Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe’s greatest poets. This expanded edition of Selected Poems (1990/96), winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize, also includes all of Hölderlin’s Sophocles (2001).
Hafez is one of the best known medieval Persian mystic poets, as celebrated and popular as his near contemporary Rumi. As with Rumi, modern translations have a strong appeal to today’s readers. Both ardent mystic and lover, Hafez fuses earthly and divine love.
Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, travelling around a country erupting into civil war. Briefly available from... Læs mere
Propa Propaganda was Benjamin Zephaniah’s second collection from Bloodaxe. First published in 1996, it includes some of his classic poems, such as ‘I Have a Scheme’, ‘The Death of Joy Gardner’, ‘White Comedy’ and ‘The Angry Black Poet’.
Comprehensive anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poetry.
Paul Valéry (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with Verlaine and Mallarmé is regarded as one of the most important Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to... Læs mere
This edition is the sequel to Collected Poems 1945-1990 (Dent, 1993; Phoenix Press, 1995) reprinting in full the contents of R.S. Thomas’s last five collections, The... Læs mere
Too Black Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's third collection from Bloodaxe. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. He opens this... Læs mere
This new, comprehensive selection of one of America’s foremost modern poets replaces her earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems (1986), and draws on books published over six decades, with... Læs mere
Comprehensive selection of British, Irish and American manifestos on poetry by some of modern poetry’s finest practitioners.
First substantial selection of for English-language readers of the poetry of Harry Martinson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974. Robin Fulton's edition was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and won him the Bernard Shaw Prize for Swedish Translation.
Alvi's latest collection of surrealist fables features 'Motherbird' and 'Fatherbird' - inspired by her Pakistani father's immigration and recent death. Her previous two collections were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.