Marvell's oeuvre must be one of the smallest of any major English poet, but that he is a major poet is no longer contested. Very little is known of his life: he was born in 1621, in Yorkshire; he tutored the daughter of the parliamentarian general Th...

Former Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion's first collection of poems was published by Carcanet more than thirty years ago, in 1978. Its subjects are politics, relationships, geographies and the inescapable legacies of the past. The sequences "Inland" and...

"Turns" is the American poet John Matthias's second collection of poems (Bucyrus appeared in America in 1971), and his first to be published in England. Many of the poems in "Turns" were first printed in English magazines, and his work has strong Eng...

Matthew Mead's second collection of poems will hold the attention of all who found in his "Identities" (1967) an exciting consummation of his concern with "our time", with poetic experiment, and with "the single poetic theme". "His poems speak soberl...

This first book of poems was originally published in New York in 1966; the English edition appeared in 1969.