"I gathered these texts like someone collecting body parts. Here are the pieces of my body, haphazardly brought together in a paper bag. It looks like me with all my madness and sickness – how the revolution made me grow up, what the war broke inside...

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they...

"Artaud the Momo" is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an u...

An anthology to celebrate the winner, shortlisted poets and other contributors to the first Brotherton Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre.

A painter and poet, Desiree Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca's passionate cante jondo, or "deep song," and her own family history with Andalusian f...

"we find ourselves deep in the future of fairy tale. we are the offspring of our own imaginings" Ulrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Pre...

Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". After the publication of "Some Trees", selecting j...

These are the people we are. Saint Friend, carry me when I am tired and carry yourself. Let's keep singing the songs we don't live by let's meet tomorrow. "Saint Friend" is a book of empathy. Its ten lyric poems are troubled with the prospect of sat...

Imagine you are a Palestinian who came to America as a young man, eventually finding yourself caught between the country you live in with your wife and daughter, and the home – and parents – you left behind. Imagine living every day in your nonnative...

Zohar Atkins's first collection "Nineveh" takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan, and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merrily, from John Ashbery and Frank O'hara. His poems offer humor and hospitality alongside deep learning and enigma...