Reading's final collection after this three-volume Collected Poems covering 24 collections published up until 2003 (followed by -273.15 in 2005).
From cosmology to infidelity, gentle truth to the fiercest of fairy-tales, this first collection from Kona Macphee tells an outsider's story in a voice that sings with the music of language.
The Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the foremost Caribbean writers of the 20th century. He wrote about slavery, Amerindian history and... Læs mere
Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation'. This book brings together poems from his first two US collections, "The Afterlife of Objects" (2002) and "Natural History" (2005), along with his other work.
This compilation brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides'... Læs mere
Joan Margarit's poems that evoke the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and grief at the death of his beloved handicapped daughter. His poetry reminds us that it is not death we have to understand but life.
C.D. Wright’s work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously... Læs mere
Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. This book contains a collection of his poems which include poems intermingling with the natural world, love poems and... Læs mere
Imprisoned in Franco's jails, Miguel Hernandez died from untreated TB in 1942 at the age of 31. His passionate and bittersweet work is a dazzling reminder that force... Læs mere
Three lectures on contemporary British poets and their relationship with England, its history, politics and culture, and with the continuing tradition of English poetry.
Penelope Shuttle is one of Britain's leading poets. This selection - drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus new work - shows both her consistency of voice and her energised openness to language and to life.