‘sugared teeth’ and ‘a pond-smelling bikini’ to the ‘drowned blankets in the killing wind’. These poems swill the glass and spit it into the hand, with a clear-headed erudition that burrows into quandary.

Jack Underwood

Voracious and exacting, Appetite shies away from nothing. Clara-Læïla Laudette casts her fine net almost impossibly wide. Kneading logistics into passion, cruelty into yoghurt-coated raisins, and halloumi into reincarnation, Appetite is one of the richest pamphlets I’ve ever read.

Nasim Luczaj

A stunning, bravura performance.

Bernard O’Donoghue

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