This generous new volume is a sequel to "Essays on Departure" (Carcanet, 2006) collecting a quarter century's work by one of the most elegant and pertinent poets working in English. She brings together material from eight books, including a generous...

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, "Les Miserables" – but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, "La Fin de Satan", left unfinished and not published until after...

John Heath-Stubbs was one of the defining poets of his age, a legendary performer (being blind, he recited even his major narrative poems from memory). This new selection by the young poet and critic John Clegg essentialises an abundant poet and cele...

The central focus of "The White Silhouette" is a lyrical, meditative poem inspired by the "Book of Kells", which explores the spirit of medieval Celtic art and its inner and outer landscapes, including those of Iona and Kells. Like Kells's interlacin...

From the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the 2013 Eric Gregory Award, a new collection containing pastoral poems of crisis and the internet.

We are all losing all the time. Four titanic forces – time, mortality, forgetting, and confusion – win victories over us each day. We all "know" this yet we keep dreaming of beautiful fulfillments, shapely culminations, devotions nobly sustained – in...

The "Michael Hamburger Reader" is the definitive collection of poems, translations, essays, interviews and personal reflections by one of the most influential Anglo-German writers of the last century. Dennis O'Driscoll – a friend and fellow poet –...

Peter Hughes makes contemporary re-visions of Guido Cavalcanti's lustrous thirteenth-century Tuscan songs. In the spirit of Blackburn and Rodefer, Hughes channels alternative "translation methods", inviting us to reconsider these vital texts.

A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a unique Japanese illustrated manuscript of ogi no soshi, a genre of waka poems illustrated in fan-shaped pictures, which blossomed fro...