A collection of poems that explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy by a leading Dutch poet who is also an archaeologist.
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid – from one shore, the Bristol Channel, from the other Môr Hafren, the Severn Sea.
Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a... Læs mere
Contains a mix of poems offering emotional and spiritual upliftment. This selection of traditional and contemporary poems are for people who have suffered, or are suffering from depression and mental illness.
Hirshfield is one of America's leading poets. This is her fourth book from Bloodaxe, following Come, Thief (2012), T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted After (2006) and Each Happiness Ringed by Lions: Selected Poems (2005).
Since the heady days of the Beijing Spring in the late 1970s, Yang Lian has forged complex poetry whose themes are the search for a Yeatsian mature wisdom, accommodation of... Læs mere
Supernatural Love includes three collections previously published in Britain as well as The Throne of Labdacus, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.
This edition combines two previous separate editions of The Moscow Notebooks and The Voronezh Notebooks published by Bloodaxe. The Moscow Notebooks cover his years of... Læs mere
The Book of Judas, Brendan Kennelly’s 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, was the number one bestselling book in Ireland. The Little Book of Judas is a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence.
This new retrospective by one of Scotland's most distinguished poets supersedes his early collected volumes, In the Kibble Place (1987) and Stolen Light (1999).
Ten: the new wave presents poetry from some of the most exciting new poets in Britain today. Mona Arshi, Jay Bernard, Kayo Chingonyi, Rishi Dastidar, Edward Doegar, Inua Ellams, Sarah... Læs mere