Following her 2013 debut "This is Yarrow" (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, "The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx". The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monol...

In "These Days of Prohibition" is Caroline Bird's fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surreal imagery of her early work is re-deployed to v...

The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and publish...

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...

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...

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Ruhiton Kurmi has been in jail for seven years. Once a notorious Naxalite – a militant leftist revolutionary – he is now a withered shell; a man broken by police torture, racked with fevers and sores. The only way he can endure his life is by shuttin...

In the southern Indian state of Kerala, Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in a Persian Gulf country and earn enough money to send some back home. One day, he finally achieves this dream, only to be propelled by a series of incidents – grim and absurd...

A few years after the deadly 2011 terror attack in Norway's Utoya Island, Otto and Sofie are attempting to put the pieces of their life back together without their beloved daughter, who was murdered alongside countless other youths on one of the wors...

Yves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books, he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human consciousness. Readers find snatches of conversations – over...