This volume concludes the corrected text of the almost 1500 pages of "Hugh MacDiarmid's Complete Poems", with a volume including the full texts of "In Memoriam James Joyce" (1955), "Three Hymns to Lenin" (1957), "The Kind of Poetry I Want" (1961) and...

Artur Corvelo inherits a legacy, quits his provincial home town and sets out for the capital. Armed with some poems and a heroic play, he seeks literary renown and entry into fashionable intellectual and social circles. Disillusion follows and he ret...

This rich and varied collection, his first in ten years, gathers Harry Guest's poems from 1983 to 1990. Intelligence, compassion, formal inventiveness and a gift for evocation both of landscape and things remembered blend to give his poetry its attra...

"The Rags of Time" adds recent poems written on the deaths of two poets, Nikos Gatsos and Constantine Trypanis, and the sculptor Elisabeth Frink to the six laments included in "The Echoing Green" (1983) and "Shakespeare's Birthday" (1985). These sust...

Everything is always strange in the poetry of Frank Kuppner. His first Carcanet book was a single poem, "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty" (1984, Scottish Arts Council Book Award), running to 511 Oriental Quatrains, a kind of Procrustean Bed of Ware ac...

This is the first extensive collection of Philip Sherrard's poetry. Highly regarded for his verse translations of such poets as Cavafy, Elytis, Seferis and Sikelianos, he has previously published only two booklets of poetry. He has a fine lyric gift,...

But there's a lot to follow. What is his body, what is his mind? How can he be him? What is real, and can he look for it? Is he only a different version of a brick wall? Studiously, peering closer, as though at an anatomy lesson, "he tries harder"....

In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fat...

After the "monstrous, magnificent sprawl" of John Ashbery's 216-page poem "Flow Chart" (1991) and the further munificence of "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992), his sixteenth collection, "And the Stars were Shining", includes a thirteen-part title poem which...

"This book", writes Les Murray, "presents to British and European readers selections from the work of five leading Australian poets of the generation before mine". They are, with Judith Wright, A. D. Hope and Gwen Harwood-who are happily available in...