Not only the migrating birds speak in "Translations from the Natural World". The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which fi...

"The Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador. During twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, China, Japan, sailing uncharted oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, t...

Three traditions are represented in this anthology: a Chartist and radical literature, a Parnassian strand, and a deliberately local manner, often steeped in dialect. This is a literature poised between speech and print, between the anonymous street...

This new addition to the elegant Library of Classic Poets series features selections from one of the best-loved poets of the early twentieth century. Elegantly packaged in a handsome edition with a satin ribbon marker, this volume is the perfect addi...

"The Intelligence of Clouds" is Stanley Moss's third collection of poems. "We must be grateful to the Anvil Press for importing Stanley Moss", wrote John Fuller of his first, "The Wrong Angel" (1969). Reviewing "Skull of Adam" (1979) in Poetry Review...

George Meredith (1828-1909) is best known as the author of "The Egoist" and "Diana of the Crossways". His poetry, however, notably the poems from "Modern Love", is emerging from long eclipse, and this selection reveals the diversity and originality o...

"Opia", Alan Moore's first collection of poems, introduces a virtuoso poet capable of an unusual range of forms, tones and images. Central to the book is a sequence of sonnets which unfolds the drama of a doomed love affair, with France and Ireland a...

E. A. Markham's new collection confirms his standing as one of the most energetic and original poets to emerge in recent years. "He has a very distinctive voice", commented Carol Rumens in "The Observer". 'Writing in Time Out", Valerie Sinason descri...

Martial's name is a byword for caustic and often obscene wit. The fiercest Roman satirist after Juvenal, he was also a poet with a more reflective nature, whose acute observations of life are tinged with a keen awareness of death. Peter Whigham's sel...