Poetry by individual poets

Gathering the best of her first five collections, a 'sexy, cerebral and romantic' introduction to one of the US's most charismatic and original poetsLoose-limbed, freewheeling and conversational yet musically taut, Maureen N.

A collection of Michael Longley's greatest poems, spanning an extraordinary career of sixty years as one of the Belfast triumverate, alongside Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon'One of the world's greats' IRISH NEWS'A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders' SEAMUS HEANEYThe title of Michael Longley s New Selected Poems is taken from his poem Ash Keys .

In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self.

Adelia Prado was 'discovered' when she was nearly 40 by Brazil's foremost modern poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who was astonished to read her 'phenomenal' poems, launching her literary career with his announcement that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in the provincial backwater of Minas Gerais.

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.

Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937.

This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments.

Grattius' Cynegetica, a Roman didactic poem on hunting with dogs, is the author's only surviving work, though it reaches us now in an incomplete form.

Keats s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views.

The lyrical pessimism of Nsah Mala's poetry presents a world characterized by violence, inhumanity and destruction, a world that is sadly too familiar.

Enjoy this rare 360-degree view as you journey inside the life of an extraordinary and sensitive human being.

This collection, which won the 2015 Costa Poetry Award, is an exhibition of the Dundee-born poet's stunningly accomplished adoption of the sonnet's ancient structureThis collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward Prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty luminous sonnets.

He was indeed the nearest anybody ever got to Charlie Chaplin in print.

Renowned for its depth of feeling and musicality, the poetry of Ruben Dario (1867-1916) has been revered by writers including Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz.

«Quand une enfant pleure, c’est la Terre qui tremble ».

To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris.

"e;A poet to watch.

Building on the strength of Keith Walker s acclaimed The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1984), leading scholar Nicholas Fisher presents a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the work of one the greatest Restoration wits.

From "e;Anna's Lovers"e; Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon.

In Israel there are Jews and Muslims who practice Sufism together.

Poet and essayist John Haines has forged, in his long career, a body of work noted both for its austere lyric beauty, anchored in the solitude and spaciousness of his early years as a homesteader in the Alaskan wilderness, and for its penetrating responsiveness to the human condition.

The territory of Clare Shaw's third collection isn't one she chose herself, but one which chose her: the flooded valley and the ruined home.

Prendersi del tempo per sé e scoprire quello che si ha dentro, dando importanza ai nostri sentimenti, rendendoli reali e permettendo loro di esistere.

Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age.

In a political system that renders them largely voiceless, Australia's Aboriginal people have used the written word as a powerful tool for over two hundred years.

David Constantine is one the finest poets writing in English.

Voici la saga de Ramsès II, de Charlemagne, de Cléopâtre, d'Alexandre le Grand, de Napoléon et des autres personnages de l'histoire, incluant ceux qui ont fait vibrer le Québec d'hier et d'aujourd'hui !

"e;Walk on the Wild Side,"e; the first anthology to plumb the maze of American urban life, gives us the city in all its forms: ethnic, economic, religious, political, sexual, intellectual.

A sharp, haunting, and lyrical collection that attempts to understand what we owe the spaces we inhabit.

'Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.

From a major mind of Buddhism today comes this unique philosophical work, which hearkens back to the classical verse-form, but in a modern voice that speaks directly to the twenty-first century reader and practitioner.

Digsite draws on Nicholsons experience working in the Alberta oil sands and arboreal forest, taking an archaeological lens to its subject, and in this way, reimagines tens of thousands of years of human existence.

This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility.

The formally nuanced and wise epistolary poems in David Biespiels new collection are grounded in friendship, camaraderie, and the vulnerability and boldness that defines America.

Teeth of the Earth is a treasure troveascintillating mix of fl avours withshattering experiences from a variety oflocations that explore universal aspects such aslove, life, birth, death, religion, disillusionment,politics, praise invocation and criticism ofsociety and persons, as well as some more specifi cissues like prejudice and inequity penetratingcomments on social and philosophical eventsranging from the traditional rural tranquilityto urbanized life that is modernity in Africa.

"e;Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous.

Statius' narrative of the fraternal strife of the Theban brothers Eteocles and Polynices has had a profound influence on Western literature and fascinated generations of scholars and readers.

I wanted narrative to be a picture of distances ringed in purple.

Ruth Padel's passionate new collection is a woman's eye view of a love affair, with darker undercurrents of mortality and loss.

The hatching of the Cosmic Egg, the swallowing of Phanes by Zeus, and the murder of Dionysus by the Titans were just a few of the many stories that appeared in ancient Greek epic poems that were thought to have been written by the legendary singer Orpheus.

Here, for the first time, is a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's poems, carefully restoring accidental omissions and removing textual errors that have crept in over the full century in which Eliot has been so frequently printed and reprinted.