This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a to...

This book, the first published anthology of British surrealist poetry, takes its title from Herbert Read's words when he opened the "Surrealist Poems and Objects" exhibition at the London Gallery at midnight on 24 November 1937. Within a few years th...

"Oracabessa" is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada ("Winter has landed") and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica...

When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle – he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myt...

When Harriet Monroe founded "Poetry" magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door".May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!" For a century, the most important and endurin...

The Lectures on Poetics Series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Theodor Adorno, and Heinrich Boll. At the beginning of 2007, Urs Widmer – described by the "Independent...

What happens when the American dream collides head-on with a nation's dependence on fossil fuels? "Oil and Water", a novel by Mei Mei Evans, focuses on precisely this question. Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a w...

For sale in CIS only! Beyond the brash modern stereotypes of Essex there exists a landscape that has inspired some of England's finest writing. This book tracks the paths of those literary figures who have ventured into the wilder parts of Essex. So...

The poems in Owen Lowery's first collection speak in a range of voices, offer glimpses into many lives and many worlds. At the same time, we hear in all of them Lowery's own voice. Incorporating elements from English, Welsh, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese...

"Overwintering" is coming through, emerging into the light of a new season. Pippa Little's book explores what survives and grows from the dark energies of winter, night and loss, from the buried past and the imagination's depths. Landscapes speak of...