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In this long awaited second collection, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life. What emerges is a moving meditation on time and the transformative phases of nature.

Renowned as one of the world's greatest poems, The Waste Land has been said to describe the moral decay of a world after war and the search for meaning in a meaningless era. It has been labeled the most truthful poem of its time, it has been branded a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's enigmatic masterpiece remains one of the most influential works ever written, and yet one of the most mysterious. In a remar...

In this long awaited second collection, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life. What emerges is a moving meditation on time and the transformative phases of nature.

Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. 'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph'A work of art' Times Literary SupplementThe Waste Land has been called the 'World's Greatest Poem'.

The pinnacle of Modernist poetry, The Waste Land is thought to describe the moral decay of a world after war, sexuality, and rebirth. It has been called the most truthful poem of the times, it has been labelled a masterful fake. A century after its publication in 1922, T. S. Eliot's masterpiece remains a comparative mystery. In a remarkable feat of biography, literary criticism, and storytelling, Matthew Hollis reconstructs the making of the p...

In this gripping account, award-winning biographer Matthew Hollis reconstructs the making of the poem and brings its times vividly to life. He tells the story of the cultural and personal trauma that forged the poem through the interleaved lives of its protagonists - of Ezra Pound, who edited it, of Vivien Eliot, who endured it, and of T.

Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of the war poets. This haunting account of his final five years follows him from his beloved English countryside to the battlefield in France where he lost his life. When he met the American poet Robert Frost in 1913, Thomas was tormented by feelings of failure in his work and in his marriage. With Frost's encouragement he began writing poem after poem as he finally found the express...

In this first collection, Matthew Hollis, an editor at Faber, immerses us in the undercurrents of love and loss. His poems are brimming with courage in adversity as well as the promise of renewal, culminating in a powerful sequence about his father's struggle with terminal illness.

From the earliest times poets have spoken out against the horrors of war - many dying on the battlefields on which they wrote. This extraordinary anthology gathers together the most startling poems against war ever written - from an infamous last stand in Ancient Greece to the chemical warfare of the present day Gulf.