Not for sale in selected countries! Be inspired and find your voice with this guided journal of writing prompts designed for emerging poets. Compose your work on these beautifully designed pages, each of which offers a thoughtful prompt to help you...

Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of "Seedtime", his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry "n...

"Praise Song for My Children" celebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley guides us through the complex and intertwined highs and lows of motherhood and all the roles that...

In" Eleanor", Gray Jacobik presents sixty-two poems written in the voice of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Set against the backdrop of many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century, this famous historical figure h...

"Later Emperors", the second Carcanet collection from Canadian poet and critic Evan Jones, is a catalogue of ambition and failure: historical figures – emperors, historians, moralists – are brought back to life and consider the world in which we live...

Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century'sbest-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almostfifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, during her lifetime shereceived numerous awards, including the W. H. Sm...

This is the first substantial sampling in English of Colombia's greatest living poet, and it draws on five decades' work. Time has been Jaramillo's key theme, more intensely as he grows older. Impossible and lost loves are another theme. And violence...

"Nameless Country" gathers poems by the Scottish-Jewish poet Arthur 'A.C.' Jacobs, whose work, somewhat critically neglected in the past, has gained new resonance for twenty-first-century readers. Writing in the shadow of the Holocaust, Jacobs in his...

Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of...

"We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes", writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a...