A new translation of the ancient Welsh manuscript. There are poems here from before the Norman Conquest, copied in the C14th and saved by Robert Vaughan in the C17th. Taliesin was an inspir... read more
A trove of delights, from fragments of Sappho and Pindaric odes, to translations by Chapman, Shelley and Robert Fagles. Another delicious Everyman edition.
In the 1940s, a group of poets emerged known as the 'New Apocalyptics', among them Dylan Thomas and W.S. Graham. This collection brings them together again, and particularly champions the wo... read more
MS is an Irish poet & publisher in the avant-garde tradition (think Denise Riley, J.H. Prynne). This collection brings together his major project, a long poem written between Ireland, Africa... read more
RR has won or been shortlisted for every prize going... 'The world of poetry is small and currently polarised: it's often either simplistic or incomprehensible. I find myself in the middle, ... read more
Rilke's 'Gedichte an die Nacht', collected here for the first time in English, began life as a handwritten notebook which he gave to a friend in 1916. A small and perfectly formed Pushkin Pr... read more
Debut collection from one of the most talked-about kids on the poetry clock (four times winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, and several other accolades).
Pope’s poem is illustrated with charm and wit by Roland Pym, whose work ranged from book illustration to theatrical design and murals (including the State Saloon at Woburn Abbey). The illu... read more
So the shortest day came, and the year died: a poem about how humans have responded to midwinter - the fading of the light and its mighty return - for millennia, by a well known children's a... read more
The last seven years of Lowell's life, including 'The Dolphin' sonnets controversy, his break up and reconciliation with EH, seen through their letters to each other, Elizabeth Bishop, Caro... read more
Keats wrote his six most famous odes in 1819: 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', 'Ode to Melancholy', 'Ode on Indolence', 'Ode to Psyche' and 'On Autumn'. The Keats-Shelley Me... read more