This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem Without a Hero.
First collection by a young Black British poet already well-known on the UK performance circuit and for his work in schools. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
Pascale Petit’s Tiger Girl marks a shift from the Amazonian rainforests of her previous work to explore her grandmother’s Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles.... Læs mere
Elena Shvarts was the most outstanding Russian poet of her generation. Birdsong on the Seabed presents a selection of her later poetry. Russian-English dual language text. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
Powerful, visionary book by leading African American poet confronts tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of the mothers of murdered African American men. Dynamic... Læs mere
Poems about place, landscape, community and borderlands, including a selection of Porteous's renowned radio work, featuring hill farmers caught up in the 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic and Northumberland fishermen.
How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love? Tiffany Atkinson’s fourth collection includes her sequence ‘Dolorimeter’, which takes fragments of speech and found... Læs mere
Aoife Lyall’s debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from ante-natal complications and the devastating pain of... Læs mere
Kapka Kassabova is a young Bulgarian émigré poet who writes in English but with a European imagination. In Someone else’s life, her first poetry collection to be published in the UK,... Læs mere
W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. While he was long viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his... Læs mere
Maria Stepanova is one of Russia’s most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers. This first full English translation of her poetry includes three recent long poems... Læs mere
Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark’s leading poets. The Taste of Steel and The Smell of Snow are the first two collections in her new series of books focussing on the... Læs mere