Published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city, Dublin.
The long-awaited new collection from the former National Poet of Wales.
A new selection of Anthony Burgess's best reviews and articles.
This book gathers Muriel Spark's writings on the Bront? sisters lives and work.
This bilingual volume celebrates the bicentenary of Lermontov (a poet of Scottish descent) with new translations by 14 translator-poets, mostly Scottish.
There is more to Thomas Chatterton than the romantic archetype. This selection, with its detailed notes, shows the historical significance and unexpected range of... Læs mere
Includes "Penelope's Song" in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's "Odyssey". This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the "nostos", the homecoming.
A selection from the work of one of modern Greece's poets. It is drawn from various periods of his career and traces his development from early surrealism, in... Læs mere
Vernon Watkins was a great lyric poet. This work offers a selection of his poetry since his death, with an introduction and notes, outlining the literary and biographical context of his work, and a foreword by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Presents a collection of poems, English and Latin, of the Elizabethan priest, poet and martyr S Robert Southwell. This book offers texts based on the manuscripts which were circulated in secret among English Catholics in the years after the poet's death.
The definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators.
This volume collects the five major books of one of Ireland's leading writers.