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Edna Longley's latest collection of essays focusses on poetry itself, and in particular how poets are read at different times and in different contexts. Her essays cover poets such as Edward Thomas, MacNeice, Larkin, Auden, Durcan, Paulin, Mahon and Michael Longley.

This is the sequel to the bestselling poetry title, "Staying Alive", which introduced thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. This second anthology collects more thoughtful and passionate poems that touch the heart, stir the mind and fire the spirit.

This edition is the sequel to Collected Poems 1945-1990 (Dent, 1993, Phoenix Press, 1995) reprinting in full the contents of R.S. Thomas's last five collections, The Echoes Return Slow (1988), Counterpoint (1990), Mass for Hard Times (1992), No Truce with the Furies (1995) and the posthumously published Residues (2002).

Buffún is wracked by the living nightmare of Irish history. His torments are surreal but no less frightening than the awful truth. When Oliver Cromwell turns up, the hapless buffoon can't cope. This Cromwell is a cocky tyrant who wants to run a football team, or start a taxi business. Enter the Belly, the IRA, an Irish giant, and Billy of the Boyne: 'William of Orange is polishing pianos / In convents and other delicate territories, / His nose...

The northern word for hometown, 'toon', flickers in meaning between 'tune' and 'cartoon'. In Bill Herbert's big bumper book, the title toon is Troy: the first lost home. Exiled to a lighthouse on the River Tyne, the wily Scots maestro has written a book in love with lost and difficult things. Sometimes reflective, sometimes subversively mischievous, he registers or rails against displacement and resettlement, lamenting the passing of relatives...

A comprehensive selection from Helen Dunmore's seven previous collections of poetry, and examples of her more recent work.

Geoff Hattersley is a poet of the people, despairing but wisely humorous, melancholic with a comic edge. The apparent simplicity of these poems belies a shrewd intelligence as much in tune with larger events as with the daily happenings that seem to form their subject matter. His poetic allegiances are mainly with contemporary American writers, but his territory is the human condition and experience as seen from Yorkshire.

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In Chris Greenhalgh's delightful, yet disturbing second book, we encounter a cannibalistic wife, a man trapped in a valley of women, a conjuror who spirits himself away, and a kinky mortician. There are poems on themes of love and death. The emblem of the seasquirt haunts the collection: a creature which, having fulfilled its life's task of finding a rock to cling onto and make its home, proceeds in an act of appalling self-slaughter to eat it...

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POETRY / LITERATURE, CRITICISM, MEMOIRS, LETTERS

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In The Miracle Diet, Carol Rumens debates weighty issues in low fat, high humor with cartoonist Viv Quillen. However, while the tone is light, the topic is serious. Fat, quite frankly, is a problem we're all faced with: women bear the brunt of anxieties about food and stereotypes about appearances, but men and children are also affected with the importance of keeping trim and slim. On all sides the individual is urged to eat, drink, and eat an...

Peter Reading includes this iconoclastic British poet's last five collections and two new ones.

Polly Clark shows the complex and often brutal making of a self in her poems, from first passions through losses and disappointments, to attempts to understand and forgive origins. The forces which shape who we are take on many personalities: surgeons, horses, Amazon parrots, Pontius Pilate, and huge beetles all have lessons to teach about loss, bereavement, and the shaping of a fragile identity. Her journey covers diverse locations, from her ...

William Martin's poetry is inspired by the social, cultural, and religious life of Northumbria, past and present. He builds his world from myth, from Anglo-Saxon literature and art, children's games, ballads, and street songs, as well as, from the history and struggles of pit communities. His poems show both political anger and a wide concern for a society that is losing its common ground, its rituals, and rites of passage.

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A book in three sections: The Laurelude, a blank verse myth about Ulverston's Idiot Boy, Stan Laurel, Othermoor, a cubist version of the North, and The Madmen of Elgin squashing both Lost Boys and Solitary Reapers into Middle Scots verse forms for a pre-millennial song-and-dance. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.