Anthony Howell's first collection for several years moves in unusual directions. Guilt and society's victimization of those it punishes are among it subjects: it begins with poems concerned with the h
Matthew Mead began publishing his poetry in the 1960s. By then he had, as Peter Riley noted, 'located a sense of poetry for which he drew widely from Anglo-American writing, avoiding any programmes of
Tom Disch’s first collection of poems for ten years presents a dazzling variety show of inventive wit. His serious gift for humour permeates poems by turn lyric and narrative, satirical, rebellious, r
The Old English Riddles survive through a manuscript of about the year 1000 left to Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, its first bishop. Unlike most of the poetry preserved in the Exeter Book, the Riddles
Nikos Gatsos's profoundly mysterious and magnetic poem Amargos, named after a Greek island he never visited and written during the Nazi occupation, is the single work on which his reputation rests. I
Since the 1960s the English poet Matthew Mead and his German wife Ruth have translated selections from poets to whom they were drawn. This is their own choice from the many memorable poems which they
Baudelaire's prose poems had two working titles: "Petits Poemes en prose" (small prose poems) and "Le Spleen de Paris". This title features a collection of Baudelaire's pieces.
Nasos Vayenas' poems manifest a quality of alert intelligence that is always refreshing, bracing and vital. They have been widely published in small editions and magazines all over the English-speakin
Baudelaire's prose poems had two working titles: "Petits Poemes en prose" (small prose poems) and "Le Spleen de Paris". This title features a collection of Baudelaire's pieces.
Ros Barber’s second book forms a meditation on human loss; it is a more personal and autobiographical collection than her first, described by Neil Rollinson as an honest, unflinching and hugely satisf
At the heart of many of these poems lies an apprehension of things being lost or destroyed, and with this a need for consolation. The question of how we look for, or create, such solace - whether in
This collection of Trakl’s essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, Gedichte (Poems’, 1913) and Sebastian im Traum (Sebastian in a Dream’, 1914), together with the later poem
A Season in Hell' is one of the great works of modern literature. It is published here in a bilingual edition together with many of the verse poems which Rimbaud wrote between March 1870 and August 18
Awarded the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2003One of ten poets chosen for Anvil New Poets 3' (2001), A.B. Jackson was singled out by John Greening in Poetry Review' for his 'demanding and ambiti
The poetry of Jean Follain (1903-1971) is increasingly seen, by poets and critics in France and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry's change of course after Surrealism. The writer Hen
