Available February 8, 2026

"Unclaimed vividly brings to life some of England and Scotland’s most well-known queens, seeing through their infamy to their humanity. An utterly bewitching collection."

Holly Race, author of Six Wild Crowns

"These poems move between landscape, body, and ghostly remembrance, giving voice to Tudor and Stuart queens whose lives continue to echo beyond history. The work is richly imagined, emotionally precise, and quietly powerful."

Estelle Paranque (PhD), author of Thorns Lust & Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn

LJ Ireton is a poet and a bookseller from London. She has a First Class B.A. Honors in English Language and Literature. Her poems have been published by over forty journals in print and online, including Green Ink Poetry, Humana Obscura, Spellbinder Literary Magazine, Spelt Magazine, Acropolis Journal, Amphibian Literary Journal, Tiny Seed Journal, and Wild Greens Magazine. Her poetry has been featured on the BBC World Service Book Club podcast and in the printed anthologies Spectrum (Renard Press, 2022), York Literary Review 2023 (Valley Press), Building Bridges (Renard Press, 2024), and You’re Never Too Much (Macmillan, 2025). Her debut poetry collection, Lessons from the Sky, was published with Ellipsis Imprints in February 2024, followed by Interlude in February 2025 with Haywood Books.