This is a book of two complementary halves. The first half, Grimspound, is a four-part work, part prose, part poetry, that distills ten years of writing on site at the Bronze Age compound on Dartmoor
Ned Denny’s Unearthly Toys are treacherous playthings, as rigorously structured as they are thematically unsettling, a "rhapsody of rags gathered from several dung-hills, excrements of auth
Arcimboldo’s famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter’s face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into
In Love in Another Language Dick Davis is shown to be the outstanding formal poet of his generation, a master of rhyme and metre, a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tr
Fawzi Karim’s poetry has been widely translated, among other languages into French, Swedish, Italian and English. Carcanet published Plague Lands and Other Poems (2011), which was a Poetry Book
Nina Bogin’s Thousandfold is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extraordinary people and moments—the births of grandchildren, the physical d
This new Selected Poems, published to mark the centenary of the end of World War I, throws a bright light on one of the great survivor poets of that war, who along with Siegfried Sassoon and David Jon
The Antwerp-based poet Leonard Nolens (born in 1947) once claimed to be more interested in his "poetic identity" than in biography. His curriculum vitae should consist of his name and the thousand or
Charles Tomlinson writes about foreign places and people but stays close too to the English country landscapes and cityscapes where he spent much of his life. His style is both muscular and intensely
For nearly half a century Philip French’s writing on cinema has been essential reading for film-goers, cinephiles and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen. His vas
Philip Terry is the great re-inventor of poems. He has brought Dante's Inferno, Shakespeare's sonnets and Raymond Queneau's Elementary Morality alive in his wild, systematic reinventions.
In Nameless Country, edited by American poet, scholar and Yiddishist, Merle Bachman, and Jacobs' UK champion and former publisher, Anthony Rudolf, Jacobs returns to us a unique poet, "split at the foo
Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotati
An annotated edition of selected essays by the major Victorian writer and aesthete Walter Horatio Pater, this volume brings together a generous selection of nonfiction writings on literature, art, his
John Heath-Stubbs was one of the defining poets of his age, a legendary performer (being blind, he recited even his major narrative poems from memory). This new selection by the young poet and critic
Errant, Gabriel Levin’s sixth collection, opens and ends with invocations: of Venus at dawn and Hesperus at dusk. The book’s day takes us on a three-part planetary journey. "What Drew
Frank Kuppner’s The Third Mandarin is made of 501 quatrains divided into five "books." Taken together, they collage an alternative Imperial China of drunk poets, grumpy sages, and sex-
For over five decades, the screenwriter, biographer, novelist and journalist Frederic Raphael has had rare access to the glittering world of the elite, both in Hollywood and in the worlds of politics,
The memories from which Fred D’Aguiar translates these poems are cultural and personal, from the anciencies of the Gilgamesh epic to the modern world, from classical philosophy to C.L.R. James a
The March-April 2018 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights include: winners and commendations from the PN Review Prize; a celebration
The central focus of The White Silhouette is a lyrical, meditative poem inspired by the Book of Kells, which explores the spirit of medieval Celtic art and its inner and outer landscapes, including th
The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose Selected Poems was published in Britain in Karen Leeder’s brilliant translations in 2004 (Schlegel Tieck Prize, 2005) returns with All under O
John F. Deane’s poetry of Christian belief in a decisively secular age explores how redemption and renewal might emerge. He writes in the sincere, troubled, wide-awake tradition of Gerard Manley
"The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manqué: I make no other pretensions…" —An
From the first New Poetries anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from aro
The Multiverse sings of science, philosophy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme, and the poems subtly find their way
A Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Recommendation. Wandering in central Europe, a traveller observes and records a landscape of lakes, folk culture and uneasy histories. Phoebe Power’s Shri
Rough Breathing is a substantial selection from thirty years of procedurally and formally inventive writing from poet, editor and art critic, Harry Gilonis. A lively, lyrical and clever collection, th
The Books of Catullus is a new translation of the Roman poet Catullus which reinvents and reimagines his poetry for the contemporary age. It is the first version to divide Catullus’s complete wo
Tender, exuberant and deliciously dark, Claudine Toutoungi's debut collection evokes the surreal humor of Matthew Sweeney and the candor of Emily Berry, while remaining disarmingly fresh in its bl
The January-February 2019 issue. New poems by Les Murray and Rebecca Watts. Vahni Capildeo on making multivocal performative texts. Michael Powell discusses Drawing in Drag, the first comic book publi
