Kerry Hardie's new poems are the work of time and the cycles of growth, they are songs about saints and scholars, the natural world, exaltation and suffering and ordinary joy, the quiet... Læs mere
Subramaniam's latest collection celebrates an expanding kinship: of passion and friendship, mythic quest and modern-day longing, in a world animated by dialogue and dissent, delirium... Læs mere
When Bill Herbert was made Dundee Makar (or City Laureate), he intended to write about his home town in both its native tongues. Then within six months his much-loved father... Læs mere
I May Be Stupid But I’m Not That Stupid is Selima Hill's 19th book of poetry and features six contrasting but complementary poem sequences: about family, fear, abuse and autism, and finding refuge with swimming, dogs and a jovial uncle.
Trawlerman’s Turquoise, Matthew Caley’s sixth collection, brings together elements as diverse as telepathy, Madame Blavatsky, epistolary novels, muse worship and Balzac’s coffee addiction.
This selection from Frieda Hughes's first four poetry collections is prefaced by a short memoir about her life and work, including the loss of her parents, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath,... Læs mere
Latest collection by winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2016. Carol Ann Duffy wrote that Gillian Allnutt's poetry `has always been in conversation with the natural world and the spiritual life'.
Mark Waldron’s fourth collection shows his always surreal work delivering even more surprises as he depicts the absurdity behind the posturing of human beings in society. Sometimes... Læs mere
Matthew Sweeney’s final collection brings together poems written during a year of debilitating illness before his death from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018. All his verve and spiky humour... Læs mere
New retrospective by Ken Smith (1938-2003), a major voice in world poetry – and the first poet published by Bloodaxe in 1978 – whose work and example inspired a whole generation of younger British poets during the 80s and 90s.
Fifth collection by London poet presents a personal geography in poems about hope and courage, life and nature, with a focus on recovery from mental health problems and questioning the workings of the NHS.
First new collection by the distinguished octogenarian since her Bloodaxe New & Collected Poems (2010): poems on her American childhood shadowed by the death of her husband Alan Sillitoe.