Galway Kinnell is one of America's most important poets. This book contains a collection of his poems which include poems intermingling with the natural world, love poems and... Læs mere
Imprisoned in Franco's jails, Miguel Hernandez died from untreated TB in 1942 at the age of 31. His passionate and bittersweet work is a dazzling reminder that force... Læs mere
Three lectures on contemporary British poets and their relationship with England, its history, politics and culture, and with the continuing tradition of English poetry.
Penelope Shuttle is one of Britain's leading poets. This selection - drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus new work - shows both her consistency of voice and her energised openness to language and to life.
Zoom! is the book which launched Simon Armitage's meteoric rise to poetic stardom. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award in 1989.
A trilogy comprising "Snow Leopard" (1987), "The Parks" (1992), and "After Spending a Night Among Horses" (1997), coupled with a cycle of poems, "Minerals." This... Læs mere
Roddy Lumsden is one of the liveliest and most inventive poets writing in Britain today. From the formal, frenetic debut 'Yeah Yeah Yeah', through the playful wit and... Læs mere
Because he was a radical poet, Jack Mapanje was imprisoned without trial or charge by the dictator Hastings Banda of Malawi for nearly four years. The... Læs mere
Jamie's poetry is intelligent and subtle, her language inventive and refreshing. This is a wide-ranging selection. It reveals the generous range of her concerns, from life in... Læs mere
An anthology that draws together the work of women poets from Britain, Ireland and America as one version of a history of women's poetic writing, while not isolating women's writing... Læs mere
Second collection by one of Britain's most versatile young poets, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Three contrasting but complementary, familial poem sequences by the TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet: Buttercup the Sloth, about mothers; Lobo-Lobo, about sisters; and Behold My Father on His Bicycle, about exactly that.