Poems by Li Bai, Du Fu and others from the 'golden age' of Chinese poetry. Li Bai is said to have died by falling from a boat, reaching for the moon's reflection in the water...
Last autumn we had the great Dutch writer's 533: A Book of Days, a sort of diary of the pandemic on Menorca. Now we have this single poem which repeatedly refers back to images of wartime; h... read more
Keenly anticipated first volume of poetry from this wonderful, delicate writer. Many of the poems were written during a period of illness, when Toibin found himself only able to write for a... read more
Moshenka has previously published an excellent biography of Sir Kenelm Digby (A Stain in the Blood). His earlier academic work - Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England ... read more
A sequence of poems with illustrations by the poet about Herakles, who finds it hard to adapt to peacetime after a life spent making war; murders his family, and then decides that he won't c... read more
Seven sequences about women's relationships with different kinds of men, with Hill's characteristic use of juxtaposition, shock and general flamboyance.
A 'howdie-skelp' is apparently the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. We are to understand that this new collection by the much-lauded Irish poet is a Call To Action; although what ... read more
This new collection by the wonderful Reid concerns itself with place and displacement, even in the smallest of places. It is affirmation of the value of international perspectives, which are... read more
Much loved at Sandoe's (he wrote our 2017 Cuckoo Press pamphlet, England: A Love Affair), Szirtes has published poems regularly on Instagram since the start of Covid. In this new collection,... read more