Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark’s leading poets. She has received the Nordic Literature Prize – Scandinavia’s most prestigious literary award – and the Swedish Academy’s... Læs mere
From London's hospital wards to rural Italy and the Great Plains, Sally Read's first collection eulogises the emotional and physical borders we cross, whether in sexual surrender, the... Læs mere
Fourth book of poems by Jane Griffiths, whose previous Bloodaxe title "Another Country" was shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best Collection.
The poems of The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass bring together a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry.
Spiritual orphanhood and the loss and protection of innocence lie at the heart of this new collection by the eminent Irish poet Harry Clifton, in poems which revisit – in... Læs mere
New collection of poems about beauty, death, time and contradiction by the esteemed American poet and prose writer Tess Gallagher, celebrating the two places where she has lived for the past four decades: the Northwest of America and the north-west of Ireland.
C.K. Williams was one of the major American poets of the past 50 years. Falling Ill is his final collection, written during his last months in 2015 as he lay dying from cancer.
Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, writer and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati descent. This was her first new book of poems since Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward... Læs mere
Second new book by the Pulitzer prizewinning American poet since his Collected Poems (2006). Poems on the looming spectre of death, sexual desire and hubris of youth. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
The illuminating letters of Nobel Prize winning poet Tomas Tranströmer and celebrated American writer and poet Robert Bly offer insights into their life and times, and the processes of translation.
Features poems that reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. This work examines the human condition through subjects ranging from spareness, possibility, judgement and hidden grief... Læs mere
New retrospective by one of Ireland's leading poets.