A book of "oriental sonnets" exploring the long-term effects of early childhood displacement and loss by multi-prize-winning poet Mimi Khalvati.

Roger Garfitt has published sparingly but always to good effect. The Action reveals the individual character of each poem and sequence, "written only when the internal pressure demands and the slow pace of craft allows". Carol Ann Duffy observed in T...

We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation – not just between languages, but in the everyday trade-offs between what we experience and what we are able to say about it. But the visionary poems of this collection invite us to consider: what...

Seated at a table in the celebrated Brasserie Lipp, the author experiences 'this in-/fernal ticking in the ink' and finds memory coming alive, recovering past moments as intensely alive, spots of time which vivify him and his past. Through memory and...

Christine Marendon grew up in Bavaria with German and Italian as her languages; she is a significant translator as well as a radical eco-poet, keenly aware of social issues. This collection is translated into English by the leading UK translator Ken...

The Austrian poet and novelist Evelyn Schlag, whose "Selected Poems" was published in Britain in Karen Leeder's brilliant translations in 2004 (Schlegel Tieck Prize, 2005) returns with "All Under One Roof", a wide-ranging selection from her radical r...

Arcimboldo's famous seventeenth-century Mannerist portraits, in which the sitter's face is composed of vegetables and fruit, suggest how – in subordinating a mixture of elements into an unrelated whole – the imagination can translate and transform th...

So begins the "Aeneid", greatest of Western epic poems. Virgil's story of the journey of Aeneas has been a part of our cultural heritage for so many centuries that it's all too easy to lose sight of the poem itself – of its brilliantly cinematic depi...

"At the Burning Abyss" is Franz Fuhmann's magnum opus – a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. P...

Stanley Moss has been a defining editor and publisher of world poetry for six decades. He has amassed a body of his own poems so impassioned and original that he deserves a place high on the American Parnassus.