Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating rev
Poetry Book Society Recommended TranslationIn this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though de
An enchanting selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature. The vitality of Popa's chosen material is wonderfully conveyed in this adaptation by Andrew Harvey and Anne Penningt
"Many of the poems address absent figures: a lost grandmother, a mother later to be lost, former lovers, schoolfriends, mentors. Typically they hold their interlocutors with verbally dextrous, digress
A Season in Hell' is one of the great works of modern literature. It is published here in a bilingual edition together with many of the verse poems which Rimbaud wrote between March 1870 and August 18
Baudelaire's prose poems had two working titles: "Petits Poemes en prose" (small prose poems) and "Le Spleen de Paris". This title features a collection of Baudelaire's pieces.
Baudelaire's prose poems had two working titles: "Petits Poemes en prose" (small prose poems) and "Le Spleen de Paris". This title features a collection of Baudelaire's pieces.
Nasos Vayenas' poems manifest a quality of alert intelligence that is always refreshing, bracing and vital. They have been widely published in small editions and magazines all over the English-speakin
Twenty-four years after his successful first book Opia, Alan Moore returns with a vibrant collection evoking life in Ireland from the 1960s to the 1980s. His powerful descriptions of emotion and eye
The poetry of Jean Follain (1903-1971) is increasingly seen, by poets and critics in France and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry's change of course after Surrealism. The writer Hen
J.L. Gili's selection of Lorca's poems in Spanish, with his own unassuming prose versions as guides to the originals, first appeared in 1960. With its excellent introduction and selection it remains a
Anthony Howell's first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society's victimization of those it punishes are among it subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the h
This sequence of poems in three voices introduces a ghostly eternal triangle whose lines are ruled feint or bold in response to situation, time and change. A man and two women explore their memories i
Inspired by tombstones and their inscriptions, Mak Dizdar’s rich and haunting poems in Stone Sleeper’, his most famous work, are a journey into the mysterious heart of medieval Bosnia. The poems form
Since the 1960s the English poet Matthew Mead and his German wife Ruth have translated selections from poets to whom they were drawn. This is their own choice from the many memorable poems which they
Ros Barber’s second book forms a meditation on human loss; it is a more personal and autobiographical collection than her first, described by Neil Rollinson as an honest, unflinching and hugely satisf
At the heart of many of these poems lies an apprehension of things being lost or destroyed, and with this a need for consolation. The question of how we look for, or create, such solace - whether in
This collection of Trakl’s essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, Gedichte (Poems’, 1913) and Sebastian im Traum (Sebastian in a Dream’, 1914), together with the later poem
Tom Disch’s first collection of poems for ten years presents a dazzling variety show of inventive wit. His serious gift for humour permeates poems by turn lyric and narrative, satirical, rebellious, r
Awarded the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2003One of ten poets chosen for Anvil New Poets 3' (2001), A.B. Jackson was singled out by John Greening in Poetry Review' for his 'demanding and ambiti
Nazim Hikmet's poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring significance. He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet; his immense and continuing popularity
Yehuda Halevi, who wrote both secular and devotional poems, is considered one of the finest poets in post-biblical Hebrew literature. Suffused with warmth, moving easily between the mundane and the ot
Francois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. His life was blighted by destitution and ill health, robbery and murder, torture and exile. While we do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, t
Nikos Gatsos's profoundly mysterious and magnetic poem Amargos, named after a Greek island he never visited and written during the Nazi occupation, is the single work on which his reputation rests. I
