Parents, teachers, librarians and youngsters will welcome four new superb, unabridged editions of timeless children's favourites – complete with artwork by Scott McKowen. Each book features extraordinary jacket art, detailed spot illustrations, a thr...

A few months before his death, Paul Celan described "Schneepart" as his "strongest and boldest" book. A response to the turbulent events of 1968 – the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the attempted assassination of a student leader in Berlin – the...

"King Lear", one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his wo...

The glowing, painterly poems of Jenny Lewis's first collection take soundings in the depths: of the layers of the pasts that create a life, of the sources of self and creativity, of the structures beneath the surface. It is a region of loss and of re...

The Caribbean is producing some of the most innovative and sophisticated poets in world literature today. This anthology turns the spotlight on eight New Caribbean poets. Between them, they represent the range of Caribbean identities and experiences:...

What happens when a little orphan girl is forced to live with her cold and frightening grandfather? The heartwarming answer has engaged children for more than a century, both on the page and on the screen. Johanna Spyri's beloved story offers youngst...

Roger Langley's poems explore perception. They take their bearings from forms as diverse as Renaissance hermeticism, a Greek vase, Rauschenberg's painting, Bottom's dream, a green beetle. Here the world may chime, like a building by Palladio, or disa...

The document known as "The Parthian Stations" is an account of the overland route from Antioch to the borders of India in the first century BC. John Ash's own Parthian Stations begins with his departure from New York to Istanbul. It is a journey, as...

This collection of Trakl's essential poetry contains the two books published in his lifetime, "Gedichte" (Poems, 1913) and "Sebastian im Traum" (Sebastian in a Dream, 1914), together with the later poems published in the magazine "Der Brenner" which...

Paul Celan is among the most important German-language poets of the century, and, in George Steiner's words, "almost certainly the major European poet of the period after 1945". Language, Celan said, was the only thing that remained intact for him af...