Norm's wry, expansive poems tell stories, and his characters, ancient and modern – prophets, emperors and cabbies -address the old, unanswered questions with their lives, their failures and losses, their unanticipated moments of love. He shares the s...

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, (1561-1621) is now regarded as one of the considerable poets of her time, and "The Sidney Psalms" as one of the most important but now least-known works of the Elizabethan period. These verse translations of the Psa...

E. J. Scovell has made her own terms with poetry. She has published only four book-length collections, her first in 1944, though she started writing in the 1920s. This volume reveals that she has not been as "scarce" a poet as her admirers have belie...

A selection of poems from the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart. This book includes his four most famous works.

A first collection with a strong atmosphere and a distinctive voice. "Mrs. Carmichael" brings together poems written over the past twenty years. A house collapsing in the night, the wives of the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, social misfits of several ki...

One of Scotland's most interesting and highly praised writers, his reputation is built upon a considerable body of work in both English and Gaelic that encompasses a wide range of genres including novels, short stories, plays, and poetry.

Heinz Winfried Sabais's poetry first appeared in English translation by Ruth and Matthew Mead in 1968. Reviewing Generation and other poems in "Tribune", Richard Burns wrote: "Whether he is concerned with public statement or private emotion, Sabais r...

Attempted love and sexual identity form the recurring themes of W. G. Shepherd's third collection of poems. As in his previous books, "Sun, Oak, Almond, I" (1970) and "Evidences" (1980), he writes searchingly in a variety of styles, lyric, narrative...

"Shelley's conception of love lies at the heart of his radical views on social justice, political liberty, and poetry itself". In bringing together for the first time Shelley's almost unknown prose writings on love, Richard Holmes presents an intelle...

W. G. Shepherd's second book gathers his poems since "Sun, Oak, Almond, I" (1970). A strong sense of fantasy and humour plays its part in this collection, which ranges from the intriguing experiments of "The Antonine Poems" to the plain and moving na...