Jorie Graham's poetry insists that "the visible world" exists: but what is its existence? Beyond the merely subjective, the merely lyric, she ventures with philosophical rigour into an area "saturated with phenomena", in Helen Vendler's phrase, a pla...

After John Ashbery's 216-page poem "Flow Chart" (1991) and the munificence of "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992) and "And the Stars were Shining" (1994), "Can You Hear, Bird" provides an A to Y of poems, moments in which voices, images and tones come in for...

Helen Vendler wrote in "The New Republic": "Louise Gluck is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of being neither 'confessional'...

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....