"Chinese Whispers" is the title poem of this outstanding collection. It refers to the ways in which a single word or idea can mutate and evolve through repetition and replication to become something wondrous, strange and illuminating much like the br...

Illusions and delusions, joys and jokes, mysteries of memory and temporal paradox figure in Andrew McNeillie's new collection. Here are new sequences of bird poems, and tree poems, lines from an autobiography, lines from America, and poems about old...

"Collected Poems" covers some thirty years from 1972 until 2001. His individual collections have usually taken as their subject one predominant theme – the enigmas of prehistory, his wartime childhood, the passing of the Edwardian generation his pare...

"The Song Atlas" is the world's first anthology of poetry from every country in the world. Five years in the making, the creation of such a book as almost as interesting as the poems contained therein. Making "The Song Atlas" by John Gallas Start...

Poems "The Size of Photographs" is the latest collection of brief, humorous and insightful poems from the prize-winning Australian poet, Les Murray. This accessible and beautiful book will appeal to both occasional and dedicated poetry readers.

Selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2002, Julian Turner's outstanding debut was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

The poems in Philip Holmes's fourth collection are as widespread in time, covering a 16-year period, as their settings are scattered geographically. These range from Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, where he grew up, to Bucharest, Kyoto and the USA, where...

"The District Commissioner's Dreams" is an integrated collection in which Gregory Woods returns to the themes of obsession, possession and violence. In its explorations of masculinity, the opening section draws on struggles for power in ancient and m...

"How suitable that Dick Davis, who gave us superb English versions of medieval Persian epigrams, should now compose witty, shapely, and polished epigrams that exhibit something like Philip Larkin's mordancy, but with a fine blend of thoughtfulness an...

Peter Dale's first full collection in over ten years brings together lyrical poems and monologues in which bleakness and tenderness alternate, conflict and finally coexist. The bitter-sweet shifts of memory are evoked throughout with an understated t...