This first anthology of "Apocalyptic" or neo-romantic poetry since thenineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (DylanThomas, W. S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, PaulPotts). Over forty of the poets are women, of w...

"Arrow" is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is "Dear, beloved", a more-than-elegy for her younger sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the poem, much else came into play: "it was m...

The latest collection from the author of "Poetry the Basics" (Routledge) explores family, mortality and the natural world by delving into memory and dreams.

"Artaud the Momo" is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an u...

The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.

Attachments to proper names, traditions, and entrenched thought formations are a perennial problem and, as L. M. Rivera shows, an addiction. "Against Heidegger" is a collection of poetic meditations on that pervasive, and possibly eternal, compulsion...

The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.

"There are no machine guns, or cameras, here". "Any God Will Do" is a collection that investigates the lines between worldliness and asceticism, belief and delusion, chance and design, desire and its transcendence. Internal and end rhyme structure t...

Among Mina Gorji's poems in "New Poetries V" (2011) was one about Houdini entitled "The Art of Escape" which returns here as the titlepoem. This colourful and vivid first collection continues the course of Mina Gorji's meticulous explorations of "the...

"Armor & Ornament" turns away from the popular trends of contemporary poetry, calling instead upon traditional and Biblical forms. Rather than drawing on recent styles and modern trends, Miles looks to the texts that have inspired artists for millenn...