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Narrated by a man dying of the plague, this is a book-length poem that explores sexuality and subjectivity as well as the viability of narrative itself. It describes the events leading up to his and his family's death. It is set outside London in 1665, during the bubonic plague.

Shanta Acharya's fifth full-length collection is gentle, poignant and unpretentious. She writes about real concerns with a directness and a linguistic tension which registers her Indian origins without being merely exotic.

Features images of women in art, in the grip of cosmetic obsession, in old age and in love. This title attends to the nature of love, loss and continuity, and provides an insight into the complex energies of a struggling global ecology.

This second collection deals with Lorna Thorpe's near brush with death following a cardiac arrest, and the psychic death that preceded it. There are also poems about people who died before their time, but Thorpe is still here and concludes with poems celebrating the sensual pleasures and chaos of love and living in a defiant and vulnerable voice.

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A poetry from a world, a way of life and a culture unfamiliar to most English-language readers.

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Draws on the poet's experiences of childhood and adolescence, of childbirth and death, of motherhood, love and sexuality.

Pays complex homage to Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital. This title takes us to the insider's Ljubljana, a personal space alive with associations and images, rich with references.

Thaw is a book length sequence of short (all 10 lines long) poems. At first glance these seem simple meditations on nature, that, when given time, open out into larger reflections on human experience, emotions and how the three interact.

Manuel Forcano, the outstanding Catalan poet, is a great traveller, and the poems in this, his first full-length book in English translation, embrace the cities, the landscapes and the people of the Middle East. Drawn from his four most recent collections, these poems use geographical and historical references to deepen and inform the narrative, and also to lay before the reader the idea of the continuity, over many centuries, of human love an...

Whether in poetry, fiction, radio drama or sound installations, Esther Dischereit's work represents a unique departure in recent European writing: a distinctive, off-beat syntax of German-Jewish intimacy with the fractured consciousness and deeply rutted cultural landscape of today's Germany. Sometimes a Single Leaf, mirroring the development of Esther Dischereit's poetry across three decades, includes selections from three of her books as wel...

A collection of poems about regeneration, recuperation, reclamation and retreat, in which the poet reflects on visits, both literal and virtual, to remote parts of Greece, Andalucia and Southern India.

The Rohingya poets gathered here for the first time in English hold a mirror to the light for the rest of humanity, flashing their poems of misery and warning from the genocidal zone and refugee camp of Cox's Bazaar. Their songs are more accurate than news reports for word of the plight of the most oppressed. These are poems that begin with the fragrance on the bird's handkerchief and end by walking among the mass graves. They write from a dir...

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A presentation of poems preceding glasnost' as well as the final decade of the twentieth century. It includes poems from the '70s and '80s which speak about the horrors of the Soviet system, others which comment on purges and torture, and more which convey the struggle to grow and mature with one's soul intact in a world of suffering.

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