The international community of letters mourned the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and publish...

The Jamaican Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris has had an enormous impact on the literature of the Caribbean. "Peelin Orange" shows why with its wonderful mix of Englishes, its wit, its love of people and places, and its sense of transcendence.

This volume celebrates the poetic heritage of the Emerald Isle, with more than 50 classic poems about Ireland's people, history, character and myths and legends. Its contributors include William Butler Yeats, William Allingham and other well-known Ir...

This first collection is full of experiments with language, form and theme. It asks to be read aloud, it surprises the voice and ear. Simplicity is seduced by extravagance, and vice versa.

The poems of the author of "Le Grand Meaulnes" ("The Lost Domain") search for the lost Eden of pre-war Europe. His poems appear now in English for the first time.

During the dark, disturbed years after Ireland s economic collapse and humiliation in 2008, poet Thomas McCarthy retreated back into an intensely personal world where what was political took on an almost macabre, geological character. He returned as...

"He avoids the pipes. He has his reasons. He has heard the story Of the octopus who was locked into a room For a week to practice. When they let him out the pipes had learned To play the octopus. The thing about musicians is They respond to glory"....

For sale in CIS only! The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflec...

Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential poet" by Daisy Fried in the "New York Times", Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory".Pitch of Poetry" is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary...

Ezra Pound's "Posthumous Cantos" collects unpublished pages of his great poem, drawn from manuscripts held in the archive at Yale's Beinecke Library and elsewhere. They are assembled by Pound's Italian translator, the critic and scholar Massimo Bacig...