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Second collection by Amanda Dalton whose first book "How to Disappear" (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and chosen as a Next Generation Poets title by the Poetry Book Society in 2004.

A book in three sections: The Laurelude, a blank verse myth about Ulverston's Idiot Boy, Stan Laurel; Othermoor, a cubist version of the North; and The Madmen of Elgin squashing both Lost Boys and Solitary Reapers into Middle Scots verse forms for a pre-millennial song-and-dance. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Reissue with new audio CD of Frances Horovitz's Collected Poems (1985), one of the landmark volumes of postwar British poetry.

Luljeta Lleshanaku is one of Albania's foremost younger poets with a growing reputation in the US and Europe. Haywire is her first British publication, and draws on two editions published in the States by New Directions. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

Ireland Is Changing Mother is Rita Ann Higgins at her edgy best: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed.

Gwyneth Lewis's highly inventive Sparrow Tree puts nature writing in a spin, presenting a huge variety of birds, both British and American: blue tits, blackbirds, egrets, juncos, starlings, herons and hummingbirds as well as the sparrows of the title. Winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year).

Reading's final collection after this three-volume Collected Poems covering 24 collections published up until 2003 (followed by -273.15 in 2005).

Reissue of 1985 Collected Poems by a neglected mid-20th-century British poet. This edition is co-published with the book's original publisher, Whiteknights Press at Reading University.

First Collected edition of the poetry in English by one of India's greatest modern poets.

Annemarie Austin's sixth book of poetry from Bloodaxe.

New collection by leading British poet focussing on the shifting relationship between loss and gain, including many poems addressing the human cost of war and terror, most notably in 'Memorial', written after a visit to Oradour-sur-Glane, the still desolate French village where six hundred innocent people were massacred in 1944.

This book brings together new poems with poetry and reggae chants from four previous collections. Many of the poems are included on an accompanying DVD featuring two Jean 'Binta' Breeze performances filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce.

Ailbhe Darcy's debut collection is a set of urgent dispatches from her point of origin, Dublin, and from her skirmishes further afield.

Bernard Spencer's work has been out of print for many years. This new edition will be welcomed by readers and academics, and will help redress the recent neglect of his work. Publication is timed to coincide with a major conference on the work of Bernard Spencer at Reading University in 2011.

Kerry Hardie is one of Ireland's leading poets. This is the first edition to make her work widely available in Britain.

Published on his 75th birthday, this new selection presents just over a hundred of Brendan Kennelly's most essential poems, accompanied by an audio CD of his own readings drawn from two classic recordings.

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".

Collection of love poems by celebrated American author. Garrison Keillor reads (or sings) all the poems in the book on two free CDs inside, with music by Rich Dworsky.

First substantial selection of for English-language readers of the poetry of Harry Martinson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974. Robin Fulton's edition was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and won him the Bernard Shaw Prize for Swedish Translation.

Substantial retrospective by leading British poet covering work written over four decades from ten collections.

An anthology of Caribbean poetry from the West Indies and Britain. It features selections of work by 14 poets, with interviews, photographs and essays.

Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, George Szirtes, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. George Szirtes' lectures cover poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, George Seferis, Derek Mahon and several Eastern European writers.

Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, Ruth Padel, who hit the headlines in 2009 when she was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry in controversial circumstances. The story of her election and resignation received international news coverage.

Identity Parade is the first anthology of the new generation of British and Irish poets who have emerged since the mid-1990s. It is the successor to Bloodaxe's New Poetry (1993) which was the first anthology to represent the so-called "New Generation Poets" who emerged in the 1980s and 90s (the generation of Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy).

Tony Hoagland's zany poems poke and provoke at the same time as they entertain and delight. He is American poetry's hilarious 'high priest of irony', a wisecracker and a risktaker whose disarming humour, self-scathing and tenderness are all fuelled by an aggressive moral intelligence. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

The Squirrels Are Dead is a striking and assured debut from a distinctive new talent in Irish poetry. Miriam Gamble is one of the new poets included in the Bloodaxe anthology "Voice Recognition". She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007.

Katie Donovan is a leading Irish poet. "Rootling" draws on three previous Bloodaxe collections, "Watermelon Man" (1993), "Entering the Mare" (1997) and "Day of the Dead" (2002), together with a whole collection of new work.

Chase Twichell is one of America's leading poets. "Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been" draws on several collections written over 35 years, including two published in Britain by Faber and two by Bloodaxe.

Grace Nichols is one of Britain's best-known and most popular Caribbean poets. This selection includes all her best-known poems, many of which are frequently anthologised and read on radio programmes.