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Charles Olson's influence on the development of British and American poetry through his writing and teaching is immense. His work encompasses myth, history, scholarship and politics. This book includes extracts from a range of Olson's poetry and prose, including letters, interviews and the full text of the key essay 'Projective Verse'.

Drawing on the literary and vernacular traditions of Scottish culture, Hugh MacDiarmid's creates modern literature that is both nationalistic and international in its range. This selection of his poetry explores the diversity of his writing, from delicate lyrics to fierce polemic.

Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life.

In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds grow more diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America and an Ireland which recent history has changed and yet not deeply, a country observed through eyes that travel and time have made dispassionate and disabused.

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.

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 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).

In this selection, which includes short poems and extracts from the longer ones, there is ample evidence of the quality of Cowper's faith and of his eye and ear for nature. Indicative of how his life was sustained by writing, these poems reveal his effort to engage in discourse with friends and with the natural world.

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.