The novella and conto, short forms that lend themselves to satire, social comment and the lyric impulse, are at the heart of Portuguese fiction. We can trace the history of the nation and of the Portuguese imagination in these vivid stories. "Profes...

In "A Poet's Choice" Elizabeth Jennings includes the poems which helped shape her taste – poems she read at school, or discovered in bookshops and the library, or pored over as an undergraduate – work which first gave her a taste for the art of poetr...

Is Modernism a few ground-breaking works by a handful of writers-Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis? Other writers loomed large at the time; their work points in untaken directions. Andrew Crozier assembles the first definitive text of the poems and...

"Poems: Selected traces" over half a century of C. H. Sisson's work, starting with poems written on a troopship and in Bengal and ending on home ground in Somerset. His beginnings were "without facility, and when I was forced into verse it was throug...

"The Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador. During twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, China, Japan, sailing uncharted oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, t...

Three traditions are represented in this anthology: a Chartist and radical literature, a Parnassian strand, and a deliberately local manner, often steeped in dialect. This is a literature poised between speech and print, between the anonymous street...

These writings by David Wright collect his written conversations with friends, most of them fellow poets. Norman Nicolson, C. H. Sisson, George Barker and Charles Causley are among those included. The elegies, written in informal and direct language,...

This comprehensive introductory anthology of poems by forty women writers from Elizabethan to Victorian times includes work by aristocrats and frame-workers, by celebrated figures such as Aphra Behn, the Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christ...

"Poetry World" was the short-lived successor to the original series of "Modern Poetry in Translation". Contents: Stanislaw Baranczak: "Artificial Respiration" – translated by Chris Zielinski Sumerian Poems – Thorkild Jacobsen Amarusataka – Rahul Bon...