Among Mina Gorji's poems in "New Poetries V" (2011) was one about Houdini entitled "The Art of Escape" which returns here as the titlepoem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of "the...

This is the first English-language collection of work by the renowned Greek poet Michalis Ganas. Originally from a remote village on the northwest border of Greece, Ganas witnessed the Greek Civil War as a young child, and was taken into enforced exi...

Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to good effect. The Action reveals the individual character of each poem and sequence, "written only when the internal pressure demands and the slow pace of craft allows". Carol Ann Duffy observed in T...

The title poem of John Greening's "The Silence" is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative proces...

In "Girl", Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and celebrate female identity and experience, and the dynamics of family and friendship. "Girl" picks up where Goss's...

In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the 'eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit the earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies...

Spain's greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. Though his earliest writings appeared in Spanish, in 1970 he began publishing in Catalan, and has alternated betwe...

A substantial selection drawn from thirty years of procedurally and formally inventive writing.

Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer – ultimately, as the broken mold of its own work. Haunted by his father's autopsy of a...

When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as...