"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou..." When Edward Fitzgerald first published his translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam in 1859 it had little impact on the literary world. But a chance find in a book...

"To Forget Venice" is the improbable challenge and the title of Peg Boyers's newest collection of poems. The site of several unforgettable years of her adolescence, the place she has returned to more frequently than any other, the city of Venice is b...

A splash of sea foam. A sly sparrow. A man dodging the rain. From such mundane, unexpected moments, Spanish poet Claudio Rodriguez crafted his 1965 "Alliance and Condemnation", a collection of poems that temper the joy of existence – the "bounty that...

Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to "Poetics in a New Key" that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was "at once honored and mystified".  But to Perloff's surprise and her re...

"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper – Cynthia – not one / breath of me". For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the nam...

"Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud", the latest collection from enigmatic prose poet Killarney Clary, is a book-length sequence of unnumbered, untitled poems, each evoking a clear moment in time. The details on which Clary chooses to focus suggest a nar...

For sale in CIS only! Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. "Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces",...

You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter wi...

In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing...

Lucy Tunstall's striking debut collection features a cast of characters ranging from Paul Muldoon and Marianne Moore to Aunt Jane, who fell in love "in 1956, or thereabouts", and Cousin Gillian, who keeps the family's long-case clock in her caravan (...