Roddy Lumsden's fifth collection Third Wish Wasted is a book concerned with our wishes and desires. Belonging to a world between real and imagined folklore, the poems are by turns... Læs mere
Substantial retrospective by leading British poet covering work written over four decades from ten collections.
Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent dispatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield.
This book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections. Many of the poems were included in two... Læs mere
Reading's final collection after this three-volume Collected Poems covering 24 collections published up until 2003 (followed by -273.15 in 2005).
From cosmology to infidelity, gentle truth to the fiercest of fairy-tales, this first collection from Kona Macphee tells an outsider's story in a voice that sings with the music of language.
The Guyanese poet Martin Carter (1927-97) was one of the foremost Caribbean writers of the 20th century. He wrote about slavery, Amerindian history and... Læs mere
Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation'. This book brings together poems from his first two US collections, "The Afterlife of Objects" (2002) and "Natural History" (2005), along with his other work.
This compilation brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides'... Læs mere
Joan Margarit's poems that evoke the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and grief at the death of his beloved handicapped daughter. His poetry reminds us that it is not death we have to understand but life.
C.D. Wright’s work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously... Læs mere