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In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest book.

This work was specially commissioned as the text of an oratorio for the 1993 Hay on Wye Festival and is based on the story in the Mabinogion of Branwen, the daughter of Llyr. The book also contains a variety of other poems. Gillian Clarke has also written "Letting in the Rumour" (1989).

Featuring a selection of nearly half of Hauge's poetic work, this work displays the range, variety and distinctive qualities of his poetry.

A second bilingual collection since the author's enforced exile from China in 1989.

Vernon Watkins was a great lyric poet. This work offers a selection of his poetry since his death, with an introduction and notes, outlining the literary and biographical context of his work, and a foreword by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created a body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental vigour, keeping her spirit attuned to her art and the changes in language which is her medium in every sense.

A mixture of stories, poems and autobiography: the donkey survives the fire, and the poet survives in a northern world where the sun does not shine and where Postman Pat pens a suicide note, maddened by his theme tune, but keeps on driving all the same.

Presents an exploration of what it means to be a writer and a woman in contemporary society.

Includes "Penelope's Song" in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's "Odyssey". This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the "nostos", the homecoming.

This is an introduction to Evelyn Schlag, one of the most critically acclaimed European poets, translated into English with critical and biographical material.

Largely known as a poet of rural themes and of Wales, in this collection Clarke engages with the city in its human and material diversity. There are poems from Bosnia, France and the Mediterranean coast, together with poems from Wales, featuring its people and its creatures.

A collection of poems by Gillian Clarke. Carcanet have also published her "Selected Poems" (1985), "Letting in the Rumour" (1989), and "The King of Britain's Daughter" (1993).

An illustrated brief history of Portugal written for non-specialist foreign readers. Also included in the book is a historical gazetteer, short biographies, chronological tables and maps.

Born in 1938 in rural New South Wales, Les Murray is the one poet by whom the English language lives. Very little poetry in English is rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational as his.

During his career John Ashbery has been hailed as the "eminence grise" of postmodernism, championed by W.H. Auden and has carried off every major literary prize. Drawn from the work he published up to 1984, this collection makes a wide range of this poet's writing available.

Body language and the body of the English language are the entwined themes of this passionate new collection of poems. The centerpiece is "Skyhorse," an ambitious poem that traces the turbulence of three millennia of English history by focusing on the enduring presence of the legendary White Horse of the Berkshire Downs. The latter half of the collection features a candid, passionate sequence of elegies and love poems that gradually shifts focus from the first words in the garden of Eden to the final words of last night's lovers.

Features poems attuned to the tragedies and comedies of contemporary life.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This translation of Beowulf was made in the last years of the 1940s and was published in hardback by the Hand and Flower Press in 1952. In the present Carcanet edition, poem and introduction have been kept the same.

This text draws on six previous collections published between 1978 and 1994. The earlier poems are diverse, ranging from descriptions of work in heavy industry to observations of wildlife. Later poems deal with travel in Brazil and the United States, and also deal with schizophrenia.

In these poems, Feinstein writes about love, loss, jealousy and the fear of abandonment. She writes with tenderness about an ageing father, a child on a swing, old films, a flowering cactus. The poems in this selection are drawn from 11 volumes published over 30 years.

In this collection of poems by Les Murray animals speak about themselves, each in its own distinctive voice. The human animal is also included, at the beginning and the conclusion of this collection. Murray is also the author of a book of prose "The Paperbark Tree" (1992).

Poet Sophie Hannah returns with a collection of poems that explore and celebrate strong feelings: love, hate, anger, hope - and which strip away the veils of hypocrisy and pretence from all aspects of everyday life.

"Like every major artist she challenges the readers intellect and imagination."--Boston Herald

This selection of over 150 of Ivor Gurney's poems, was made by the poet P.J. Kavanagh from his edition of the "Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney". It is reissued now, with a few corrected readings, and with a Chronology and Introduction to Gurney's life, by P.J. Kavanagh.

Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.

The sympathies of Vaughan and Traherne, the earth-love of Edward Thomas, the wit of Louis MacNeice, are three of the many currents that run through the verse of P.J. Kavanagh. Seven collections are included in this volume, which traces the poet through 35 years.

Contains translations of lesser known poems contributing towards a more complete understanding of one of the major poets of the 20th century.