A collection of poems that are inspired by an autumn sojourn in America where the author would sit by the edge of a reservoir, trying to cope with loneliness by contemplating black swans, blue waves, seagulls, trees and rocks.
'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously... Læs mere
A book in three sections: The Laurelude, a blank verse myth about Ulverston’s Idiot Boy, Stan Laurel; Othermoor, a cubist version of the North; and The Madmen of Elgin squashing both Lost... Læs mere
Ex-Salt poet Mark Waldron joins Bloodaxe with his third collection. 'Mark Waldron is the most striking and unusual new voice to have emerged in British poetry for some time.' - John Stammers
J.S. Harry is one of Australia's leading poets. The poems in "Not Finding Wittgenstein" feature Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who searches the world for... Læs mere
The Malarkey was Helen Dunmore’s first poetry book after Glad of These Times (2007) and Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001), and was followed by her tenth and final collection, Inside... Læs mere
Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism is her 15th book of poetry - her 12th from Bloodaxe - and comprises three sequences.
This recent collection by one of Romania's foremost poets, her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize, is a visionary meditation on life and death from the particular perspective of her native land.
Kit Wright is both a seriously funny poet and a poignant chronicler of our times. His sixth collection is published on his 70th birthday.
Debut collection by one of the most distinctive lyric voices to emerge from Scotland in recent years. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, winner of the Saltire First Book of the Year Award.
Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage, following the failing of the body, through the mind's weakening hold on the borderline between the present and the traumas of the past. It... Læs mere
First book of essays on a maverick figure in late 20th century British poetry.