This selection is drawn from six collections which span Pusterla's poetic career from 1985 to 2011. Pusterla's themes are many and varied, and there is a spareness and austerity... Læs mere
These poems are written from across the poet's life, contemplating his native land of Russia from both a literal and a figurative distance, while at the same time casting a sometimes jaundiced... Læs mere
Features poems on subjects including children, silence, death, God, and the troubled mind.
Includes poems of love and disenchantment, poems about landscapes, both familiar and unfamiliar, poems in which the poet, with her acute powers of observation, looks at the 'ordinary' and redraws it in an extraordinary, even a disturbing, way.
"Reflective as well as outward-looking, [Chrissie Gittins] writes vividly about the everyday as well as less familiar lives and places. Lively, accessible and gently surprising, hers is a voice... Læs mere
Francois Jacqmin is one of Belgium's most influential poets of the twentieth century. This twelfth collection of his poems is inspired by a bleak and beautiful natural landscape, where... Læs mere
Includes poems which inhabit and interpret the paradoxes of experience and imagination with insight, wit and metaphoric agility.
In The Arrow Maker, D.M. Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augustine, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan or Jacques Brel, also extends to more public themes of war and climate change.
Ellen Hinsey's new book-length sequence, The Illegal Age, is a powerful investigation into the twentieth-century's dark legacy of totalitarianism and the rise of political illegality. It... Læs mere
One hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, Wioletta Greg traces the seams of a family history through a century of life, death, love and tragedy with passion and humour.
A grounded yet playful collection from an assured poet, flexing his muscles into newer territory. As well as the deep lineage of rural landscapes that populated previous collections, here... Læs mere
This book presents poems from Palsson's ten collections written between 1980-2008. Swirling with imagery, they reveal a poet committed to unearthing the joy of living connected to the natural world.