Backalong, a dialect word from Nia Broomhall’s native Somerset, describes any point in the past. Her impressive debut collection... Læs mere
Krisztina Tóth is one of the leading Hungarian poets of the generation who began publishing in the late 1980s. My Secret Life is the first book of Krisztina Tóth’s poetry... Læs mere
The key sequence of The Inside of a Stone concentrates on desert landscapes and womanhood – and the emotional resonance between the two – while reconceptualising their metaphorical... Læs mere
Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country’s strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. The Shadow... Læs mere
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958-2023) was a writer and performer of extraordinary range. Dis Poetry brings together all the poems from his three Bloodaxe collections, City... Læs mere
Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit’s Beast. These spirits of the wild haunt the Camargue of Provence, the limestone Causses and gorges of the Languedoc, Indian... Læs mere
Arundhathi Subramaniam’s poems map a wobbling world, trying to find its axis in a season of change. Fabrics tear, lands splinter, stances harden, loved ones die, names... Læs mere
First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved from the trauma of childhood emotional abuse through... Læs mere
What is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? asks Kate Potts in this book. What can the imposter phenomenon – a sense that our true abilities and... Læs mere
William Martin (1925-2010) was a poet of extraordinary vision and musicality. Thoroughly grounded in his native North-East England, its pit communities and industry, his... Læs mere
The lode in Gillian Allnutt’s title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time,... Læs mere
This eclectic anthology brings together one hundred deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the international arena, from emerging voices to world-renowned authors, and offers an urgent redress, unpicking many misapprehensions and misrepresentations.