An exploration of the range and flexibility of a voice that is attuned to the patterns of history and the way such patterns transform our sense of the present.
Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, George Szirtes, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. George Szirtes' lectures cover poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, George Seferis,
Ana Blandiana is Romania's foremost poets, her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. This book brings together her two recent collections The Sun of Hereafter and Ebb of the Senses in one
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.
Annotated and illustrated edition produced by N.H. Reeve and Richard Kerridge of Prynne's 1983 poem, with photographs and a substantial portfolio supplied by him of source and reference material, plus
First collection by new poet from Sri Lanka. The lotus flower embodies the promise of purity and transcendence in poems relating to customs and superstition, war and its aftermath, fables and human re
New collection by prizewinning poet and novelist: poems about mortality, illness, being alive and the borderline between the living human world and the underworld.
Latest collection by winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize: poems contemplating space and sound, language and the world, the self and its environmental relationships.
Keith Hutson is a comedy writer turned poet. His debut book from Bloodaxe celebrates the lives and foibles of extraordinary music hall and variety artistes past and present.
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
Playful and poignant first collection by a young poet already known for several pamphlets: poems of love and death, life, loss and grief in which mortality is confronted by the ephemera of popular cul
Published on her 70th birthday, Shuttle's latest collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward exploration, drawing on architecture, history and personal memory.
In her second collection, printer's daughter Heidi Williamson mines the rich language and history of printing to consider themes including belonging, parenthood, love, and communication.
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
Ken Smith (1938-2003) was a major voice in world poetry, his work and example inspiring a whole generation of younger British poets during the 1980s and 90s.
Brings together many favourite poems from the author's four collections - "The Adoption Papers", "Other Lovers", "Off Colour" and "Life Mask" - as well as some previously uncollected poems, and some l
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
In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.
Mixing semantic and sonorous sense, this book features poems that come to life through metamorphosed moments, showing that nothing can be taken literally in a world 'endowed with sense and meaning'.
What are the contours of a life? This collection of poems features: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain ad
Fifth collection by Forward-shortlisted poet drawing on the houses and landscapes of childhood. Physical things are remembered both for their own sake and to explore how they continue to shape the sel
Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up in Glasgow, and now divides her time between Bombay and London. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, d
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
Debut collection by editor of Poetry Wales, a book of rituals that stalk the space between what is uttered and what is meant, haunted by the the longest words in the world and folk-mythic figures.
Addresses the question: What is 'now'? This book takes us on a journey through a dark night of the soul, through the thoughts and feelings of various kinds of people struggling to survive and find mea
A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid - from one shore, the Bristol Channel, f
