Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to good effect. "Selected Poems" – which includes important prose as well – reveals the individual character of each poem and sequence, "written only when the internal pressure demands and the slow pac...

Karen Press has been a presence in English-language poetry for some time, her work represented in the anthologies "Ten South African Poets" and in "New Poetries II" (1999). Home, however, is her first book to be published outside South Africa. She br...

Mycology, psycho-analysis, music, mythology, linguistics, Christianity, occultism, Majorca, esoterica... This book for the first time selects the best from the more than five hundred essays which Robert Graves wrote about areas of culture which engag...

Dharmakaya: "Truth-body", a beautiful and evocative word from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. In her new book, Paula Meehan looks at how memory is lodged in the body, in physical consciousness, as much as in the old movies we run inside our heads. Two...

"A Champion for the Poor" brings together for the first time John Clare's longest poem, "The Parish" – in a new and corrected text – and his forceful satires "The Hue & Cry" and "The Summons". Some previously unpublished poems are included, too. Ther...

In Toccata and Fugue John F. Deane selects from the full range of his work a representative core. He emerges as a substantial and original poet, for whom the old verities retain some of their truth and the accelerating fin-de-siecle is not an unmitig...

The great Russian poet Alexander Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas, trying to welcome the new order. But there was no space in it for his kind of imagination. His poem "The Twelve" has claims to being the fi...

Andrew Waterman's themes encompass love and loss, the human textures of England and the hurt and hope of Ireland, our core existential plight. He ranges from lyric intensity to narrative abundance. In the vivid land- and cityscapes subtle epiphanies...

The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 primarily for this work, parts of which he had rendered into the lucid, grave English prose of prayer. Although he wrote over 40 books of poetry, this is...

Christopher Middleton has been making translations for more than forty years: translation is part of his own poetic project, and he brings us with generous authority poetry from German, French, Swedish, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and others, and from m...