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The series of poems in Maxine Chernoff's Without are elegiac brushstrokes, each somewhat feathery and brushing in more than one direction, which creates tension and unexpected arrivals as well as departures: someone or something is missing. Parts of the world are wavering and parts have disappeared.

"...a series of sonnet sequences collaging and remixing the white noise of 1990s Britain into a disorienting, sometimes hilarious, often sinister, and always satirical challenge." (Robert Potts)

In this twenty-first century poem, Tony Lopez samples and seamlessly combines writings from many fields of science and culture, composing by means of intuitive and discreet intervention something quite unique.

Peter Robinson's new collection, The Returning Sky, carefully sequences the poems written over the four years from the time he left Japan and returned to England, through the global financial crisis, and into our current austerity culture.

The struggle for a practice of resistance, discrimination of antagonisms, with all the resources poetry is capable of, here is the Pound alive in current poetry. Pound is at the core. There is, as this book shows, no way round that.

Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The book starts with a long poem 'Do vidjenje Danitse', and continues with a series of memorial tablets for victims of Jasenovac Concentration Camp.

Named in homage to Isidore Ducasse, the Uruguayan-French poet who wrote Maldoror under the name Comte de Lautreamont, and with a knowing nod to a book by John Ashbery, this is the first extended survey of Uruguayan poetry for some 40 years, and features the work of a dozen major poets.

"As good as the movies." - John Hall

Shearsman magazine's second issue for 2011 features work by, among others: Tim Allen, Linda Black, Andy Brown, Marianne Burton, Anthony Caleshu, Rachel Gippetti, Mark Goodwin, Gerard Greenway, Ross Hair, Lucy Hamilton, Brian Henry, Mary Leader, Rupert M. Loydell, James McLaughlin, George Messo, Tara Rebele, Elizabeth Robinson and Jaime Robles.

The Dance at Mociu brings together some thirty stories of Transylvania: not stories in the conventional sense, they range from meditation to epiphany, from observation to recordings of a world that seems threatened - the world of 'Old Europe', a Central Europe whose populations found themselves changing nationalities all too often in the 20th C.

The Bunny Poems give us a 'localised sensation' of 20th-century rural existence. They re-connect us with the land as a deep, mirroring presence; the double-edged properties of plants; creature-sense; and the animal face each human carries. At the same time, the poems are an acute acknowledgement of absence - in speech, understanding & relationship.

This interlinked collection of lyric essays documents Carol Guess's relationship to her father, a brilliant scientist whose intensity and eccentricity shaped family life in humorous and often lonely ways. In musical prose, writing as a poet, teacher, and queer activist, Guess describes a life lived in service to language.

Araki Yasusada, allegedly a survivor of Hiroshima, had his work published posthumously and in translation in the mid-1990s. The work was widely praised and seemed to fuse traditional Japanese forms and themes with more innovative North American techniques and a sprinkling of French critical theory. However, Yasusada was an invention ...

Set in the ruins of Yugoslavia, this book explores the images and realities of war, destruction and dictatorship, and of fertility, nurture and peace. The key figure is the Balkan rain maiden. This gypsy or peasant girl takes on a mythological authority and a wholly modern moral presence. In the wake of waste and war she is the incarnation of hope.

This is a book of full-length interviews with the poets Andrea Brady, Caroline Bergvall, Karen Mac Cormack and Jennifer Moxley, carried out between 2008 and 2009 in the UK and USA by Scott Thurston.

Landscape, textiles, plant-forms, the mysterious taxonomies of perfume are here themes for poetry that works the edge between lyric consonance and radical disjuncture. Three Reds is Anna Reckin's first book-length collection.

The action of this book-length poem unfurls in the public and private worlds of corporate man. The Manager is a poet's response to challenges thrown down by T.S. Eliot more than eighty years ago in The Waste Land. Its ground is identity, sexuality and vision. Its occupation is mind, heart and spirit.

This is a collection in search of origins, a kind of 'delving', 'trying to get to the bottom of it'. In a series of unsettling prose poems Black offers pieces of a fractured past.

There was death and death entered love; writin mutated. Even so, when the poem writes itself, it is loyal only to its own wound; this is its law of gravity. Hordes of Writing, the third book in a projected pentalogy, "Method", is an essential book from one of the most abysmal, mutant, indispensable and rupturist contemporary European poets.

This first volume of Selected Writings by Richard Berengarten consists of longer poems written between 1965 and 2000, in Greece, Italy, England and Yugoslavia. While some poems have their focal points in a recognisably English landscape and consciousness, there is no insular limitation on the matter.

In The Perforated Map, Elena Rivera's guide is language as she attempts to navigate the distances, the disturbances, the suggestions, the mistakes, the perforations. In these poems, language is the map, the matter that fills/affects the body, the organizing principle between the self and the world, and the forms that it gives rise to.

In 'At the Point', Joseph Massey's second full-length collection of poems, memory gives way to edges and angles, to "Sound heaped/on sound," to spaces that "make the shade/tangible" as words arrange a place for the actual.

A dozen essays on some of the most influential poets of the British post-1960 avant-garde: Tom Raworth, Allen Fisher, John Hall, Maggie O'Sullivan, Iain Sinclair, Ken Edwards, and Bob Cobbing, together with reflections on the mid-70s Poetry Society coup and counter-coup.

Comprised of both poetry and essays, Joseph Bradshaw's In the Common Dream of George Oppen makes its premise to imagine what bodies of work might exist in Oppen's fabled 25 year silence.

bird book is written in collaboration with a field guide to North American birds. Each page both borrows and departs from language found in an individual bird entry. The resulting text is an investigation into dissolved and dissolving narrative, and into the permeable boundaries between "human" and "natural."

A bilingual edition of the author's second Turkish collection, Belki Sessiz (2008).

"As a visual artist, Marc Atkins fills his work with hints and clues to a world of hidden spaces and scenarios. Here, in his writing, that world is disclosed in meticulous detail. It amounts to a reserve collection of the felt unknown, a whole new dimension that lies just beyond the familiar, on the edges of the utterly strange"' -Rod Mengham

Haunted by Cocteau's version of the Orpheus myth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest of renderings, fragments and images from the Orphic tradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he returned to these materials in the wake of a near fatal stroke.