Oksana Maksymchuk's second collection constitutes a poetic study of the connection between war and eros. What forms does sex take during war? How do lovers and families endure and survive destruction? And how is ruination and renewal remembered and commemorated?
In this volume of Dan Burt's previously published poetry, Late Self-Portrait selects what the poet wishes to preserve as a whole. Brought together, the collection is about two things - character, and the contrapuntal power of beauty and thought. In rhymed metered lines and traditional forms, including 26 sonnets and 3 short prose excerpts from ......
This New Selected Poems of John Ash brings together selections from all of Ash's published volumes, from Casino (1978) to In the Wake of the Day (2010). It departs from, and builds on, his Selected Poems (1996) to give, for the first time, an overview of Ash's entire career, as he moved from Manchester to the US and Istanbul, and reveal the extent ......
In Red River Valley, the new collection from one of Britain's most treasured living poets, Ian McMillan makes poems from family life, everyday surrealism, and the effect of austerity on the village near Barnsley where he's lived all his life. Language is the playground and form is the rewritten rule book in work that tries to sit on the page and ......
Songs of Experience harvests work by a new generation of poets: has there ever before been so original and inexhaustibly varied a cohort of poets writing and publishing in their seventies, eighties and nineties? Here some of our best-loved poets are shown in a new light, presented side by side in all their diversity. Some have published with ......
My Destination, Daisy Fried's fifth book, explores renewal amid great loss - a struggle as common as rain. As full of lived life as ever, as formally various, and as wide-ranging in both subject and tone, these poems are sophisticated and indecorous, unsentimental and sharp. Fried's elbows are always out, her gaze unaverted, her treatment of her ......
The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great writers - Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into Spanish. In this book-length essay he delivers an ......
Following on from their decorated debut, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2022 and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 2023, Padraig Regan's The Matter deepens the ekphrastic concerns of their previous work, directing their gaze towards naturally occurring objects. Divided into three parts of lyrical ......
For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called Habitat (her most recent book was Poppies in Translation in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose.
