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The second collection of poems by the dynamic Caribbean poet and novelist Kei Miller, who will be giving readings around the time of publication.

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Christopher Homm 'was a pattern of amiability when he fell flat on the gravel' - dead. This is his story, tracing him back through the estates, meat pies, love affairs and snickets of his life, including military service in India, to the ill-starred moment when Mr Homm climbed the stairs to look in on his wife, in whose womb Christopher" "'crouched in his blindness'. Published a quarter of a century before" Time's Arrow, " Sisson's dark comed...

Exploring the capacity to articulate the pain and pleasure of lived experiences, this poetry collection is inspired by history and its aftermath. Touching upon the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, and the Peterloo Massacre, this compilation expresses interest in sharing in the lives of others across time and culture while simultaneously challenging common prejudices.

Zig Zag consists of five new sequences by Anthony Rudolf.

Contains translations of lesser known poems contributing towards a more complete understanding of one of the major poets of the 20th century.

How do you convince the English-speaking public that Pushkin's genius is as great as the Russians claim? This was the starting point for this collection of translations, versions of and responses to the poetry of Alexander Pushkin. Contributors include Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy.

Demonstrating the full range and achievement of Anthony Burgess's poetry and verse, this collection contains extracts from his translations of the librettos of Carmen, Oberon, and others, of verse dramas including Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, and Chatsky, and his original musicals Trotsky's in New York!, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, and A Clockwork Orange 2004. Also included are his translations of the Roman dialect poet Giuseppi Belli, ...

The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 primarily for "Gitanjali", parts of which he had rendered into the lucid, grave English prose of prayer. This title emulates the grandeur and lightness of movement of these wonderful song-poems.

A collection of Trakl's essential poetry, this title contains the two books published in his lifetime, "Gedichte" ('Poems', 1913) and "Sebastian im Traum" ('Sebastian in a Dream', 1914), together with the later poems published in the magazine "Der Brenner".

A collection of poems, essays and excerpts from letters by the twentieth-century poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

Echoes the vigour, good humour and skill of Paul Verlaine's poems about carnal love.

A collection of both secular and devotional poems. It covers various literary genres and religious modes on which the author drew.

Presented here are translations of the works of six of the most able contemporary Welsh-language poets, writing in styles varying from vers libre to the ancient strict metres. These poets include Bobi Jones, Menna Elfyn, Emyr Lewis, Iwan Llwyd, Gwyneth Lewis, and Elin ap Hywel. In an introductory essay, Minhinnick questions whether modern writers working in an imperiled language might consider English translation of their poems as a form of ad...

Best-selling poet Sophie Hannah returns with a wonderful collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life. From relationships to the world of work, motherhood and marriage, Sophie Hannah tells it how it is in her own inimitable style. Funny and moving, these poems combine traditional form and rhyme with a contempo...

In October 1879, Mallarme's eight year-old son Anatole died after months of illness. Malarme wrote 210 sheets of pencilled notes towards a poem about this death, and they did not appear in his lifetime. When first published in 1961, they revealed an unknown side of Mallarme.

A selection from the work of one of modern Greece's poets. It is drawn from various periods of his career and traces his development from early surrealism, in which he transforms French influence into a distinct personal voice and mythology, through the dramatic style of "The Axion Esti" with its blend of spirituality and earthiness.