A poetry from a world, a way of life and a culture unfamiliar to most English-language readers.
This selection of poems from throughout Rilke's creative output is arranged chronologically, placing poems of similar themes and / or modes of expression close to one... Læs mere
'Sitters', Tony Roberts second collection of poetry, is a portrait gallery of well-known and lesser known figures from the nineteenth centuries. Among the wide range of artists (and their models)... Læs mere
Dr Mephisto is in the form of a long sequence of poems. It traces Mephistopheles as he ranges freely through time and space, at times a laconic observer, at others a thuggish participant, but... Læs mere
A collection of poems that lament for the poet's dead father in the stammered cadences of an adult and the child she used to be.
A presentation of poems preceding glasnost' as well as the final decade of the twentieth century. It includes poems from the '70s and '80s which speak about the horrors of the Soviet... Læs mere
Describes Herliany's writing as revealing "a struggle to understand human experience in all its reality - not as an ideal but as a fact that displays profound suffering and hurt, without,... Læs mere
This collection brings together some of the finest poetry written over more than three decades by Cheran, one of the best known of Tamil poets today. His poetry charts the narrative... Læs mere
Text in Latin and English; preface in English.
'Division of Spoils', a selection of J.D.McClatchy's poems published over the past two decades, introduces British readers to the work of one of America's most distinguished poets.
Birhan Keskin's poetry is finely-honed and minimal and at the same time, powerfully visual, evocative and exact. Meaning and music overlap, lines dissolve, restart and repeat.... Læs mere