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This Almanac of two different woodlands, one in the Scottish Highlands and one on Finland's Baltic coast, celebrates those woodlands and their human lives.

Andrew Crozier presented this work to the University of Essex in 1973 as his Ph.D. thesis. Although it has remained unpublished to this day, the work in it and the concepts discussed remained central to his thinking. Ian Brinton has now prepared the thesis for publication, together with the commentary by the thesis' external examiner, J.H. Prynne.

Milestones (Vyorsty) is an early collection by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), published in Moscow in 1922, before she left the country for the West. The book was her most innovative collection to that point, as well as an indication of the way her work would develop in her full maturity as a writer.

The poems in this book arise amidst those remnants that redefine what we know to be underfoot in the places we live. From the Rose Creek Preserve to Koppel Farm Community Garden to a backyard on Pioneer Hill, these poems suggest that we need to not only understand the complex of relationships but also to listen deeply for meanings at every level.

In as much as you can read poetry and look at paintings you will find serious delight in David Kennedy's poems about Cezanne. The sort of concentration required here however is not an endorsed, mainstream activity. It does not sell beans or financial products; it is simply about seeing...

The first issue of Shearsman magazine for 2015 includes original original poetry from the UK and the USA, plus translations of poetry from Spain, the Netherlands, Argentina, France, and Ancient Rome.

In 2012, Yang Lian and others started an online poetry competition in China. They expected a good response, but received more than 85,000 entries. This anthology offers some of the winning poems from the first two years of the competition, together with comments by the judges and essays by several of the people involved.

the road north is a word-map of Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn as they travel through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose Narrow Road to the Deep North is one of the masterpieces of travel literature.

"(Scully's) innovations... take a modernist inheritance, strip it of any redisual mythos, & use it to examine the interaction of the writer's reflecting mind with the daily life of everybody... & truly, if one seeks a poetry of the moment that records & wryly critiques the inequities of modern life, Maurice Scully's is it." - Marthine Satris

"This is poetry that goes direct to that other place and inhabits it. in possession of loss has a clear sparseness, almost a minimalism, that is also highly complex. Read as a single book-length poem, it thinks our world without telling openly. This is a poetry that shoulders the big questions.

This book is probably best described as a collective autobiography. With few exceptions the contributing poets write about their origins and influences and how they became involved in poetry. My main objective is to present the spirit of a brief era which, in retrospect, was exceptional in its momentum towards the democratisation of poetry.

The second volume in the Collected Poems of John Matthias, following Vol. 2 of the Shorter Poems in 2011, this volume covers all of the author's long poems from before 2010.

The legend goes that Florentino was the epitome of the great llanero: handsome, a great rider and cattleman, a ladies' man, but above all, a singer and poet. His improvisations were so fast and to the point that the Devil got jealous and challenged him to a night of singing. If the Devil wins before dawn, Florentino will go back with him to Hell.

The Purloined Letter is the author's third collection. "The Purloined Letter has a dolorous stately piercing almost martial music, like an Elizabethan court dance or Miles Davis in his electric period." -Edwin Frank

A chance encounter with an elderly man beside the orchard at Donaghmore was the catalyst which led Susan Connolly to explore the life of Francis Ledwidge in greater depth, and to write her sequence of poems, The Orchard Keeper. Francis Ledwidge enlisted in 1914, and survived until July 31st, 1917, the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres.

In 2014, Miriam Olson died at the age 80, and after nearly 50 years of marriage. She had suffered from Alzheimer's for some years and Toby became her principal carer. This is a memoir of that period, a story of love and frustration, remembering and forgetting. Miriam is The Other Woman of the title - a woman other than the one she once was.

"Poems traverse geographical locations, from Trinidad to other Caribbean islands and as far as Iceland. Bagoo explores daily life, love, art, history, literature, myth, popular culture, ritual and the molten ground of memory, bringing together douens, lionfish, Auden, Mozart, Caravaggio and Tchaikovsky, among other figures. Bring the fire, burn."

A true cabinet of curiosities, these poems usher in a seemingly endless list of what's been lost: Marrin, along with her parade of ghosts of dead counters, explorers, and collectors, chronicles our demise. Incognitum is an extended fever, an archive, a getting-it-all-down-before the world is gone." -Cynthia Cruz

"This exceptional poet hits a new height with each new book, and the view from this one is great!" - Cole Swensen

The Man Who Has Everything is an unlikely anti-hero, adrift in a world of instant gratification, momentary experiences and instant answers, in contrast to the music, art, books and conversation he prefers.

"Hawkins' method is to eliminate whatever is not interesting, and his poetic line is as rapid, sporadic, shifting, polyvalent, slight and self-reversing as consciousness itself. [...] The removal of conventional connections leaves a vast space for originality: his style is located in the edits, the jumps." -Andrew Duncan

A first full-length collection in the UK for Pete Smith, a Canadian poet born in Coventry but resident in Kamloops, BC, since 1974. In the UK and Canada he worked as a psychiatric nurse with intellectually challenged people in institutional and community settings.