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Multilingual anthology celebrating ten years' work by Britain's Poetry Translation Centre, with original poems and translations from 27 languages.

This recent collection by one of Romania's foremost poets, her country's strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize, is a visionary meditation on life and death from the particular perspective of her native land.

Selima Hill is one of Britain's leading poets, the winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award (the forerunner of the Costa). The Sparkling Jewel of Naturism is her 15th book of poetry - her 12th from Bloodaxe - and comprises three sequences.

Penultimate collection by one of America's leading poets finds him, written in his mid-80s, reflecting on time and memory. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

First collection by British poet and critic (of Sri Lankan parentage) with lively poems fusing politics, personal history and myth.

David Constantine's 10th book of poetry, published on his 70th birthday, celebrates people and places in literature, life and mythology.

Retrospective with new work from northern poet shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

First British publication by the rising star of European poetry

New book of satirical poetry from Ireland's most popular poet featuring Guff, Devil's advocate and self critic, everyman and every writer consumed by self-doubt and self-questioning.

New gift book edition of a classic anthology of love poems presented in a beautiful quarterbound hardback.

Fourth collection of poems from Sarah Wardle with a focus on recovery from mental health problems.

Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage, following the failing of the body, through the mind's weakening hold on the borderline between the present and the traumas of the past. It follows the journey to the end - then beyond, to the tentative byways through which mourning moves.

A greatest hits, best of golden oldies compilation (with some new stuff) from 'Comedy's poet laureate' (Independent).

Third collection by acclaimed Scottish poet, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and a Poetry Book Society Choice. Herd's debut No Hiding Place was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and her second, Dead Redhead, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) was one of the most significant and influential American poets of the 20th century. Her poetry confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change and family life. This is the first UK edition of her work.

First book of essays on a maverick figure in late 20th century British poetry.

Anthology of poems on ageing from Shakespeare to the present time, with foreword by Joan Bakewell.

This book-length poem by a leading British poet (born in Pakistan) is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, weaving a deeply personal story of fortitude and courage. Thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced at the time of partition, with families later split between the two countries.

'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.

Polly Clark's haunting third collection is about leaving one's life and returning a stranger.

"A Knowable World" follows Sarah Wardle's detainment in a Central London psychiatric hospital for over a year for manic episodes of bipolar disorder. The poems chart the stresses of thirty-something city life through police arrests and hospitalisation under section orders to achieve a way out.

A book of poems about family in a world both more exciting and frightening than ever before. It explores the facets of motherhood - ambivalence, trepidation and joy - while coming to terms with the seismic shift in the author's outlook and in the world around her. She also confronts her post-9/11 fears as she commutes daily into New York City.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2006. This work features poems that explore the cracks in our experience - between movement and stasis, the everyday reality that surrounds us and what we perceive of it, between what our bodies experience and what can or can't be captured in paint or ink.

Hannah Lowe's first book of poems takes you on a journey round her father, a Chinese-black Jamaican migrant who disappeared at night to play cards or dice in London's old East End to support his family, an unstable and dangerous existence that took its toll on his physical and mental health. 'Chick' was his gambling nickname.

C.D. Wright was one of America's leading poets. Both a book-length poem and a probing work of investigative journalism, One with Others won the National Book Circle Critics Award.

As in all her books, the luminous poems of Pauline Stainer's eighth collection Tiger Facing the Mist are minimal but highly charged - with presences and hauntings, sensing the spirit incarnate in every part of the living world.

Guyana's word-magician casts his unique spin on the intermingling strands of British history, and leads us into metaphysical and political waters, bringing a mythic dimension to the present.

Warner's debut, Confer, was both a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second collection, also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, is darker and more capricious.

Ovid's poems voiced by female figures from Greek and Roman myth in new 21st century versions, with a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, suicidal, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly modern.

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.