Born in Gravesend in 1929, he died in 2004 in California, where he lived for most of his adult life. This collection presents the private life and reflections of the poet for the first time.
Sappho, Baudelaire, Donne, Auden, Herbert, Zagajewski and many others on recovery from ills of the body, the mind and the spirit. Another attractive pocket-sized volume in the Everyman poetr... read more
A collection of canine poems... This genre in any medium gives us the shivers, but Oliver is such an outstandingly wonderful poet that we are going to risk it...
A timely celebration of a class of beings so often derided or subjected to appalling mass murder, and upon whom we depend for our survival as a species. Mary Oliver, Alice Oswald, Donne, Mar... read more
Boyle's wonders are unceasing. A novelist who has published under at least three names, and whose own publishing venture (CB Editions) has published Will Eaves, Ananda Devi, Agota Kristof an... read more
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2020. A bracing collection, at moments surreal and tender, revolving around themes of colonialism, racism, and the diaspora communities in India, England and A... read more
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