Versions by one of Britain’s best-known poets of Yannis Ritsos (1909–90) – along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis – one of the most significant Greek poets of the 20th century. Harsent's selection is of poems written while Ritsos was in prison or under house arrest.
Irish poet Harry Clifton's latest collection ranges from South America to the North of Ireland, from Khao I Dang refugee camp to Glasnevin cemetery, These are poems of origin and migration, in quest of a lost maternal ground.
Adelia Prado's poetry combines passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. Her poems are about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it. First UK edition of one of Brazil's leading poets.
Jane Clarke’s third collection is far-reaching and yet precisely rooted in time and place, exploring how people, landscape and culture shape us. Voices of the past and present show... Læs mere
Kris Johnson’s first collection presents a lyrical and intimate portrait of America’s Pacific Northwest, in which wilderness and home are interwoven. Its central sequence reimagines this... Læs mere
Burning Season is a book about fire and survival, climate change and nature’s defiance. Yvonne Reddick's first book-length collection combines poems with nature diaries and lyric essays to trace an intriguing family history in the oil industry.
This first ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry features over 100 poets writing in English, or translated... Læs mere
Serious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God’s creatures in Mark Waldron's... Læs mere
Hot on the heels of her previous collection Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill's Women in Comfortable Shoes is her 21st book of poetry, presenting eleven contrasting but well-fitting sequences of short poems relating to women. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Written by an award-winning author of "The Man in the White Suit", this work explores the different meanings and implications which are packed into that small word - from departures on... Læs mere
New collection by leading Scottish poet.
Warner's debut, Confer, was both a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second collection, also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, is darker and more capricious.