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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.

This collection is Marin Sorescu's farewell to life - a book of wryly quizzical poems composed from his sickbed over five weeks as he waited for death to take him, his testament not just to human mortality and pain but to resistance and creative transformation.

House of Tongues is concerned with acceptance and refusal, power and the lack of it, silence and the refusal of silence. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

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.

Robert Hass is a major American poet of world stature. This is the first book of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 20 years, and the first selected edition of his work, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski was one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. This selection includes work previously unpublished in English as well as poems from all four of his previous UK collections: The Same Sea in Us All, The Wandering Border, Through the Forest and Evening Brings Everything Back.

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.

As in her poetry, so now in Extended Similes Jenny Joseph shows the influence on human lives of the mechanical workings of the world, illuminating many human states, especially love.

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.

Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's best-known poets. "Dragon Talk" was her first new book since "Poems 1960-2000", for which she received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006.

Second collection by American soldier-poet who served in Bosnia and Iraq relating to war and its aftermath. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Dan Chiasson has been hailed in America as 'one of the most gifted young poets of his generation'. Like his previous book from Bloodaxe, "Natural History and Other Poems" (2006), this new collection is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. It takes its title from a children's game.

A Hospital Odyssey is a book-length epic poem by one of Britain's leading poets, universal but also highly topical in what it says about cancer, caring for loved ones and the workings of the NHS.

The Breakfast Machine is driven by the transformations of fairytale where the dark corners of childhood are explored and found to be alive and well. There is more than a hint of East European darkness in Helen Ivory's third collection, which sits more comfortably alongside the animations of Jan Svankmajer than any English poetic tradition.

This is a highly unusual book: every poem in Matthew Caley's "Apparently begins" - or occasionally ends - with the word 'apparently'.

Canada's Priscila Uppal (1974-2018) gained an international reputation for her boldly provocative poetry in just a dozen years, following the publication of her first collection, How to Draw Blood from a Stone, at the age of 23. Successful Tragedies includes work from six books published in Canada.

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets, the winner of the Nordic Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary award - for her collection Queen's Gate, published by Bloodaxe in 2001. This new translation of her work combines two more recent collections, The Whales in Paris and Tarkovsky's Horses, the first and second parts of a quartet.

Postcards from god was Imtiaz Dharker's first book from Bloodaxe. It combines two collections published separately in India, Purdah (1989) and Postcards from god (1994).