Career-defining collection of the most decorated US poet, timed to mark his 90th birthday. The book contains: "Flow Chart" (1991), "Hotel Lautreamont" (1992), "And the Stars Were Shining" (1994), "Can You Hear, Bird" (1995), "Wakefulness" (1998), "Gi...

Challenging debut from a mature new poet exploring the ways in which the past travels with us across landscapes. Crossing the Mirror Line explores doubleness; the unsettling symmetries of mirrored reflections and the relationship between the viewer a...

There is a gentleness in the midst of savagery in Stuart Dischell's fifth full-length collection of poetry. These poems are ever aware of the momentary grace of the present and the fleeting histories that precede the instants of time. Part elegist, p...

In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was made by O'Driscoll himself before his death in 2012 an...

Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrote thousands of poems and published four volumes of intensely wrought and increasingly personal verse, with such titl...

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1959 for "his lyrical poetry which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our time". Jack Bevan's remarkable translation of Quasimodo's entire poetic oeuvre fills...

Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a family, to the United States and Canada where she has made her teaching career, but always re-connecting with her Caribbean roots. Sh...

Peter Hughes makes contemporary re-visions of Guido Cavalcanti's lustrous thirteenth-century Tuscan songs. In the spirit of Blackburn and Rodefer, Hughes channels alternative "translation methods", inviting us to reconsider these vital texts.

"City Gate, Open Up" is the lyrical autobiography of China's a memoir legendary poet Bei Dao. Exiled from Beijing in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Bei Dao returned to his homeland in 2001 for the first time in over twenty years. The...

Elaine Feinstein's poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature. This selection, made by the author herself, gathers work from over half a century of published writing, and is completed by a section of new poems. The selection ranges from early...