First UK Selected Poems by one of America's leading poets, known for his highly entertaining and provocative poetry. Launched with a UK reading tour.
Book-length sequence by one of Britain's leading poets about the life and hard times of her grandparents farming in New Zealand, her third book since Poems 1960-2000.
This international collaboration between Bloodaxe Books and award-winning film-maker Pamela Robertson-Pearce presents 14 hours of readings by 60 poets from around the world on four DVDs, with all the poems from the videos included in book part of this DVD-anthology.
Poems on immigrants, their homeland and the plight of women by a poet who rec-ently returned to Kurdistan. The book's central sequence, Anfal, tells the stories of women survivors of genocide.
Are we corrupt or innocent, fragmented or whole? Are responsibility and freedom irreconcilable? Do we value memory or succumb to our forgetfulness? Application for... Læs mere
Anthology celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King receiving an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in... Læs mere
Imtiaz Dharker's themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. In Luck Is the Hook... Læs mere
Fourth collection by popular young Irish poet written in response to her husband's total loss of memory following a brain infection. More present to him him were birds and animals... Læs mere
Songwriter/musician Virginia Astley portrays the Thames in poems and photographs in her first book-length collection. Foreword by Pete Townshend.
A collection of poems that explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy by a leading Dutch poet who is also an archaeologist.
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid – from one shore, the Bristol Channel, from the other Môr Hafren, the Severn Sea.
Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a... Læs mere