Double Double

Double Double marks the long-awaited return of poet Sonny Hall, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British poetry. The collection gathers 50 new poems, written in his characteristically emotionally direct and often wildly punctuated . Hall’s work moves between confession and play, chaos and clarity, searching for meaning within the disorder of lived experience. Drawing from recovery, love, grief, and the strange humor of survival, his poems resist strict form while maintaining a fierce internal rhythm.

In the years since his last publications, Hall has continued to live and write by his own rules, guided by what might be called his fractured, almost angelic muse. Double Double reflects that deeper passage through experience. The poems feel at once intimate and expansive, shaped by instinct, vulnerability, and wit, continuing his search for what he has described as “finding order in a lawless playground.” Appearing several years after his previous publications, whose limited editions quickly sold out, Double Double arrives as both a return and an evolution, reaffirming Hall’s singular place in modern poetry.

Cover photos by Lika Kors.