The title poem of Charles Tomlinson's new volume describes the vineyards of an area of Italy which has been the subject of many poems since his earliest work. In the Cinque Terre vines are cultivated along the cliffs, within precarious sight of the s...

"The Selected Poems", James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from "The Lost Pilot" which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection "Reckon...

"Here is a portrait of the poet by his wife which has no equal, not even in Mary Shelley's sketches of her husband" – New Statesman Under Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the cel...

Miguel Torga's celebrated Tales ("Contos and Novos Contos de Montanha") are set in the remote and barren Tras-os-Montos-"over the mountains"-region of north-east Portugal. There the writer was born into a family of illiterate country people. He speak...

Tu Fu (AD 712-770) is China's greatest classical poet. He radically altered the poetry of the High T'ang period; in addition to making formal innovations in language and structure, he extended the range of acceptable subject matter to include all asp...

Thomas Traherne's poems were discovered in London in 1896 and originally assigned in error to Henry Vaughan. Later scholarship has established their true authorship. Traherne (1637-1674) was a remarkable religious writer. The son of a Hereford shoe-m...