A celebration of North-East England in poetry, featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs with both rural and urban settings.
Mircea Dinescu has been one of Romanian poetry's most provocative and obstinately singular poets for five decades. A one-time dissident, he's still writing necessary poems that challenge all systems.
Menna Elfyn is Wales's leading Welsh-language poet. Bondo is the latest of her collections to be published in Welsh and English at the same time: so there is no separate Welsh-language edition.
Second collection by leading younger Irish poet now based in the UK. Poems about love, hope, home and children in which the private world is threatened by the public one.
First English translation of one of Lithuania's leading poets. Paradoxical, absurd, witty and observant, his poetry reflects Lithuania's post-Soviet society.
Alvi's latest collection of surrealist fables features `Motherbird' and `Fatherbird' - inspired by her Pakistani father's immigration and recent death. Her previous two collections were shortlisted fo
Abigail Parry's first collection is concerned with spells, and ersatz spells: with semblance and sleight-of-hand. It takes its formal cues from moth-camouflage and stage magic, from the mirror-maze an
Twelfth collection by leading Irish poet features poems ostensibly about art, artists and filmmaking which are as much portraits of the poet and the difficulties of writing poetry, plus surreal poems
Hyem is Robyn Bolam's fourth poetry collection from Bloodaxe. Her previous collection, New Wings, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Hyem is home in Geordie: the book is about growing up on Tyn
Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's best-known poets. Hoard is her fourth Bloodaxe collection since Poems 1960-2000, following Dragon Talk (2010), Glass Wings (2013) and The Land Ballot (2015).
Jane Commane's first collection is an exploration of the post-industrial towns and cities of the Midlands, Britain's heartlands that are forever on the periphery.
The "disappearance" of the poet Rosemary Tonks in the 1970s was one of the literary world's most tantalising mysteries. All her published poetry is now available here for the first time in over 40 yea
Fourth collection by popular young Irish poet written in response to her husband's total loss of memory following a brain infection. More present to him him were birds and animals he believed he could
An Cailleach Bhearra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland, particularly in the Beara Peninsula in West Cork where
Sequel to his acclaimed debut The Crumb Road, Buddhist priest Maitreyabandhu's new collection is about the stories we tell: a vivid and at times disturbing account of the world we live in and the hist
