The poems collected in "No Tear is Commonplace" stage a passionate, curious, and often combative relationship with the world and the forces that shape human life and death. Stanley Moss's range is wide: his poetry recalls the "Adirondack wilderness"...

This book distils an adult lifetime into the intense magic of poetry. Wallace-Crabbe is a nature poet in the broadest possible sense: his poems, ranging widely in tone and subject-matter, seek above all to convey the richness and variety of our world...

Funny, heartbreaking, haunting: Jane Yeh's poems open windows onto utterly strange – and eerily familiar – worlds. Lonely ghosts hover around children on their way to school; lilies whisper among themselves, their heads '"filled with pollen and bored...

"New Selected Poems" is a poet's choice of over thirty years' work. Minhinnick's poetry explores the complexities of belonging in the world. It is rooted in the rich particularity of industrial south Wales and the Welsh seaside resort in which he now...

"New Selected Poems" contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from "Taller When Prone" (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today...

Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's "Notturno" is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The sombre atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With hi...

Clive Wilmer's "New and Collected Poems" begins with a fable about the conception, building and destruction of a walled city. It ends with a recent translation of Osip Mandelstam's "Hagia Sophia", where the great Byzantine basilica is described in te...

Yang Mu, a pivotal figure in the development of modern Chinese literature, is one of the most widely read living poets of the world's largest literary audience: Chinese-speaking people. Providing a selection of poems from more than three decades of w...

For two decades "New Poetries" has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird, Stephen Burt, Sophie Hannah, Emma Jones, Nicole Kra...

"Not Many Love Poems" tells the stories of a life, the stories kept close to the heart: long friendships and shorter love affairs, close bonds of family scattered across transatlantic distances, passion and loss. Loved friends and family, the living,...