In Slowly, As If, Karen Press looks clear-eyed at what it means to live in a complex society, a fragile world. She celebrates the connectedness that sustains us – in dance, in love, with the natural world, in cities where ‘strangers seem happy / to let you be’ – and sees it betrayed by our unreflecting complicity in poverty and violence. The death ......
Paralogues, which takes its title from the Greek word for ‘ballads’, is the British début of an original Canadian poet and editor. Evan Jones explores Greek mythology, Roman and Byzantine history, art and travel, from contemporary perspectives. The myth of Actaeon is re-imagined in three ways, and Paralogues concludes with a sequence retelling ......
Presents an exhilarating, freewheeling ride through landscapes and languages. In this title, the poems, all written on the move (tramping the Gobi desert, cycling in Irish drizzle, paddling in Tonga) have the fizz of travellers' tales, the enchantment and the melancholy of the open road.
New Selected Poems is a poet’s choice of over thirty years’ work. Minhinnick’s poetry explores the complexities of belonging in the world. It is rooted in the rich particularity of industrial south Wales and the Welsh seaside resort in which he now lives, but its scope is global. New Selected Poems includes ‘An Opera in Baghdad’ as well as ......
Features poems, in which, the author examines the traces history leaves on the land and its inhabitants, while also exploring her own, sometimes uneasy, relationship to time and place in a mother tongue that has undergone French and German influences, connecting her historically to the Middle Europe of her ancestors.
Begins with poems and ends with a collection of epigrams. Between these, the author's published collections appear in chronological sequence. It deals with subjects such as: love, relationships, memory, and all kinds of daily exchange.
Features poems and their prose commentary ("The Fathers are Watching") that navigate between the depredations of war and the mind's need to disengage itself from its surroundings.
Buoyed by music as well as water, notably the Aegean Sea and the rare rains of the eastern Mediterranean, this title includes poems that combine delicacy and vigour in their pursuit of an elusive equilibrium.
This second collection by an acclaimed poet and editor is a profound meditation upon sex, love, parenthood, the power of dreams and memory, and the passing of time, as well as being and mortality, literature and language, and the place of poetry in the modern world.
