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An edition of the "Collected Poems" of Frank O'Hara, who is a leading light of the 'New York School' and one of the most significant poets of the twentieth-century.

The first ever collection in English of Ice Age Poetry, drawn from the cave drawings and inscriptions at Lascaux, unpacking their meaning and resonance in the 21st Century.

Rebecca Elson's knowledge of astronomy is combined with autobiographical detail here in an exploration of time, space, evolution and her approaching death.

New collection from Martina Evans, winner of the Pigott Poetry Prize 2022.

An autobiography emerges from this Covid diary by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright.

An erotic, humorous, inventive translation of the late Roman poet Catullus through the lens of shibari (Japanese rope bondage).

A translation of Pablo Neruda's poems that were written in "Los versos del capitan" as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia - a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film "Il Postino".

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise Gluck.

New and selected poems by Ireland's most acclaimed contemporary female poet.

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with luminous precision.

Includes poems that are based on a painting by the American artist.

A landmark gathering of the first three decades of work by America's preeminent living poet.

"There is an Anger That Moves" is written by a poet from the Caribbean.

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and John Berryman.

A selection from the work of one of modern Greece's poets. It is drawn from various periods of his career and traces his development from early surrealism, in which he transforms French influence into a distinct personal voice and mythology, through the dramatic style of "The Axion Esti" with its blend of spirituality and earthiness.

When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's concentrated and richly faceted poems.'

This third collection from award-winning poet Rebecca Watts is a vibrant, resonant exploration of childhood, desire, conflict and the animal nature of the self.

The July-August 2024 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.

A selected poems in translation by one of Mexico's leading poets, taken from five collections of verse across five decades, addressing issues of migration, duality, language loss and the mutability of identity.

The poems in One Little Room enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory.

This Collected Poems spans Mimi Khalvati's nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems.

Toutoungi's third collection is a tragi-comic journal of grief that, out of the chaos of bereavement, her failing eyesight and eco-stress, blends poems of startling wit and hard-won joy.

Conjurors presents this poet's best work, much of it for the first time.

These short poems, considered as Iraqi haiku, reflect an urgent wisdom beyond their original borders.

The May-June 2024 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.

Carl PhillipsâEUR(TM)s Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowing thatâEUR(TM)s based on human memory.

This is Gabriel JosipoviciâEUR(TM)s most melodramatic and enigmatic fiction to date, as though one of MagritteâEUR(TM)s paintings had come to life to the rhythms of a Bach partita.

Sidetracks, Bei DaoâEUR(TM)s first new collection in almost fifteen years, is also the poetâEUR(TM)s first long poem and his magnum opusâEUR"the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language.

These poems are apocalyptic and sensory, coming from a place of hurt and love, of the human spirit struggling to transcend 'base matter' and make sense of the world.

In Mary O'Malley's new collection, the world's at a precarious tipping point; trust in language is breaking down. The poet gives voices to the wolf, the seal and shark, finding new language against peril.