"A Man Could Stand Up", the third volume of "Parade's End", brings Ford's characters to the "crack across the table of History", across which lie their uncertain post-war futures. Divided into three parts, the novel is a kaleidoscopic vision of socie...

"No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country... Nor for the world, I dare say...", says Christopher Tietjens to a war-damaged fellow officer, under fire on the Western Front. "No More Parades" continues "...

Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From ancient Biblical times through to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems...

"The poetry of Jean Follain" (1903-1971) is increasingly recognized, by French poets and critics and by his foreign admirers, as central to French poetry's change of course after the Surrealist period. The poet and novelist Henri Thomas wrote of Foll...

"Some Do Not...", the first volume of "Parade's End", introduces the central characters: Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant mathematician; his dazzling, unfaithful wife Sylvia; and the young Suffragette Valentine Wannop. It starts with the cataclysmic...

While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages".The Ideas in Things" explores apparently inconsequen...

Cities is a book of travels, from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi – and from the child in wartime Leicester to a 'fortune beyond any deserving / to be still here' in a London garden, eight decades later. "Migrations", the book's opening poem, c...

Nigel Forde's poems explore those feelings, memories and landscapes, glimpsed and momentary, that haunt us with an insistent need to be questioned or commemorated. In monologues and elegies, reflections on art, intimate domestic lyrics, love poems an...

Each poem in Catalan writer Ernest Farres's "Edward Hopper" is based on a painting by the American artist. Creating a narrative that follows a subject from small-town origins to big-city life, from youth to age, the story is Hopper's, yet it also bel...

Contemporary French poetry has long been tagged as being overly cerebral and hermetic. But there exists a very different, thriving tradition which is too often muffled by noisier movements like Surrealism or Minimalism". Into the Deep Street" gives v...