Quarried from newspapers and journals, in which Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M.Grieve) wrote under a variety of pseudonyms, this collection – the second – reflects his enduring interests and eclectic range of concerns. On the centenary of his birth in 1992,...

"Reed Music" is Peter Levi's first collection of completely new work since "Shadow and Bone" (1989). In these exhilarating poems he combines a watercolourist's gift for the spontaneous evocation of a scene with a very different gift for formal elegy....

These volumes contain the previously uncollected essays, journalism and interviews of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studie...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is mainly known to the English-speaking world as the author of the poetic drama "Faust". In Europe – as poet, dramatist, novelist, art critic, literary theoretician, travel writer, author of a treatise on light...

Ivan V. Lalic was a major Serbo-Croat poet, and thanks to Francis R. Jones's translations his work can be read as authentic poetry in English. "A Rusty Needle" traces his development over nearly twenty years, from his first published poems to the end...

What happens when you try to find not only meaning but pattern and form in seventy years of a life? It's not a simple process of chronological remembering. It entails a "Remake", to capture not facts but the contents of those facts, the feelings of a...

"The Rags of Time" adds recent poems written on the deaths of two poets, Nikos Gatsos and Constantine Trypanis, and the sculptor Elisabeth Frink to the six laments included in "The Echoing Green" (1983) and "Shakespeare's Birthday" (1985). These sust...

But there's a lot to follow. What is his body, what is his mind? How can he be him? What is real, and can he look for it? Is he only a different version of a brick wall? Studiously, peering closer, as though at an anatomy lesson, "he tries harder"....

During the 1980s Michael Hamburger published both collected and selected editions of his poetry, but "Roots in the Air" is his first collection of new poems to appear for a decade. "Memorably disquieting" was one reviewer's verdict on his last collec...

A selection of poems from the 18th-century poet Christopher Smart. This book includes his four most famous works.