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...

Over six centuries, Trinity College, Cambridge, has spawned more poets than any other institution. Here are Herbert, Byron, Tennyson, Housman et al : an unparalleled singing school.

Miles Burrows is a poet always in love, and confused – as lovers tend to be – by the inconstant nature of "the other". In this, his second book of poems, published half a century after the first ("A Vulture's Egg", 1966), he is also aware, merrily fo...

HD (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) wrote "Hermetic Definition" at the height of her poetic powers. With her celebrated War Trilogy ("The Walls Do Not Fall", "Tribute to the Angels", and "Flowering of the Rod"), it transcends her earlier purist style, ac...

This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man's son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a p...

Called "the master of the poetic one-liner" by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignan...

A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...

"City Gate, Open Up" is the lyrical autobiography of China's a memoir legendary poet Bei Dao. Exiled from Beijing in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Bei Dao returned to his homeland in 2001 for the first time in over twenty years. The...

"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...

"Raking Light" is Eric Langley's debut collection of poems. Characterised by his rigorous fascination with language's latent etymologies and semantic layers, Langley's poems take their cue from the art conservation technique of "raking light", in whi...