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...

Revewing Sally Purcell's first collection of poems "The Holly Queen" (1971), Clive Wilmer spoke of "the ghostly music" and "diamantine elegance" of her poetry. These qualities are evident in this collection which continues to explore the mysteries of...

Tom Lowenstein's first full-length book of poems shows his development from meditative and hermetic earlier poems, through formalism to a mode of controlled ironic wildness, in which he explores in concrete detail the fantasies that emerge from metap...

This volume brings together Peter Levi's early books, pamphlets and other uncollected poems written over a period of twenty years to 1975. His subsequent books of poetry are "Five Ages" (1978), "Private Ground" (1981), "The Echoing Green" (1983), "Th...

"A House Against the Night" collects Harry Guest's poems written mainly during 1969-73 – the latter part of his time in Japan, and the first two years since his return to England.

The second collection of a major American poet. Of her previous collection of poems, "Firstborn", published in England in 1969, John Fuller wrote in The Listener: "Her words are alive and her perceptions have strength. This is a very genuine and enjo...

Although The Brontes have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte (1816-1855) is certainly a competent poet, and Anne...

Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony", and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by ana...

"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...

In the four years between the appearance of his first collection of poems in 1961 and his death at the age of forty-eight, Johannes Bobrowski gained lasting international recognition as the outstanding East German poet of his time. He received major...