In "Cinnamon Shade: New and Selected Poems" is the first major collection to be published by Dom Moraes in the UK for over three decades. The collection shows the development of an urbane, witty, fiercely intelligent poet whose extraordinary life and...

The Word Pavilion is a dazzling construction: two-tiered, each tier divided into sections which, while they harmonise with one another, constitute structures in them-selves. To a selection of 110 poems from his eight earlier books, Middleton adds the...

Derek Walcott celebrates Les Murray in these terms: "There is no poetry in the English language so rooted in its sacred-ness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational". Fifteen years ago Carcanet published Les Murray...

Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the "immortality of youth", and youth's passions: for natural history (as in the group of bird poems entitled "Plato's Aviary"), for the naive curiosity and lu...

Edwin Morgan, Scotland's best-loved poet, returns to the stage after his celebrated Phaedra with a powerful and shocking millennial examination of the life of Jesus Christ as a man among men. Jesus, a human figure in an inhuman time, experiences all...

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...

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...

Edwin Morgan's original "Selected Poems" was published in 1985. It became something of a classic, selling in excess of 20,000 copies. But 1985 is a long time in the world of so inventive and irrepressible a writer as Edwin Morgan. He has published a...

Memory, love, history and ideas: Thomas McCarthy has a uniquely direct and engaged approach both to the private and the public, which are inseparable in his poetry. His special blend of wit and lyricism is shown to the full in this selection which dr...

"Conscious and Verbal" is Les Murray's first book since his celebrated verse novel Fredy Neptune, described by Peter Porter in the Independent as, "a true verse novel, not just a tour de force but a sustained piece of storytelling in poetry". Conscio...