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This selection brings together poets of every hue: from magisterial figures like T Gwynn Jones, R Williams Parry and Saunders Lewis to folk poets such as Alun Cilie and Dic Jones; from cerebral poets Pennar Davies and Bobi Jones to popular entertainers Geraint Lovgreen and Ifor ap Glyn.

A collection of poems that move from the very earliest and most delicate stages of life, to the many adjustments of adulthood. It features a cycle of poems from a mother to her baby, moving from the uncertainty and awe at the discovery of a pregnancy, through the ecstasy of early motherhood.

"Lee Valley Poems" was Yang Lian's first book to be wholly conceived and written in London, once his place of exile and then his permanent home. It includes an extended sequence, "When Water Confirms", translated by Brian Holton and Agnes Hung-Chong Chan, and a suite of shorter poems translated by seven fellow poets.

Second collection by one of Britain's most versatile young poets, winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

In "Dirty Looks", Cheryl Follon serves up a fiery gumbo of playful poems drawing on the shadowy side of love.

Louis Simpson is one of America's most distinguished poets, the winner of many literary awards including a Pulitzer Prize. Voices in the Distance is the first selection of his poetry to be published in Britain for over 25 years. His earlier books were published in the UK by Oxford University Press and Secker and Warburg.

Revised and enlarged second edition of a substantial selection of Tagore's poems and songs first published by Bloodaxe in 1991, translated with an illustrated introduction, notes and glossary by the bilingual writer Ketaki Kushari Dyson, who lives in Oxford. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a poet of intense and searching originality who made lyric sense out of the often brutal realities of everyday life. His new collection, Wait, finds Williams by turns ruminative, stalked by 'the conscience-beast, who harries me'. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

A collection of poems that explores time and memory, past and present, death, loss, decay and legacy by a leading Dutch poet who is also an archaeologist.

Includes poetry from "We Brits" that gives an outsider-insider view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. This book also includes "Weblines" that contains three Caribbean myths of transformation: the steeldrum, the limbo dancer, and Anansi, the spider trickster god.

John Agard has been broadening the canvas of British poetry over the years with his mischievous, satirical fables. This book plays havoc with biology and makes a monkey out of Darwinian evolution - on the occasion of the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his "Origin of Species".

An Cailleach Bhearra, or the Hag of Beara, is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of western Ireland and Scotland. Recognising the Cailleach as a figure of extraordinary power and influence, this title features poems that explore the human origins from which the legend grew.

Sylva Fischerova is one of the most formidable Czech poets of her generation. A distinguished classicist who teaches at Charles University in Prague, she writes poetry with a vivid imagination as well as historical reach, and was first published in English as a young poet by Bloodaxe in 1990.

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2009. A powerful and ambiguous body of water lies at the heart of these poems, with shoals and channels that change with the forty-foot tide. Even the name is fluid - from one shore, the Bristol Channel, from the other Mor Hafren, the Severn Sea.

The third book in the Staying Alive anthology series. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books. It was followed by Staying Human in 2020.

This retrospective of the work of Ruth Stone (1915-2011) presents a comprehensive selection that includes early formal lyrics, fierce feminist and political poems, and meditations on the author's husband suicide, on love, loss, blindness and ageing. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, with a foreword by Sharon Olds.

Roddy Lumsden's fifth collection Third Wish Wasted is a book concerned with our wishes and desires. Belonging to a world between real and imagined folklore, the poems are by turns celebratory, humorous and beguiling, and there are bittersweet contemplations of youth, beauty and fame.

Brings together four poem sequences about motherhood. This book explores love and having a mother. It shows the impact of Asperger's syndrome on both mother and child.

Basil Bunting is one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. This title includes a CD with an audio recording Bunting made of "Briggflatts" in 1967 and a DVD of Peter Bell's 1982 film portrait of Bunting.

Pauline Stainer is a poet 'working at the margins of the sacred...with an economy of means that is breathtaking...her poems are not merely artefacts, they have an organic life of their own' (John Burnside). Crossing the Snowline charts her return to life after numbing grief. These luminous poems are a testament of recovery, renewal and redemption.

W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. At 82, Merwin produced 'his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright' (Publishers Weekly), and a collection which has won him his second Pulitzer Prize in the US and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the UK.

Czech writer Vitezslav Nezval (1900-58) was one of the leading Surrealist poets of the 20th century. Prague with Fingers of Rain is his classic 1936 collection in which Prague's many-sided life - its glamorous history, various weathers, different kinds of people - becomes symbolic of what is contradictory and paradoxical in life itself.

Art, landscape and memory are interwoven strands in the fabric of Grace Nichols' Picasso, I Want My Face Back. The collection opens with a long poem in the voice of Dora Maar, who, as Picasso's muse and mistress, was the inspiration for his iconic painting, "The Weeping Woman".

A book of poems and drawings that presents themes which are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror.

The title-poem of George Szirtes' "The Burning of the Books and Other Poems" is the core of this collection of narrative sequences by a writer who came to Britain after the Hungarian Uprising. Two further sequences are concerned with history and documentary. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Booker Prize winner's debut semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on her own childhood and family history. It explores the lives of those who leave one country in search of a better life elsewhere, but who end up struggling to be accepted even as they lay the foundations for their children and future generations.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

The Angel of History bears witness to the moral disasters of our times: war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb. The book is a meditation on memory - how memory survives the unimaginable.

Written by an award-winning author of "The Man in the White Suit", this work explores the different meanings and implications which are packed into that small word - from departures on journeys in this world and beyond it, through expulsions from homes, places and relationships, to the possibilities of adventure and discovery.

Taha Muhammad Ali (1931-2011) was a much celebrated Palestinian poet whose work is driven by a storyteller's vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.