Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a family, to the United States and Canada where she has made her teaching career, but always re-connecting with her Caribbean roots. Sh...

In "The Little Sublime Comedy" John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's "Divine Comedy" is given a new lease of life in Gallas's d...

Jorie Graham's new book is characteristically exhilarating and inventive, exploring the limits of the human and the dark seductions of the post-human.

When war breaks out, a swarm of other industries quickly surrounds the battlefield; aid agencies, NGOs, international media corporations, mercenaries and private investors... all descend on the conflict like a second wave of invaders. Never was this...

You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter wi...

The poems in Kelly Grovier's third collection share a fascination with the mysteries that underlie our everyday existence, that "other world" we sense in the "undeciphered sands" shifting at our feet. By turns lyrical and philosophical, elegiac and p...

"In To the War Poets" John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: "No larks, / just the passing of traffic"...

"Oracabessa" is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada ("Winter has landed") and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica...

In 2007 Rebecca Goss's newborn daughter Ella was diagnosed with Severe Ebstein's Anomaly, a rare and incurable heart condition. She lived for sixteen months. "Her Birth" is a book-length sequence of poems beginning with Ella's birth, her short life a...

From the opening poem, an extended elegy for the Cold War's ambivalent mix of irresponsibility and prosperity, to a concluding short memoir of Robert Lowell, "The Italian Visitor" is a book about memory. The title sequence, an account of a 1940s' chi...