Everything passes. The good and the bad. The joy and the sorrow. Everything passes.Or does it?A man stands at a window. Behind him, an empty room. Fragments of conversation drop into his head, with h
The works of Arthur Clough, a poet whose work both reflected and questioned the values of 19th-century England, are collected in this compilation. With wry, wise tones, these poems explore the tension
There is more to Thomas Chatterton than the romantic archetype. This selection, with its detailed notes, shows the historical significance and unexpected range of Chatterton's poetry, and also enables
The first volume of Frederic Raphael's journals, Personal Terms, was greeted in the TLS as 'a minor masterpiece'. With the publication of Cuts and Bruises, the third volume, the sequence unfolds into
Death's Jest-Book is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murd
This carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics is a diary of a summer spent in Tuscany—part of the time spent with the Italian actress Eleanora Duse. The poems evoke specific times and places and they
In the title poem, set in Rome, a chance meeting with the dying Rudolf Nureyev strikes the poet, himself a dancer, as hallucinatory. Along with the poems prompted by his mother's death, it is one of s
Nina Bogin writes of her second collection that she has drawn together poems that deal with the personal - family, friendship, love and loss; poems about landscape and place; and poems that try to com
This text collects: all that Helen Thomas wrote about the poet Edward Thomas; the volumes "As It Was" and "World Without End"; her letters to Edward; and separate memoirs of her meetings with W.H. Dav
In Building a City for Jamie, Penelope Shuttle's sixth collection of poetry, we are reminded that poets feel as they speak; they feel out the world with the multi-media instrument of speech. A poet is
The virtuosity and high spirits of Sophie Hannah's poems are unusual at any time of day. She handles rhymed metrical forms with wily insouciance and passes the 'memorability test' with flying colors.
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
"Madame Martin will throw back her shutters at eight…" With these words, Beverley Bie Brahic opens The Hotel Eden, a book about seeing the world. She moves through Paris, the French p
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
The Number Poems occupies the playful middle ground between tradition and experiment. An innovative and unconventional poet, Welton presents us with poems which fuse techniques like rhyme or iambic me
In this assured debut, Rebecca Watts positions herself where Wordsworth, Frost and Hughes have stood before her, and ? with fresh perspective, a wholly original tone, and an openness to the possibilit
Fawzi Karim is one of the most compelling voices of the exiled generation of Iraqi writers. The first of his poetry to appear in English, this collection includes an elegy for the life of a lost city?
Both heartening and heartbreaking, this collection of poems tells the stories of life of all sizes?from microscopic parasitic worms to the lives of massive planets. Full of characters facing the guilt
King Driftwood teems with characters and narratives: treasure hunters, drug dealers, small-town eccentrics - blue-rinsed Mrs Dawes-Llewellyn, John the Song and Mothman, George Bush and Saddam Hussein
Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets, and a model of integrity for many of his successors. His poetry was written during the space of just over two years, before he was killed in th
The extraordinary and long-lived appeal of The Song of Songs lies in its unmatched lyrical beauty and in its supreme evocation of the moods of sexual love. Perhaps the most famous and popular book of
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
The July-August 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights: • Discovered: an unpublished letter from George Washington! • E
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
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
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
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.
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
Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s Rondo harvests a decade’s worth of new writing by one of Australia’s foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia’s current position
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
A Full Cone collects the poems Miles Champion has written since the publication of How to Laugh (Adventures in Poetry, 2014). Carcanet published Champion’s first book, Compositional Bonbons Plac
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
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
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
Martina Evans’s Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of
