"Wounds Fragments Derelict" is Carlos Gabriel Kelly's debut poetry collection. These poems comprise a narrative of love and loss. Throughout the collection, Kelly weaves poetic fragments into a narrative expressing the torment of a relationship that...

The central focus of "The White Silhouette" is a lyrical, meditative poem inspired by the "Book of Kells", which explores the spirit of medieval Celtic art and its inner and outer landscapes, including those of Iona and Kells. Like Kells's interlacin...

Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore – now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve – the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our...

A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles she's called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Springtide" A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The c...

Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, "Poetry" magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From Here", which has invited readers "from outside the...

When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as...

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...

"I only wanted to write about them, / Narrate their fierce audacity, / Their voyages through the channels of the Mediterranean". So begins a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean that served as homes and refuge for the Sephardic Jew...

Forty-four years after their first publication, Edwin Morgan's versions of the great twentieth-century Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky are back in print. Wi the haill voice collects twenty-five of Morgan's translations into Scots, accompanied by...