Literary studies: poetry and poets

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill.

This rich selection of John Fuller s poems, made by the author himself, is taken from his last eight collections and spans over twenty-five years of work.

Michael Schmidt s anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world.

The three books that brought Mark Doty acclaim - the poetry collections My Alexandria and Atlantis, and the prose memoir Heaven's Coast - dealt unflinchingly with love and its loss.

Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, was one of the most prolific of post-war poets and, as this Collected Poems reveals, one of the finest.

In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Mathews brings together the sacred and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience.

When Mark Doty's My Alexandria was published in 1993, the response was one of unanimous celebration.

In Island to Island, his third collection of poetry for Chatto, Gerard Woodward ventures into more hostile, less familiar territory.

This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century.

Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers abnd one of its most influential and imitated poets.

Over seventeen years and nine collections, John Burnside built - in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue - 'a poetic corpus of the first significance', a poetry of luminous, limpid grace.

Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets.

In this powerful, evocative collection, master storyteller John O'Donohue explores themes of love and loss, beginnings and endings.

The poems in Handwriting are memories of Sri Lanka: the rituals and traditions, history and geography, the smells and tastes and colours of his first home.

Celebrated as an unusually original poet - nervy, refreshing, deceptively simple - Leontia Flynn has quickly developed into a writer of assured technical complexity and a startling acuity of perception.

Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ('a spellbinding achievement' - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's intoxicating mixture of opposites - the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.

Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim.

My Alexandria comprises a series of eloquent meditations on the essential themes: mortality and life, beauty and loss.

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Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets.

Throughout his long and prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection.

Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, but also in his books of short stories and prize-winning novel The Famished Road.

Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "e;I began as a poet.

Together with Auden, Spender and MacNeice, C.

This vintage book contains John Livingston Lowes's most famous work, 'The Road to Xanadu'.

This early works was originally published in 1900.

This volume contains the complete poetical works of Rupert Brooke.

'Smith': a reader's guide to the poetry of Michael Donaghy is the first substantial critical work to be written on one of the UK's best-loved poets.

Clive James was one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices.

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, Inseparable explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature.

His pieces, on the literary world and some of its most fascinating figures and classics, bear his hallmark of vitality and distinctive approach.

'What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world' Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, Wordsworth or Shelley - and a life to match.

I have set three aims before me in constructing this book.

This antiquarian volume contains a collection of poems written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

The Space of Joy is a sequence of poems that recounts the endless desire for love (and the failures and compromises that accompany that desire) in a number of writers and musicians who fatally prioritise their art.

John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song.

When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet.

The poems in Adam Thorpe's latest collection are concerned with the continuum between two worlds: the lived present and the felt past.

John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century.

'It isn't likely that this collection of journal entries will pass the censors.

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director.

O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975.

The poems in Grimalkin - Thomas Lynch's first publication in Britain are all concerned, in one way or another, with achieving a balance in the face of gravity.

The poems in this extraordinary book deal in familiar emotions - love, grief, rage, loneliness - but do so with such a fresh and fierce eye, such lived intensity, that the familiar is given again the force to touch our nerves, to seem raw and new.

In Still Life in Milford, Lynch casts the cold eye we are told to on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographics.

If life is pilgrimage, Walking Papers are the pages - the notes on the journey, news of the world, letters of introduction and dismissal - found in one's breast-pocket amongst one's effects.

With the frank, subversive, and very funny poems in his first two books, Neil Rollinson established himself as a deft cartographer of the sensual world.

Taken from his first six books, these poems confirm Robert Crawford as a poet of exhilarating energy wedded to a constantly refreshing delight in nuanced language.

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