Elena Shvarts was the most outstanding Russian poet of her generation. 'Paradise' presents a dual language selection of her earlier poetry. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
This anthology captures the excitement of one of the most challenging developments in recent French writing, the new metaphysical poetry which has become an in?uential strand in... Læs mere
Galway Kinnell was one of America's major modern poets. This new selection – drawing on eight collections from What a Kingdom It Was (1960) to Imperfect Thirst (1994) – updated his 1982 Selected Poems, which won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Clare Pollard's second colleciton includes poems from the edge, confronting evil in its manifestations, especially the bondage of sex and cruelty. They address contemporary issues form confessionalism and reality TV to masculinity in crisis, racial politics, and atheism.
Elizabeth Alexander is a leading American poet whose work has been inspired by history, literature, art and music to the 'rich infinity' of the African-American experience.... Læs mere
Anthology of contemporary comic poems/
Third collection by one of Britain's foremost younger poets, winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year).
Denise Levertov described Gillian Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. Both serious and light in touch, humane and profound, this new collection explores the... Læs mere
First British publication by the rising star of European poetry
Anthology of poems on ageing from Shakespeare to the present time, with foreword by Joan Bakewell.
First British edition of leading South Korean poet known for her innovative experimental feminist poetry.