This moving prose poem tells the story of an aged man who suffers a prolonged and ultimately fatal illness. From initial diagnosis to remission to relapse to death, the experience is narrated by the man's son, a practicing doctor. Charles Bardes, a p...

The hotly anticipated new collection by an energetic young Scottish poet.

Noah Warren's brilliant collection of poetry, "The Destroyer in the Glass", is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the...

H?kan Sandell's "Dog Star Notations" is the first selection available in English from one of contemporary Sweden's finest poets. Since abandoning a university education decades ago, Sandell has resolutely gone his own way, drawing on any tradition th...

Midsummer Cambridge, MA, 2008 Midsummer. Finally, you are used to disappointment. A baby touches phlox. Many failures, many botched attempts, A little success in unexpected forms. This is how the rest will go: The gravel raked, bricks ashen, bees fat...

In this pithy abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine – never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it used to be. Bamforth brings his wide experience of medic...

For nearly fifteen years, writer and musician Ken Waldman has been touring as Alaska's Fiddling Poet, combining old-time Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry and Alaskan storytelling. The book-and-CD set "D is for Dog Team" is his...

Following his irreverent Oulipian reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth century to the present day and relocating it to the modern "walled city" of the Universi...

"Dear Life" was Dennis O'Driscoll's ninth book of poetry. Like his earlier work, it engages with contemporary issues – the internet era, the compensation culture, global warming – as well as providing fresh perspectives on the timeless topics of work...

Heralded as one of France's greatest poets, Yves Bonnefoy has been dazzling readers since the publication of his first book in 1953. He remains influential and relevant, continuing to compose groundbreaking new work. Though Bonnefoy recently celebrat...