A collection intent on worrying the boundaries between natural and unnatural, human and not, "Unlikely Designs" draws far-ranging source material from the back channels of knowledge making: the talk pages of Wikipedia, the personal writings of Charle...

This first collection is full of experiments with language, form and theme. It asks to be read aloud, it surprises the voice and ear. Simplicity is seduced by extravagance, and vice versa.

"Below the tree free-riding on the water a shadow plays, beguiling, ripe for idolatry. I believe the tree and note it down as the answer to its own question". Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape,...

Matthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process. Many of the "Number Poems" abide by subtle patterns or constraints, creating symmetries in the arrangement of sentences, lines, words, or metrical feet. As with good architecture, however, Welto...

"What Must Happen" is Jeffrey Wainwright's most intimate and elegiac collection of poems to date, recalling lost parents, relations and friends. Shared childhood memories, and the history of hometown Stoke-on-Trent, connect Wainwright's personal them...

Noah Warren's brilliant collection of poetry, "The Destroyer in the Glass", is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the...

W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was popularly though reductively known as the "tramp-poet" due to his remarkable journey from vagrancy, in Britain and the United States, to considerable literary success. "Discovered" in part by Edward Thomas, who admired hi...

Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes "The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper" all the more seductive. In his first collection...

For nearly fifteen years, writer and musician Ken Waldman has been touring as Alaska's Fiddling Poet, combining old-time Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry and Alaskan storytelling. The book-and-CD set "D is for Dog Team" is his...

David C. Ward's first full-length poetry collection combines wry meditations on twenty-first-century life, work and family with observation of America – its landscapes, its history, its politics. Ward's poems are peopled by those who seem never quite...