Imtiaz Dharker's themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. Over the Moon is her fifth... Læs mere
This stunning collection gathers never-before-seen poems, found by archivists in boxes kept at the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile in 2014 presented here... Læs mere
Work by Belfast poet written since his retrospective Goat's Milk (2015), including poems - sombre and flippant - about having Parkinson's Disease. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for a National Book Circle Critics Award.
Third anthology from the Complete Works project showcasing the work of ten exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds.
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was one of Europe’s greatest poets. This expanded edition of Selected Poems (1990/96), winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize, also includes all of Hölderlin’s Sophocles (2001).
Hafez is one of the best known medieval Persian mystic poets, as celebrated and popular as his near contemporary Rumi. As with Rumi, modern translations have a strong appeal to today’s readers. Both ardent mystic and lover, Hafez fuses earthly and divine love.
Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us bears witness to what she saw in El Salvador in the late 1970s, travelling around a country erupting into civil war. Briefly available from... Læs mere
Propa Propaganda was Benjamin Zephaniah’s second collection from Bloodaxe. First published in 1996, it includes some of his classic poems, such as ‘I Have a Scheme’, ‘The Death of Joy Gardner’, ‘White Comedy’ and ‘The Angry Black Poet’.
Comprehensive anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poetry.
Paul Valéry (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with Verlaine and Mallarmé is regarded as one of the most important Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to... Læs mere
This edition is the sequel to Collected Poems 1945-1990 (Dent, 1993; Phoenix Press, 1995) reprinting in full the contents of R.S. Thomas’s last five collections, The... Læs mere
Too Black Too Strong is Benjamin Zephaniah's third collection from Bloodaxe. It addresses the struggles of black Britain more forcefully than all his previous books. He opens this... Læs mere