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 collection by a writer born in the former GDR, voicing his childhood landscape of uranium mines: history and experience through imagery, not reportage.
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.
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