"The Covenant" contains Dick Davis's poems written since 1979. It is his third collection, following "In the Distance" (1975) and "Seeing the World" (1980), which received the Royal Society of Literature Award under the W. H. Heinemann Bequest in 198...

John Gallas was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand. He came to England in 1971 to study Old Icelandic at Oxford, and stayed. He has worked for many years as a teacher with the Leicestershire Behaviour Support Team. He has published ten collectio...

"Seeing the World", Dick Davis's second book of poems, received the Royal Society of Literature Award under the W.H. Heinemann Bequest in 1981. Dana Gioia wrote in "The Hudson Review" that it "confirms my impression that he is one of the two or three...

The three sections of Bei Dao's moving book of poems – "Berlin", "Oslo" and "Stockholm" – are poignant reminders of the restless and rootless life of the exile. All the poems in this bilingual collection were written after Tiananmen Square (4 June 19...

The unique poetic world of Sandor Weores has fascinated readers in Hungary ever since he began to publish poems in 1928, at the Mozartian age of fifteen. Today he is considered one of the greatest poets in his language and one of the major European p...

"It occurred to me to wonder what would really happen to a modern man thrown back to the Middle Ages", Ford Madox Ford said after reading Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". The fruit of this meditation is "Ladies Whose Bright...

The present volume provides the best introduction to the work of this intelligent and lucid poet, with a selection from previous collections and a handful of recent poems. It offers vivid impressions of South Africa, Westmorland, Cumberland and the A...

In "The Hoop", his first book of poems, John Burnside takes his bearings from Celtic mythology and from landscape, especially that of Gloucestershire. "The things that contribute to how I work are botanical texts and drawings, fairy stories, Celtic a...

E. J. Scovell has made her own terms with poetry. She has published only four book-length collections, her first in 1944, though she started writing in the 1920s. This volume reveals that she has not been as "scarce" a poet as her admirers have belie...