Twenty-four years after his successful first book Opia, Alan Moore returns with a vibrant collection evoking life in Ireland from the 1960s to the 1980s. His powerful descriptions of emotion and eye
Inspired by tombstones and their inscriptions, Mak Dizdar’s rich and haunting poems in Stone Sleeper’, his most famous work, are a journey into the mysterious heart of medieval Bosnia. The poems form
J.L. Gili's selection of Lorca's poems in Spanish, with his own unassuming prose versions as guides to the originals, first appeared in 1960. With its excellent introduction and selection it remains a
The poetry of Martinus Nijhoff (1894-1953) was distinguished by clarity of language combined with mystical content. His masterpiece Awater’, written in 1934, is the most important Dutch p
A major critical-biographical study of one of the most important figures in post-War literature.For many years Daniel Weissbort was associated with the late Russian emigre poet Joseph Brodsky. From Ru
Yehuda Halevi, who wrote both secular and devotional poems, is considered one of the finest poets in post-biblical Hebrew literature. Suffused with warmth, moving easily between the mundane and the ot
Nazim Hikmet's poetry combines passion and simplicity with sophistication, producing work of enduring significance. He was both a superb narrative and lyric poet; his immense and continuing popularity
Francois Villon was born in Paris in 1431. His life was blighted by destitution and ill health, robbery and murder, torture and exile. While we do not know what became of Villon after his 32nd year, t
The first part of Thomas McCarthy's book collects his recent short lyrics. Part Two daringly recreates a forgotten period in the Anglo-Irish world: a Big House in the years between the World Wars, a F
An enchanting selection from one of Europe's richest traditions of folk literature. The vitality of Popa's chosen material is wonderfully conveyed in this adaptation by Andrew Harvey and Anne Penningt
This sequence of poems in three voices introduces a ghostly eternal triangle whose lines are ruled feint or bold in response to situation, time and change. A man and two women explore their memories i
Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating rev
Poetry Book Society Recommended TranslationIn this generous selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, Robin Fulton displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry. Though de
"Many of the poems address absent figures: a lost grandmother, a mother later to be lost, former lovers, schoolfriends, mentors. Typically they hold their interlocutors with verbally dextrous, digress