The compelling works of John William Polidori (1795-1821) such as "The Vampyre" and "Ernestus Berchtold", exerted a powerful hold over literature and popular culture. This... Læs mere
A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place and time, through the mirror of exile.
The third and most adventurous collection yet from acclaimed poet, critic and performer Rory Waterman interrogates absences and where they might prompt or force us to go.
Complete Poems of one of the most distinguished Greek-language poets of the 20th century, translated by Greek-Canadian poet and critic Evan Jones.
The first UK Selected of one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary poets.
A mixture of stories, poems and autobiography: the donkey survives the fire, and the poet survives in a northern world where the sun does not shine equally or often on all and where Postman Pat pens a suicide note, maddened by his theme tune, but keeps on driving all the same.
The highly anticipated new collection from Forward Prize-winner Kei Miller explores his strangest landscape yet – the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is both possible to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by murder.
This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of Joy (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem).
An illustrated brief history of Portugal written for non-specialist foreign readers. Also included in the book is a historical gazetteer, short biographies, chronological tables and maps.
Sinead Morrissey's poems consider spectacular feats of human engineering from our radically unstable perspective.
The new collection by acclaimed Jamaican poet, Kei Miller. Here the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it,... Læs mere
This reissue of Elson's best writing reintroduces her to the 21st century.