The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but becomes an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate... Læs mere
W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. At 82, Merwin produced ‘his best book in a decade – and one of the best outright’ (Publishers... Læs mere
In The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, past and present, character and writer. Shaped through speech and storytelling, these visual,... Læs mere
In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is... Læs mere
Annemarie Austin's vividly imaginative poems explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon her own memories and experiences, as well as on art, travel, dream, myth, history and... Læs mere
An anthology of Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. It features selections of work by 14 poets, with interviews, photographs and essays.
"Enormous credit goes to Bloodaxe for commissioning this exhilarating volume, Solie’s first book publication outside Canada...there is hardly a poem in The Living Option... Læs mere
This new comic-book version of Euripides’ classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The... Læs mere
Known for her surreal, disturbing, uncomfortably humorous poems, Selima Hill is one of Britain’s leading poets. Her Forward-shortlisted 20th collection brings together seven sequences of short poems relating to men and to women’s relationships with men.
George Szirtes fled from Budapest with his family after the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Many of these poems relate to his arrival in England as a young child, and to the themes of... Læs mere
Catalan poet Joan Margarit (1938-2021) was one of Spain’s major modern writers. In this final collection he faces the approach of death with courage, humility and even humour. ‘Each of... Læs mere