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The dream-like, myth-inspired poems of Helen Ivory's fourth collection from Bloodaxe portray the part-remembered, part-imagined childhood of the girl who grows up to be a woman living in Bluebeard's house.

First book-length collection by a well-known figure in Britain's Buddhist community includes poems of spiritual transcendence as well as meditations on love, childhood, memory and sexuality. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's leading poets. Her second new collection since Poems 1960-2000 - which won her the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry - has poems on insects, family and ancestors. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Translations of the three great Japanese haiku masters, Basho, Buson and Issa, each selection featuring an introduction, around 100 haiku, and other poetry or prose by the poet, plus a superb essay on the art of haiku.

First book-length collection by renowned artist and award-winning poet whose Faber New Poets pamphlet received national TV, radio and newspaper coverage.

The Mining Road, Leanne O'Sullivan's third poetry collection, finds inspiration in the disused copper mines that haunt the rugged terrain around Allihies, near her home at Beara, in West Cork. O'Sullivan's poems move and provoke as they resonate with experiences at the heart of contemporary Ireland.

Robert Wrigley is a poet of America's northern Rocky Mountains. Over three decades his poetry's pervading concerns have been rural Western landscapes and humankind's place within the natural world. This is the first UK edition of his poetry. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

New book of previously uncollected poems by R.S. Thomas - all totally new to his thousands of readers.

Ann Sansom's poetry overturns the reader's expectations. Her poems often present human dramas in which people are seen as acting out their versions of themselves in their own fictions - what Stanley Cook called 'an authentic Northern mix of realism and imagination'.

The title-sequence of Imtiaz Dharker's third collection speaks for the devil in acknowledging that in many societies women are respected, or listened to, only when they are carrying someone else inside their bodies - a child; a devil. For some, to be "possessed" is to be set free.

Changes of Address brings together for the first time the whole range of Philip Gross's poetry from the 1980s and 90s - a generous selection from his Bloodaxe, Faber and Peterloo collections along with uncollected poems and work from limited editions and collaborations.

Matthew Sweeney is one of our best-known poets - with a high profile in both Britain and Ireland - and moves from Cape to Bloodaxe with this collection. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

The Day Hospital is the third book of poetry from one of Bloodaxe's younger poets with a growing reputation for writing close to the bone. Drawn from Sally Read's experiences as a community psychiatric nurse in central London, these twelve monologues are the voices of schizophrenia, dementia, depression, and anxiety.

Carolyn Forche is one of America's most important contemporary poets. Her later collections are visionary works drawing on work written over many years. In the Lateness of the World is a dark book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death.

Second new book by the Pulitzer prizewinning American poet since his Collected Poems (2006). Poems on the looming spectre of death, sexual desire and hubris of youth. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Anthology of contemporary comic poems/

'Omnesia' is Bill Herbert's melding of omniscience and amnesia, the modern condition of thinking we can know everything about our world but, in actuality, retaining dangerously little. This doubly impressive new collection - published in twin editions, the alternative text and the remix - approaches and evades such flawed totality.

Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). "People Who Like Meatballs" is her 14th book of poetry - her 11th from Bloodaxe.

Book with films on DVD of Benjamin Zephaniah, drawing on both live performances and informal interviews. All the poems featured in the films are included in the book with other material.

"The Blue Den" is a book of lyrical, sensuous poems which builds on the achievement of Stephanie Norgate's debut collection "Hidden River", which was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection Prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

A collection of poems that describe a struggle to come to terms with loss and grief and to find a basis for renewal. It features poems that take the form of conversations between a woman and a throng of invisible presences, or 'visitors', who counsel, challenge, cajole and comfort her.

Presents an exploration of the extremes of the human condition, tackling issues of civil strife and tyranny, reconciliation and the renewal of the spirit.

George Szirtes is a leading figure in contemporary poetry in England and in Hungary. A companion volume to George Szirtes' "New and Collected Poems", this book offers a sustained analysis of Szirtes' work, mapping his development chronologically and thematically, and paying close attention to form and technique in its analysis of each poem.

Brings together translations of Tomas Venclova's work and includes a selection of poems from his 1997 volume "Winter Dialogue".

Covers Selima Hill's books from "Saying Hello at the Station" (1984) to "Red Roses" (2006), and "The Hat" (2008). This book is a selection drawn from ten collections, each offering variations on her abiding themes: women's identities, love and loss, repression and abuse, family conflict and mental illness, men, animals and human civilisation.

A book of mystery and magic, retelling stories from the Bible, Celtic mythology, small-town rumours and urban mythologies. It then gradually moves beyond its borders to narratives of Central America, drawing on figures such as the Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes, and the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo.

Presents a series of public lectures given at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in which contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university.

'Paraphernalia' is a fine, capacious handbag/hold-all of a word. Practical as well as attractive, it can stretch to accommodate various kinds of contents. This work features poems that look at the ways in which our bodies and minds, too, can themselves be broken down into odds and ends, can be useful or useless clutter.

Elizabeth Alexander is a leading American poet whose work has been inspired by history, literature, art and music to the 'rich infinity' of the African-American experience. This title covers subjects ranging from slave rebellions, the Civil Rights movement, Muhammed Ali and Toni Morrison, to the lives of jazz musicians and the 'Venus Hottentot'.

The zero at the heart of these poems is not nothing - not simply absence, forgetting or loss, though there are moving elegies among them. This is a not-quite-definable zero that gives surprising edge to life and language round it.