Ivor Gurney's poetic career was unusual. It began in 1917 and 1919 with two small volumes of verse, "Severn and Somme" and "War's Embers". After that, though he planned further books, none appeared until Edmund Blunden's 1954 "Selected Poems". By the...

Mina Loy (1882-1966) has been perplexingly absent from British literary history. In America she has been posthumously launched as the electric-age Blake, she has been translated into French and Italian to great acclaim, and in the "Times Literary Sup...

"Psyche Unbound" is Heather Buck's third collection of poems. Whether writing about war, nature, faith, childhood, art or people, she explores the presences which deepen our daily lives – perceptions of mortality and of the life of the spirit – throu...

Ford Madox Ford wrote poetry during the half-century of his creative life, publishing thirteen books, the first in 1893 under the pseudonym Fenil Haig, the last in 1936 under his own name. This "Selected Poems" shows his development from early, haunt...

Sujata Bhatt's first book of poems, the award-winning "Brunizem", appeared in 1988. In a very short time she has gained recognition as one of the distinct and reckonable new voices. She has things to say about her native India and her native tongue (...

This selection from the first thirty years of Donald Davie's poetry reveals an impassioned spirit advancing from Augustan reserve towards the treacherous, rewarding risks of modernism. As a critic, Helen Vendler writes, "he has drawn a map of moderni...

The 501 quatrains of "Second Best Moments in Chinese History" make it seem at first like a repackaged version of Frank Kuppner's celebrated first collection "A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty" (1984). But it isn't: "Please note that this is a completely...

"Here is a portrait of the poet by his wife which has no equal, not even in Mary Shelley's sketches of her husband" – New Statesman Under Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the cel...

"The Selected Poems", James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from "The Lost Pilot" which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his 1986 collection "Reckon...

Afrika! is an imaginary space, a "k" and an exclamation mark away from the processes, histories and conflicts that this, Adam Schwartzman's second collection, takes for its subject. It is a space that is at once estranging and, with its wily appropri...