First English translation of one of Lithuania's leading poets. Paradoxical, absurd, witty and observant, his poetry reflects Lithuania's post-Soviet society.
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.
Swedish poet, novelist and philosopher Lars Gustafsson is one of Europe's leading literary figures. Much of his writing is concerned with the search for moral consciousness.
Friedrich Hoelderlin was one of Europe's greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations.
First comprehensive critical anthology of modern poetry in Irish with English translations. Launch by President of Ireland and publicity linking with 1916- 2016 centenary coverage. Irish-English bilin
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.
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.
Three contrasting but complementary, familial poem sequences by the TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet: Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers; Lobo-Lobo, about sisters; and Behold My Father on His Bicycle,
Hafez is one of the best known medieval Persian mystic poets, as celebrated and popular as his near contemporary Rumi. Combining vigour with ingenuity, translator Mario Petrucci reanimates for the Eng
Latest collection - illustrated by the author - by Bloodaxe's biggest selling poet, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Has appeared on many radio and TV programmes, including Desert Island D
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).
Helen Farish's third collection is preoccupied with narratives from the past. The dog of memory roams the landscapes of its choice: not only place, Farish's native Cumberland and further afield - morn
Ex-Salt poet Mark Waldron joins Bloodaxe with his third collection. 'Mark Waldron is the most striking and unusual new voice to have emerged in British poetry for some time.' - John Stammers
Poems on immigrants, their homeland and the plight of women by a poet who rec-ently returned to Kurdistan. The book's central sequence, Anfal, tells the stories of women survivors of genocide.
Advances Edward Thomas' reputation as a modern poet. This work contains substantial quotations from Thomas' prose, letters and notebooks, as well as a commentary on the poems. It also shows how Thomas
The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself: the flooded valley and the ruined home - Yorkshire in 2015. Flooding is also a powerful metaphor for wider experiences of lo
Latest collection by winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2016. Carol Ann Duffy wrote that Gillian Allnutt's poetry `has always been in conversation with the natural world and the spiritual lif
Poems of a lost self and a lost brother. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's, Limburg identified with Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Another of the book's main sequences was written in response to
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
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.
First collection of poems drawing on a childhood spent on the Hebridean island of Erraid along with the rupture and re-imagining of a family. Runner-up for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2016.
This edition brings together three series of prose poems, Le Jardin des langues (1974), Le balcon de Babel (1977) and Bois dormant (1983). Other books by Mace have as their subject literary figures s
The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees spoken as witness to a Highland hanging, ten dream poems and 35 death sonnets deconst
Nick Drake won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with The Man in the White Suit in 1999. Out of Range is his fourth collection, following From the Word Go (2007) and The Farewell Glacier (20
The Fifth Figure is a book-length sequence mixing poetry and prose which chronicles the lives of five generations of Caribbean and Black British women of mixed ancestory.Part novel, part poem, part fa
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
An anthology that draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one version of a history of women's poetic writing, while not isolating women's writing from its intersect
