Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is a classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure and romance. This splendid new translation – by one of the world’s leading poets – has already been acclaimed in America. Modern and Middle English parallel text edition.
This retrospective of the work of Ruth Stone (1915-2011) presents a comprehensive selection that includes early formal lyrics, fierce feminist and political poems,... Læs mere
Samuel Menashe's poetry has a mysterious simplicity, a spiritual intensity and a lingering emotional force. This book presents Menashe's work which stands apart in its solitary meditative power, and is equally a poetry of the everyday.
Luljeta Lleshanaku is one of Albania's foremost younger poets with a growing reputation in the US and Europe. Haywire is her first British publication, and draws on two editions published in the States by New Directions. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
Penultimate collection by one of America's leading poets finds him, written in his mid-80s, reflecting on time and memory. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Come, Thief centres on the beauty and fragility of our lives, touching on love, science, ageing and mortality, war and the political, the revelatory daily object, and the full embrace of our... Læs mere
The title-sequence of Imtiaz Dharker's third collection speaks for the devil in acknowledging that in many societies women are respected, or listened to, only when they are... Læs mere
The popular Caribbean-British poet John Agard brings his trickster wit to a world of play and parable in which the Little Green Man stands for all pesky outsiders, in poems charged with contemporary relevance.
What are the contours of a life? This collection of poems features: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and... Læs mere
Fourth collection by winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection: poems confronting strange interconnections and anxieties of the early 21st century, tuning into what is out of... Læs mere
America’s Tony Hoagland is known for his provocative poetry which interrogates human nature and contemporary culture with an intimate and wild urgency,... Læs mere
After Cézanne is a sequence of 56 poems exploring the life and work of the post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, with 26 full colour reproductions of his paintings. Reimagining his... Læs mere