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Includes 13-line poems
that cover three years of
Ludbrooke's day-to-day
life in multicultural
21st-century Britain: a
batch of near-love
affairs, worries about
the figure he cuts among
friends, battles with
work and alcohol - but
finally a determination
never to give up.
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Read Me First is a fun
collection of poems that
will delight all five- to
seven-year olds and
includes everything from
nursery rhymes to longer
classics. All the very
best classic and modern
poets. A book packed with
gems for dipping into
time and time again.
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In this exuberant
anthology, Wendy Cope
attempts to prove that
misery does not have all
the best lines. Here is a
collection of poems which
is unashamedly happy:
poems about love,
places, the beauty of
the natural world, about
company and solitude,
music, food and drink
and books.
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Presents an anthology of
poems based on
traditional Native
American songs and
stories from different
tribes across North
America. This book
contains poems that are
rich in vivid imagery,
showing how Native
Americans creatively
interpret the wonders of
the natural world.
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Cellulose nitrate was
introduced in 1889, and
used until the 1950s as
the - frighteningly
flammable - basis of film
stock. This book of poems
presents a meditation
upon the birth of the
moving picture, the
allure of the film still,
the aesthetics of the
early horror film, and
the contemporary
'intermission' that moors
us out of time.
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An anthology that draws
together the work of
women poets from Britain,
Ireland and America as
one version of a history
of women's poetic
writing, while not
isolating women's writing
from its intersection
with the work of male
contemporaries. It allows
the reader to trace
women's negotiations with
one another's work.
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Love is everywhere in
Persian poetry. This
collection offers
extracts translated by
the authors from the best
of traditional and
contemporary Persian
poetry and illustrates
them with examples of
Persian art in the
British Museum. It also
includes a brief
introduction to its
tradition and a short
biographical note about
each of the major poets.
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Affirms a spirituality
for healing a shattered
world. A collection,
layered with Biblical
echoes and the music of
The Psalms, this title
explores the
possibilities of poetry
to redress the failures
of care towards the
planet and the needs of
society. It revives the
language of sacrament and
celebration with raw and
tender grace.
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Records the dichotomy of
human experience. This
book deals with break-up,
depression, illness and
death. It also reveals an
intense involvement with
nature and a capacity for
healing and love. There
are intimate personal
poems reflecting on
relationships with people
and creatures; poems
which enter the lives of
real and imaginary
characters.
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Beginning with Dante's
liberation from Hell,
this work relates his
ascent to the Mount of
Purgatory. Dante observes
the sinners who are
waiting for their release
into Paradise, and
through these encounters
he is himself transformed
into a better man. The
second part of an epic
poem, it is a Christian
allegory of sin,
redemption and
enlightenment.
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Features poems that are
divided into sections on
pop and rock, jazz and
blues, specific
composers and works,
various musical
instruments, the human
voice, the connection
between music and love,
and music at the close of
life. Featuring a
symphony of poetic voices
of various tenors and
tones, this title is
suitable for musicians
and music lovers.
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October full of dust,
floating dimly then
falling, the sun
burnished garish and
whiskey. Its light seeped
like dye into the cracked
ground. Children softly
erupted as their fathers
sat in tractors, pulling
a curtain closed. I was a
child, among the rubble,
silos spilling bricks
from the top down, cold
barns filled with mice.
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John Steffler has written
poems of profound
philosophical curiosity
grounded in the
landscapes of
Newfoundland, Southern
Ontario, Greece, and
New Zealand. This book
presents his work
together with a selection
from Steffler's three
previous much-praised
volumes: The Grey
Islands, The Wreckage of
Play, and That Night We
Were Ravenous.
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READ ME was first
published in August 1998
to tie in with the
National Year of Reading.
It was an immediate
success and sold over
180, 000 copies. We are
delighted to be
publishing this tenth
anniversary edition in
the Rhythm and Rhyme
month of the second
National Year of Reading.
'This book contains Emily
Dickinson, Wordsworth,
Gareth Owen, Ian
McMillan, Wes Magee,
William Blake and Seamus
Heaney - an excellent
acknowledgement of the
fact that some days we
feel wordy and broody,
and on other days we feel
as brash as the wind,
and no deeper than the
surface of our skins.' -
Michael Glover,
Independent on Sunday
'The poetic calendar
chosen by Gaby Morgan is
a delight: motley,
wide-ranging and
unpatronising.' Observer
'Great riches are to be
found between the covers
of this unassuming
paperback... this
treasure trove celebrates
the variety of English
verse.' - Beverley
Davies, The Lady. The
size of this book is
19.3cm in height and 13cm
wide and has 489 pages.
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Covers English Romantic
poetry from its
beginnings and its
flowering to the first
signs of its decadence.
This title features poets
and their poems in order
of composition,
beginning with
eighteenth-century
precursors such as Gray,
Cowper, Burns and
Chatterton.
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John Keats (1795-1821)
abandoned a career in
medicine to write poetry,
until his life was cut
tragically short by
tuberculosis at the age
of twenty-five. By that
time, he had published
three volumes of verse to
an unreceptive critical
response. But as the
nineteenth century wore
on Keats
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Jonty Tiplady grew up in
Doncaster, South
Yorkshire, moving to
London, Paris, then
Brighton, where he
received a PhD on Jacques
Derrida. He has published
8 chapbooks of poetry,
including 'Zam Bonk Dip'
(Barque Press 2007) and
'At the School of
Metaphysics' (Fly By
Night 2008). He won the
2009 Crashaw Prize and
currently lives in
London.
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Starts 'in an age of bare
hands and cast iron' and
ends 'as the automatic
lock/clunks shut' in the
eerie conditions of a
menaced twentieth-first
century. This book
includes a number of
prose poems and
translations. It offers
resistance as the poet
gathers his staying
powers and stands his
ground in the hiding
places of love and
excited language.
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W B Yeats' life spanned
the end of the 19th and
the beginning of the 20th
century, and his poetry
reflects all the turmoil,
fervour, traditions and
revolutions of that
period. This collection
shows the impact of a
great poet whose
startling relevance to
our own times grows more
and more evident.
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The Calder valley, west
of Halifax, was the last
ditch of Elmet, the last
British Celtic kingdom to
fall to the Angles. For
centuries it was
considered a more or less
uninhabitable wilderness,
a notorious refuge for
criminals, a hide-out
for refugees. This title
celebrates this area
where the author spent
his early childhood.
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Completing the author's
cycle of family poems,
this book is at once
intense and harmonic,
playful with language,
and rich with
self-awareness and sense
of irony. The opening
poem, with its sequence
of fearsome images of
war, serves as a prelude
to poems of home in which
humour, anger, and
compassion sing together
with lyric energy.
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Presents a collection of
poetry on a range of
subjects as diverse as
love letters, sheep,
and DIY. This anthology
is useful not only for
the diversity of subjects
that are included, but
also for the range of
literary styles and
devices that are used to
en
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A painter, poet and
engraver, William Blake
(1757-1827) was born in
London. Poetical
Sketches, his first
volume of poetry, was
published in 1783 and was
followed by several of
his best-known works:
Songs of Innocence
(1789), The Book of
Thiel (1789), The
Marriage of Heaven and
Hell (1790-93), Songs of
Experience (1794) ad
Jeusalem (1804-20).
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C P Cavafy is one of the
most singular and
poignant voices of
twentieth-century
European poetry,
conjuring a magical
interior world through
lyrical evocations of
remembered passions,
imagined monologues and
dramatic retellings of
his native Alexandria's
ancient past. This title
includes selected poems
of Cavafy.
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When Edward Thomas was
killed at the Battle of
Arras in 1917 his poems
were largely unpublished.
But in the years since
his death, his work has
come to be cherished for
its rare, and sustained
vision of the natural
world. This title offers
an introduction to this
one of the resonant - and
relevant - of poets.
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Holding in balance the
ecological and the
technological, ancient
and modern, this work
sings languages and
cultures, people and
habitats burgeoning on
the brink of extinction.
Assured in its rhymes and
cadences, it is often
attentive to poetry in
other tongues, not least
Gaelic.
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Part of a series of small
hardcover volumes devoted
to the world's classic
poets, with silk ribbon
markers and headbands and
gold stamping on the
front and spine. This
book contains a selection
of the work of Emily
Dickinson, one of
America's most original
and powerful female
writers.
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A collection of poems
that deals with the
author's memories of Sri
Lanka: the rituals and
traditions, history and
geography, the smells
and tastes, and colours
of his first home. It
presents an elegy for
lost childhood, for a
culture and language lost
to the turmoil of
history.
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Brings together 270 poems
arranged by year rather
than by poet, and
reveals how poetry
developed between 1914
and 1918, and afterwards
from 1919-1930. This
features a record of
feelings and experiences,
written by men and women
from different
backgrounds, of unique
and enduring importance.
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Goose Music is a
co-written by two notable
poets Andy Brown and John
Burnside. The poems are
intense lyrics paying
close attention to
natural detail, and
explore ideas of
identity, self, myth,
landscape and place in
these times of great
environmental change.
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Bilingual selection of 50
of Pablo Neruda's best
poems, many newly
translated, with an
introduction by Lawrence
Ferlinghetti. This
edition results from an
initiative including the
Neruda Estate and leading
Neruda scholars and
translators to produce an
authoritative
introduction to his work.
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Borrowed Landscapes,
Peter Scupham's first
book since his acclaimed
Collected Poems of 2002,
explores a hinterland of
enchantment and
nightmare, a landscape
whose contours reach back
to Shakespeare's England
by way of two world wars
and a coming of age
shaped by the Suez crisis
and the Cold War.
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Collects poems that
engage in a search for
meaning and order in the
everyday and in the
extraordinary - a locust
officer tracking swarms
in an African desert, a
hobbyist building a
replica of the world out
of matchsticks, and a
chance encounter with the
French mystic Simone Weil
playing video games in a
Torquay arcade.
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Traces a journey, across
continents and from youth
to maturity. This book
moves from memories of
childhood in Guyana,
through a long elegiac
exploration of the
shootings at Virginia
Tech University in 2006,
to the reflective closing
section. It celebrates
how imagination and
memory enable us to cope
with violence and death.
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This is a collection of
some of the greatest love
letters of all time,
from 200 of the world's
most articulate lovers.
Love letters both
historic and fictional,
tragic and comic; love
letters written by both
poets and princes; and
each one enchanting.
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Focuses on such
characteristic subjects
as: the Caribbean's
complex colonial legacy,
the Western artistic
tradition, the blessings
and withholdings of old
Europe (Andalucia, the
Mezzogiorno, Amsterdam),
the unaccomodating
sublime of the new world,
time's cunning passages,
and more.
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From diamonds hidden in a
grandmother's pantry to a
nun teaching a sex
education lesson,
Birdhouse is full of life
- and its flip-side. It
includes an award-winning
sequence of elegies for
the poet's family who
were victims of the
holocaust. Already widely
published, this is Anna
Woodford's first
full-length collection.
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Insight depends on
attentiveness, but can
also strike us
spontaneously as
revelation. This
collection features poems
that are unified by the
urge to look into things
and reflect on them, but
the responses they
represent are as varied,
and as revelatory, as
the subjects they
address.
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Function as experiments
in epistemology. The
poems in this work
explore the subject's
continuity with the
world, including the
world of artifice and
technology. By occupying
various shifting subject
positions, they seek to
address the cognitive,
spiritual and erotic
experiences, longings
and desires that come
with living in the
material world.
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I saw a tramp last night
the way the old dog
walked with dotted,
tired fur down nobody's
alley being nobody's dog.
..past the empty vodka
bottles past the peanut
butter jars, with wires
full of electricity and
the birds asleep
somewhere, down the
alley he went - nobody's
dog moving through it
all, brave as any army.
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A collection of poems on
the adventures, dreams,
hopes, and imaginings of
two singular characters:
Jaham, the Father of
Clouds, a semi-nomadic
poet and auto mechanic,
and his inseparable
sidekick Bald Adham,
also a virtuoso mechanic
as well as pillar of
Muslim piety.
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At the centre of this
collection, which
includes groups of
elegies and love poems,
there is a short sonnet
sequence that
concentrates themes
apparent elswehere in the
book: individual
responsibility for
choices; the artist's
commitment to his
vocation; the
vulnerability of all in
the face of death.
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A selection of Tony
Harrison's poems, which
includes sixty-three
poems from his sonnet
sequence The School of
Eloquence and the long
poem 'v', a meditation
in a vandalized Leeds
graveyard, written
during the miners'
strike, which created
such a stir when it was
broadcast on television
in the late 1980s.
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A tenth anniversary
edition of Chris Emery's
black comedy debut, Dr.
Mephisto, made
simultaneously available
in print and electronic
form. Flamboyant, funny,
poignant and excessive,
Emery's modernist work is
a picaresque, historical
road show of hell from
the brink of the 21st
Century.
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Between 1953-57, John
Betjeman read a series of
poems on The Faith in the
West program airing on
the BBC's West of England
Home Service. This
series, called Poems in
the Porch, was so
popular that Betjeman
received constant
requests to publish the
poems. This book features
an important discovery in
the canon of Betjeman's
poems.
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Comprises of a study of
poetry produced in
Austria between the
demise of the Third Reich
and Austria's
re-attainment of
sovereignty in 1955. This
book demonstrates the
problems for modern
poetry in the handing of
historical events. It
offers the understanding
of Austrian poetry and
the reworking of an
Austrian literary
identity.
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In a world where
everything has many
possible explanations,
Katy Evans-Bush examines
love, loss, art and
time itself under a
variety of lenses. With
humour and imagination
she shows that the core
of love remains the same
while everything around
it shapeshifts; and that
an egg is never just an
egg.
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An odyssey for the
twenty-first century.
Beginning on America's
East Coast, this poem
journeys restlessly
through the European
continent, exploring the
inheritance of the Old
World upon Walcott's
native St Lucia, and
sees the poet wondering
about his own sense of
abandonment, whether to
leave a place is to lose
it.
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An attempt to introduce
contemporary poetry to
the general reader by
publishing representative
work by each of three
modern poets in a single
volume, in each case the
selection has been made
to illustrate the poet's
characteristics in style
and form. This anthology
features Roger McGough's
work, alongside that of
Brian Patten and Adrian
Henri.
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Features a selection of
the works of W B Yeats,
which includes the
narrative poem The
Wanderings of Oisin. This
title also includes poems
in alternative versions;
and in many other cases
it provides significant
variants, so that Yeats'
struggle to revise his
poetry can be experienced
with unusual immediacy.
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Describes a world in
free-fall. This work
presents poems that
explore the ambivalence
and dark unease of
slippage and collapse,
and they also carry a
sense of the miraculous
made manifest amongst the
ordinary: the mating of
natterjack toads, ice on
the beach, or 'the fund
of life' in a used
contraceptive.
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Charts the unique
literary talent of one of
Britain's most
influential poets and
social critics. Ranging
from protests against
police brutality to
eulogies for departed
friends and celebrations
of urban life, Linton
Kwesi Johnson's use of
Jamaican dialect to
tackle British subjects
contributed to a
revolution in the notion
of literary English.
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Acknowledged as a crucial
influence on Burns,
Robert Fergusson was a
remarkable poet in his
own right. Published to
mark the 250th
anniversary of
Fergusson's birth, this
edition contains
Fergusson's finest poems
in both Scots and
English, and features an
introductory essay,
orthography, a section
of notes and a glossary.
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This collection of Seamus
Heaney's work,
especially in the series
of 12-line poems entitled
Squarings, shows he is
ready to re-imagine
experience and to credit
marvels. The title poem
is typical in that it
begins with memories of
an actual event, then
moves towards the
visionary.
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Using conversations with
people who live and work
on the River Dart in
Devon as a poetic census,
Alice Oswald creates a
narrative of the river,
tracking its life from
source to sea. The voices
are varied and idiomatic
- poacher, ferryman,
sewage worker, mill
worker, forester and
swimmers.
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Brings together many
favourite poems from the
author's four collections
- The Adoption Papers,
Other Lovers, Off Colour
and Life Mask - as well
as some previously
uncollected poems, and
some lively poetry for
younger readers. The
poems draw on her own
life and the lives of
others to make a tapestry
of voice and communal
understanding.
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With its roots in the
devotional verse of the
early Christian church
and the long lyric poems
of the Irish bards,
Irish poetry has a rich
and robust tradition both
of engagement and
self-reflection.
Thematically organized
and spanning many
centuries, this
selection features a
section of Gaelic poetry
in translation.
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Evokes the terror and
devastation of the
cyclonic event and the
emotional impact upon
those caught in its path.
Drawing from Indian,
Greek and Biblical
mythology as well as
Indigenous understanding,
this work features poems
that range from
descriptive to
reflective, mythic to
emotional, and aim to
raise questions of the
reader.
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Imagined Rooms is global
in its outlook, making
what was once strange or
distant immediate and
present. It offers a view
on a world where there is
no place to hide and
where, in Dooley's
paraphrase of Jaccottet,
the poet's role is to
name and look out for
'every item left at
risk'.
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This delightful anthology
gives readers a teeming
litter of literary
tributes to the
ever-fascinating,
ever-mystifying cat. Some
of the characters
highlighted are Yeats's
Minnaloushe, Christopher
Smart's Jeoffry, Lewis
Carroll's Cheshire Cat,
and T.S. Eliot's Rum Tum
Tugger.
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Haunting and enigmatic,
Virgil's Eclogues
combined a Greek literary
form with scenes from
contemporary Roman life
to create a work that
inspired a whole European
tradition of pastoral
poetry. For despite their
rustic setting and the
beauty of their phrasing,
the poems in Virgil's
first collection are also
grounded in reality.
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A collection of poems in
which questions of belief
and trust, of identity
and knowledge, mingle
with more mundane
considerations, such as
the problems of owning a
dog, and the
vicissitudes of the job
market. Simon Armitage
was the 1993 Sunday Times
Young Writer of the Year.
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Doris Kareva is Estonia's
leading female poet, and
her work has been
translated into over 20
languages. Her eleventh
collection, Shape of
Time, is more restrained
in style than her earlier
works, but its themes
are the same - love and
its great enemies, death
and time - and the poems
retain the romantic
bravado that makes her
work so compelling.
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In her second book of
poems Sinead Morrissey's
worlds grow more diverse,
encompassing the Orient,
the Antipodes, America
and an Ireland which
recent history has
changed and yet not
deeply, a country
observed through eyes
that travel and time have
made dispassionate and
disabused.
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Averno, a crater lake in
southern Italy, was for
the Romans the entrance
to the underworld, both
gateway and impassable
barrier between the
living and the dead. This
collection shows Averno
as the only source of
heat and light in a world
turned to icy winter.
Both epic and intimate in
scope, it explores the
enduring drama of love
and death.
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Whether laugh-out-loud
funny or staring straight
into the abyss, Phil
Bowen's highly
distinctive poems are
written with great
originality, rhythm and
nerve. Here are poems
that pass 'the spelling
test' - casting a spell
that in turn creates a
distinct world whose
landscape readers can
inhabit for the poems'
duration.
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Written by the author of
the award-winning Landing
Light, this title
conjures a series of
fables and charms that
serve both to expose us
to the unsettling forces
within the world and
simultaneously offer some
protection against them.
It also includes an
extended elegy for the
poet Michael Donaghy.
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This selection includes
poems from all stages of
Rainer Maria Rilke's
career, beginning with
the delicate works of his
early years, through the
poems he wrote in French,
and concluding with his
mature masterpieces
Sonnets to Orpheus and
the Duino Elegies.
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Includes poems which
derives from the paradox
between immanence and
constancy of the spirit
that infuses daily life
and its provisional,
intractable nature.
Through these poems,
this title demonstrates
that we exercise our
aliveness when we reach
into the essence of
experience, attempting
to grasp exactly that
which our grasp cannot
contain.
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This is no tricks poetry
- it stands as witness,
chronicles of lives lived
without safety nets,
mostly from the point of
view of people living
them. You might not like
these people much, but,
after this, you'll know
them if you see them. And
one of them might be you.
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With just two exceptions,
these 88 poems, in the
form of an intimate and
candid narrative, are
addressed to Sylvia
Plath, the American poet
to whom Ted Hughes was
married. They were
written over a period of
more than 25 years, the
first a few years after
her suicide in 1963.
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A leader of the
20th-century Irish
nationalist movement,
William Butler Yeats is
also among that nation's
greatest poets. This
selection includes poetry
from every period of his
life, dealing with:
love, death, old age,
ambition, the poet's
craft, and the history
and destiny of Ireland.
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From the sun-baked
pebbles and plastic
ice-cream spines that
bedeck the 'The Jetsam
Garden', to the swallows
that nest under the eaves
of a farmhouse in the
Cilento Hills in 'Stop',
this title takes us from
inky, restless seascapes
to the warmth of the
Mediterranean, examining
the connections between
man and 'our material
cousins' in nature.
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A comprehensive selection
of Kavanagh's poetry. It
includes selection that
range from initial
offerings such as
Tinker's Wife and
Inniskeen Road: July
Evening to his tragic
masterpiece The Great
Hunger (1942) and
celebratory verse, To
Hell with Common Sense
and Come Dance with Kitty
Stobling.
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From the proto-communist
'Diggers' of Surrey,
through to Berwick's
radical Tyneside and on
to a wet St George's Day
in Dover, the opening
sequence, 'Class', this
title offers a 'condition
of England' poem for our
times: as light and
readable as it is
ambitious and scope.
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One of America's
best-loved poets, Edna
St Vincent Millay
(1892-1950) burst onto
the literary scene at a
very young age and won
the Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry in 1923. Her
lyrics and sonnets have
thrilled generations of
readers long after the
notoriously bohemian
lifestyle she led in
Greenwich Village in the
1920s ceased to shock
them.
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A collection of the lyric
verse, narrative verse
and letters of John
Keats. This volume
contains a selection of
sonnets and other short
poems, both versions of
Hyperion, extensive
sections from Endymion
and the complete texts of
Isabella, Lamia and The
Eve of St Agnes.
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An edition of the poems
which identifies the
references, verse-forms,
contexts and occasions
of Wendy Cope's work. It
offers readers an
arrangement of the poetry
as a whole. It includes
notes that also identify
dates of composition, so
that it is possible to
observe the development
of her work.
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Composed towards the end
of the first millennium
of our era, the
Anglo-Saxon poem
"Beowulf" is a Northern
epic and a classic of
European literature. In
this new translation,
Seamus Heaney has
produced a work that is
true, line by line, to
the original poem.
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Joan Margarit is one of
Spain's major modern
writers, known for his
mastery of the Catalan
language, and has become
Spain's most widely
acclaimed contemporary
poet. This edition draws
on two collections
published since his 2006
Bloodaxe retrospective,
Tugs in the Fog: Selected
Poems.
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The Best British Poetry
2011 presents the finest
and most engaging poems
found in literary
magazines and webzines
over the past year. The
material gathered
represents the rich
variety of current UK
poetry. Each poem is
accompanied by a note by
the poet
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Distinguished as both a
great novelist and a
great poet, Thomas
Hardy's writing career
spanned more than 60
years. A master of the
short lyric and the vivid
narrative, Hardy is the
poet of remembrance and
tender regret; but he is
also an ironist with
sharp observations of
human frailty.
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Ruth Padel is an
award-winning poet who
has also become renowned
as a guide to reading
poetry. Here, she uses
poems by some of our
finest poets to look at
the idea of the journey,
through literature and
through life. In an
increasingly unstable
world, she argues, we
need poetry to help us to
see afresh and understand
the journeys of our
lives.
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Come on troops. Let's
take check: Finn Bar,
slightly ruffled but
still in fighting form.
Maggie, could do with a
full nights sleep but
otherwise all in order.
In a new flat, three
children play hide and
seek. Hiding from the
world, needing to be
found, their one shared
focus a mobile phone.
Will it ring? and who
will call?
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Drawing on various
sources, this book
examines varieties of
love, faith, hope and
illusion, to suggest an
unusual possibility: that
when the search for what
we expected to find - in
the forest or in our own
hearts - ends in failure,
we can now begin the
hard and disciplined
quest for what is
actually there.
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The author was one of
defining voices of
twentieth-century poetry,
and one of appealing:
few other poets have
introduced as many
readers to poetry. Though
she published just one
collection in her
lifetime, The Colossus,
and a novel, The Bell
Jar, it w
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Tells the story of a
divorce, embracing
strands of love, sex,
sorrow, memory, and new
freedom. In this telling
- which carries us
through the seasons when
her marriage was ending -
the author opens her
heart to the reader,
sharing the feeling of
invisibil
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The haiku is a tiny poem
of Japanese origin,
usually only three lines
long and a total of
seventeen syllables,
that uses concrete images
to create a sensation one
can almost touch, smell
and taste. This anthology
features haiku from poets
- both ancient and modern
- from around the world.
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Features poems that are
concerned with navigation
and with choice; with how
to live in an
increasingly urbanised,
global, technological
world; how to orient
oneself as, for example,
a woman in a still
largely patriarchal
society; and with how to
make moral choices when
the options seem either
rich to embarrassment or
shamefully narrow.
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A poem-journal of
beekeeping that
chronicles the life of
the hive, from the
collection of a small
nucleus on the first day
to the capture of a swarm
two years later. It
observes the living
architecture of the comb,
the range and locality
of the colony; it
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This poet blends
breath-taking imaginative
flights with an earthy
physicality. Essentially
love poems from first to
last page, Eleanor
Cooke's poetry is set
largely in England - the
England we'd like to
return to; but an England
where the dark is
ever-present, and
there's no escape from
the present or the past.
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Offers a collection that
is by turns a voice and a
chorus: a hyper-vivid
array of dramatic
monologues, allegories,
parables and tall tales.
The author creates world
after world, peculiar
yet always particular,
where the only certainty
is the unexpected.
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Consolidating and
expanding on the vision
of his two previous
collections, Longley
takes the reader through
the various hells we have
made this century, from
the fields of Flanders,
through Terezin and
Auschwitz to the troubled
north of Ireland. In
images drawn from Italy,
America and Japan he
explores the fundamentals
of home and civilisation.
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London Bridge, Simon
Smith's fourth collection
of poetry, is an
accessible, funny and
immediate book of poems
about life in the City
amidst the contingent
camera-shake and
confusions of the
everyday. The book
concentrates on the
experience of living in
London - a book which is
accessible, contemporary
and sassy.
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A collection of poems for
adults. Erotic,
physical, completely
open and fully engaged
with the mortal urgency
of life, it tackles the
author's themes robustly
and yet with great
sensitivity, constantly
defining and reimagining
what it is to be a man in
today's world, living
fully in the moment.
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Features the poetry of
railways. This work
includes: Whitsun
Weddings, Night Mail,
Distant View of a
Provincial Town, Two
Wars, and The Branch
Line. Divided up into
chapters entitled
Navigation, Engineering,
Waiting, Travelling and
Musing, it is a pocket
companion for the waiting
room and the train
compartment alike.
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