"Taking Mesopotamia" was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's search for her lost father – the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, form...

"In To the War Poets" John Greening sends dispatches across the decades. In a sequence of verse letters he addresses the poets of the First World War directly, making connections yet always aware of distance: "No larks, / just the passing of traffic"...

The poems in Rory Waterman's debut collection "Tonight the Summer's Over" explore belonging and estrangement with precise resonance. Born in Belfast and brought up in rural Lincolnshire, Waterman turns an unblurred eye on his own childhood, caught be...

The poems in Tara Bergin's debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another, yet share nervous en...

Acclaimed as one of America's most passionate and intelligent innovators, Jorie Graham writes poems of luminous formal beauty. Here she selects from the five books that preceded her 2012 Forward Prize-winning collection P L A C E, presenting European...

In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries – both dire and hilarious – from the perpetual dissolving of our past to...

"Then" draws on Alison Brackenbury's lifetime's experience of rural England, its people and its ways, and the threats to its survival. From the lapwings of her childhood Lincolnshire to the recurrent floods in Gloucestershire, where she has lived for...

Milo De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. With this volume, Susan Stewart andPatrizio Ceccagnoli bring to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy,...

"To Hell with Paradise" is a wonderfully various and mature collection by a scrupulous and accomplished writer. It distills Gareth Reeves' collections "Real Stories" (1984) and Listening In (1993), adding previously unpublished poems and sequences, i...

Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic – of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, of the way the past invisibly inflects...