John F. Deane is a vital and generous presence in Irish poetry. New and "Selected Poems" gathers work from Deane's five previous Carcanet collections, alongside a new sequence, "Snow Falling on Chestnut Hill". Written with an inquiring intelligence,...

Comic, cosmic: for Kuppner the terms are inseparable. In the three plaited sections of "The Same Life Twice", Frank Kuppner asks the essential, answerless questions about human existence: What are we doing here? Is it really here? And why here? "Fort...

In his "ABC of Reading", Ezra Pound begins his short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Theophile Gautier. Widely esteemed by figures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Gustave Flaubert, Oscar Wilde, Henr...

In "Slowly, As If", Karen Press looks clear-eyed at what it means to live in a complex society, a fragile world. She celebrates the connectedness that sustains us – in dance, in love, with the natural world, in cities where "strangers seem happy / to...

Umberto Saba's reputation in Italy and Europe has steadily grown since his death in 1957, and today he is positioned alongside Eugenio Montale and Giuseppe Ungaretti as one of the three most important Italian poets of the first half of the twentieth...

Julith Jedamus writes with an intensity that is at once passionate and precise. The poems in "The Swerve" create unforgettable landscapes: the whorls and spires of juniper in falling snow, Dutch skies of iridescent grey and lilac, the fire-scorched m...

In Jennie Feldman's second collection, the earth-shy bird of the title flies high above the territorial rivalries of its region. From the Middle East, "Swift" ranges across Europe to Scotland, always on the lookout for what coheres in the world and i...

Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition. Seamlessly braidi...

From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids, the "vivid allegorical / Reality of gun and hangar", to the consolatory wisdom of the "Last Poems" of 1993, Roy Fuller was a poe...

Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel "The Following Story", is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the Netherlands today. "Self-Portrait of an Other" is one of the most unique and innovative works in his oeuvre. Writte...