Heaney's translations from Old and Middle Irish, Italian (both medieval and modern), classical Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Romanian, German - and this is not a complete list. A staggerin... read more
The biographer and poet (who is also an editor at Faber & Faber) explores the context of Eliot's poem through historical fragments, diaries and new research. Hollis' biography of Edward Thom... read more
Another little Everyman hardback, just the thing for a pocket... in addition to poems by Alice Oswald, Walt Whitman, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver and many anglophone poets, this is a truly int... read more
ELW's father travelled to the Antarctic in 1958. Here, she enters into a dialogue with place and person, intercutting fragments of science, photography and historical document.
The recent unsealing of Eliot's letters revealed 1,131 written to Emily Hale, an American drama teacher. This careful book also considers the role of Vivienne, Valerie and Mary Trevelyan in ... read more
Seeing stars at the enormity of the Milky Way and the length of our Christmas catalogue? A glorious anthology about space that ranges in time from the C12th BC to today, arranged chronologic... read more