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Includes poems which combine a hopeless love, a grounded sea-fever, an ironic compassion and a savage sympathy with dogs and underdogs.

The Welsh publishing house Gwasg Gomer published Gillian Clarke's first full collection of poems, The Sundial, in 1978. In the twenty years since then the poet has become one of the best-loved and most widely read writers of Wales, well-known for her readings, for her radio work and her workshops. Gillian Clarke is a severe critic of her own poems--Collected Poems includes all that she wishes to preserve of her work to date.

Set against a backdrop of ecological, political and emotional turbulence, Seasonal Disturbances is a charged yet meditative exploration of the relationship between nature, the city and the self in the 21st century

A powerful memoir from one of China's greatest living poets in exile.

Nikos Gatsos' profoundly mysterious and magnetic poem "Amorgos", named after a Greek island he never visited and written during the Nazi occupation, is the single work on which his reputation rests. It was much admired by the Nobel laureates Odysseus Elytis and George Seferis, and was hugely influential on the postwar generation of Greek poets.

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Collected criticism of one of the first and best loved film critics spanning silent movies to sixties monsters. Including Hitchock, Korda and indispensable for students of British Cinema.

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Brings together a selection of poems by Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind and Amy Levy, three poets whose writing both reflected and helped to shape a time when women were working out structures for new kinds of lives and the language for new voices. This anthology also includes an introduction to the lives and cultural context of the three poets.

Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be 'good Europeans', avatars of the enlightened economic man of the eighteenth-century. Yet as RG Collingwood observed in his last great inquiry into the nature of civilisation, a book written to the glory of Hobbes at the height of the London blitz, Nietzsche was himself a vi...

A response to the turbulent events of 1968 - the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the attempted assassination of a student leader in Berlin - this collection features images of earlier violence and resistance in a dark European century: the hanging of anti-Hitler conspirators in 1944, the shooting of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919.

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Rumoured to have written upwards of 15, 000 poems (50, 000 by some estimates), Merrill Moore was a pathological writer of his own breed of spontaneous sonnets. David R. Slavitt, poet and novelist, has distilled and presented the very best of Moore's work from amongst the many published and unpublished poems available.

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Bringing together three of Robert Graves' most significant writings on the meaning of the Great War--the original 1929 edition of "Goodbye to All That, " the essay "A Postscript to Goodbye to All That, " and the play "But It Still Goes On--"this volume brings works that have been long out of print to a new audience. These works explore the nature of personal literature written about the Great War, as well as the cultural and emotional wastelan...

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