The Worlds favorite poets in pocket editions. The Pocket Poets series - small, robust and beautifully designed volumes containing selections from the verse of some of the worlds finest poets. In these literally pocket-sized collections readers will find not only some of these authors most famous poems, but also some of their work which, though ......
Transformation is the main theme of this collection. This work also documents artistic exchange in its many forms: Schiller's desk is taken to Buchenwald during the Second World War, and Jane Eyre haunts a laboratory in Baltimore. There are poems in response to music by composers such as Telemann, Bob Zieff, and Philip Glass.
Lucie Brock-Broido's poetry conjures what is half-known, at the limits of experience, in language fierce with a living glitter. This title introduces Brock-Broido's poetry to British readers with generous selections from her three acclaimed collections: "A Hunger", "The Master Letters and Trouble in Mind".
Presents a collection of poems that evoke the poet's long marriage, and the remembered voice of her dead husband. Opening with a death in winter, the author renders a tender work of mourning which is moving but not dispiriting. She uses the words of a much loved husband - sometimes affectionate, sometimes querulous - to invoke his solid presence.
Explores what is lost to time and change, and what endures and is transformed: languages and landscapes, artefacts and songs, carried through a lifetime, across oceans, across centuries.
Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, this collection presents a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland.
Illusions and delusions, joys and jokes, mysteries of memory and temporal paradox figure in Andrew McNeillie's collection. Here are sequences of bird poems, and tree poems, lines from an autobiography, lines from America, and poems about old age, in elegiac, ironic, and even vitriolic mode.
Nigel Forde is fascinated by things in the process of change: music, the momentary epiphany, the precarious balance of twilight rather than night or day. The poems, written over a period of years, meditate on memory and landscape: in the unremarkable and evanescent lives can find their greatest clarity. Two central sequences, 'A Map of the ......
