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  • av Kenji Miyazawa
    182

    Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is widely viewed as Japan's greatest poet of the 20th century. "Strong in the Rain" - this selection's title-poem - has arguably become the most memorised and quoted modern poem in Japan.

  • av Suzanne Batty
    142

    Suzanne Batty writes bold, flamboyant, risky poems which come from left field and Manchester, mixing dogs and people, mean streets and threats from inside.

  • av Jack Mapanje
    168

    Forty years after his country's independence from the British, Jack Mapanje has returned to his concern for ordinary people in Africa and in the world at large. Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection.

  • av W. S. Merwin
    182

    W.S. Merwin was arguably the most influential American poet of the last half-century. While he was long viewed in the States as an essential voice in modern American literature, his poetry was unavailable in Britain for over 35 years until Bloodaxe published this edition of his Selected Poems in 2007.

  • - Nourishing Poems for Starved Minds
     
    166

    "Soul Food" is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets, as well as by many lesser-known writers from all periods and places.

  • av Tess Gallagher
    158

    Looks at the author's ghosts of the past - including her late husband, Raymond Carver, and her parents, as well as victims of holocaust and wars - at the same time as she confronts her own illness and mortality, and celebrates love and friendship.

  • - New and Selected Poems
    av C. D. Wright
    204

    C.D. Wright's work is enormously varied: she was an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer, yet she continuously reinvented herself with each new volume. Like Something Flying Backwards was the first UK edition of her work, and presents a wide range of her lyrics, narratives, prose poems and odes.

  •  
    207,-

    Features thirty poets from around the world who read to you in person. This title presents a fresh concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten minutes - up to half a dozen poems chosen from across the range of their work.

  • av Harry Clifton
    174

    The poems of The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass bring together a reckoning with a lost political legacy, a meditation on love, marriage and middle age, and a reaching back into foreign ancestry.

  • av Sarah Jackson
    163

    First collection by young English poet featured in Bloodaxe's new poets anthology "Voice Recognition" (2009). Sarah Jackson lived in Brighton for many years, and now lectures at Nottingham Trent University.

  • - Three Generative Energies of Poetry
    av Jane Hirshfield
    142

    Examines the roles of hiddenness, uncertainty and surprise as they appear in poetry and other works of literature, in the life and psyche of the writer, and in the broader life of the culture as a whole.

  • av C. K. Williams
    359

    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 poems are startlingly intense anecdotes on love, death, secrets and wayward thought, examining the inner life in precise, daring language.

  • av Joan Margarit
    172

    Joan Margarit's poems that evoke the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath, the harshness of life in Barcelona under Franco, and grief at the death of his beloved handicapped daughter. His poetry reminds us that it is not death we have to understand but life.

  • Spar 14%
    av Jane Hirshfield
    146,-

    Features poems that reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. This work examines the human condition through subjects ranging from spareness, possibility, judgement and hidden grief to global warming, insomnia, meanings in overlooked parts of speech, and the metaphysics of sneezing.

  • - New and Selected Poems
    av Annemarie Austin
    174

    Presents poems that explore other worlds and other lives, drawing upon the author's own memories and experiences, as well as on art, myth, history and literature. This book includes the author's double sequence "Debatable Land", which speaks first of dementia seen from the outside, and then invents a voice for a woman living inside that condition.

  • av Jane Griffiths
    174

    Presents poems about home, exile and shifting frontiers. This work includes a selection from the author's collections, "A Grip on Thin Air" and "Icarus on Earth". It celebrates the landscapes the author lives in by observing and recording them, yet with an awareness that these places exist in and of themselves, regardless of her observation.

  • av Jen Hadfield
    170

    Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2008, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular praise.

  • - New & Selected Poems
    av Julie O'Callaghan
    158

    "Tell Me This Is Normal" is a generous selection of Julie O'Callaghan's poetry, ranging from the "Edible Anecdotes" her readers gorged on in the 1980s to her most recent work confronting a very 'scary' 21st century with an armoury of lively and defiant language - as well as a baseball bat under the bed. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

  • av Janet Frame
    179,-

    A selection of Janet Frame's poems drawn from both "An Angel at My Table" and "The Goose Bath".

  • av Elena Shvarts
    182

    Elena Shvarts was the most outstanding Russian poet of her generation. Birdsong on the Seabed presents a selection of her later poetry. Russian-English dual language text. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

  • - Three Greek Tragedies: The Trojan Women, Medea, Antigone
    av Brendan Kennelly
    196

    This compilation brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as relevant now as they were in ancient times. All focus on women whose lives are torn apart by war, family conflict and despotic regimes

  • - Selected Poems 1970-2006
    av Andrew Greig
    207,-

    What are the contours of a life? This collection of poems features: childhood, adolescence, the country then the city, sex, love, marriage, break-ups and breakdowns personal and political, mountain adventures, illness and recovery, and increased awareness of mortality and the preciousness of the moments left.

  • - Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures
    av Fiona Sampson
    156

    Three lectures on contemporary poetry by one of Britain's leading poets, Fiona Sampson. Her lectures discuss the relationship between poetry, music and ideas, taking examples from a diverse range of writers, composers and philosophers.

  • av Roddy Lumsden
    168

    New collection by leading Scottish poet.

  • av Kate Potts
    170

    Kate Potts's distinctive first collection is concerned with imagination - as means of escape and of illumination, as destructive and redemptive. Its finely honed urban landscapes are shot through with myth, storytelling and the lure of transformation.

  • - New and Selected Poems
    av Jackie Kay
    196

    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.

  • av Anne Stevenson
    142

    The poems of Stone Milk address the way the written word preserves yet distorts the lives depending on it for fame or survival. Anne Stevenson's engaging new collection opens with A Lament for the Makers, an experimental sequence based on medieval dream poetry that plays with a Dante-inspired yet modern, scientific vision of an underworld of poets.

  • - Poems 1977-2007
    av Robyn Bolam
    146,-

    Contains poems which focuses on many different kinds of beginnings. The poems are about living through and coming to terms with changes - sometimes momentous or traumatic - and moving on into the future.

  • - New & Selected Poems
    av Anne Rouse
    158

    Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. The Upshot includes a new collection, The Divided, and selections from three critically acclaimed earlier collections ranging from the lyrical exuberance of Sunset Grill to the vivid nocturnal surrealism of The School of Night.

  • Spar 10%
    - Poems 1990-2005
    av Moniza Alvi
    190

    Split World includes poems from five previous collections: The Country at My Shoulder (1993), A Bowl of Warm Air (1996), Carrying My Wife (2000), Souls (2002) and How the Stone Found Its Voice (2005), but excludes the poems of Europa (2008) and later collections.

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