Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes work from "Cell Angel" (1996) and "Blind... Læs mere
Book with films on DVD of Benjamin Zephaniah, drawing on both live performances and informal interviews. All the poems featured in the films are included in the book with other material.
Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). "People Who Like Meatballs" is her 14th book of poetry - her 11th from Bloodaxe.
French-English bilingual edition. Gérard Macé's work challenges the barriers between poetry and the essay. This play between and within genres is essential to his writing – which has been called essai merveilleux – and derives from a questioning of language in its broadest sense.
Tatiana Shcherbina has been described as 'one of the most significant figures in contemporary Russian poetry'. In her recent work, the elegant and ironic... Læs mere
The zero at the heart of these poems is not nothing - not simply absence, forgetting or loss, though there are moving elegies among them. This is a not-quite-definable zero that gives surprising edge to life and language round it.
Addresses the question: What is 'now'? This book takes us on a journey through a dark night of the soul, through the thoughts and feelings of various kinds of people struggling to survive and find... Læs mere
Carol Rumens's Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures cover the poetry of Philip Larkin and Derek Mahon as well as form and music in the work of a range of contemporary women poets.
Brings together translations of Tomas Venclova's work and includes a selection of poems from his 1997 volume "Winter Dialogue".
George Szirtes is a leading figure in contemporary poetry in England and in Hungary. A companion volume to George Szirtes' "New and Collected Poems", this book offers a sustained... Læs mere