MUDs are Multi-User Dimensions, online worlds created by language alone. In a collection that throws Irish poetry into the electronic age, John Redmond explores the Internet and car culture, MUDs and
Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotati
The Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard brings together published and previously unpublished poems written across four decades. From her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Bloomsbury and avant-g
Vahni Capildeo is known for the experimental edge in her work and her love of collaborating on live performances with fellow poets. In this compelling new collection from the Trinidadian-born poet and
Addressing themes of destruction, consumption, misogyny, gods, sex, form, failure and rock ’n’ roll,Several Deer is the debut collection by a Northern Irish writer as much indebted to Bob Dylan and La
Frank Ormsby's new collection travels among places strange and familiar: from the shaping memories of an up bringing in rural County Fermanagh, to a Belfast reinventing itself in a new century and the
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
Reynard the Fox is one of the great poems of the English countryside and rural life. The headlong dash of John Masefield's narrative carries the reader on an exhilarating chase through the meadows and
"These poems reflect that the world as a whole is a puzzling and nonsensical place, but that there are always fragments here and there that can be understood. It is this suggestive, partial understand
Miles Burrows is a man always in love, and confused as lovers have to be by the inconstant nature of ?the other’. With Waiting for the Nightingale, he expresses social class anxiety, nostalgia and the
Price’s most ‘live’ or ‘performative’ work to date, the poems in Moon for Sale are sensual and shapeshifting and unfold like a series of haunting dreams. The collection begins with a poem about the ar
Mary O’Malley’s eighth collection moves between two landscapes, that of the West of Ireland and the East coast of America. The first section opens with an elegy for a poet and moves through the famil
'Madinah' - the Arabic word for 'city' - may conjure labyrinthine streets and the hustle and bustle of the souq in Westerners' minds, but for the inhabitants of the Middle East it is a much more mercu
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
Errant, Gabriel Levin’s sixth collection, opens and ends with invocations: of Venus at dawn and Hesperus at dusk. The book’s day takes us on a three-part planetary journey. "What Drew
Presents four novels which tell the terrifying story of a good man tortured, pursued, driven into revolt, and ruined as far as the world is concerned by the clever devices of a jealous and lying wife.
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
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 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
Whatbegan asa singlepoem written on a long drive into the countryside north of Glasgow has evolved into an imaginative collection exploringmemory, journey, vulnerability, and
Centered on recurring themes of sleep and sleeplessness, this delicate collection of poetry explores the nuances of human relationships. Beginning provocatively with a ?translation” of Shakespeare’s 1
Featuring several authors hailing from ?cities on the edge”?European port cities including?Liverpool, Bremen, Gdansk, Istanbul, Marseilles, and Naples?this stirring collection of short stories explore
Analyzing the complexity, absurdity, and blessedness of seemingly ordinary people, this debut collection examines the metaphysical assumptions surrounding death. From the end of a relationship to the
This poetry collection,whose title is takenfrom a letter by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, addresses the desire forclarity in knowledge of the world, the universe, and on
Including all poems published in the previous three editions, this comprehensive new translation of Baudelaire's poetry is both vivid and authoritative. This dual-language volume presents both
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 volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical writings. His Autobiographical Fragments, Journal, and Sketches are set alongside his famous Journey out
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's reputation has sometimes been overshadowed both by the achievements of her husband, Robert Browning, and by the romantic story of their elopement. This selection recovers
Connecting themes of exile, submergence, and reclamation, this imaginative poetry collection explores a variety of complex topics, from a harrowing battle with alcoholism to a redemptive love for Dutc
A strikingly modern textual experiment, this collection of poems takes an audaciously playful approach to poetic structure and borrows inspiration from the most varied of sources: art exhibitions, son
Set among places of recent upheaval, this striking collection of poetry skillfully documents the aftershock of moral and spiritual earthquakes, often within intimate contexts. Life in the Balkans, Eas
This thematic selection of Lamb's writings not only demonstrates his literary achievements; it forms a self-portrait of the writer: generous, amused, and gregarious, finding imaginative escape from gr
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
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
Following on from her 2013 T.S. Eliot Prize-winning Parallax, the inaugural Poet Laureate of Belfast, Sinead Morrissey, returns with a poignant and compelling new collection which evokes the atmospher
Peter Hughes has taken Guido Cavalcanti’s groundbreaking poems and used them as springboards for his own creative versions. Cavalcanti was a 13th-century Tuscan poet who brought an extraordinary inten
What Must Happen has concerns which might be grouped under three headings. First there are personal, mainly elegiac poems that recall parents, relations and friends. The second grouping, including t
The beauty of the Goucestershire landscape and sky-scape are Alison Brackenbury's commanding theme, her landscapes are historied, the skies always in vivid motion, moving towards elegy. The two World
Featuring sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, and translations from Old English, this compilation by Dutch poet Chris McCully spans 16 years of his work. A meditation on extinction, this supple, sparing v
A collection of interviews featuring Irish poets, artists, fiction writers, and playwrights, this record chronicles how these cultural leaders viewed their country in the first decade of the new mille
