To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize–winner Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. "Father's on the P...

The Ted Hughes Award-winning poet David Morley explores the suffering and tragedy of his Romany childhood through fiercely personal poems. Known for writing about myth and fable, Morley reinvents his poetic with a formally rich, thematically challeng...

This" Collected Poems" spans the three decades of Milne's growth into one of the most distinctive radical poets of the middle generation. In "Darkest Capital" engages modern politics, challenges language's tyranny and reshapes modern poetry.

Following her groundbreaking 2014 debut "An Aviary of Small Birds" ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observer), Karen McCarthy Woolf returns with Seasonal Disturbances. Set against a backdrop of ecological and emotional turbulence,...

A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and...

Teetering on the brink of various crises, Sinead Morrissey's poems consider spectacular feats of human engineering – ships, planes, robots – from our radically unstable perspective, struggling for poise. Poems become pliable; the dead speak.

The opening poem sequence, "Diary of the Last Man", sets the tone for Robert Minhinnick's book, a celebration of the dwindling Earth, an elegy, a caution. His Wales is a touchstone; other landscapes and cityscapes are tried against it, with its errat...

"Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family a...

The Jamaican Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris has had an enormous impact on the literature of the Caribbean. "Peelin Orange" shows why with its wonderful mix of Englishes, its wit, its love of people and places, and its sense of transcendence.

The first volume of this two-volume edition of MacDiarmid's "Complete Poems" reprints the texts of the Penguin edition (1986), which was based on the first edition of 1978, which MacDiarmid himself saw through the press. Additional poems discovered s...