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
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
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
Oli Hazzard’s Blotter consists of five sequences, each constructed using a different process. In "Graig Syfyrddin" notes on hillwalking in the Welsh marches – the poet&rsquo
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
The September-October 2017 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights: Major new sequence of poems by Simon Armitage; New light on Ernest
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
Waterman's debut collection was at times intensely personal, including poems about growing up in the wake of a parental split across two countries. His second does not eschew equally personal them
In a state of apocalyptic rapture, Russian futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov pronounced himself the ‘president of planet earth’. In his fifth collection, and writing in a dazzling array of
On Trust: A Book of Lies, James Womack’s second collection of poems, is organised around the notion of telling the truth. Working against ideas of poetry as a vehicle for displaying individual t
In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. "Love teaches you how to mind / And how
Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Winter Choice Award. Contains the poem "Joy" - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. Sasha Dugdale’s fourth Carc
The twelfth year of the incredibly successful anthology of the BBC National Short Story Award shortlist. This year, no.1 bestselling author Joanna Trollope will be chairing the judging panel, taking
stack is a book-length poem, and the début Carcanet title of one of the UK’s rising poetry talents. Described by its author as a document of "minimalist interventions", the
The Michael Hamburger Reader is the definitive collection of poems, translations, essays, interviews and personal reflections by one of the most influential Anglo-German writers of the last century. D
Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie-Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: w
In The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante’s Divine Com
A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the
Sean O’Brien’s second collection, Quartier Perdu, is dedicated to the dedicated - the fanatical, driven, obsessive - an exploration of the gothic aesthetic of the dark end of the street, dead parts
Now in his mid-seventies, distinguished poet, critic and translator Anthony Rudolf has amassed a lifetime's worth of work, presented here in this latest collection. For over five decades, Rudolf has w
Diary of the Last Man sees climate change meet post-Brexit British politics, as Robert Minhinnick walks between the river mouths of his home in Wales, head full of the sands of Babylon. This is a book
The first volume of this two-volume edition of MacDiarmid's Complete Poems reprints the texts of the Penguin edition (1986), which was based on the first edition of 1978, which MacDiarmid himself saw
Characterised by a rigorous attention to each word’s layers of etymology or latent semantic possibilities, Eric Langley’s debut collection takes its cue from the art-conservation technique of ?raking
This anthology brings together ten stories by Havana-based authors, offering different perspectives on a city that has stood in defiance of much of the rest of the world for decades. These stories tak
Long Pass is narrated by people who set out to communicate something simple and heartfelt, and who get caught up mid-expression in the social and linguistic complexities of communication: how can we s
Peelin Orange is the definitive Collected Poems by one of Jamaica's leading voices, the current Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. These poems explore the everyday, the erotic, love and the melancholy and
There are two kinds of Collected Poems, one of which presents an author’s work exactly as it first appeared volume-by-volume. This is the other sort. Neil Powell has re-examined his poems of the past
Alain-Fournier, the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier, had a brief but significant literary career as the author of Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), which today is considered a classic of French literature.
For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound reg
The Teller and the Tale, the latest book from novelist, playwright, biographer and critic, Gabriel Josipovici, contains essays which take a fresh, analytical approach to the works of literary giants i
This book is the only single-volume anthology in English that fully represents the scope of Mayakovsky’s artistic work. It includes new translations of his major lyrics, as well as versions of several
The poems in this collection celebrate dirt, and try to bring out the beauty within the muck and the soil of society. Sex and religion weave their way through the collection in a manner that grounds t
