This major retrospective selection of Charles Madge's poetry appeared just over fifty years after the publication of his last Faber collection, "The Father Found" (1941). He continued to write during the forties, and, more intermittently, after becom...

"This book", writes Les Murray, "presents to British and European readers selections from the work of five leading Australian poets of the generation before mine". They are, with Judith Wright, A. D. Hope and Gwen Harwood-who are happily available in...

You are just an ordinary New Zealander. You have strength, intelligence and good luck, though you are not particularly good at languages. Your family and friends like you, and there is one special friend who thinks you're really swell. Yours is a wel...

"Time Signatures" is Chris McCully's first book of poems. It reflects his fascination – as student, scholar and theorist with the procedures of writing verse, especially with rhythmical and metrical structures. The subject-matter here is drawn from t...

Not only the migrating birds speak in "Translations from the Natural World". The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which fi...

"The Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador. During twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, China, Japan, sailing uncharted oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, t...

Three traditions are represented in this anthology: a Chartist and radical literature, a Parnassian strand, and a deliberately local manner, often steeped in dialect. This is a literature poised between speech and print, between the anonymous street...

This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addi...

"The Intelligence of Clouds" is Stanley Moss's third collection of poems. "We must be grateful to the Anvil Press for importing Stanley Moss", wrote John Fuller of his first, "The Wrong Angel" (1969). Reviewing "Skull of Adam" (1979) in Poetry Review...

George Meredith (1828-1909) is best known as the author of "The Egoist" and "Diana of the Crossways". His poetry, however, notably the poems from "Modern Love", is emerging from long eclipse, and this selection reveals the diversity and originality o...