In "The Hoop", his first book of poems, John Burnside takes his bearings from Celtic mythology and from landscape, especially that of Gloucestershire. "The things that contribute to how I work are botanical texts and drawings, fairy stories, Celtic a...

"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...