Robert Minhinnick's is amongst the major voices of modern Wales. His "Selected Poems" draws on six collections published between 1978 and 1994. Several uncollected pieces are also included. The earlier poems are diverse: descriptions of work in heavy...

"I Found This Shirt" is a sack of poems and prose pieces that continue Ian McMillan's obsessive exploration of self, place, history and comedy: from columns for BBC Radio 4, to a poetic journal of a Mexican visit; from poems written especially for Ar...

Urbane and cosmopolitan, Stanley Moss's poems are the work of a writer once described as "a citizen of the world, both past and present, one who seems to have been everywhere and missed nothing". In strong lyrics and searching narratives he explores...

"The first translations I made – from Verlaine, in 1937 – were naive attempts to convey the enthusiasm I felt for the sudden discovery of a foreign poet: Verlaine said something to me in his language which no poet in my own language had ever said bef...

When Chris McCully's first book of poems, "Time Signatures" (Carcanet, 1993), appeared, the "Observer" described the poet as "a keen fly-fisher, a translator of Old English poetry and an expert prosodist; and these skills have miraculously combined s...

"It would be as myopic to regard Mr Murray as an Australian poet as to call Yeats an Irishman. He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives", Joseph Brodsky said. And Derek Walcott: "There is no poetry in the English language so rooted in...

"There Was Fire in Vancouver" is Sinead Morrissey's first book of poems. Organised as a journey from communism to spiritual affirmation, from life in Ireland to life abroad, and return, from security and dependence on family in particular, to indepen...

Edwin Morgan "catches in full sight" in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily relocation of words in concrete poems, the weird rhythms of sound poems. His transforming imagination is democratic, generous and inclusive....

Many of the poems in E. A. Markham's sixth collection reveal a sense of disquiet which ranges in tone from the comic to the sombre. Yet the overall feel of the book is of something intimate, personal and celebratory, which overrides those darker unde...

Michelangelo's poems are like the letters of other artists: they range from formal words of thanks to passionate arguments; they flatter patrons, address lovers – and God; they reflect on art and on Michelangelo's own physical and metaphysical studie...