A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place and time, through the mirror of exile. It is the first book she has written in both Arabic and English, not translated but “twice-written,” as she says. Mikhail slips between her childhood in Baghdad and her present life in Detroit, between Ground Zero and a mass grave, between a game ......
Andrew McNeillies sixth collection returns to the sea and its immensity as a metaphor for fate. It also revisits the British and Irish archipelago (For which read a figure for my heart. / For which read too a figure for times hurt), following a north-western trajectory from the Aran Islands to the Hebrides. The natural world is seen here in ......
In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north.
This collection of Jeffrey Wainwright's poetry brings together most of his first collection, a Poetry Book Society recommendation, and much of what he has written since that time. The poems confront a wide range of intellectual, personal, and political experiences.
Collected for the first time in a single volume, Federico Garcia Lorca's Four Puppet Plays, A Play Without a Title, the Divan Poems; Other Poems, Prose Poems and Dramatic Pieces represent the purest examples of the poet's genius and range.
Takes the reader on a dizzying journey in the company of a virtuoso and sorcerer who makes the commonplace magical, disorientates and teases, and conjures glimpses of 'horizons - bright and anxious': 'a space like a dream'.
"Swarm", Jorie Graham's eighth volume of poetry, is a book-length sequence which sets out to encounter destiny, Eros and law. She negotiates passionately with those powers that human beings feel themselves subject to: God, matter, law, custom, the force of love.
"In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential selection of some 40 pages from the work of the poet
The poetry of Valentine Ackland (1906-69) touches the twentieth century at key points. The poet who worked for the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War lived to oppose the war in Vietnam. This book discusses each stage of Ackland's life, sets her work in context, and makes an important contribution to placing Ackland in twentieth-century poetry.
