The poems in this, Alan Jenkin's third collection, speak of the harm done and suffered - most frequently in the name of love - in the course of lives gone adrift among lost causes, chance meetings and missed chances. A new directness and simplicity, and throughout, a raw urgency of personal feeling, inform a voice that is as resourceful as in Jenkin's earlier volumes, and continues to salvage a 'fugitive lyricism' (as one reviewer put it) from harsh and dissonant realities. 'By turns jocular, disquieting, sexy and inventive'-PETER READING, SUNDAY TIMES 'Jenkins' poetry is exhilarating... It is charged with erotic energy, rage, sorrow and confusion'-TLS 'Stylish, Savage, unforgiving'-HUGO WILLIAMS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Jenkins has a restless mind: following his poetry gives his readers a rocky ride, but also a rewarding one. '-PETER PORTER, OBSERVER.
Ruth Padel is gaining a reputation as one of the most intelligent and exciting poets writing today. Her first two collections, SUMMER SNOW and ANGEL were highly praised, and ANGEL was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her new collection, FUSEWIRE, has the fierce historical awareness and linguistic energy of her previous collections but moves into new territory and new clarity. Poems on British activity in Ireland through the ages punctuate a series of intensely moving love peoms. PRAISE FOR RUTH PADEL'S PREVIOUS COLLECTIONS: 'Many poets wait for a lifetime for a poem like this and still don't get one' POETRY REVIEW 'Like the best writer of fictions, Padel slides easily into the skins of others. One is grateful for her fierce intellect supplying violent turbulent poems of a world where nothing stays still for long' Maura Dooley. 'She has a fierce humour. Her poems speed, never out of the fast lane' POETRY IRELAND REVIEW
Whatever the celebration, whatever the day, whatever the occasion, Helen Steiner Rice possessed the ability to express the appropriate feeling for that particular moment in time.
Her positive attitude, her concern for others, and her love of God are identifiable threads woven into her life and her work.
This comprehensive and authoritative edition of Robert Frost's poetry brings together the full contents of all eleven of Frost's books of verse - from A Boy's Will to In the Clearing.This handsome volume, comprising more than 350 poems, was prepared under the editorship of Edward Connery Lathem, a Frost scholar and a friend of the poet. In his notes, Mr Lathem records extensive bibliographical information about the publication of Robert Frost's poetry during nearly three-quarters of a century - from 1894, when his first poem appeared in a national publication, to the final volume Frost worked on just before his death in 1963. The editor also carefully traces textual changes that have occurred in the poetry over the years.Robert Frost was not merely one of America's greatest poets; his voice speaks to all men.
18th March 1993 is the centenary of Wilfred Owen's birth. To mark the Event Chatto is reissuing the definitive single-volume edition of Owen's famous war poems, complied by Jon Stallworthy from his scholarly 2-volume edition. It has sold over 40, 000 copies, first under the Hogarth imprint, and then under Chatto.
This selection of Wilfred Owen's war poems is being published partly to provide an ideal edition of the poems for schools, who essentially read the war poems and need a short, thorough edition. It contains a new introduction by Jon Stallworthy, which is aimed at a general audience, but will be thorough and academic enough to work for schools as well. Constable have a similar edition planned, but Chatto's will be out first, and contains copyright material unavailable to other editions.