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
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
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
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
Lieutenant Anielewicz is on an eccentric mission to lift 21st century humans out of their gloom. A shimmering, breathless collection published by Archipelago.
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.
New work from the 30 writers in this successful poetry collective spearheaded by Bernadine Evaristo, including Warsan Shire, Raymond Antrobus and Sarah Howe.
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.
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 book is a collaboration between the author and illustrator, who were asked by the publisher Andrew Moorhouse to look at a painting by Bruegel to see if this might spark a response from ... read more
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
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.