The great novelist returns to poetry - where his career began - to consider migration, borders and displacement, from his childhood in Sri Lanka to Canadian rivers and Bulgarian Orthodox chu... read more
Much-anticipated new collection about, according to Her Greatness, 'different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow... forensics, encounters with lovers, the word "idea", th... read more
Hewitt is a skilled writer of the interior self; his memoir - All Down Darkness Wide - recalled an uneasy romance with a young Swedish man. This second poetry collection is a similar mixture... read more
Lieutenant Anielewicz is on an eccentric mission to lift 21st century humans out of their gloom. A shimmering, breathless collection published by Archipelago.
Draws on thirty years of published work. Perception is an enduring theme - what it means to observe oneself, one's friends, lovers, surroundings, things that are felt but not seen. See also... read more
An anthology of the poetry of this ancient and threatened culture: medieval Sufi lyrics and other traditional forms as well as contemporary work. A pocket-sized Everyman.
New work from the 30 writers in this successful poetry collective spearheaded by Bernadine Evaristo, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus and Sarah Howe.
The Grimm Brothers' tale recast as a C21st dystopia by the Poet Laureate. Illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, who also did the other-worldly illustrations for Armitage's Sir Gawain and the ... read more
More tonic from the apothecary (but no gin). WS founded the Forward Poetry Prize and has been a tremendously Good Egg in the poetry world for a few decades now.
A collection by a writer born in the former GDR, voicing his childhood landscape of uranium mines: history and experience through imagery, not reportage.
This anthology of Japanese poetry dates from the C10th and became the basis of all later vernacular poetry including haiku. The early literary authors Shikibu and Shonagon drew from it too, ... read more
Esiri has produced several fine poetry anthologies but this is her first for children. A good mix of traditional and modern, and brought alive by Faccini's delightful illustrations. Ages 3-6... read more
A new translation of the fundamental text of Daoism, much more dynamic than the comfortably gnomic ones of the past. Ziporyn restores its strangeness and philosophical challenges.
A novel in verse based on the experiences of the author's great aunt, who went to Canada as an orphan in 1908 where she worked as an indentured servant.
A brilliant journey through a particular vein of literary history, from the C17th onwards. The Golden Treasury, General Wavell, Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Mersey Sound... rich pickings indee... read more